Gonna set the night on Fire Task Force fire make it happen thank you. applause good afternoon. My name is jeffery king. I am a First Amendment lawyer specializing in [speaker not understood] Government Matters. I am a journalist who is an enthusiastic and frequent utilizer of the California Public records act and the San Francisco sunshine ordinance. A huge part of [speaker not understood] which includes open Government Matters and, of course, im here in my capacity as the freedom of Information Committee, [speaker not understood] society of professional journalists which i served since 2011. And im here to voice the committee of strong support or strongest support of mark rumold. As you heard from mark, he is an attorney with the Electronic Frontier foundation, a position that he has held for the past four years a a legal fellow and now staff attorney. What he did not tell you is that he was not only qualified for this position. Hes one of the leading open Government Experts in this c
Reference, you know, specific areas of the sunshine ordinance has really been its going to be a big loss to the task force to not have him there. So, i wanted to start with those two things. I think one of the things that i feel that i bring to the task force that maybe is different than other people is that im a parent of three Young Children and its a different point of view than a lot of other members have. Im not sure how many of the other Task Force Members have children of Elementary School age and of kindergarten age. So, a lot of times when issues come before the task force, i can think of things specifically around rec and park where there is issues around the appropriate disclosure or what personal information should be redacted or not. You know, i was kind of wondering, well, if my child find out before i sign my child up for rec and park summer camp, is that information should that be clarified, sign up for rec and park summer camp, does that information mean it should be t
I fully admit that has not been ideal. And Going Forward i will make a stronger effort. I dont feel it was a lack of effort. It happened to be a set of odd circumstances this past year that [speaker not understood]. Okay, thank you. Anything else . Thank you. Sure. Last applicant, Rodman Joseph martin. Im the last one. Good afternoon, supervisors. ~ yee and tang. Thanks for having me here. My name is rodman martin. A little bit about myself. Im thankful to participate in this and considering me. Ive lived in San Francisco now for about four years. I grew up in the bay area, went to cal poly for undergrad and to santa clara law school. Ive now been practicing Workers Compensation for five years. We represent the injured worker. They get hurt, theyre having difficulty obtaining benefits, we get a Court Hearing to solve that. I [speaker not understood] San Francisco and oakland. I volunteer at the asian law caucus on columbus and jackson and member of the San Francisco bar and bar of oakl
City attorneys interpretation of the ordinance, visavis the city charter is a red herring. First, interpretations of roberts rules of order is hard to get [speaker not understood]. Second, the city has settled over 21 million in payments paid out over the last six years to settle various lawsuits involving discrimination and wrongful termination that involved a quoteunquote advice from the City Attorney [speaker not understood] proved to be mistaken. Even though the City Attorney [speaker not understood] makes mistakes in interpretation of the law. Third, consider doing contract talks that just concluded, local 21 ha reported to our member that they defeated the proposal that was requested to prohibit City Employees from filing discrimination complaints under local, state, and federal law. The [inaudible]. Thank you. [inaudible]. Thank you very much. Hell do fine make it real fine hes on the hunt hes work for task force you and josh wolf will do shine the Sunshine Task force fine hes o
Harrisperry. We have breaking news from the middle east this morning. Dozen of turkish hostages have been released. They returned this morning to cheering crowds. It was feared for the hostages safety that kept them from getting in the fight with isis. And this Week Congress voted on the very fight, agreeing to authorize the United States military to train and arm syrian rebels. It was the first fullment of a request made by president obama. The response was overwhelming. 7822 in the senate. We heard republicans saying things in support of the president and his authority. I frankly think the president s request is a sound one. Theres a lot more we need to be doing. Theres no reason for us not to do what the president asked us to do. What would our enemies and allies think if we rejected the president s authority to do this . So yes, congress did something in twine etc. Vacations. And thats news in itself. The president was quick to say the votes show his campaign is united. This shows