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Criminalization. [speaking spanish] translator they are part of our community and we should respect them. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Public good afternoon. I too would like to thank for doing this. I have been familiar with the plaza and the area around the plaza for 20 years. And it has been the object of the most outrageous forms of neglect and has been treated as a drug containment zone without any attempt to solve the underlying injustices and problems that are generating the amount of drug use we are seeing in the plaza. This neglect contributes whether intentionally or not, to t...

Because we believe it is the most efficient way to help people experiencing homelessness. Is this a good investment . I called this hearing to understand how does the department of homelessness think about, quote, success . Success looks different to different people and i want to make sure we are on the same page and were getting a good solid return on our investment. So, im going to frame this hearing in three different parts. Im interested in three top issues. First, getting people off the streets. In particular i want to know how many people have we moved into the theyre congratulations ce...

The Senate Committee on Health Education and pensions will come to order. Today we are looking at effect on children and infants. We have a vote i believe at 11 30 today so we should i believe give us time to have a full discussion with our witnesses. Before we turn to todays focus i wanted to say that later today senator murray and i and senators young will introduce legislation to help address the Opioid Crisis. Dr. Collins, head of the National Institute of health predicted that nonaddictive pain killer can be introduced. Our bill would give more flexibility to conduct research. The Committ...

Going to simply just really water down the work of those two staff members. We need to have a minimum of two people funded fulltime for this to be successful. It costs approximately a quarter of a Million Dollars to be able to provide that service. But i think it has been successful and worth looking at. Also just as a suggestion, maybe a little bit outside of my lane, is i know in l. A. , usc for example, they have funded they are ambassadors. I think they wear yellow shirts. And many are from homeless or formerly homeless or from the community. I think if we want to edge gauge people who are...

Going to simply just really water down the work of those two staff members. We need to have a minimum of two people funded fulltime for this to be successful. It costs approximately a quarter of a Million Dollars to be able to provide that service. But i think it has been successful and worth looking at. Also just as a suggestion, maybe a little bit outside of my lane, is i know in l. A. , usc for example, they have funded they are ambassadors. I think they wear yellow shirts. And many are from homeless or formerly homeless or from the community. I think if we want to edge gauge people who are...