overview and we're on item b which is the department on the status of women and we have director murase. >> good evening everyone. so thrilled to be here. this is really a historic moment. we haven't had a joint meeting with the small business commission so we're excite body today r tonight. i want to thank your director regina dick-endrizzi and others that were a pleasure to work with and they put in many hours to see that tonight worked smoothly so i'm going to give a few slides based on our annual report what it is that we do. the commission of status of women was established by the board of supervisors in 1975 and was a permanent in the charter in 1994 so the focus areas are gender equity in the work place and anti-violence and gender analysis and what is the over arching umblellia is the ordinance and the elimination of discrimination against all women. that was a un convention and signed by then president jimmy carter. anybody remember jimmy carter? it's never been ratifyed in the u.s. senate and states have ratified it, signed it with the exception of the united states, so in 199

emily murase who is the director for the status of women and thank you for being here and no hat today. >> good morning, supervisor campos. the department of the status of women is strongly supportive of this legislation and thanks the council and the co-sponsors for this opportunity. and i just want to provide a little bit of context at the federal level the freedom of access to the acts makes it offense to use intimidation or physical force to prevent someone from entering a facility. eleven states makes it illegal to obstruct the california, marijuana, elder monson, new york, north carolina, washington. four states stand property damage to a clinic, including california, and maine has enacted a noise regulation, pertaining to outside activity, outside of a clinic. and it has made it an offense to intentionally waste a substance with an unpleasant clinic, north carolina prohibits weapons during a demonstration outside of a clinic. and then, in terms of the buffer zone, in particular, to address sburp yee's point, there are three states that have passed buffer zone legislation, colora