it. decorated war hero and black panther leader pratt on being incourse rated while his children grew up. i ve been through pain. all ahead on a second look. good evening and welcome to a second look. i m julie haener. tonight wrongful convictions how men who were accused tried and convicted of a crime did time behind bars in many cases for many years. according to a 2012uc berkeley study since january 1989, 214 californians have been exonerated or had their convictions overturned or dismissed. those 214 former inmates had spent a total of 1,113 years behind bars. tonight we start with a story of one man, a victim of mistaken identity. his coworkers rallied around him after he was accused of a crime they said he could have never committed. bob mackenzie first brought us their story in 1992. james jones walked out of a martinez jail in afternoon a free man. a some what hurt and bewildered man. he had been arrested on drug sales. they were going to let me out that n
the next exigency the next generation so it s my honor to join the supervisor today and i especially want to thank his family because when someone makes the kind of commitment and provides the kind of service that michael has provided and has made, it s not just they who are making a sacrifice it s the family members as well. thank you. supervisor avalos. thank you. i just also want to put in a word for michael bax ter i ve known him for a number of years he used to run the health clinic at the balboa high school and there s few individuals i ve seen in my work over the years who have been so dedicated to their work. i i know that he worked many long hours and on top of his work at the clinic he was coordinating health services in other schools and other places in the department and he made a huge difference in young people s lives and brought them to a level of awareness about their health in san francisco and it was remarkable as well he was able to keep alive the balbo
bill 360 allowing counties to develop and own and operate public voting systems and opens the door for voting technology used to administer elections publicly available and viewable and by following the open source path we can ensure that elections have more integrity than they also have and less opportunity for fraud and more accurate results so this resolution will move us in in that direction by requesting that lafco study how san francisco could implement its own voting system and move towards open source. so this is an important step forward colleagues i want to acknowledge that we ve all received some e-mails in the last few days from some advocates expressing concern not with the substance of the resolution i believe there s universal support for the substance of the resolution but expressing concern that one organization is named in the resolution and in the spirit of moving forward in in a united a way as possible because i believe the same goal i m going to sugges
flattered and even when this flatter y is degrading. i remember i was no more than 11 years old and it continued throughout middle and high school and i remember not being able to understand why men spoke to me when i clearly was not of age to be listening to be listening to those types of comments. and it impacts every single female friend that i had. ben called this reaction what it was sexist and critics wondered why he chose to go back to retrieve his wallet they claimed this would not have happened if he had just gotten a cab but people are missing the point every human being regardless of whether they are a man or woman should be able to walk on the city streets free from harassment and violence. dress is not an open invitation and they should not have further abuse heaped on them by the public for being responsible for another person s crime or abuse. ben and his girlfriend wrote from the hospital they said now for the folks that have never met us not once have only he
will be presented by supervisor kim. thank you. we re actually honoring a lot of upstanding individuals today while this individual is not an official member of the city family he is certainly a member of our city and a district 6 resident. i m honoring an individual today that many of you have probably read about in the press recently. his name is ben schwart z. ben was attacked in our neighborhood after taking a stand at the verbal abuse directed at his girlfriend he was returning from a party early saturday morning and passed a man making threats to her and after crossing to the other side of the street and being followed ben asked the perpetrator and punches were thrown and ben ended up being stabbed 9 times in the back, face and neck and arms with the knife narrowly missing his spinal cord but puncturing his lung. while there are many men and women women ben made a public statement and he and elevated this issue and in fact one that is so pervasive that there s a conse