for months now the department only responded to it lateponse letter to a doj stated department is quote not aware of the department using an ai march 20 letter end of quote saying the chiefe ai offeris is quote not aware of the the irss using ai to unconstitutionally spy on the records are department is not doing so. why won't the department just ve us a clear answer as to whether it's using, a display on american citizens financial records? letter back and i know you party received and i'll see whether we can get you a clear answer.. >> i want to turn to another serious issue the infiltration by cartels because the joe biden's and mayorkas' open border. i have heard from tribes across the nation issue. in your career written testimony you mention how the department to disrupt cartel supply searing and on the cartel however april the president of the indian community testified to to the departments failures quote we don't have help fromhe fbi the border patrol the ada that has jurisdiction on lands. attorney general garland this testimony comes from a tribe of this and the low cartel --

the same department of justice who censored americans and the same department of justice who retaliatedgainst whistleblowers, who came to this committee and told us about these wrongdoings. mr. burling, we are glad you are here today. we've got lots of questions. many americans believe there is justice system. they believe that because there is. we are going to have lots of questions about that problem. with that, i yield to the ranking member for his opening statement. thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, i've been in congress since 1992. my colleagues and i, of course, have had our political disagreemes in the past years. but ultimately, in this committee, we have worked together. more often than not, then it -- to pass transformative pieces of legislation intended to help the american people. legislation to protect women from domestic violence and sexual harassment. legislation to prevent dissemination against the lgbtq+ community. legislation to fight discrimination and hate crimes. legislation to protect americans privacy. i'm proud of that regular success and i'm proud of how mu

justice department, the justice department did not send him to new york.those decisions in new york are made by the d.a. of new york >> fair to say, we have manhattan d.a. hires x senior doa official. another one from the new york times, hires x justice official to help lee trump inquiry. you might not have had anything to do with that but the perception is, the american prebuilt perceived the department of justice is intimately engaged with this. i think my last minute here, here is the issue i think people say, polling shows this consistently, the american people believe the prosecution of president trump is more about politics than it is about any violation of the law. the doj's own words, the mission consists of independence and impartiality, honesty and integrity, at your senate confirmation hearing in 2021, you said the department will be under my protection for the purpose of preventing any kind of partisan or other improper motive in making any kind of investigation or prosecution. but since that time the doj has obstructed this committee's impeach

justice department, the justice department did not send him to new york. those decisions in new york are made by the d.a. of new york >> fair to say, we have manhattan d.a. hires x senior doa official. another one from the new york times, hires x justice official to help lee trump inquiry. you might not have had anything to do with that but the perception is, the american prebuilt perceived the department of justice is intimately engaged with this. i think my last minute here, here is the issue i think people say, polling shows this consistently, the american people believe the prosecution of president trump is more about politics than it is about any violation of the law. the doj's own words, the mission consists of independence and impartiality, honesty and integrity, at your senate confirmation hearing in 2021, you said the department will be under my protection for the purpose of preventing any kind of partisan or other improper motive in making any kind of investigation or prosecution. but since that time, the doj has obstructed this committee's impea

department of technology is an internal city department.we are here to provide innovative, reliable and secure technology solutions that support the delivery of high quality services for city operations and to the public. there are four main areas that we're focused on, of course, working to close the digital divide. and i'll talk to you a little bit about the project that is very dear to our heart. we're promoting resilience of the services, infrastructure, support all the departments. we're keeping san francisco cyber safe and innovating in the cloud. for the community, our main program is fiber to affordable housing. this year we've provided free internet to more than 48 affordable housing sites in san francisco, now serving a total of 117 sites with 14,000 residential units. that amounts to over 45,000 san franciscans that are now receiving free internet, which is especially important in these days when the federal government subsidy for free internet is no longer available. we are expecting and are looking forward to a grant of $10.3 m

what role did your department have in that prosecution? >> the prosecution was determined by the manhattan district attorney, which does not report to us, is not controlled by us, and operates completely independent of the department of justice. >> thank you. i also want to respond to a few other dangerous statements. chairman jordan said "a kangaroo court "convicted former president trump speaker johnson claimed the democrats cheer this purely political exercise. we heard him in an interview on fox saying the supreme court should break up the conviction, overturn the conviction, and he knows many of the justices personally. mr. trump pities himself as a so-called political prisoner. these statements are false and aims to mislead. they are deemed to inflame. they are dangerous. the nominee that's the would be nominee, is a convicted felon. what happen is, he was guilty of an unlawful conspiracy to end the 2016 election by falsifying records to cover a tryst with a pornography stair that start in the days before the election. i'm grateful o

