And prosecuting people with Mental Health conditions is not the answer sea having the ability to access what the conditions of the individuals early on and being able to do the right level of the work and at the same time, were keeping the Community Safe is going a long way its not only socially responsible but economically 0 responsibly. Im holy hoping as we moved the board and Mayors Office can look at closely. It is so much more economically effective to had had right thing colleagues, any other further questions or comments. Okay. Thank you very much. And well open this up for Public Comment anyone wish to comment on items five or six okay seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Again, i want to thank our District Attorney and all the speakers safe flight back to new york. Colleagues a motion to file items five and six well take that without objection. And madam clerk call item 7 item 7 ordinance africanamerican the administrative code and payment of the prevailing was this on prope
What the issues are and track the patterns the same people over and over that are doing it we can bring the right people to the table and we do to figure out proactive strategies that might include new legislation of legislation or making it inhospitalityal so theyll go somewhere else. Thanks colleagues questions or comments. Okay. Thank you for taking the time from new york to come. Mr. District attorney our next one the next one is Mental Health especially theres an area you have taken a professional leadership and some of your other colleagues, we from many years have been u custodial aware the challenges in our community that have Mental Health problems whether getting them the right level of service or getting them off the streets to live a more humane life some of the people we deal with die in the streets because the lack of care. We also have other activities that we, you know, were seeing an increase in the workload starting in julia significant workload and perhaps if the law
My other colleague shell walk you through the concerns if you have any questions, ill be happy to answer them great thanks. Good afternoon. Katie and the chief of the program in that roll over see our collaborative neighborhood prosecutors and our juvenile unit when we put the programs together under one piece three and four the da charged me with looking at how we do and our challenges and gaps and how to bring our process into awe alignment how we work with individuals suffering from mentally illness we intersect with the citys health care the system should be a robust came National System and a range of Access Points and that ideally folks get involved with the services and i but there are two different ways to intersect with the system it really is unsustainable for us to do the work were mandated so currently in our office we have one fulltime assistant District Attorney and a part time person with her that he rely on two other lawyers we beg and borrow if other unit and it isnt t
Issues that has lowlevel crimes but not nice to tourist we know what the issues are and track the patterns the same people over and over that are doing it we can bring the right people to the table and we do to figure out proactive strategies that might include new legislation of legislation or making it inhospitalityal so theyll go somewhere else. Thanks colleagues questions or comments. Okay. Thank you for taking the time from new york to come. Mr. District attorney our next one the next one is Mental Health especially theres an area you have taken a professional leadership and some of your other colleagues, we from many years have been u custodial aware the challenges in our community that have Mental Health problems whether getting them the right level of service or getting them off the streets to live a more humane life some of the people we deal with die in the streets because the lack of care. We also have other activities that we, you know, were seeing an increase in the worklo
Paperwork the civil court cases today it would have been 6 hundred and 50 just in january thats ate entirely new function for the District Attorneys Office it requires us to assembly all the flying paperwork and have an investigator and serving on the opposing council all the steps we dont currently do in conservatively for cases. So in addition right now before the board of supervisors theres legislation to for San Francisco to adapt welfare and Institution Code 16th century 70 velocity e scheduled as a Neighborhood Committee the purpose of the law to extend psych holds after theyve been 5150ed having the ability to keep folks an center thirty days at hospitals we wont have to do as many conservative active cases here in San Francisco were we agree there are many folks who have been 5150s and maybe need nor time to get stabilized but this is an important yaegs edition to our toolbox we need to be at the hearings of the 8 hospitals so if the board is passing those we dont have the capa