All members are present. I. I would like to acknowledge the staff of sf gtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. Before we do that, i would like to ask everybody to join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Welcome back, colleagues. I hope you all had a great break because im hopeful that this year, 2020, will be as fruitful as last year, 2019. And i would like to welcome our new city Deputy Director who is over there. Shes already busy, ann pearson, welcome to chambers. And i promise that at least, my colleagues promise not to pick on you for the first week, anyway. I also like to make an announcement that in december, at the end of december, there were three positions on the department of public inspect
This eventss season at wharf, look the way the legal world unfairly treats countrys disenfranchised he targets his own profession at public defender. The book titled, usual cruelty. Comes from alec karakatanis, an organization designed to advocate for Racial Justice and bring systemic civil rights cases on behalf of impoverished people. Especially known for combating unconstitutionality of money bail. Karakatanis was named 2016 trial lawyer of the year by public justice. Was awarded Steven Wright award for indigent defense in the south. As introduction to his talk tonight im exciting to welcoming his guest the program. Payne the poet. In d. C. He was raised in columbus, hire, after serving 8 year sentence within the Virginia Department of corrections he began using poetry as method of healing. Among his work he taught various workshops, afterschool programs and Panel Discussions dealing with topics like mass incarceration, prison reform, social sus just, disenfranchisement and educatio
Scenes on social media at post boost on twitter, instagram and facebook. Remarkable year for book that have been tackling the uses and especially the abuses of this countrys criminal Justice System. And we at politics and prose have been honored to host authors and poets behind them. The first event we hosted this year at this location was for the investigation of the misdemeanor punishment without crime and were closing with an equally essential look at the way the legal world unfairly treats this countrys disenfranchised and the author target is his own former profession as a public testify. The become called usual crueltity comes from alec karakatsanis. The founder of the civil rising corps, advocating for racial justice. Especially known for come batting the unconstitutionality of money bail, karakatsanis was name the 2016 trial lawyer of the year by public yates and the steven b. B. B wright aired for and as an introduction to his talk tonight im very excited to be welcoming his g
We have a quorum. Thank you. Number four please. [agenda item read] anyone have any corrections to the minutes . I move that the minutes of the january 9, 2020 meeting be approved. My Public Comment . All those in favor say aye. Its unanimous. Item 5. [agenda item read]. Im chair of the retired Division United educators of San Francisco. I like to get up here to publicly thank diane who has been attending these meetings regularly. She is now been replaced who will be also assistant. Our new Health Service chairperson, she will be coming here regularly too. We want to make sure that diane get some public recognition for amazing work shes done for all of us. We are in her debt and appreciate it. Well continue to be part of the Health Service committee people. Thank you. Thank you diane, i know shes watching. My name is gail, im from retired teachers. There are couple of issues that have come up in the time that ive not come here. First of all, i like to know if theres a help line for peo
They opted to retire rather than join the military tensions were high as people came out to see what was going. Under the knife some clothes are firing their weapons what are we waiting for where are the Security Forces to stop this. Sudans government only months old deployed soldiers to try and contain the situation tanks patrolled the streets while military choppers flew over her. As the main airport was shut down the Operations Unit in the Intelligence Services was dissolved as part of reforms by the then military council which ousted the countrys president obama in april following months of protests protesters had demanded the Intelligence Services be restructured accusing them of corruption and committing crimes against civilians the government described todays event at the meeting and called on the members of the unit to lay down their guns its accused their former leader who resigned days after bashir was ousted of being behind the shootings minus group. We will no longer remain