And carefulness. An effort. The numbers recently over the past year have become staggering. Our agency and many others cannot possibly meet the need in the current situation. We have been turning away cases which is heartbreaking. So thats the bad news. But we are in a community that has a wealth of Nonprofit Community nonprofit agencies with experience and with commitment and we are also in a community that is an incredibly generous committed private bar. This summer our Office Hosted 2 trainings for private attorneys who wish to volunteer in these cases between the 2 trainings over 200 attorney showed up. But we dont have the staffing to properly utilize that energy. We werent weve not been able to send nearly the number of cases that we want to to these volunteers but because the cases are there but because we dont have the staffing. This supplemental make a difference and together with the city, the Nonprofit Community, and the private are working together with the supplemental we
Will not be in jail for the rest of their life. A couple of things have to happen. One thing that has to happen is they have to be arrested. In order for the District Attorney to prosecute anyone they have to be arrested. Just because you know and i know and they know that somethings been done doesnt mean they are going to jail or prison. The only way the officers can arrest somebody if they have probable cause. Sometimes the probable cause is you calling the mreet and saying there is a guy doing this and he looks like this and blah blah blah. If there is enough reason, probable cause the officers can arrest them. Then we get to, whats enough for the District Attorney to prosecute . Whats enough for the da to prosecute is evidence. The burden of proof in court is a higher standard than the observation and the complaint that the police made. So, in the perfect world, somebody has called the police. The police are able to get there in time. Remember they are extremely short staffed. The
Environmentle grants and into our own Capital Budget for ongoing pieces of the budget and et cetera and we will continue to look for valuing enjoying opportunities. So you will see in much more detail, the financing for this project when we come to you that the request issue get and i just wanted to the project approvals before you today allow for the contracts to increase accordingly but we will be before you again for much more review prior to the financing the phase go and im here to answer any questions. Imthank you can i have a motion second. Is there any Public Comment . Seeing none, any questions . Comments . Yep, just brief, i would like to say that when gavin put the committee together the Advisory Committee to talk about the cruise terminal i happen to be selected to be on that committee and i was not sure if this day was ever going to come but i run up and down this water front everyday and it didnt look like it was going to happen but its going to happen and i want to thank
Providers. This is an area where having a lawyer makes an anonymous difference in outcome. If we as a city do not act now to increase the capacity of nonprofit providers result will be more wrongful deportations and in enormous social and Economic Cost to the city. I want to address a particular issue has come up in this discussion which of the role pro bono attorneys in meeting the needs of unaccompanied youth. The short answer is that for crisis of this magnitude the resources of the private bar critical as they are simply cannot close the justice that is why the patient is so essential. In the bay area were fortunate to have a strong proponent community is given the time and resources to a host of issues such as family law law landlord issues we work as a [inaudible] we know that that is an important complement to but never the replacement for the role of nonprofit attorneys. Last month we were fortunate to receive a grant through the city to the right to Counsel Program to assist w
Terms of letting them know that despite what they have gone through, that there is a role model who has also gone through similar circumstances and he is staying here as a supervisor and that things will get better. So i implore the committee to vote for this. It is definitely a human rights issue and we as the Interfaith Community will also participate in spreading the word and providing assistance. Thank you very much. Next speaker please good afternoon supervisor my name is oren osama legal director of the Lawyers Committee for civil rights. We strongly support this supplemental appropriation. As others have said, the need for representation of unaccompanied children families on the rocket docket is probably overwhelming the capacity of nonprofit providers. This is an area where having a lawyer makes an anonymous difference in outcome. If we as a city do not act now to increase the capacity of nonprofit providers result will be more wrongful deportations and in enormous social and E