Marriage . I believe the 13th amendment incorporates the bill of rights to all states and that the freedom of association through marriage, as the Supreme Court a,s set in loving v. Virgini we dealt with this issue with interracial marriage different question. The fact of the color of ones skin is a coincidence. The difference between a male and female a something that is self evident and obvious that we need to deal with. That is part of the human condition. Part of liberty is figuring out how we as humans who disagree and have the passions and a governor along ourselves. That is where we have constitutionalism, to figure out how we do this. We dont force people to live the way we want to live. I am suggesting to that the way the federal government what the federal government is doing now, rapidly because of judges, will upend every social institution in this country, and that kind of revelatory change is something the conservatives and libertarians should all be opposed to because it
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The police department, but i think what the District Attorney is saying that we have seen the opposite. Its just a oneyear drop there. Thank you. Other questions that are related to the funding for the Victim Services . The problem is that at the same time we were requesting in addition to our Victim Services the state reduced the funding coming in. So the end result of this process is that we actually lost the funding from state for three people. We gained the funding from the general fund for three and we wind up as we were prior tour to our request. Were seeing an increase. We did not have that increase. Supervisor avalos. Thank you chair farrell and thank you d. A. Gascon for your presentation. On your slide on page 5 you compare San Francisco with Santa Clara County. Just want to make sure that were talk about an applestoapples comparison. How are these Domestic Violence units in each structure . Are they structured in similar way . Are there any staff borrowed from other parts th
Only other county in the bay area that has vertical prosecution and vertical for felonies. What does that mean . When you have a vertical prosecution unit, when you are doing is that you have the attorney that picks up the case from the very beginning takes the case all the way through trial and conviction. When you have a horizontal unit, you have multiple individuals, that may be picking up pieces of the case. Somebody may take the case to arraignment. If its a felony, somebody else may do the preliminary hearing and somebody else may eventually try the case. The downside in Domestic Violence when you do business that way, is that you lose continuity and the trust of the victim. And Domestic Violence is one of those areas where the relationship between the victim and the prosecutor is crucial, because the very beginning were dealing with victims that generally reluctant. Typically a Domestic Violence victim does not want to prosecute the offender. Why is that . The offender is often
In terms of staffing, i just want to put up a visual of our Department Staffing from fiscal year 2001 to today and you will see that over time we almost had eight staff at the beginning of the 2000s and were now down to 5. 0 fste. I have six people in my office, three working parttime. Part of these reductions reflect the fact we have tried to keep cuts away from our direct services, as much as possible. In your handout you have a time line of achievements that this policy analyst helped us achieve in the time that we had that position. In 2002 we released a comprehensive report for San Franciscos response to Domestic Violence and lists hundreds of recommendations by departments and we worked very intensively and collaborative with the other agencies to make sure that those recommendations were followed. In 2006 we conducted a safety audit for looking at our different partners in the criminal justice agencies and how well we were serving victims of Domestic Violence. In 2007, we starte