We were both there for many years. They went into a downturn in the late 2000s. In the face of the internet and it started to evolved into a fulfilling job for me. I decided what i really loved to do was investigate complex cases and it was less market for that in the journalism world. The emphasis was on breaking news so i decided to try to see if i could do that work as a consultant. What kind of stories did you work on . I started out covering american politics here in washington in the late 1980s, early 90s and investigating politicians for possible corruption. Ethics in washington and over the years, got evolved into different types of investigating journalism involving financial crime, broad corporate cases, scandals, financial crisis and then over time, after 9 11, i started branching out into International Criminal matters such as terrorism and organized crime. What was peters role . Peter was my editor. We were stationed together in brussels, belgium which is the headquarters
Fdacurrent ambassador, and commissioner. You can see live coverage on cspan. This week, the Top Republican of the energy and commerce committee, thank you for being here. Rep. Walden thank you. Also with us as a congressional reporter. Go ahead. Thank you for being here today. We know nancy pelosi is plowing ahead with impeachment. It does not look like a single republican will be joining democrats in voting for the articles of impeachment. We do have testimony from a part of these witnesses like colonel vindman, who was on the july phone call, fiona hill, who was in a meeting between Gordon Sondland and ukrainians, who testified they raised concerns about the conduct regarded ukraine. Do you share any of those concerns . Do you think anything you have seen or heard from these fact witnesses is alarming and inappropriate . Rep. Walden i dont think that is the question. The question is does this deserve to have a resident removed. That is the threshold for impeachment. When i read throu
Sheriff will oppose that motion for fees, and we can brief the board further if and when that happens. Excellent. So a bit more into the substance about the new processes and procedures that we will need to implement in order to meet the terms of this settlement . But i would first like to remind ourselves that this is a significant change to our criminal justice system, one that the mayor is pleased to partner with community and Public Safety partners, including the sheriff, the City Attorney, and the District Attorneys Office to provide expedited review to ensure that everyone is treated equally and fairly under the law regardless of their ability to pay. We are happy to lead in the significant reform of our criminal justice system, and as my presentation will point out, it will take time to ensure that we meet those terms. So im going to walkthrough a high level of the various points in time across this new willhour time period that the various criminal justice 18hour time period th
Significant change to our criminal justice system, one that the mayor is pleased to partner with community and Public Safety partners, including the sheriff, the City Attorney, and the District Attorneys Office to provide expedited review to ensure that everyone is treated equally and fairly under the law regardless of their ability to pay. We are happy to lead in the significant reform of our criminal justice system, and as my presentation will point out, it will take time to ensure that we meet those terms. So im going to walkthrough a high level of the various points in time across this new willhour time period that the various criminal justice 18hour time period that the various criminal justice periods are involved. So within the first eight hours of an individual being booked, the supplement requires arrestee information, specifically, an own recognizance or o. R. Workup to be submitted to the superior court within eight hours of an individual being booked in jail. O. R. Workups
Investigating if we need more investment, but this will take care of us in the near term. Chair fewer i just wanted to make sure we dont infringe on the existing work of the Police Department. No. I will say there is a discussion about longer term, do we need to come up with utilizing the crime Data Warehouse or is laser fiche a longterm solution, but with everybody around the table, we think we can utilize level two to accomplish this in the next six months. So with that, i will hand it over to deputy City Attorney jon givner to give it a little legal context. Mr. Givner deputy City Attorney jon givner. So in 2015, the plaintiffs in this case filed a complaint on behalf of themselves and a class of people who have been or will be arrested seeking to invalidate the existing bail schedule where prearraignment bail is based on ability to pay. Theyre challenging the money bail system as unconstitutional in violation of the u. S. Constitutions equal protection and new process clauses. The