■ías far as weaponization in th department goes, did the justice department indict senator menendez?ic record, yes. >> and he's a democr, isn't he? >> i'm assuming the answer is yes. >> and justice department indicted him. >> matter >> so hunter biden, who is the son of the president, is under trial in delaware and so you have a weapon eyes justice department in terms of hiding and protecting democrats, menendez, -- and hunter biden. >> the justice department follows the facts and the law. were prosecuting live cases live and we make decisions in different ways. we don't allow the political party, the ethnicity or the religion the rays or the wealthé" or the influence of someone we are investmake a dif charging decisions. >> i noticed mr. gaetz took you that's unfortunate, because he is a living testament to the fact and direct evidence that you have not weapon eyes the justice department. he was investigated for sex trafficking won't many expected -- you chose not to him. >> i'm sorry. i'm not sure what is in the public record and what is not. so i will not comment on that. >> viole

of elections, the department of emergency management, the department of public works, the fire department, the department of juvenile probation, the department of adult probation, the department of police accountability, the office of inspector general, the sheriff's department of accountability, the district attorney's office and the police department. thank you, mr. chair. and i believe we do have a technical correction with the department of human resources. that's correct. we do have a technical update with the department of human resources. it is my understanding that we do have agreement with the department on all of our recommendations, but there is a technical update on the policy recommendation, which is recommendation number five on h.r. five on page 17 of our report, and this is relating to the breakdown of general fund versus non general fund savings for this recommendation. and i believe there's a department representative who will provide a little bit more information for us. good morning, chair chan . supervisors, kate howard deputy director of the human resources departmen

going forward. >> we're your department.ere for you. we're you and that, and i really believe that san francisco really embodies that. i tell you, it was the greatest decision i ever made. i kept thinking, my gosh if i didn't play softball i wonder if i would have heard about it. it's funny you plan in life and gu to college and you plan your next steps, but the most profound decision nz life, is how you meet people are random. i was meant to be i think and it was such a great fit being that social worker with the ax, that's it. >> so i see san francisco and san francisco leadership and government as a beacon for the entire country. because we are so up front about what we believe in, we're really up front about inclusivity and i know that, others look at us, many look to us. we've had other departments, contact us in terms of how do you, how do you do this? how do you create a diverse equitable and inclusive workforce? and so, but i would be lying if i said that we don't have any problems in california or in san francisco o

the department of justice policy advisor, george papadopoulos.he was convicted in federal court, correct? >> again, that is my best recollection of the public record. >> you are not the attorney general of the time. >> i was not. >> in fact, the attorney general for those cases was just sessions, was nominated by donald trump. the department of justice charged donald trump's former lawyer michael cohen with multiple felonies. he was convicted in a federal court, correct? >> again, that is my best recollection of the public record. >> you were not attorney general at the time, correct? >> i was not. >> in fact, michael cohen had 2 cents of convictions. the attorney general for his second conviction was matthew whitaker, who was also appointed by donald trump. the department of justice charged roger stone, who was an adwith multiple felonies. roger stone was convicted in a federal court, correct? >> again, the best recollection of the public record. >> the department of justice charged elliot brady, fundraiser for donald trump. he was convicted in

i do appreciate your integrity, your leadership of the department, and to be candid, -- >> the department has taken a leadership role with your tenure in the last several years particularly as it relates to the fact and it is a bipartisan bill and this is thanks to leadership and i wonder if you would opine a bit or expound a bit on your work as it relates to gun violence. >> bipartisan safer communities act has been extraordinarily helpful in our effort to combat gun violence which has led to a substantial number of prohibitive sales of guns to minors and of statutes prohibiting possessing because of conduct they have and it has given us the authority to bring cases for purchasing that is led to crime guns and gun trafficking to criminals. in those ways it is driven down the numbers with respect to gun violence. we have set up a crime gun intelligence center so that our state and local counterparts can trace guns that are found at crime scenes and determine whether they were used by serial killers or serial shooters to help us find out or run the dna off of casings so we could find hits

