Department of Elections Director John Arntz yesterday responded to Sutton law firm attorney Kevin Heneghan saying, “The version of Proposition M filed with the Department of Elections is identical to the version attached to the Board of Supervisors agenda for its July, 27, 2010 meeting. Therefore, the measure was not amended and I will not be taking any action in response to your letter.”
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And as for SFPD Chief Gascon, who is Newsom’s wingman on this caper, even he is careful not to admit that police enforcement of loitering laws is the solution to many of the problems being raised. No, instead, Gascon is now a politician in a taxpayers’ funded uniform, endorsing candidates and going along with Newsom’s sham like former Prime minister Tony Blair went along with George Bush’s pack of lies over weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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Constitutional rights are denied, and wrongful convictions are common because due process and judicial fairness are absent. Worst of all, it affects children, society’s most vulnerable. Short of fundamental reform, America’s criminal justice system will stay broken and corrupted, but profitable to a thriving, growing industry, preying on human beings as commodities, including kids never getting a chance to become productive adult citizens.
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District 5 Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi indicated yesterday he is planning to introduce an ordinance that will mandate foot patrols in areas of the city where their presence would deter the street level crimes, including assaults and loitering, that the Sit/Lie ordinance is intended to address.
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More than an one thousand San Franciscans responded to a proposed “Sit/Lie” ordinance Saturday, staging creative protests on the sidewalks in neighborhoods across the city. As part of “SIDEWALKS ARE FOR PEOPLE”, participants held nearly 100 planned and spontaneous events, doing their favorite activities on the city’s sidewalks in protest to a proposed ordinance that would make it a criminal offense to sit on any sidewalk in San Francisco.
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By Ralph E. Stone January 6, 2009 According to the California Office of Privacy Protection, over 8 million Americans were victims of identity theft in 2006. One million of those victims lived in California. Since 2005, CitiFinancial, TimeWarner, Choicepoint, Bank of America, Ameritrade, DSW Shoe Warehouse, Cardsystems, Department of Veterans Affairs, and other companies and [...]
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By Ralph E. Stone December 16, 2009 Domestic violence should not happen to anybody. Ever. Period. But it does – and when it does, there is help in San Francisco. One such helpful organization is the Cooperative Restraining Order Clinic (CROC). CROC is a collaborative city-wide project which helps domestic violence survivors in San Francisco [...]
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