Discussion that started february first as part of its promise to reform safety in the wake of a deadly shooting by a u. C. Police officer last summer. Current director of Public Safety james whalen will serve as interim chief. Also breaking this hour another twist in the homicide case of a middletown mother. Mother. Just days after police in dayton ohio told us they arrested a man on suspicion of killing Brittany Russell the Montgomery County prosecutor has announced he wont formalize charges against brandon carr. Carr. Police say the 34 year old was the last person to see Brittany Russell alive. Friends said brittany left home with her daugher, six month old haven to give carrs brother a ride. She was then found dead in the parking lot of an aparmtent building. Haven was fine and returned to her father who had reported her missing the night before. This isnt the end for the case though. The Montgomery County Prosecutors Office says the case has been sent back to police for them to get
I have another question. Just like to remind the commissioner, we have a full agenda. You say the current residents will not be affected. The current residents of these housing generally are elders, seniors, many housing, you do have Young Children. The Young Children it could be a couple of years old or teenagers. You know, they are currently residing with their mothers. Are you covering those Young Children too when they get older. When they currently, under the 29 properties, seven of them are designated as family buildings. Hump designate family . Seven. Thats just the designation meaning that if you to apply to get in there, you will be applying to those children. There are grandparents that are taking care of their children. I understand that. Thats the designation per hud. Basically if you are on lease on the property, then you are part this program. You are eligible for the temporary relocation for being on lease. We did run a huge ad Family Member campaign for the last couple
Should have. We sent a letter indicating our concerns and input. At the meeting, we also had ann hintton give update about the scan grant that we received. Which was about 10,000. The purpose of that grant was to have our staff mentor three other counties to develop their Long Term Care integration plans. Bill haskell who was our former staff person along with ann hintton worked together with three different counties in california. Specifically ventura, stanislaus and yolo counties to put together their Long Term Care integration plan. Theyve done that and now theyre going to be submitting to to the scan foundation. We completed the work that we were given the money to do. In the meantime, our department is submitting another grant with scan and so scan will consider our grant proposal to continue the work. The other item we had on the agenda would highlight the event that we had to commemorate our tenth anniversary of the down sill. That was on october 23rd. Maureen took a lot of phot
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