and that there is no excuse for domestic violence. >> leadership in the community, when we see swinging here today and sissy and some of you know her, and helped to start a lot of the funding and organization in the community that helped to fund the domestic violence communities today and so we want to thank all of these leaders for their leadership, nufn us would be here without you. >> and when we say justice, we don't just mean going to jail, we mean justice, we mean restoration and we mean healing and we mean justice for everyone. justice takes a strong district attorney office. george who is team is here today, liz, sam and all of the attorneys and advocates that make the families comfortable as they are going through what can be a long, long, process.

and we work together, and it was lucasa and do an excellent job to help everybody navigate that system. >> greg suhr and the department and to make the tough decision and help every day and they save lives and help the community heal and they help all of us stay connected that is what part of the justice is.

and the next one and mary and we have a family friend here today who will talk to you about bary and we are beginning this process begin with her family, and so while we did go 44 months, we do have 3 new homicides and we have to take care of these families and we must take of these children and when we talk about talking care of folks and we talked about advocacy and that is the advocates in the da's office and the police department and as the advocates with the district attorney office and the dedicated community based

call of the survivors and the families 24 hours a way, and for those of you who are working in shelter and crisis lines, and legal services, and to today, is your day. today is, awareness month and i am so honored to be here with you all of you. thank you. >> thank you, so much, beverly, and many of you will be familiar with (inaudible) was brutally murdered and the case of many, many years, to solve, and we are very fortunate to have this from the district attorney office, and to prosecuted that case, and really took it all the way up to the supreme court that affirms the murder conviction, and so next we honor those that we have lost to domestic violence,

>> good evening for all of the guests and all of the people supporting the domestic violence. and we are altogether and doing well. and through our sadness, we are very encouraged to see that many good changes have been occurring in the san francisco with the help of the city government to make this a safer place and to help women like claire and i want to thank all

of you who have been so supportive of me and my family. please help me, and help us in using clay's memory to help others and to eliminate the domestic violence and no more violence and no more domestic violence and i am so happy that i am here, and very, very thankful to all of you. >> and thank you very much, and it is an honor to be invited to stand on the stage and although i wish that i did not have to stand here, and thank you for allowing us to commemorate, mary atchison.

i love mary for many reasons, but i think that what i loved about her most was her strength, and her smile, and that lighted up any room that she would go into. and her commitment to having fun. and every day of her life. mary was a resident, and a bike messenger and the dot com boom and grew other flowers and others n a plot in vernal hill, and heights. and she worked downtown, at wiki company, and she has a degree from san francisco state, and in zoology, and we shared being big fans of san francisco giants and the san francisco 49ers and she was actually, a very avid fan of both. mary was found dead in her home on august 26th and the cause of

death is blunt force trauma. and according to her neighbors, her boyfriend of 12 years, who she lived with, she would hear her boyfriend slamming her against the walls during arguments. mary did not confide in this and although i loved her i never knew that this was happening a group of us attend every court hearing, for joules, and he has been accused of homicide, one of our friends has said that following this process and the judicial process is the most painful thing that she will ever do in her life. i am a human rights lawyer, and

usually this kind of thing is a professional thing for me and not a personal thing, and i have been living in porter prince and i work for an organization that represents the victims of violence and we help to prosecute cases just like this case. and unfortunately there, the judiciary and the law enforcements don't have the political will to pursue cases like this. and we are grateful that san francisco city and county does, and i am grateful to mayor ed lee for his leadership, in making san francisco a domestic violence free city and i am grateful to the district attorney for his excellent team of domestic violence attorneys and including district attorney sam tova and the investigators. although, san francisco probably is not perfect, because nobody else, i can tell you how important having the

presence of good law enforcement is to,er rad indicating domestic violence but the courts and the law enforcement cannot do all of the work. and this is our problem. each and every one of us here has been a victim of domestic violence or knows somebody that has. and so it is up to us san francisco residents, employees, business, owners, journalists thank you for being here. through whatever you are passionate about, service will improve your life as well as the lives of everybody that you serve. thank you again, for being here, for paying attention to this. and thank you to mary.

