of bill of rights and not a bill of talking points. we want to make sure that youth can access these playgrounds safely and they can do so at night and also i would -- some of the work workshops that we did to connect the youth to the park programs make sure that we have more than good will translate on the website and have it in other languages. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors campos, mar and supervisor christensen i am a district 9 resident. and i am here actually today because i don't think that this resolution goes far enough. what i would really like to see is that the board of supervisors really take this opportunity and to create and codify binding law that will create opportunities for the youth of san francisco to continue to have access to playgrounds and to have a healthy place to play. i really would like to -- i thank the gentleman who presented the slides and discussed about the benefit of physical activities and team sports plays. i am a living proof of everything

those resulted in an initiative that catherine referred to, the california childrens' outdoor bill of rights which was the first of its kind in the united states, and since then roughly half of the states have created their own crustom tailored version of an outdoor bill of rights that is relevant to the children growing up within their respective state scpils add that cities created their own version, chicago and lansing michigan so four years ago there was a interdiscipline group of pediatricians, parents and park staff, urban ag folks that came together to bring that national and international conversation to the local level. what does it mean for the seven by seven of san francisco and for kids growing up in the urban environment of san francisco? so one main initiative that resulted from this collaborative is what we're discussing today. the slide they have up here is a survey that was in spanish, chinese and english that went out broadly into classrooms, into communities. this is a group of second graders at lawton elementary crunching the numbers from their particular survey. these ar

especially in the urban city of san francisco, but as you see there are many concerns over this bill of rights and the youth commission does ask that when considering this rpd can draft a supplemental that is more able to practically describe what the points of the bill of rights actually mean, and also we hope that when drafting the future budget for rpd that they do take into consideration all of the concerns that we heard today. thank you very much for your time and we hope to work with you in the future. >> thank you. next speaker. if there is anyone else that would like to speak please come forward before we close public comment. >> i am david yang. i go to high school and i want to talk about my experiences with parks, and how i feel about them, so i understand that parks are important and it's a great place for children to socialize but as a teenager myself i always feel very uncomfortable when i go to parks. i feel very excluded from all of the children who play at the play structures that i cannot go on and whenever i go to parks i know it's unintentional but i feel the eye s stare at

and so to remedy this we introduced s. 51, it's the pilots' bill of rights ii. we've got -- it's a bipartisan thing. i think right now we're sitting on 12 republicans and 12 democrats that will be cosponsors of this bill. there are eight sections in the bill three general subject areas. first, the legislation reforms f.a.a.'s overly burdensome medical certification process by expanding an existing exemption for light sport pilots to include more qualified trained pilots. let me just speak for a a moment on the safety concerns. there is a small minority of people who think that expanding an exemption like this automatically decreases safety. well that's not true of this bill. and i have the numbers to show it. a medical exemption was issued for pilots of light sport aircraft aircraft that weighed less than 13,20 pounds, had only two seats and had several restrictions. the entire country -- there are about 9,500 of them. i.t. been over ten years since the f.a.a. issued this exemption. since then, not a single accident by a light sport aircraft has occurred that was

also i'm proud to support with supervisor farrell his efforts to amend our unit retail workers bill of rights. last year i was very proud with president david chiu now in the assembly to work with all of the rest of you to unanimously pass our retail workers bill of rights. not only passing that, but also passing at the ballot the raising of the minimum wage. i think both measures act together to help to lift many thousands of workers in san francisco out of poverty and to create better working conditions. i also think that for women and people of color, who are workers, retail workers and part-time workers it has a significant impact on lifting them out of poverty. after years' of work with 40 coalitions and meeting with employers and the coalition, i feel that the amendments proposed by supervisor farrell are helpful in clarifying issues, but also minor definitions of employers are changed. i wanted to also acknowledge that former supervisor chiu at the state level and many organizations are looking to san san francisco retail workers bill of rights across the country and introducing a hear

before you today is a legislation for bill of rights for long term care facilities in the city and county of san francisco whether nursing home or senior living facility. this is the first of the kind in the cuntsry, once againsuch will lead the way in insureing the seniors are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve. these are the people who have gotten us where we are today as a lgb community. it is sometimes easy to forget with all the successs we had in this country in terms of advancing the civil rights of the lgbt community, it waebt that long ago when we were living in a very very different world and the amount of discrimination and arassment and violence themunity had to 234der, but it still exists today, it was dramatically worse. these are people who went to hell and back multiple times through the hiv epidemic and the trials and tribulations of the community. the least we can do for them and make sure as they age they do so as part of the community and with all the respect they deserve. this legislation will put protections in place for seniors living in facilities wh

