Some of the strongest Campaign Finance laws in the country and rightly so. Our citizens have r entitleed to know who is influencing the votes. Unfortunately the Campaign Finance laws are not a single construct. They are the product of differing and overlapping efforts that differ and overlap with state laws. What we are left with is a imns patch work of regulation whos complexities can undermine the very goal of transsknaerns accountability we seek student achieve. For example, under the current Campaign Finance reform ordinance, one must consult 5 different sections of the law to sign all the different disclaimer requirements. An independent group such as a neighborhoods Political Club can be required to file 2 different forms as 2 different times just to report a Single Campaign mailer. This complexity makes it harder for the paverage voter to assess the information being disclosed and it can by troubling message to smaller organizations and grass roots candidate, dont bother getting
Of staff she is volleyball responsible for the day to day [inaudible] her prawnect include establishing policy and general order [inaudible] to meet the needs of our community. She also oversees several programs which provide needed services to the youth including operation dream, future graduates, the Wilderness Program and [inaudible] it is sad to announce her last day with the San Francisco Police Department is march 27 [inaudible] as well as a bunch of her colleagues here. We have many deputy chiefs here. [inaudible] from the airport. Hector [inaudible] from operations [inaudible] from special operations burey. Thank you for being here. Since we have dh cheer here, a funny story i want d to share from one of the police commissioners. Often times when chief [inaudible] asks his staff to do something, they have to say ask firs if he asked deputy chief [inaudible] he has the remind them he is police chief, but everyone says they have to ask her first. Just a flavor of what she means t
Fires in this area the same area on that they dealt with fires up this afternoon the fact is right now no homes damaged no one was hurt. All these fires contained. Matt now here showing where the but fires burning done in canyon park west of highway 13 along park boulevard. Steep terrain into the canyon at making reaching some of those fires not that much more challenging. And any fires and the Oakland Hills bring back some very bad memories tragic day in bay area history. October 20th its 1991 a fire started ended up killing 25 people burning nearly 4000 homes. The blaze that took three days to put out and all the todays fires much smaller quickly contained people who live in the area and no. 91 are certainly scared i saw smoke and flames helicopters we call the police addis scared a look like it was going to travel down i did not know about the fuss was supposed my house. At the daughter resent dedicatee grabs supplies and we headed out. it seems to be under control right now Oakland
State university and the university of south dakota law school. From 1973 through 1990, he was a states attorney and prosecuted hundreds of felony cases. He served as the chief Deputy Attorney general for south dakota. In 2002 was elected t eed the s Dakota Attorney general. He has been a judge since then. He created the 24 7 Sobriety Program you will hear about today. Its a zero Tolerance Program for alcohol abusing offenders that give them a chance to dry out and walk right without going to prison. It has been recognized as being effective, efficient and humane. In 2008, council of state governments saw the merit in the program by awarding it an innovations award. The institute for behavior and Health Awarded it the john p. Mcgovern award in 2009. The national Highway Traffic Safety Administration gave it the life savosavers award in 2. To his left is the honorable stephen ohm. Judge ohm is a former prosecutor and now sits as a judge in hawaii. From 1994 to 2001, he was the United St
Afraid to save the life of a Family Member or a loved one because of legal liability. I recently introduced a bill called the opiate overdose reduction act. Its a simple solution to a problem. It extends protections to people who step in to save the lives of a person who is overdosing by administering a drug and that we need a National Good samaritan law so that people will step in. How many lives do you think would be saved if we had such a law . We know one of prime issues why people overdose and die is failure to call 911 in an emergency. Clearly, signaling to people that they shouldnt be afraid to call 911 is a significant advancement in how were going to reduce overdose deaths. A Good Samaritan law would help here . Absolutely. Do you agree with that. Yes. And i think thats really something we can do to pass a law which does provide that can samaritan protection. Doctor, isnt it true that for opiate addicts in prison, treatment approach that works bet best is combining medication