Protect our duties from fire and other emergencies but our duties also require us to respond to the medical needs of others, both homeless and other individuals. For some of these individuals when our ambulances assist them, it is not the first time. We see them day in and day out. We get to know them by their first name, we see what street corners they hang out on and too many times watch them slowly decline in health and selfrespect. Its almost as if you are watching them commit suicide slowly because they cant get into a facility that can help them out. This cycle that i speak of is not only a detriment to the resources of the department but more importantly a detriment to the individuals we are watching slowly fall into greater and grader disrepair. Our Union Supports the implementation of lauras law because these Services Free up the resources of the Fire Department but also will help provide a Community Based individualized treatment that is needed by these individuals and Mental
To provide stability for the Homeless Individuals receiving assisted outpatient treatment, your efforts today to provide treatment will be for naught. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, next speaker please. Good afternoon, supervisors, lisa marie from the coalition on homelessness. And sort of the most disturbing piece that i want to touch on, because i think that one of the hardest parts about this hearing is you are hearing both ends of the spectrum about how people feel how we should respond to Mental Health, the people that is most striking to me is this is not an alternative to incarceration. I think that is actually the emotional piece that were really experiencing here. Folks dont want their loved ones to have to go through more trauma to stand in front of a judge to be demoralized, to have to be arrested, when things dont actually result in real healing and getting to peoples basic needs and sustainability being met. So i think in terms of the criminal Justice Sector in
December. We were in the process of evicting him. Now that hes in jail, obviously hopefully hes not coming back and we can get resolution from that. Bugay declined our requests for an interview. The details we learned today about his arraignment. Today was supposed to be sentencing day for two oakland gang members. Noelle walker has been in the courtroom. It was a long day in court today. Carlos was just 2 years old when he was struck and killed by a bullet that was meant for a gang member. No but thank you for asking okay. Reporter it essentially ended up being continued. Tomorrow well see what happens. Reporter the courtroom was packed with family and friends of the two convicted men. Lawrence den ard and willey torrence. Carlos nava was three years old when he was shot and killed on international boulevard just blocks away from his home. The boy was on a toy car stroller when he was shot by the drive by shooting. The intended targets were gang members. Both are facing life in prison
I know is fast to get in there, but when the wheels are turned to come home, its slow. I couldnt accept it. People are like they are going to do this to time. I said no, this is clear. This was what was supposed to have been done from the beginning. Even my families, my loved wupz ones that lost. That made me fight more. I never gate gave up my fate. My hope is restored. With that i would like to thank all of our panelist. Thank you. [ applause ] and we are now going to move to our second panel. While they take their seats, this idea of forced treatment versus Constitutional Rights has always been a tension that weve had in our criminal justice system. There is an issue that came up earlier this year that you may have read about involving this implementation of a court that was supposed to treat individuals who were suffering from longterm alcoholism. And the court was set up in a way where individuals were not being arrested for a crime but instead were being jailed for contempt of co
Our second panel. While they take their seats, this idea of forced treatment versus Constitutional Rights has always been a tension that weve had in our criminal justice system. There is an issue that came up earlier this year that you may have read about involving this implementation of a court that was supposed to treat individuals who were suffering from longterm alcoholism. And the court was set up in a way where individuals were not being arrested for a crime but instead were being jailed for contempt of court as long as 120150 days in jail. My office, when we learned of this, we were not involved in the creation of it, challenged it because we believed that it was unconstitutional because you were not charging people with crimes and you are jailing people for contempt of court when legally they hadnt failed to come to court because in most of these cases they had simply been served with citations. So the legal challenge is filed and the court was found to be unconstitutional by t