i see lou gordon here. >> my name is fred, and i am a retired law enforcement officer from san francisco, actually from the sheriff's department. i spent 24 years here in san francisco working with the law enforcement agencies between the district attorney's office, as well as the sheriff's department themselves. while working at the sheriff's department, i work with in the programs, and i see a lot of programs are very successful in there. working in seeing the inmates that are incarcerated, they are eager to find jobs and work with and that they are released. i wanted to also bring up what was brought up earlier, that not all ex felons are violent. many are paper crimes. many are just drug abusers, and they are able to be rescued and to continue on with their lives as they continue on. there's another part here, too, that there many jobs that are also out here as well, individuals that a recently laid-off. and there are many individuals that are not willing to take these certain jobs out there that these sex felons are able to have and are willing to have. -- that these ex felons are a