. >> good afternoon supervisors aim teresa sparks i'm the executive director. we will be very brief and we won't take a lot of your time this afternoon par we want to go through some of our recent initiatives and look at the budget. the human rights commission was founded originally through mayor in 1963 and formalized into a human rights commission in 64. i have a photograph here i'd like to show you. which actually, it's tale from a nip from march of 1964 this was at the hotel where african-americans were removed because they were demonstrating for jobs for african-american at the time. and an additional 2 point something african-americans were taken away. this is the premises upon which the human rights commission was founded to the at that time. we have investigated discrimination against the rights of all people. we are prompting understanding of the residents of the 71 and also mitigating and making recommendations with respect to involving community problems. a year ago in julia year ago next most the human rights transition occurred in which the 43 posi

and it sparked as maria teresa kumar was saying before, an interesting and needed conversation in thisut, okay, now that we all are aware that this is happening, what are the boundaries, what are the limits, and what should government should and shouldn't do with this information. >> definitely where we need to go. but let me go back to you, maria teresa. when you look at the hypocrisy, this is what is alarming to me. the hypocrisy on the right on this issue of surveillance. look at this guy, jim sensenbrenner. look at his record. he authored the patriot act. he dismissed critics who warned of government abuse of patriot act in 2005 and '06. now he says he is troubled by fbi's interpretation of the patriot act. but he skipped classified briefs on nsa programs over the last three years that would have showed him what they were doing. i mean, this is the height of hypocrisy here. >> well, i mean, when they actually had these nsa hearings over -- i want to say it's close to 25% of the senate actually skipped out the go home early. so when the republicans are saying that this is something,