. >> thank you, supervisor wiener, my name is lenore anderson, chief of the alternative programs commission. i am here today on behalf of the district attorney to describe the recidivism reduction ordnance and what it would do. we are happy to be part of this process and we think it will be important for a san francisco. i will take a few minutes to talk about the background that supervisor wiener talked about. i will go through the details of what the legislation does. on october 1, we had one of the biggest changes to california correction's policy in decades, and that is realignment. counties are much more responsible for a larger number of offenders that we have been previously. in terms of custody at supervision in the community, we are responsible for a huge population of people cycling in and out of the criminal justice system. the question is, and light of the new responsibility, are we engaging in practices that are the most effective and most likely to reduce recidivism of those individuals in the criminal justice system? if we don't do a close review and make sure we are engaging