A coward nowhere in this entire nation and certainly not in the city at any officer ever been fired for something called coach considerations. I have been pleading that our officers need to work into should we any have band with another officer maybe it would have never happened because individuals saw that theres 2 of them theres only one of me im not going to fight this situation. Probably any other officer would have had the individual you know bulky coat maybe the hands are in and out of pockets and the actions of that individual caused the situation become what it became. Cheap when terminated over brother officer. The firing was cowardice and unsupported by fact what about you in missouri. Called in sick. The membership as voted their voice shall be heard vote. 99. 3 percent 99. 3 percent voted no because. She cannot stand before the membership and lead them properly give them the confidence so that they can protect the community then maybe its time that he packed his bags. Out t
To support yes in support of the rules and regulations for aca6. Thank you. Thank you. Next i want to call up brendon woods who is the Alameda County public defender. Good morning, members of the committee. Thank you for allowing me to say a few words about this important pieces of legislation that is being considered in sacramento. As you heard, aca6 will allow the voters to decide whether people on parole should be given the right to vote. As i said earlier in a rally today just to provide some context, 21 countries, 21, currently allow people to vote if you are on parole or if you are in prison. 21 countries. Those countries include spain, switzerland, sweden, germany, and even south africa. South africa. In april of 1999, the Constitutional Court of south africa declared the universality of the disenfranchisement is important, not only for the nation and democracy to vote for each and every citizen is a badge of personhood. In south africa they literally said every vote counts. In
I would just echo all of chair ronens comments about the importance of the this committee, and also thank you so much to ms. Packard and ms ms. Raveche for all of your commitment and to serve on the committee and the city. I would like to make a motion to move this forward to the full board with positive recommendation. The appointment of Scott Patterson to seat 1, Betty Packard to seat 2 and Ashley Raveche to seat 3 as the Committee Report for consideration at the july 23rd board meeting. Chair ronen and without objection, that motion passes unanimously. Congratulations and thank you so much. Mr. Clerk, can you please read item number 3. Clerk item number 3 is a rules and regulations supporting Assembly Constitutional amendment no. 6 to allow automatic restoration for Voting Rights to those on parole upon completion of a state or federal prison term. Chair ronen thank you so much. The sponsor has joined us. Thank you so much, chair ronen and supervisors mar and walton for having me he
Introduce our subject Matter Experts who are here. I also have some very small amendments to the resolution, which ill pass out copies here. They basically just say that there are 18 other states, rather than 14 other states, that have taken similar steps. With that im going to turn it over to our subject Matter Experts who can provide more context and information and who will also be available for followup questions. The first person i want to introduce is a has been fighting this fight for a long. He will give you these little flyers where it shows all of the steps over many years to get us to this point and all of the struggles to make sure that we actually have a democracy that includes everybody and is, i think, one of our greatest champions not just for this issue, but one of the most important civil and human rights leaders in the country and longtime friend of mine dorcy young. Thank you. Ive been doing Voter Registration for over 20 years, and i like outside of a narcotic anon
Roll foz the next order of business is item number two, announcements. The next regularly scheduled Commission Meeting will be held on tuesday, august 6, 2019 at 1 00 p. M. Please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person s responsible for the ringing of or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing electronic device. Please be advised a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each item unless the commissioner has a shorter item. Members of the public who wish to address the commission fill out a secret card and submit the completed card to the commission secretary. Item number three, report on actions taken at previous closed session meeting, if any. There are no reported actions. Item number five, matters of new business Consent Agenda. Co