supervisor mar and supervisor campos as cosponsors, two amendments to our recently retail workers bill of rights. i support the concept of the bill of rights because i do believe it's good policies. i do want to thank everyone of my /khraoeugs that was behind that legislation. i want to say i'm a strong supporter of worker's rights and i believe the retail employees should have the right to work more hours and earn more income if they wish. the retail employees should be able to give extra hours even without this ordinance. our amendments today focus on helping small businesses here in san francisco and to assure that the former agreements in retail it establishes are respected. it would cheng the thresholds that will have to comply with this to 20 police to 40 or more employees. covering employees and retail it establishes to respect this ordinance. it's important to get it right because it's indeed that future policies we're seeing are springing up in other parts of the country and the state. make sure the small to mid-size businesses here in san francisco, i believe we all continue to want to

president obama discusses his student aid bill of rights and representative stephen -- susan brooks of indiana has the republican response talking about the benghazi select committee's request for hillary clinton's e-mails. first, the president. >> in an economy increasingly built on innovation, the most important skill you can sell issue knowledge. that is why higher education is more than ever the surest ticket to the middle class. but just when it has never been more important, it has never been more expensive. the average undergraduate bars to pay for college into graduating with about $20,000 in student loan debt. that is why my administration is worked hard to make college more affordable. we expanded tax credits and tell grants and after largest reform to student loan programs in history, and fought to keep interest rates on student loans low. we acted to let millions of graduates cap loan payments at 10% of their income so they don't have to choose between paying the rent and paying that debt. i sent congress my plan to bring the cost of community college down to zero because t

check. >>> get ready for a student aid bill of rights. the president says it's all about helping kids get access to college and helping them pay off their college loans. ben stein wondering where is the taxpayers' bill of rights? i wouldn't hold my breath. >> i'm all in favor of kids getting educated. it is worth it. how well educated students are after college as compared to before college is very much up in the air. why it is the taxpayer is working in a store to subsidize kids getting high all day is unclear to me. >> they are not getting high all day. >> why are taxpayers on the hook sending these kids on a long five, six-year vacation. the money will never get paid back. it's another catastrophe. >> ben shot our demo up to 80 and above. >> i wish i didn't have to go to college. i got a great high school education. we were forced into getting these degrees. i learned how to bong a beer. that was a real creative four years i spent. people walked away from their mortgages. people walk away from their credit card debts and are forgiven in

this is the bill of rights we have only amended the constitution 17 times. if you take away prohibition and the repeal of it only 15 times. the vast majority of those amendments have been suffrage expanding democracy and enlarging, democracy deepening amendments like woman suffrage, the 15th amendment, discrimination in voting, the 24th amendment banning poll taxes, lowering the voting age to 16, this is completely within the mainstream of american constitutional development to have the people take back democracy. the 1st three words of the constitution are, we the people. a republican president spoke a government of the people by the people, for the people, right? >> can i just say something about abraham lincoln? i am so glad you mentioned on a state. as you no undoubtedly from reading my book one of the delighted things that came across when researching the book, when he was running in illinois for congress there was a very influential german constituency. and and they were supporting his opponent. .. justice brennan and justice marshall started with a cas

i want to congratulation daniel redman for developing a powerful bill of rights in suvs to our aging community. 7 years ago when i joined open house i was struck by the number of calls we received from l gx bt members and the families who were experiences discrimination. younger residence would also call hoping to move the family members or parents closer to them. they expressed grave concern about how themselves would betrated as care givers and how the straight parents would be treated. [inaudible] met with greater division and exclusion and is what makes the bill of rights that much more impactful because it explicitly outlines guideline principles and practices. open house supports the lgbt long term facility rights and together with california bill 663 requires [inaudible] this bill would strengthen the importance of the training. open house is the forfront of training since 2006 and here to support other advocates and implementation of best practices. [inaudible] will serve as a compelling model whos impact has a pesh to row verberate the cost of the cities other sites including

which said that, as far as the united states was concerned, this was of course subject to the bill of rights, which is another way of saying, we wouldn't do it. we would not have legislation because it would be unconstitutional if we were banning a speech because it was hateful against some religion, against some race, or the like. and the third principle is that we don't allow what has come to be known as a heckler's veto which is speech that is involved and otherwise protected speech. the fact that some in our society are not only troubled by it, but angered by it, and maybe even lead to a response illegally, violently to it is not a basis for banning it, that we will not give heckler, so to speak, ultimate control over what is said. and what is not. now, very recent articles prompted by the murderous events in paris, you know, have sort of asked hypothetical questions how much do we really mean that? suppose someone were to say, i'm going to kill hostages unless you stop saying x. i think the odds are that our supreme court would still say that we're not going to let criminals decide what

