And a house, but it was just really hard and i could only imagine for people who have more kids than my mom or anything like that, who has a lot of felonies and arent able to work. So, yeah, im done. Thank you. Thank you, ms. [speaker not understood], for sharing your story. Hi, my name is jeannetta johnson. Im the director of programs at transgender [speaker not understood] also known as ttijp and im also a proud member of all of us or none. And i just wanted to come up and just say that i work with transgender people that are getting out of prison and its been really challenging to find employment and housing and its almost like being transgender and you have the other like stripe on your back or other different franchisement on you. We would like to eliminate if we could at least eliminate that, that would be really, really great. So we could possibly have better opportunities at housing and employment. Thank you. Thank you, ms. Johnson. Hello, my name is cynthia cruz. I am a proud
To go, not being able to find a job where they could pay the rent and stay in San Francisco. Few of the women have family out here. When they get out they feel like theyre a burden to their family. A lotful them are single mothers. Thinking about the choices they have to make about their life experiences. They have children but they feel safer in a way returning, being able to be out and have the opportunities to have, you know, a being able to afford housing and find a good job. Its was really difficult to hear, but something we wanted to help support this community. National statistic show that 50 of black men and 50 40 of latino men will be incarcerated at some point in their life ~. Those percentage numbers are very high so we need to support communities of color and having access to jobs and housing so that they can build themselves a future. Thank you. Thank you. Im going to call up the last set of name cards before the last speaker that i had already previously called. Jeanette
In the first place. And, so, i just want to provide that specific glimpse into the fact there are protected categories of people and they give up that protection to try to mitigate the risk of losing out on a job or a place to live. So, thanks so much. Thank you, ms. Cruz. My name is dorsey nunn. Im the executive director of Legal Services for prisoners with children and the cofounder of all of us or none. And one of the people who initiated the ban the box campaign. And im probably here for a different reason. You know, i would like to say im just here for employment, for formerly incarcerated people, but that wouldnt be true. Im here because i recognize that as a result of the discrimination, between 57 and 65 billion a year is stolen from poor people and thats what the end result of discrimination means. I recognize that in the city of San Francisco where were bleeding a population of African Americans that if we dont do something different, pretty soon we wont be here in San Franci
Support. Thank you, ms. [speaker not understood]. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is ernest stokes. Im a long time resident of San Francisco, i live in the bayview district. Basically im here because im in favor of the fair chance ordinance because i believe the legislation the way it is right now is unjust. I when a person has served their time, served out their sentence, the [speaker not understood] should end. Without the fair chance ordinance, there is no end to the punishment. I mean, they are continuously being punished. The current legislation which presupposes a number of things. Number one, people cant change, cant grow, cant be rehabilitated. In other words, it presupposes that. The history is destiny. Fair chance ordinance says that, number one, we believe in people and that people can change, can grow, and everyone can make a contribution to society. In closing, id like to say that every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future, and thats why i support fair chance o
Us. But because of her felonies its really hard for her to do that when she was released. Now im able to live with her and shes able to keep up a job and a house, but it was just really hard and i could only imagine for people who have more kids than my mom or anything like that, who has a lot of felonies and arent able to work. So, yeah, im done. Thank you. Thank you, ms. [speaker not understood], for sharing your story. Hi, my name is jeannetta johnson. Im the director of programs at transgender [speaker not understood] also known as ttijp and im also a proud member of all of us or none. And i just wanted to come up and just say that i work with transgender people that are getting out of prison and its been really challenging to find employment and housing and its almost like being transgender and you have the other like stripe on your back or other different franchisement on you. We would like to eliminate if we could at least eliminate that, that would be really, really great. So w