the aclu and electronic frontier foundation have centers will to luis herrera. i've provided copies of those in which they say, oppose and continue to oppose rfid use in libraries because of its privacy and free speech concerns. also an early study, which i've also provided the supervisors said, current conventional wisdom suggests that privacy risks negligible unless there is access to library databases. we show that's not the case. there are books about this problem. spy chips, how major corporations and government plan to track your every move with rfid. it's a serious privacy threat. it has many other functional problems, expenses. you can get fines and fees for years with the cost of this. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is bill calledman, first floor manager at the main library and sciu 10-21, having worked in two other libraries that utilize rfid, i can tell that you it covers greatly increased efficiency. it frees staff from the routine process of checking in and out materials, affording them to do what they're there for -- serve the public. despit

found the library in violation of open government law with respect to the prior reporting and luis herrera did not follow the law and had to sign a stipulation that he had violated the law for three years in a row by claiming that he had gotten nothing in the way of donations from the friends. thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for sharing your perspective. next speaker, please. >> members of the board of supervisors, ray hart, director of san francisco open government. and can i get this to work? >> supervisor cohen: sfgov tv, overhead, please. >> and could i get my time back while we're waiting for -- can i get the 30 seconds i've lost waiting for that? politics author frank hubbard says that politics is the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible. you have seen something similar to this, the friends and family grant. and they will come in and say, we want to get $820,000. this is what they do. they put other people's money, the designated donors, as an inclusion as if it's from the friends. what the friends in this particular year gave was

. >>> we have -- >> jorge luis herrera with us -- >> thank you. live from craaracascaracas. walk us through who josh holt is for those who may not know and why this is significant. >> reporter: joshua holt became detained in venezuela in 2016 when he was arrested in the outside city of caracas, the capital city of the country. he was accused by the venezuelan government of planning terrorist attacks in the country, stockpiling weapons. since then he's become in a struggle in the relationship between the venezuelan government and u.s. government. basically caracas, what he's saying is that this guy was trying to make a plot against the government of president maduro. >> we want to ask for clarity, tammy holt, he went there to to meet her on line. is she that woman, and at any time was she imprisoned? >> reporter: she was imprisoned with him, as well. the thing is that this case has become like a dark box. there's no official information on what the situation is, the government of venezuela is accusing him of planning a plot in this country. but there hasn't been like an offic