of rights i think was alexander hamilton said what is the point of the bill of rights but people wanted the bill of rights so they wrote one for greater caution and 48 amendments they outlined the rights they were protected and the ninth amendment for even greater caution they said the enumeration of certain rights in this constitution shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. retained as an important rule. the constitution does not grant people their rights. people are to have their rights and the constitution guaranteed they would retain them. the 10th amendment said and by the way the powers not granted to the federal government are reserved for states or the people so it's a redundant system to protect our rights and freedoms from a libertarian point of view. but compared to the rest of the world and the rest of history it worked fairly well. so in general i think it is a bad idea to talk about voting to give away our rights. in fact that is what inalienable rights means. it means you can give them away. sometimes people c

us by the 9-11 attacks was the damage ourselves, you know suspending -- basically treating the bill of rights- i am a strict constit-tuesdayal constructionist and i believe that the bill of rights are sacred and that, you know, the republicans want to treat them and the mil tarrists want to treme them as if they are a luxury we can no longer stafford in our country and we can suspend habeas corpus and torture team and that we can spy on our own citizens and do warrantless wear typeapping and investigations and that we can suspend the ancient right to jury trial and that we can confine people, you know, from all over the world, and, you know, i don't think it's good for america. i don't think it's good for our security. when i was a little boy in 1965 my father took me to europe, to france and germany, and to poland and it will italy and many other countries, and everywhere we went, we were met even in the communist countries where the governments tried to hide that we were there, we would still be met by spontaneous crowds, some hundreds of thousands of people would come out on the street wav

he came out of the ratification experience thinking the nation had to have a bill of rights. he did not think it was that important, but enough people did that he thought he had to get it done. it is one of the qualities of medicine that i admire most. if there was a big job, he didn't back off. he didn't kick the can down the road. he took on the day jobs. he took on creating amendments to the constitution that would guarantee individual and state rights. he wrote them, brought them to congress and pushed them through. nobody else was going to do that. he also enlisted washington's support. of course, nothing happened without washington's support at that time either. he was essential for that. that really is the one thing that was really his. i didn't appreciate going into the project was he did leave the nation to work 1812. he thought were was important at that moment. that we could not take the continuing insults. brian lamb: have you started another book? david stewart: yes, although it has been on the fiction side. a sequel to my novel will deal with the paris peace conf

rights. alexander hamilton said what is the point of a bill of rights when the constitution gives the government no power to violate rights? but people wanted the bill of rights so they wrote one, for greater caution and for eight amendments they outlined the rights they were protecting and then in the ninth amendment, for even greater caution, they said, the enumeration of certain rights in this constitution shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retaped by the people. retained is an important word. the stuffings dill not grand people their rights. people already had their rights and the constitution guaranteed they would retain them, and then in the tenth amendment it said and by the way any powers not granted to the federal government are reserved to the states or the people. so we're sort of a trip -- triply redundant system. didn't entirely work but compared to the rest of the world is worked well. i think it's a bad idea to talk about voting to give away our rights. in fact that is what inalienable rights means. it mean means you can't give them away sometimes people challenge

. >> in his weekly address president obama discusses his student aid bill of rights. representative susan brooks has the republican response and talks about the benghazi committee for former secretary of state's hillary clinton's e-mails. president obama: hi, everybody. earlier this week, i visited with students at georgia tech to talk about the importance of higher education in the new economy and how we can make it more affordable. in an economy increasingly built on innovation, the most important skill you can sell is your knowledge. that's why higher education is, more than ever, the surest ticket to the middle class. but just when it's never been more important, it's also never been more expensive. the average undergrad who borrows to pay for college ends up graduating with about $28,000 in student loan debt. that's why my administration has worked hard to make college more affordable. we expanded tax credits and pell grants, enacted the largest reform to student loan programs in history, and fought to keep interest rates on student loans low. we've acted to let m

sure everyone plays by the same set of rules is why we pass historic wall street reform and a bill of rights. it's why we are taking new actions to protect hard-working families and their retirement security. if you are working hard and putting away money, you should have the peace of mind that the financial advice you are getting a sound. that your investments are protected. any financial advisors put their client interests first. some get back your payments and hidden fees. all told, that bad advice costs middle-class families and working families about $17 billion every year. i called on the department of labor to change that, to update the rules and require that retirement advisors put the best interests of their clients above their own financial interests. middle-class families cannot afford to lose their hard-earned savings after a lifetime of work. they deserve you treated with fairness and respect. that is what this rule would do. while many financial advisors support these basic safeguards, i know special interests will fight this with everything they've got. while we welcome differ

