Subjected to a hostile environment after being restrained 90 times in a year. In this interview with disability rights of california which filed the complaint stewart describes his experience. When they restrain me, there was two people. Pretend this is me. They held my wrists down. And they also held my legs down. And it really hurt. It was like they were grinding my legs into the floor. And it really, really was painful. Stewarts mom bonnie canned l lchl describes the changes she saw with her son in an interview. My son stewart was restrained 94 times over a period of 11 months. And restraint is supposed to be an emergency solution, not a Behavior Management solution. And this caused stewart to be depressed, to be suicidal. He didnt want to go to school. He spent a whole lot of time out of the classroom not receiving instruction. And he gave up. He felt like nothing he did was going to work and that they were going to hold him down anyway. And joining me now with more on the debate o
Equal time correspondent, jessica munday, begins our coverage with a look at the problem. The state of california has been in a severe drought for several years and has been under a state of emergency declared by governor jerry brown in january of 2014. Lack of rain, only 44 of the season average during these dry years. Here in Santa Clara County, most of the water is imported, half coming from the deltas aqueducts carrying water from snow and rainfall in the sierras, the other half from water pumped out of the ground. Most of our water and most people dont know this most of our water actually comes from outside of the county. So, about 55 of it actually comes from outside of the county. Most of it comes from the sacramento san joaquin delta. California is estimated to have used 81,000 acre feet of ground water storage in 2014. Thats enough for 81,000 suburban households in one year. Most of our water goes to agriculture with only a small percentage for urban use. If you look at, you k
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