More insufficient attention has been placed o on addressing what i call the competency gap. The difference between what College Administrators are equipped to do and what the department of educations office for civil rights is demanding of them. Campuses are ill instituted to ajud indicate allegations of Sexual Assault. While college and universities have a role to play in tackling the issue, we must make sure that we are assigning themselves responsibilities they are capable of performing well. Having defended due process for 15 years, fire is convinced that colleges are simply unequipped to serve as investigators and fact findings in these challenging issues. Rape is a crime. It should be treated as such. Using amateur systems is insulting to victims and disastrous to fundamental fairness. Unsurprisingly injustice for both victims and accused is common place. Sound Public Policy requires adjudicating these cases in courts after professional investigations. Only courts have the power
Nothing could be further from the truth. Instead those of us who handle incident us of Sexual Violence are professionals who share an overwhelming commitment to strike the delicate balance in todays legislative environment to preserve the Educational Rights of students, to manage conduct and above all to prevent Sexual Violence. Thank you. Thank you very much. Ms. Maatz, youre recognized for five minutes. Good morning, on behalf of the more than 170,000 members, over 1,000 branches and 900 college and University Partners of the American Association of university women, i thank you for inviting us to testify today. My remarks are informed by my 12 years with auw and my tenure as the executive director of a Domestic Violence program re recognized by excellence and also at whitten burg university where i was a a hall director that responded to incidents of Sexual Assault. I can personally attest to the fact this is not a new problem. When campus environments are hostile because of Sexual
And at Valley Medical Center examined him before and after the move. At this time we have no information about the cause of death. Any assumptions as to the cause of death is pure speculation until the medical examiner finishes their review. We expect that review to take place in the coming days. Based on our information the inmate had a long history of violent behavior, both in public and with jail and medical staff. He was in a unit that was being monitored. There was no indication the day before, a couple days before that there was any physical confrontations the indent followed the death of enmate Michael Tyree allegedly beaten to death by three correctional deputies on the same floor of the jail. This jail and really no jail is equipped to handle individuals with mental illnesses. The reason its called an illness is because it requires treatment, treatment to be done at a hospital. Reporter and as with the tyree case there are a number of different agencies also investigating the
Ter onto celebrate his life. Nbc bay areas Stephanie Chuang is live in oakland. Stephanie, people are remembering him as a good kid who was trying to make his community a better place. Reporter thats what we heard over and over again this morning, kris. His family pulled up in a car this morning and immediately they got out. And it just seemed like they were here visiting the site where his life was taken just 24 hours ago as he was working on a mural. I talked to his younger sister who was on crutches. And she was telling me shed been here last night for a vigil but couldnt stay very long through tears. She was absolutely emotional. More than 100 people packed this area under the 580 overpass. This is on west street here for a candle light vigil to remember antonio ramos. Oakland police say this is where he was shot while Painting Part of a 4,000squarefoot mural part of a project to beautify oakland. His parents, older brother and younger sister were among the family members here this
Is chief of police gregory chief suhr. Thank you, welcome to the november 4, 2015. Police Commission Meeting. Item 1 is general pmp. The public is now welcome to address the Commission Regarding items that do not appear on tonights agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. Speaker shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or oc krshg personnel. Under Police Commission rules of order, during Public Comment, Neither Police or oc krshg personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions. Presented by the public but may provide a brief response. Individual commissioners and police and occ personnel should refrain however from entering into any debates or discussion with speakers during Public Comment. Public speaker hello, my name is Michael Petrelis. I would like to use the overhead. Can you stop the clock, please. Im going to take an extra 20 seconds. Here is a mug shot by a