and since item two applies to multiple departments and item eight applies to, a department that does not have a bla report, budget and legislative analyst report, we will take those two items separately. finally we will call items three through five together and hear the budget and legislative analyst report on their recommendation and hear back from the departments. there are also additional budget trailing legislation, which are items six through 13. and i will also call those up together with the department that it is affiliated of it is affiliated with. and so with that, mr. clerk, please call item number one. yes, madam chair, item number one is an ordinance amending the administrative code to amend the language access ordinance to clarify department's responsibilities, to provide language access service services to members of the public and to clarify the role of the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs in administering the language access ordinance to require language access service to be provided in chinese, spanish, filipino, and any other language for which the

the department of justice. so people like thomas massie, who sent that letter last night, they are expected to ask garland about that very issue and we'll get a lot more insight. but this has been something that house republicans have been fighting against for several years now, this is not a new issue, just some please something that republicans are certainly going to be talking about with garland in there. and just a few minutes. >> well, we look forward to hearing what they're trying. general says about that meanwhile, the letter that i just read, kaitlan also spread some baseless conspiracy theories, including the quote investigations have pointed to the fbi's possible involvement in facilitating think the events of january 6 there's no evidence of that, of course, in fact, the fbi informants were trying to stop the violence. there. that's why they were there but as the alleged source for these republicans, the letter cited a new york post article about the fbi informants who were sent to the stop, the stea

i'm scared i made this police department and i'm scared of retaliation i did make a police department. this is my right. my life was threatened. and i did all the proper procedures. and nais the end of public comment. >> item 3 consent receive and file action sfpd and dpasb141 and the monthly report. >> motion to accept and file. >> second. >> member of the public withhold like to make comment on item 3. approach the podium. there is no public commentful commissioner clay. >> yes. >> commissioner walker. >> yes. >> commissioner benedicto. >> ian yes<,>sir? >> yes. >> commissioner yee >> yes >> vice president carter >> yes. >> president elias. >> yes >> chief's report discussion public safety occurrence,o view of events in san francisco having an impact on public safety. >> thank you. thank you. good evening. commissioner, welcome commissioner clay and carter. and good evening to the public. start everstart is thissing week's chief's report i will start with an over view on crime trends in all part one crime is down 30%. about 7,000 few are crimes than this time last year. break down v

of course, and often we are working with other city departments like department of public health and in many cases sfmta bart, the those stations and their tracks are great rat corridors in the city, as well as san francisco public utilities commission because sewers, they're called sewer rats for a reason. they like to run through the sewers. so we do handle that. we do trapping. we also do baiting in some cases, i know way too much about what the rats like to eat. i'm happy to share that at another at another time. so yes, our team is trained in that. and in fact, we met with, with, new york city has a rat guru and our ipm team proactively reached out and met with him to learn about how new york handles their rats, because, of course, the pandemic . really, you may have read, increased the rat population in new york or, or brought them out of the shadows more. thank you very much, commissioner zarb. thank you for that presentation, very informative. and you're right about especially the compost, presentation at arbor day with all the worms and stuff was was very interesting. to lea

can you share some of the department's cctackling violent >> yes. as i said in my opening, and i want to be clear, these are not the justice department's successes, they are the country's successes. success in fighting violent crime relies on the partnership in state and local law enforcement which face the violent crime most directly. we fight in support of them and our ability to bring technological tools and statutes to the fight, that they may not have available. >> i yield back the rest of my time, i'm almost done. i just want to say that the chairman of the committee wants to reduce funding to the justice department in particular in certain areas. that would be defunding the justice department and defining the opportunity to go after reducing violent crime, and i am shocked. i yield back the . the present tense to use section 212 f of the immigration and nationality act to turn back in the coal entries when they reach 2500 per day. with nearly 1 million per year. 3 >>>april 30, 2024. they had plenty of time to respond to what he raised in his

duty department.loggers known under the nickname archie brutali and was detained by the police. the reason was challenging behavior. disregard for traffic rules, on video there are numerous violations on social networks, outright rudeness in response to comments from others. after the antics of the cyclist on the challah were shown on the air of our program, the minister of internal affairs of the udmurd republic maxim tikhonov personally instructed the police to detain the hooligan and within a matter of hours the young man ended up at the police department. it turned out that archie. after an educational conversation, izhevsk will have a little rest from cycling. the entire operational news feed of legal news in telegram channels the duty department is an honest detective, subscribe, also our investigations and daily releases on the watch platform. go to the broadcast tab, turn on honest detective. and our release is now complete. maxim ovchan was in the studio. see you on the russia-24 tv channel.