for her inspiration. >> thank you, so much, nicole and we also honor the memory of lewis and her family, who are here as beverly mentioned and next we will be hearing from the adult probation, director crystal tuluc who is here on behalf of the adult probation chief, wendy still, and please help me to welcome crystal. >> good evening, thank you to inviting adult probation to participate in this event, parking san francisco domestic violence awareness month. and the mission statement of san francisco adult probation is protecting the community, serving justice, and changing lives.

and we emphasize changing lives because over the past five years with the vision and drive achieved still, adult probation has been elevated as being a nationally and internationally recognized model of how to build a criminal justice service delivery system that is evidence-based family focused and gender responsive and trauma informed. we emphasize changing lives by conducting risk and needs assessments to build meaningful supervision plans. and we emphasize changing lives by providing services that are gender specific and we emphasize it by being family focused by recognizing that we can help to inner generational criminalty by helping one member, of the family system, and to change their lives.

and we emphasize changes lives by being trauma informed. when offering resources and referrals to perpetrators. and excuse me, referrals to victims, and a domestic violence, and insuring their perpetrators are being held accountable and actively participating and certified domestic violence programs. domestic violence thrives on secrecy, denial, and comp lacency it is against the values of human rights, we stand with the men, women and children that are victims and survivors of domestic violence. we stand with our community justice partners, and victims advocates, and the community to

bring to light the issue of domestic violence, and in order to keep it out of the shadows. and we stand with you, to help victims find a voice, safety, and shelter. and adult, probation, stands with you to foster a culture of justice, and support, for the victims and the survivors of domestic violence. thank you. >> thank you, so much chris cal, our last speaker tonight before closing healing song, is board of supervisors president, david chiu. a true advocate in the fight against domestic violence, who even before he was elected supervisor, served for many years on the partnership and the domestic abuse, board of directors. please help me to welcome president chiu. >> thank you, dr. murase.

and i want to thank all of you who are here tonight, representing the beautiful diversety that is san francisco. and we are asian, we are latino, we are white, we are black, and tonight, we stand together wearing the color purple. a color that represents the bruises, that we all want to see ended some day. i am proud to be here representing our san francisco board of supervisors. our board, we have stood with you with our community, and to make sure that we have programs that are funded where they need to be and to make sure that we have our policies where they need to be. and i want to take a moment, i, i know that claire joyce and (inaudible) mother is with us today and claire, what happens 14 years ago, i know is something that we all mourn

every day, every one who is here. but you know that your daughter and your family name has galvanized a movement, a movement that is represented by every man and woman who is here today. and i want to thank all of the amazing advocates and the city leaders who over the past 14 years, have moved forward, the 121 recommendations that we have adopted. but we know that we could do better. and when the statistic is that you look to your left and you look to your right, one out of three, we know that we can do better. for mary atchison we know that we can do better, for mary free mon we know that we can do better. for my good friend, (inaudible) we know that we can do better. and so i want to thank all of you for being here tonight. for helping to shine a light, for being part of our city of san francisco, and we are the city that revolutionized what

love is about. from the summer of love, to marriage equality and i truly believe that some day, we are going to lead the revolution and we are going to lead the revolution to make sure that it is not just 44 months or 44 years, we will have a time period when no one is murdered again for domestic violence. thank you, and god bless. [ applause ] >> thank you so much, i understand that claire's daughter is here, please join us, please join your grandmother. i just want to acknowledge a couple of other folks sharon johnson was the first executive director of our department on the status of women, she is here with us tonight. [ applause ] and so to present our final closing healing song, please help me welcome emma jean foster, a member of the (inaudible) memorial church choir. [ applause ]

>> i am going to sing a song that i wrote while in a parking lot at trader joes as a security guard. and it is a metaphor for life in general not just for people trying to park their cars. ♪ ♪take that space has got your name on it ♪got your name on it. ♪it got your name on it. ♪go on now ♪take that space it's got your name on it ♪right now, it is yours to claim ♪now don't steer yourself

