a job. >> that is a person by person case. i hope that we are moving in the direction of whether or not people have their criminal record public. >> i want to thank all of the panelists for taking time out of their busy schedule. thank you very much. >> thank you very much.

we hope that the summit raise issues that you normally don't see on your broadcast television. i think that we sent out to accomplish three things. the first question as it is presented to and for trade both on the news as well as in hollywood movies. secondly, we should be honest about where the system is failing. at one time, our office was a public defender's office. we have made huge steps to make

it just this mean for and create outcomes that are just. we are spending more money in california on prisons than we are on education. we have too many people in prisons to our liking people out of city college. what is happening is more than an outrage. the systethis is something thate

take immediate steps to protect. we have seen that this falls on deaf ears. unless the people make their voices heard, we will not see change. we know this is a recipe for failure. going forward, we must become involved in the justice system. this is not someone else's problem.

we will sit and wonder why the crime rates have gone up. >> when you think about the cost to our society and every person that lives in our society. it becomes very clear that we have no option but to act and act now. i am hoping that you will be motivated to get involved in non ordinary justice. we have yet to live up to that

promise. i look forward to working with all of you call ever to pla. we invite you to stay with us. we look forward to continuing this dialogue in the future. thank you very much.

>> all right. my name is is an swan right. according to a 2001 survey. 84 percent said they were satisfied with high school safety. 22 percent said they were not.

>> my name is matesh. whether students were asked if they felt safe on their way to school. 43 percent said no. they do not feel safe riding the bus. >> my name is daniel, i live in san francisco. when youths were asked where they carry weapons, 77 percent said it was for protection. >> hi, my name is scott, i live in oakland. 66 percent of youths surveyed believe it is never right to carry a gun to school.

>> my name is bianca. when asked if they believed it was a good idea to have are a gun 17 percent students said yes and 40 percent said it was sometimes okay. >> 61 percent of the same 8 thousand students said lack of jobs is a more serious problem than fights in school. they also felt violence was a problem. >> according to the juvenile justice community assessment and referral center. 1147 juveniles were arrested between july 2007 and january 2008.

of these. 122 happened at school. >> all right. can we please have a round of applause for our young people? thank you. all right. so gad to be here. i am evet, we are now going to move into our first panel which was going to address violence at school. i am one of your moderaters and we're going to go ahead and start. thank you so much for being here. >> if you are asked in seeing those statistics, we will have the power point at www.dot st

public defender.org to make them available. i am excited to introduce each of of the panelists. if we described all of the achievements we would here all day. it's available online on the website. the first is bianca, she is the junior at thorough good marshall high school. she the part of the united players who is in the house here. and we came to meet bianca when she started interning. so thank you for being a part of this. carlos garcia is the super

intendent of the city and county. we are so lucky to have him in san francisco. we served in the fifth faster growing school system in clark county. he worked as a principle including horace man in san francisco. thank you very much super intendent for being here. nathaniel ford is the director of the transportation authority. prior to joining the municipal authority.

he served for the atlantic authority for 5 years. he started as a train conductor in the new york city transit system. let's give it up for director ford. jim dierck is a principle, but not only a principle and an educator. he is someone who designd and developed innovative concepts where there was an incident that involved safety. for the work he was recognized at the national principle of the year. and he is somebody who is on the ground and has worked to empower young people at his school. he took his school from a

different circumstances to be one of the highest performs school districts in the state. jim dierck. margaret brodkin is the director of the department for children youth and families. i emphasize that because it is one of the most critical agencies in the city and county. margaret was a former director the colman advocates who is responsible for many of the children and families here in san francisco much he served as director. including the another and

leader of a campaign that results in a children's fund to provides funding to 220 program ares and serves 30 thousand children each year. margaret is a passionate person. she just came back from a trip on around the country and we are very happy to have her here. thank you margaret. doctor tom wenz, he's is an expert if anger management and substance abuse treatment and has worked with with many youth throughout his career. he came to me through george

anderson who runs an anger management firm. they have taken the science of conflict mediation and made it into an accessible discipline for trainers, people who are working with young people throughout the state and throughout the county. do you know that there's only, i think now one state that mandates anger management in the school and it was texas. and it's only been within the last year. doctor wenz is an advocate. he's also a vietnam veteran who saw many people suffer from substance abuse in the wake of that war and conflict and has a tremendous amount of experience. he as a doctorate. a master's degree in working