departments.eneral fund savings is somewhat less so. the, table should indicate that there would be a $120,000 of general fund savings and $600,000, deriving to non-general fund supported departments. happy to answer any questions. thank you. thank you so much. and so with that, i we will come to the board supervisor, and i just want to, to make clear that it was my mistake about yesterday's presentation, at the board of supervisors for, that i should have let them finish the presentation on that one slide and, and to make the adjustment. and are they here? no, wait. supervisor mandelman, do you want to get the. where is the clerk? let's give me one second or. yeah. so we'll circle back to the clerk's office. and so we will have the mayor's office next. sorry. go ahead. so. good morning, chair chan and committee members. apologies for being out of breath. i ran down here, so just to pick up from our, last slide from the last presentation, so i believe we resolved item 13 and 14, item 13 is still,

thank you for the department. denise, myself and acting secretary laura danielle davis are plead -- pleased to answer any questions you have about the budget. >> thank you very much. good to see a madam secretary. i have enjoyed working with you . there are a couple of issues that are important in the west. i think you are aware we will get into these briefly this morning. for the folks in the west dc might as well be mars. what we are trying to do is shorten the distance. you have been very helpful with the natural wonders that the native communities care a lot about. with respect to crater lake in december i learned very alarming issues with the private concessionaire at crater lake national park. it was clear that nps staff were working tirelessly to prevent the contractor issues from damaging irreplaceable park resources. i wrote to the national park service outlining in a very lengthy letter about all these issues and asking for a swift effort on the part of the department to address the problem. i want to st

, the most important department of the entire clinic. has always developed the most modern direction in pediatric surgery. for the most part, this is a hospital that deals with the most complex so-called elective surgery, especially complicated variants, come here to us. the assistance provided to him was minimal; there are four spacious examination rooms, one of which was created specifically to help newborns. such wards will be able to accommodate up to 200 children per day. patients. we have a pelinator for examining children under one year old, we have a couch for examining older children, and this box is different in that it has we have a quest here for the examination of newborn children, who are also admitted to the department quickly and on their own. it is different in that it has heated pure heat, we can look at newborns, maintaining their thermoregulation, supporting them. introduces the principle: the patient does not go to the doctor, the doctor goes to the patient; in order for the help to be as effective and most important

department of interior. i would like to welcome secretary holland -- haaland and denise flanagan back to the committee. i want to thank you all three for joining us today. to set the scene the administration is requesting a $2 million for 2025. that is a 5% increase over fiscal year 2024. i think it is important to note for contexts that congress has also provided the department almost $50 billion in appropriations over the last three years to the bipartisan infrastructure law an inflation reduction act. i look forward to discussing how the department is implementing those laws using the historic funding and justifications for the increase . it has been a year to the day since you were last before the committee for the fiscal year 2024 budget hearing. there have been some highs from renewing the compacts of free association which we finally accomplished as part of the consolidated appropriations act to achieve and record energy level production. i'm also supportive of efforts to work collaboratively with the

secretary walsh was leaving the department. thank you for being here today, to describe fiscal year 2025 budget priorities for the department of labor. first of all, i will say that i have had some concerns with the department. there seems to be an agenda to push new regulations that propose layers of red tape. in some cases, workers choice. to be clear, not all regulations are bad. we have violations that the chair was talking about and keeping hard-working west virginians, safe. thank you for your efforts. this department of labor should be focused on workforce training, and creating new jobs. not mandating the burdens that take away from the work responsibility. for example, the way they are changing the rules, governing who qualifies as the independent contractor, complicating a six factor task. jeopardizing the ability for millions of americans to work at our needs and schedules. freelance workers, and self- employed workers, need to choose their own hours, to work around other life priorities. taking care of children. in

e approved the search warrant. >> who ultimately located in the department?ready said i approved the recommendation to seek a search warrant and the application then went to a judge and found probable cause for e reasons stated in the affidavit and explained in the 11th circuit opinion pages. >> so with her classified documents for biden, no. counse biden, no -- yes and trump know. >> we are supposed to be here conducting oversight of the department of justice, but instead, republicans are using this hearing and this committee as a legislative arm of the trump campaign. this hearing is clearly a desperate attempt to distract er presidents actions. and the fact that no one is above the law including the former president. i want to remind my colleagues that this hearing should be about the department of justice and protecting the mission of doj to of law and keep our country safe and protect civil rights. it is extremely disturbing to me donald trump campaigning on a promise to overhaul the nation's top law enforcement body so he can go after his opponents. mr.

