Competent staff to assist with that and so i would propose colleagues and hope that you might be able to support some if not all of the victim witness staff that were proposed. So im not a member of this committee, but i want to suggest thats a possible avenue for the committee to consider. Thank you president chiu. Supervisor mar. Thank you, chair farrell. Thank you for speaking. I am a proud cosponsor of this measure and appreciate president chiu and the groups here, District Attorney gascon and the counterinformation provided by our public defender, jeff adachi. I am also supportive of, as much as we can give to our status on women and the communities im supportee of the 50,000 for outreach and Legal Support for the communitybased organizations and the commission on the status of womens staffer and im glad that they have expressed how muchneeded that position is. For the District Attorneys office, i support the Family Violence and support Services Part of the budget and after hearin
Take a minute to encourage you to please approve all the supplemental programming. We are a web of services ranging from the District Attorneys efforts down through the civil courts or up through the civil courts depending how you rate your civil courts. With the Legal Services specifically, i just wanted to legality you know that the funding that would come to us to volunteer Legal Services program would fund legal representation for mono lingual women who are victims of [tkroeufpls ]. Domestic violence. And they are often involved in custody matters in which they have no access to the civil court simply because they do not speak english and were able to provide them with an attorney and interpreter, who can stand beside them as they must go up against their abuser to ensure that they retain custody of their children. What you may not know is that often abusers use the civil legal system as another way to continue the abuse of a women who has already obtained a restraining order again
Those show up in court. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon a anna flores the codirector of muhas. So we wanted to touch a little bit on the decline or the decrease of calls to the police to Domestic Violence because a lot of it due to the Political Climate that is happening. We know when a woman is afraid to call the police, it increases the level of violence in the home and a lot of this is due because of the policy of secure communities where women are afraid to call the police, but luckily we have been able to work directly with the d. A. s office and have a legal advocate present at our office, once a week, which has really helped to connect the women with Legal Services. And finally we would like to thank the other organizations that we work with that help us provide Legal Services directly to the women that we work with. Thank you. Thank you, before i call the next speaker i have a few other cards, if you want to line up. [ reading speakers names ] next speaker, in any order
Called not a minute more. And it has been cited throughout the world. Thank you. Thank you very much. Are there any other memberswish to comment on items no. 4 and 5 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [ gavel ] supervisor avalos . Thank you, chair. I always fertilize to turn the microphone on the thank you, chair farrell and appreciate the District Attorney and public defender and budget analyst and all the work in our office and i know were operating with scarce resources and we have huge demand on our efforts and skill and i want to acknowledge that moving forward. I want to thank a lot of advocates and people working day in and day out to fight against Domestic Violence. Working with victims and their families, that work is often not recognized as it should be in the city and the contributions that you are making are great and save lives. Thank you for your presence today. I have long been someone who has been try saying that the city needs to be do more to support Domestic Vi
So we wanted to touch a little bit on the decline or the decrease of calls to the police to Domestic Violence because a lot of it due to the Political Climate that is happening. We know when a woman is afraid to call the police, it increases the level of violence in the home and a lot of this is due because of the policy of secure communities where women are afraid to call the police, but luckily we have been able to work directly with the d. A. s office and have a legal advocate present at our office, once a week, which has really helped to connect the women with Legal Services. And finally we would like to thank the other organizations that we work with that help us provide Legal Services directly to the women that we work with. Thank you. Thank you, before i call the next speaker i have a few other cards, if you want to line up. [ reading speakers names ] next speaker, in any order, please feel free to come up. Hi, good afternoon, my name is especially espiranza i am here to talk ab