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Work we do every day in our courtrooms. One interesting thing that did come from the study that was conducted was the value of proposition 47 for reducing Racial Disparity. I raise it here today, its one of the rare policies we see working on reducing incarceration and gives the greatest benefit to African American men, above anybody else. Thats a pleasant outcome that warrants evaluation and is the type of policy we want to prioritize across criminal justice if were going to look for areas to reduce mass incarceration and we can simultaneously impact the communitys most impacted by the polici...

Im going to encourage everybody to sit down, grab their seats. Keep eating. Okay. Welcome, everybody. Im maya mcginnis, i run the committee for a responsible federal budget and it is not every day that you see an overflow crowd for a whole event on budget process, so were really excited to have you here. We have a cspan audience, were Live Streaming this, so wonderful to have everybody joining us for what i think is going to be an excellent conference. Im really excited about the people weve gathered here and the ideas we are going to be discussing. So welcome. The committee for responsible fe...

So white, asian, africanamerican, if you go down, you can see the different groups and thats where the wide gaps are. First, more white or caucasian staff than population in the city. So the red bar versus the blue. We have fewer africanamerican staff than we have people in the city. Its looking at that imbalance and helping to set policy about how we oversee hiring panels, what kind of oversight we do in terms of recruitment, hiring a recruiter to improve the racial diversity of our pools for applicants, all of those things were done in response to looking at that data. Next slide. And then j...

Three, family justice and four economic power. These are what i consider longer term outcomes and determinaters. This city has kind of stood behind loose and thin measures while we have seen the outcomes go down the drain. Well explain what it means. We at hope sf as an initiative and many of my colleagues are here in the room, its collective Impact Initiative and we focus on results basic accountability. Were having the robust conversation about data and we want to look at transparent Decision Making, longterm outcomes to make sure the population as a whole is better off. I mean things that l...

And 13,000 residents who have evacuated their homes. The fires have now jumped a highway being used as a containment line that stretches across some 60,000 acres north of San Francisco. Adrian beltran for Texas Rangers scored the third cycle of his career hitting a home run in the fifth inning as the human masters. Only the third player, first since the 1930s to hit a single, double, triple and home runs at three different times in his career. An incredible and wild scene out of bulgaria were a soccer game called a friendly turn not so friendly. A visiting team from israel was chased from the ...