stuart: passengers bill of rights. >> they get criticized for being too proactive. on they are canceling flights, the fines are enormous if you break that limit of sitting out there on the tarmac with passengers on board. i will give you one other piece. looking at this delta. checked its flight path. this flight came in and landed to the north. don't know what delta airlines is planning about runaway 13. they landed to the north along with everybody else. other planes landed at the same time. stuart: let me recap for those just joining us. about an hour ago the plane you are looking at now arrived at la guardia airport in new york and was coming from atlanta, coming from atlanta skidded off the runway, there's a heavy snowstorm at la guardia. the plane skidded off a runway, went sideways into the fence you see on right hand side. 130 passengers on board. and you see the shoot in operation right there. 300 gallons of jet fuel, shortly thereafter the federal aviation administration closed down la guardia airport until quote, at least 7:00 p.m. tonight. the port author

i think we need to pay more attention to the bill of rights. the bill of rights is there to protect all of us. it is not necessarily for the prom queen. it's not necessarily for the high school or the college quarterback. those who are popular among you will always do fine. it's for the least popular among you. it's for those with unorthodox ideas. it is precisely for minorities. you could be a minority because of the shade of your skin, or a minority because of the shade of your ideology. you can be a minority because you are african or hispanic. but you can also be a minority because you are an evangelical christian. minority opinions need to be protected. we have instances, and the last year or two, where we have let down our guard. i will give you a couple of examples. we have something now in america called indefinite detention. this means someone can be sent to guantanamo bay forever. if you are deemed dangerous. i said, this begs the question. who gets to decide who is dangerous and who is not dangerous? who should be afraid of this? anyb

that type of information is excluded from the consumer bill of rights. in our draft there is an actual exclusion directly for the same definition of cyber threat information in there. because that already has its own regime through this other proposal that we have. and the hope is that -- that you have cyber threat information sharing in place with this kind of definition and then you would have this exclusion when consumer privacy bill of rights went through. the consumer privacy bill of right is focused on the privacy irks s issues that we see with new types of online and electronic commerce issues that come up. where information is shared across each other. because in the united states we have an industry-based privacy regimes. we have a lot of holes that pop up. you don't really have the kind of basic safety net that would be in place to protect information across all the -- those will remain in place and the consumer privacy bill of rights builds a safety nest for those areas that don't have privacy protections today. so this would be exempted from i

recommendation, establish a national law enforcement officer bill of rights to ensure due process. t to effectively communicate goals and initiatives as well as understand the rank and file perspective. the mutual communication of these goals and perspectives can be most effectively and efficiently achieved through the medium of recognizing means and associations. it is difficult to build trust when unions and associations are demonized and belittled. if the union leadership were not accurately conveying the views of the officers on the street they would be swiftly ousted by their own membership. it is therefore both wise and practical for agency management to recognize and work with representatives of the rank and file officers actually carrying out the policiúze)q gency. recommendation -- encourage agency leaders and the public to recognize and take advantage of the police unions and associations. as our officers work to build relationships with their communities, they must be provided every protection necessary to ensure their safety. napo has worked tirelessly to reauthorize and

so the nra fights for freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and the right to privacy, too. we fight for the entire bill of rights because it's all connected. [ applause ] where do you think america's safest place is? in the news media? the "new york times"? msnbc? one of the political parties? how about 1600 pennsylvania avenue? the safest place for american freedom is the national rifle association. the safest place for american freedom is in the hearts of our members. so take back our country from the liars, the cheats, the press and the political elites who want to take away our ability to define our own destiny. join us, join the nra. we truly are freedom's safest place. thank you very much! thank you! [ cheers and applause ] >>> our coverage of cpac's annu

recommendation, establish a national law enforcement officer bill of rights to ensure due process. digsly digsly -- additionally it is critical for management to effectively communicate the goals and initiatives as well as understand the rank and file perspective. the mutual communication of these goals and perspective can be most effectively and efficiently achieved through the medium of recognizing means and associations. it is difficult to build trust when unions and associations demonized and belittled. if the union leadership were not accurately conveying views of officers on the street they would be swiftly ousted by their own membership. it is therefore both wise and practical for agency management to recognize and work with representatives of the rank and file officers actually carrying out the policies of the agency. recommendation, encourage agency leaders in the public to recognize and take advantage of the benefits of the police unions and associations. as our officers work to build relationships with their communities, they must be provided every protection necessary to