I would like to thank everyone for being here. The scourge of Human Trafficking as modernday equivalent of slavery. Eradicating this horrific crime and helping its victims have been a top priority for president Trumps Administration and the department of justice. I think the president for his steadfast commitment to this issue and i thank avoca for her issue for her support and hosting this meeting today. I also thank all of these survivors and their advocates here for their courage and determination to end this evil scourge. In late january, a number of us were here for the white house summit on Human Trafficking. We noted that this year marks the 20th anniversary of the trafficking victims protection act. A law that has enabled great progress in this fight. I promise the Justice Department would do everything in our power to stop Human Trafficking and to help survivors port and today im pleased to announce an important step in keeping that promise. The Justice Department is awarding
Receive Occupational Training and counselling. Good afternoon. Id like to thank everyone for being here. The scourge of Human Trafficking is the modern day equivalent of slavery. Eradicating this horrific crime and helping its victims have been a top priority for president Trumps Administration and for the department of justice. I thank the president for his steadfast commitment to this issue, and i thank ivanka for her leadership and for hosting this meeting today. I also thank all the survivors and their advocates here for their courage and determination to end this evil scourge. In late january, a number of us were here for the white houses summit on Human Trafficking. We noted this year marks the 20th anniversary of the trafficking victims protection act, a law thats enabled great progress in this fight. I promise that the Justice Department would do everything in our power to stop Human Trafficking and to help survivors, and today im pleased to announce an important step in keepin
Cspanstore. Org. Next, a look at efforts to modernize Information Technology across government agencies. The House Oversight subcommittee hearing includes the chief Information Officers from the governmental accountability office, the office of Personnel Management, the white house budget office, and the education department. This is about 2 1 2 hours. Begin in 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1. Welcome, everybody, to the subcommittee on government operations. And our 10th hearing on fitara. Before we begin, pursuant to house rules, most members today will appear by webx remotely. Since some members are appearing in person, or at least this member is, let me remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance, all individuals attending this hearing in person must wear a face mask. Im dropping mine only to speak. Members who are not wearing a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders for those members appearing in person. Youll only see witnesses appearing remotely on the moni
Good afternoon, the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the september 27, 2019 special meeting of Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee. I am supervisor mandelman. To my right is supervisor stefani and mr. Walton. Mr. Clerk do you have any moniesnents . Clerk please silence cell phones. Your completed speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. No eating or drinking in the chamber, please. Items today will appear on the october 8th agenda unless otherwise stated. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Can you please call the first item. Clerk hearing to analyze and understand the city progress in meeting the requirements and goals of propsis t. Lessons learned from the citys efforts to achieve treatment on demand and challenges to current efforts to expand access to treatment for Substance Use disorder. Supervisor mandelman i want to thank the providers, advocates and drug policy experts who have pushed the city. The members of the coalition have been on the front lines for
Questions. I can accept and it makes sense to me for the person who is seeking treatment, a homeless person, outreach worker says do you want to go to treatment and they say, yes, there is a relatively short wait. It sounds like that could be several days and supervisor stefani, that is not exactly treatment on demand. There might be work to do there. I am more troubled by the access to treatment for the justice involved population which we had a hearing on several months ago. What we hear from Behavioral Health court and drug court is that they have a very hard time accessing appropriate services, appropriate Treatment Services for people in james or in one of those people in james or one of those courts. Part of the disconnect may be the treatment we are relying on to meet the treatment on demand goals might not be the most appropriate place for someone in Behavioral Health court. I know there are some folks going to health right. Can you talk about if the overall picture is better t