Thats very meaningful to this board and staff and we had a Community Panel advise us on the topic of trust and government. And i personally have taken away very many meaningful remarks and advice from that panel of community members. So i hope to be able to do more topics like that in the future since we have to adopt the budget in april. That is what were focused on today. And uh, vice chair karina and i very much want to make sure that we center time throughout 2024 on topics like trust and government, topics that are meaningful to you. And so we want to make sure that you have a chance to share with us today your priorities. So im going to ask you, as we go through the presentations today to think about three questions. And we have set aside meaningful time in the agenda to be able to discuss these colleagues. These questions are in your timed agenda, but lets read them out loud for everyones benefit. First is what information do you all need as Board Members to be able to adopt the
When president bush instituted it and president obama continued it, they didnt have an open discussion about whether the country should have such a program. And actually that seems to run through a little bit of yesterdays opinion by judge lynch. Even dick cheney. This is something that i discovered in writing this book that nobody had ever seen before. When he wrote his dissent in the irancontra matter, he said if you have a hard Foreign Policy or National Security issue, a wise president first would not engage in excessive secrecy, and, second, a wise president would have a full and open democratic discussion in which he would attempt to persuade the public of the need for validity of a broad program. The concept delineating between the number of people affected or how targets are picked, versus the program itself, i think is valuable, and it gets to a question that i would like a from everybody on. There is a trust problem that now exists, for whatever series of reasons. An example
Public of the need for validity of a broad program. The concept delineating between the number of people affected or how targets are picked, versus the program itself, i think is valuable, and it gets to a question that i would like a from everybody on. There is a trust problem that now exists, for whatever series of reasons. An example of a concern that i at least have was revealed through a usa today piece that came out last month that revealed that the dea had been conducting a Metadata Collection Program ten years before 9 11. One of the concerns and maybe this is pessimism or paranoia depending on who you ask, is that stopping a program like the telephone Metadata Collection Program that is ongoing under authority, how do we know it does not show up under another 30 . It is a sincere question that premuch everybody, because theres no reason to hold the community to such a paranoid standard, but how do we get to that point . I think this question is a real challenge because of the
We would like to expand the ready ref, we talked about to a Smart Phone App that would enhance the police because theyre moving to smart phones for their citations. Able to help them in defining the key the key sections of the code apply to bicycles and not get distracted as some Police Departments do. Bike codes were not intended for bicycles. So, we focus in those ways. Weve asked for them to provide information on fatalities. The state law prohibits information on fatalities in the sense that it would offend in ways like that. Were asking just for collision report information so that we can trace and follow [speaker not understood] education is also very helpful in trying to prevent those kinds of things in the future. There are trends associated with it and we can ask what causes the worst. This is clearly part of the zero fatality goal. And then, lets see. Lastly, include the bike plan called for distribution of headlights and reflector citation diversion class he. They call it a
And then continuing, one thing i didnt mention was moving to establish a Training Program in conjunction with the police that really work more on the world bicyclists ride in. And i will mention the california Highway Patrol recently adopted the same [speaker not understood] bicyclist Traffic School 101 course for their employees as did the the one we use in San Francisco which is really quite a thing when you find out the state is using the same program we use. I would encourage the police to take a look at that particular curriculum and consider including that as part of their Training Program. Are there any questions . All right, thank you. Questions . I just want to [speaker not understood] the amendment you would propose to the motion in front of us around responses to these recommendations. Are there recommendations or amendments that you would make to the motion that we will need to pass today around the recommendations around the civil grand jury report . Yes, i would make reco