You bring lots of different people to the table. Is this mostly parents wanting their kids to be the next Mark Zuckerberg . There is interest from parents, teachers but as we started to take the kid around the world to sierra leone for an sense, there is this sort of rising creative generation of kids who are pulling together resources, software, a bit of design and making things that perhaps the brains in this room as monumental as they are could never have imagined. We met a man. This kid and he was 13 started pulling electronic parts out of the garbage and went to an internet cafe. He looked at what the components did and within a couple years he built a battery. A couple years after that he built his own Radio Station was brought testing across sierra leone. Weve had spoken word artists used to compose and kids build servers and game consoles. The core audience now, obviously a lot of parents and teachers know in order to prepare the next generation they have to speak the language
The d. T. Contract management data, manually compiled into a spreadsheet and found it problematic on several fronts. Number one, we could not determine the remaining Spending Authority on the active contracts just by looking at their contract data. And in addition to that, even though it was compiled in a spreadsheet, it was not in a fully functional contract management database that would do things like notify you if a contract was about to expire. So, we noted, for example, there was 35 contracts that had expired but under which services were still being performed at the time of the audit. And we also noted a case where a vendor had to notify d. T. Of the pending expiration and the renewal cost was not in d. T. Budget, so a scramble for resources to make sure the contract was renewed on time, and that there were appropriate funds for the services that other departments were relying on. The other thing ill say about contracts, too, they often lacked cost controls, work, deliverables n
Consultant who was working with us literally begged the City Administrators Office to please give justice a home in the City Administrators Office. And if i may interrupt you, why did you not try to affiliate with department of technology . For two reasons. One reason was that when justis lived in the department of technology before the Mayors Office became the executive sponsor, it never got priority. We went through a rotating cast of heads of department of technology who saw their priorities and interests elsewhere. And so justis was always the last thing that they addressed. And the second reason has to do with governance. The department of technology was to provide technical support. Technical staff. Technical expertise. And when we thought about it, we thought it would be much better for d. T. To be treated as a vendor with the executive sponsor and justis as their client. So that we would have more ability to work order money, demand that the money be spent the way that the just
We have a team of reporters at the hall of justice and analysts here in the newsroom. Lets start with nbc bay areas kris sanchez who has been covering this story for years. You spoke to sierra lamars mother marlene shortly after that verdict was handed down. Reporter right. Good morning to you, sam and laura. The interesting contrast today was the speed with which this jury reached that guilty verdict and the months of time that this case spent in courtrooms and the five long years since sierra lamar disappeared on her way to that bus stop back in 2012. When i talked with Marlene Lamar about half an hour ago as she was leaving the courthouse to go home, i heard in her voice the same emotion that i heard five years ago had she was talking about her daughter having disappeared. Pretty much we had to relive this nightmare. It was pretty bad. It was actually more detailed and difficult to hear in the details. It was horrific to hear it. Reporter i remember the day they had to play your 911
Dumping his body at cooper river park in haddon township. Accordingly at this point in time and thank you for your services, dj creato seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. Dj is upset he wanted to go home and be with his family. He has not seen his family in person other than the courtroom in a year and a half. Creatos family had no comment and he maintains his innocence. And prosecutors say that he killed the toddler because he was interfering with his relationship with his then teenage girlfriend. But there was no evidence. A hung jury proved that they cannot try the case beyond a reasonable doubt. 12 people could not say guilty. Nor could they say innocent and the Prosecution Team made it clear they are not finished with dj creato releasing a statement that the Prosecutors Office intends to retry the case and we thank the jury for their time and service. Back live looking at the big blue ribbon reads in part some day sometime someone that does the unthinkable will be brought to justi