we have updates related to department relocation and reception of the department budget presentation at the budget and appropriations hearing a few weeks ago. with that, let's get started. and-- for the second item, we do not have staff introduction today and for item number 4, that will be the approval of minutes. commissioners, we have action item on consent agenda. any discussion on the draft minutes? if not, do i hear a motion to approve the minutes? >> i move to approve. >> second? >> second. >> okay, hearing no further discussion, let's open up public comment. >> are there any members of the public who wish to speak on item 2-4 of the consent calendar agenda? seeing none, public comment on items 2-4 is closed. >> hearing no further public comment, would you please call the roll foretum 4? item 4? >> president wan, aye. vice president sullivan excused. commissioner awn, aye. commissioner bermejo, aye. commissioner hunter, aye. commissioner tompkins, aye. commissioner yuen, aye. members may address the commission on matters within the commission jurisdiction and not on today's ag

of the resources of the department.s staff were put up on the screensee if you can identify who they are. will be have here in the bottom corner is a woman named. she was found dead in a bathtub in texas. her mom found her, hoping to see her in a parade that night. she was killed by, who was here illegally. on the bottom left, you laken riley. she was killed by 26-year-old, arrested by u.s. customs and border protection after he unlawfully entered the united states near el paso, texas. up above you have officers, both shot this last weekend by r-old venezuelan national apprehended by you as border patrol after unlawfully entering the united states your eagle pass. we have a continued effort by fail to secure the border of the united states, and getting shot. in this case, law enforcement getting shot. two young women are dead. my question for you is, do you believe that texas has right to defend itself and to ensure that people who are in this country are not y and that we can protect the citizens of texas for people un

years, in the department, 132. again, a 93% drop in the number of leases issued. let's just compare president biden to president obama. there has been a 93% drop in the amount of acreage leased. 90% drop in the number of lease issues between obama and biden. obama and biden. this is a horrible record, mr. chairman, undermining the economy of the united states. what does it all mean? well, first, it means that today's oil and gas production has nothing to do with president biden. it means that oil and gas production on federal lands -- which is happening today -- has nothing to do with biden, it is headed for a fall. it means that secretary haaland's decisions, if they are allowed to stand, the people in the west are going to suffer in the years to come. the secretaries lawless actions are not just limited to her failure to follow the mineral leasing act. she has also failed to followed an abundance of other laws. last month was a good example. within the span of two days, secretary haaland issued three decisions th

departments. the departments scheduled to appear today and tomorrow are listed on the agenda. however, if a department agrees to our proposed reductions and does not have trailing legislation, they have not been required to return. you can find the trailing legislation listed in the agenda today. today we will address items five through 11. each of these items will have public comment, but we remind the public to keep the remarks related to the trailer, not the overall department budget. we will not have general public comment today. instead general public comment that address any or all will be heard on monday, june 24th, starting at 10 a.m. in this chambers. and that, again, all public comments, both for the trailing legislation and monday will be limited to one minute, so before before we do get started with the budget, though, we do have one sensitive, time sensitive item, to dispense with the san francisco public utilities commission. so, mr. clerk, please call item number one. yes. item numb

this regulation is a historic step in the justice department's fight against gun violence. it will make law enforcement officers safer. it will make communities safer. it will save lives. right now, we are seeing the clear impact that our partnerships, technological advances and tools can have on gun violence. as we recognize the progress we've made, i want to underline two points. first, our work is far from over. progress is only progress. our work is not done until all americans feel safe in their communities. second, none of this progress would have been possible without the enormous sacrifices made by your state and local law enforcement officers. to the leaders from across the country who are joining us today, thank you. please extend my deepest gratitude to the officers and troopers who serve your communities. we ask so much of you. never hesitate to ask us what you need from us. thank you for being here today. [applause]

and in 2019, the sheriff's department was and this was pre-covid, the sheriff's department was down only 48 deputies. and so they were, at 766 deputies, 2020, they were down 76 deputies. in 2021, they were down 109 deputies. and between 2021 and 2024, they were down 175 deputies and currently today we're at that 175, what we also concluded that was that clearly they need to fill those positions. but what is created the situation that's currently created is an overreliance on overtime, and it's mandatory overtime of the deputies, and we found that the deputies are working an average of 28 hours overtime time per week. the mandatory overtime and long hours overtime tax fatigues and stresses, the staff causing morale problems and mood disorders. and clearly, this can lead to chronic health and mental problems so that the overtime is very taxing on the staff and the overtime is also very costly to the city and county of san francisco. so decreasing staff over the years has exacerbated, has been exacerbated by significant increases in the jail population in, probably the over the last two yea