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Director. Kahina here kahina present chair. Ekin here. Ekin present. For the record, i note that director hinsey is attending this meeting remotely. Director hinsey is reminded that she must appear on camera throughout the meeting and in order to speak or vote on any items places you on. Item number three the ringing use of cell phones and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. The chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone or other similar sound producing Electronic Device places you on. Item number four approval of minutes for the november 21st regular meeting. Thank you directors. Are there any changes to the november 20th one minutes . Yes seeing none, well open Public Comment for anyone in the room on t ....
Nonetheless, outside counsels like this case. And yet there is one more approach being taken and this is by our indiana governor and Vice President ial candidate, mike pence who directed his voluntary agencies, the ones responsible for receiving and placing refugees in the states to withhold funds. So hes not going to allow them to get reimbursed by the federal government. Hes going to stop the flow of funds until he gets some Additional Information from the federal government. Threatening government in a sense. What made the news in this case was that one agency had our defend the process of placing the syrian family in indiana. Exodus ended up going to court against the direct to an indiana said this is a clear violation of the equal protection clause given that it is identifying people by National Origin and ....
Pipeline how we process and get information, its largely solely demonstrated as an act of violence or a very abrasive vice. Rarely is it narrated in a way where people are constantly having to live in many of our communities in this country in war zones. That are actually assaulting the psychology, the emotion, and the spirit of young people and families far beyond just a physical toll. I think the daily impact, at least how we understand it, particularly here in the way area, is very much around trauma. We just really quickly, 600 shootings have happened in the bay area averaged over the last 20 years. City of oakland, im talking about specifically the city of oakland, 120 killings or so average. You can just imagine the concentric circles of trauma, of families that have had to deal with gunrelated hop sides, not even speaking about suicides. I think trauma is something we have to continue to imagine. Its not just literally the victims themselves or even their immediate families, tha ....
Pediatric wards. There is an anecdotal relationship. We did an informal survey of our members asking them what is your number . When you reflect on medical School Residency in your practice, in your lives, how many gun violence victims have you had interactions with, and was on average 40. That is an incredible number and it reminds us that in health care and medicine, we are at an important intersection where we are trying to care for the victims of violence but also trying to move one step ahead and take steps towards prevention as well. Margo hirsch, as someone working in the realm of solutions, we are talking about , the epicenter of. Echnological innovation we often in america are producing world changing technology. What technologies are available to us now to address this problem . Margo the primary technologies we are seeing today through the 2014ation that started in are primarily biometric feel gies and are i radio fre ....