with children and works in his own consulting business as well. doctor tomas wenz. >> angela chan as worked with san francisco and community based organization in the area of violence reduction and hate crimes. she understands that often violence is simply a manifestation of conditions that we are preprogrammed to assume. we are seeing that now. this whole issue the race being played out in the presidental elections. quite frankly untruths told about one another. if we understood the common

history and the proud places from which we come, much of the violence and conflict could be avoided. she has done a number of presentations around the city and state. angela chan. officer lowis borilla. she took a particular interest in working with youth and with schools. she was a sro , school resource officer. during that time, she worked with middle schools throughout the district and in many areas

where they were experiencing violence. she has been an invader. i would like to acknowledge captain masha ash. captain ash has done a tremendous amount of work. she worked on protocols that would work with children taken to the youth facility. during the parent's arrest and

from trauma. thank you very much officer pri lo and captain nash. i am going to go over the panel discussion. we are try find solutions which includes violence to and from school and on the site. our goal is to move forward solutions. we ask that all questions be reserved today end. please feel free to jot down questions you have. those questions we are not able to get to, we are interested in collecting them. we are going to collect information with respect to solutions as well as action

items that they are going to take back and work on. so our first topic is violence to and from school. jeff will moderate this piece. >> we wanted to start talking about safety and getting to and from school, because that's really where it starts. again, as i mentioned earlier, many people do not feel safe in their homes, walk to go school and on the bus. one of the things that was listed was that a lot of students fear what will happen to them on public transportation. i think in many instances the way they feel and react is what they experience every day. what role can transportation

play in terms of safety? before we get there. i would like to start with bianca. this was something you had to live with. can you explain the challenges you experienced just getting to school. >> well, i know going to school, my school was in the bay area. some of them may have problems getting there on bus. some have to go alone. i know sometimes they face problems with other students because there's a lot of gangs. you asked what part of the city you are from. that's a risk for a lot of youth. >> and if you're in a situation where you feel endangered or you see someone else

victimized, who students know what actions to take >> i think some do and some don't >> what have you done personally where you have felt unsafe. >> i haven't felt that because i don't take bus. so, yeah. i wouldn't be able to answer that. >> okay. thank you. i am not going to go to both the superintendent and matt ford. they have been proactive in which safety to school can be approved. i know sue is also here who works with transportation authority who actually places security officers on public

transportation. obviously not all. but also works collaboratively. can you talk about your efforts and perhaps have you joined by director ford. >> well, i think it's a joint effort. it's always changing. and also the police chief, who we have a pretty tight relationship with the school district in terms of when things happen. we get on the phone and we're talking about what do we do? we have had to change starting times and ending time so they are not over lapping in different routes so we don't get different turfs. we have had to look at rerouting where kids have to stop to take another transit.

those areas are safe. sometimes we have worked directly. they have put police out there and we always find hot spots that come up. you think you have solved it and then a new one pops up. the best help for us is to alert all of us when that happens. it's a constant change. we can't control all the variables. we are not out there every day. she doesn't ride muni. we look it when we don't see it as people complaining to us. by the way, i was on this bus or this streetcar and this happened. this is going on on a regular

base. we can't fix it unless we know about it. we get on the phone with police and they are open to that. i think keeping on going communication is a good effort. plus we worked on having a hot line. they advertise it. he it probably tell you more of that. even in schools, we have a hot line, if you are feeling threatened or whatever, they want them to call on it. we are doing a lot of different things. we have to keep doing it it. there's always better ideas to make it better. >> thank you. superintendent garcia. one of the first actions we took in terms of the mta upon your joining the city as our

superintendent was to talk about the relationship between the mta and the school district. we are intrusted with thousands and thousands of students. we have to make sure you get there savely. it's additionally personal to me because i have 2 children in the unified school district. we do take this very seriously. back to 2001. there was a mtap program. we have dozens of individuals who are out there to work specifically with schools and work close with schools. they have the individuals in this program, primarily in

middle schools and highs. they have relationships with school security personnel, the idea being, if we do get the information, we are able to redeploy these individuals to head off these conflicts. one of the things we tried to do was one, we increased mtap personnel and this year, where you hear about the cuts as it relates to staffing. we have not reduced personnel assigned to that. it also is responsible for parking and traffic and in that unit is school crossing guards. school safety as it relates to

students getting to and from school. we want to make sure we protect everyone out there. the challenge is staffing and having enough people as well as education. one of the programs that he we implemented was electronic devices. it used to be ipods. it's a target for criminal activity in terms of ipod. also work in terms of educational processes. it's nice to have those, put it in your pocket so no one has the urge to take it. there's also a lot more e