♪in to a hopelessness ♪don't drive yourself yourself in sane ♪you have got to move ahead, with confidence, but you got to do it in your daddy's name. ♪go on now, take that space, it's got your name on it. and has got to your name on it, and it has got your name on it. go on now, take that space, it's got your name on it. right now its yours to claim. now it is all right to be more assertive ♪and it is okay to love

yourself ♪but you can be a little more positive ♪love and respect everybody else ♪go on take that space its got your name on it ♪its got your name on it ♪it is got injure name on it ♪go on take that space it has got your name on it ♪right now its yours to claim ♪come on sing along now. ♪take that space it has got your name on ♪it has got your name on it ♪it has got your name on it ♪go on and take that space ♪its got your name on it ♪right now, its yours to claim ♪

>> thank you, and i sing something that is more familiar with everybody. ♪ain't going to let nobody turn me around ♪turn me around ♪turn me around ♪ain't going to let nobody turn me around ♪i am going to keep on walking, keep on talking, going to let the freedom... ♪ turned me around ♪ain't going to let no violence turn me around ♪ i am going to keep on

walking, keep on talking, marching up the freedom land >> come on you all know it. ♪ ♪ ain't going to let nobody turn me around, turn me around ♪turn me around. ♪ain't going to let nobody turn me around ♪i am going to keep on walking ♪keep on talking ♪marching up to the freedom land ♪ thank you. >> >> another round of applause for emma jean. >> in closing, i just wanted to

thank the mayor's office in particular, deputy chief of staff paul henderson and arocha, and now this domestic violence beverly and her crew. and my amazing staff and especially policy director kandel and policy fellow, ifton for the tireless efforts to make tonight's events happen and please admire our city hall and it is purple. and thank you all for coming out tonight. and see you same time next year. [ applause ]

>> a way of life in san francisco. when the next major quake hits, the city hopes a new law requiring seismic upgrades to five story buildings will help

keep more residents safe and sound. tell me a little about the soft story program. what is it? >> it's a program the mayor signed into law about a year and a half ago and the whole idea behind it was to help homeowners strengthen buildings so that they would not collapse. >> did you the soft story program apply to all buildings or building that were built in a certain time frame? >> it only applies to buildings built in the time frame of 1978 and earlier. it's aimed at wood framed buildings that are three or more stories and five or more units. but the openings at the garage level and the street level aren't supported in many buildings. and without the support during a major earthquake, they are

expected to pancake and flatten ~. many of the buildings in this program are under rent control so it's to everybody's advantage to do the work and make sure they protect their investment and their tenant. >> notices have gone out to more than 6,000 owners of potentially at-risk properties but fewer than one-third have responded and thousands might miss an important deadline in september to tell the city what they plan to do. let's talk worst case scenario. what happens in a collapse? >> buildings have the tendency of rolling over. the first soft story walls lean over and the building collapse. in an earthquake the building is a total loss. >> can you describe what kind of strengthening is involved in the retrofit? >> one of the basic concepts, you want to think of this building kind of like rubber band and the upper three floor are very rigid box and the garage is a very flexible element. in an earthquake the garage

will have a tendency to rollover. you have to rubber band analogy that the first floor is a very tough but flexible rubber band such that you never drive force he to the upper floors. where all your damage goes into controlled element like plywood or steel frame. >> so, here we are actually inside of a soft story building. can we talk a little about what kinds of repairs property owners might expect? >> it's a very simple process. we deliberately tried to keep it that way. so, what's involved is plywood, which when you install it and make a wall as we have done here already, then you cover it with this gypsum material. this adds some flexibility so that during the earthquake you'll get movement but not collapse. and that gets strengthened even more when we go over to the steel frame to support the

upper floor. >> so, potentially the wood and the steel -- it sounds like a fairly straightforward process takes your odds of collapse from one in 4 to one in 30? >> that's exactly right. that's why we're hoping that people will move quickly and make this happen. >> great. let's take a look. so, let's talk steel frames. tell me what we have going on here. >> well, we have a steel frame here. there are two of these and they go up to the lower floor and there is a beam that go across, basically a box that is much stiffer and stronger. ~ goes so that during the earthquake the upper floor will not collapse down on this story. it can be done in about two weeks' time. voila, you're done. easy. >> for more information on how to get your building earthquake ready,