when i met jamie, i was at walden house, on parole, single mother, with no direction. i don't have a college degree. and if it was not for meeting jamie at that time, i might not have been able to get that confidence that i needed to know to be successful and to know there was a place for me in society, to want to stay clean. to want to live a successful life is great. if you cannot relate to someone who is in your shoes when you are going through the process, it is difficult. he gave me the confidence and things have been going well. i have been employed for a year and half. i have my son. >> supervisor campos: thank you for being here. -- supervisor kim: thank you for being here. >> i am here to speak briefly for three folks, i did not know that jamie was one of the appointees. we hired -- for that program. he is early every day and stays late and works harder than anyone else to serve the inmates. he runs the program and has been trained in the prison project in san quentin. he is the sort of person that the city needs on this council. the other is kim courtney. kim

the work in a shelter for a few years and i worked at the open house -- and i worked at walden house. i think i would be a great addition to the council. my experience before and after incarceration, so i would like to be considered. it is a passion of mine. i refer clients every day all through san francisco. and that is it. supervisor kim: thank you, mr. reiss. >> thank you. supervisor kim: next, we have robert mansfield. i will call leslie levitas just in case she came, but she informed are often she would not be here, then ronnie muniz. mr. mansfield? >> hazmat the 1980's, 1985, in and out of the county jail, and

the work in a shelter for a few years and i worked at the open house -- and i worked at walden house. i think i would be a great addition to the council. my experience before and after incarceration, so i would like to be considered. it is a passion of mine. i refer clients every day all through san francisco. and that is it. supervisor kim: thank you, mr. reiss. >> thank you. supervisor kim: next, we have robert mansfield. i will call leslie levitas just in case she came, but she informed are often she would not be here, then ronnie muniz. mr. mansfield? >> hazmat the 1980's, 1985, in and out of the county jail, and i graduated from the prison system in that 1985. i somehow had the state -- the sense to go to the lynsey street in 1995. i became part of the process trying to afford others the same opportunities i got. i feel strongly and passionately people need to be given the opportunity to help themselves. there will be tremendous changes and a lot of volatility in the city, and i think some big changes have to happen . i think i bring a different perspective and insider knowledge.

i started my career at walden house, counseling delinquent kids and helping them turn their lives around i helped to write the book for the clinton justice department on alternatives to incarceration. after graduating from stanford law school, worked at legal services for children, providing free legal services to low-income kids. i worked to reduce racial disparities in the juvenile justice system. at the mayor's office of criminal justice and the san francisco please commission, helped bring national best practices to san francisco law enforcement. i thought of the berkeley center for criminal justice to bring law enforcement and community get rid build collaboration around pragmatic criminal justice reform. that's what my whole career has been about and that's what this whole campaign is about. i have been reforming the system from the outside for the past 20 years and now i want to keep reforming the system as your next district attorney. i will do that by focusing on what prevent crimes, intervening with you to keep them out of the criminal-justice system, never seeking the death pe

i served as head of walden house, one of the most respected substance-abuse treatment centers, providing services to the incarcerate informally incarcerated to help rebuild their lives. i served as a member of the california narcotics authority, helping to divert at into treatment. i served as president of the san francisco police department association and as a san francisco police officer, i received two medals of valor for my work on the street. i patrolled just about every corner of san francisco. a safer city requires bringing all of these elements together. i'm proud to have burned the support of senator dianne feinstein, the attorney general , lt. gov. gavin newsom and many, many others. i hope i can earn your support also. please join us on our web site. thank you. >> election day is november 8th, 2011. that is the last date to vote in person and a deadline for receipt of the vote by mail ballots. >> hello. my name is ross mirkarimi, i'm the supervisor of the fifth district of the board of supervisors of san francisco. i am running for sheriff because i want to improve public saf

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i started my career at walden house adolescent facility counseling kids and helping them turn their lives around. i worked at the national council environmental case where i helped write the book during the clinton administration of the clinton justice department on alternatives to incarceration. i then graduated from stanford law school and got a fellowship to work and legal services for children where are provided free legal services to low-income kids in san francisco and went on to work at the hayward burns institute for juvenile justice, fairness, and equity. at the mayor's office of criminal justice and on the police commission, i helped bring national best practices to san francisco law enforcement, and it brought it all together at the berkeley center for criminal justice, which i found it with the mission of bringing law enforcement and community together to build collaboration around pragmatic criminal- justice reform. that is what my entire career has been about, and that is what this entire campaign is about. however i going to do that? by focusing on what works. we know keepi

walden and other pragmatists were called accommodationists, uncle toms. and so the question is, why would that be? well, it was because he didn't challenge segregation in housing. instead, he made deals with local whites to find housing for african-americans wherever he could. in the midst of a postwar housing crisis. and this had the effect of maintaining the color line. um, and as a result poor black neighborhoods remained intact, neighborhoods like the one where this woman lived remained intact and really his decisions had the impact of exacerbating segregation over time. he also was called an accommodationist because he never fully embraced school desegregation. of course, a chief way in which thurgood marshall conceived equality. now, why would that have been? well, it was partly because he was interested in preserving the jobs of african-american school teachers. but also it was because he was worried that in desegregated schools african-american students would not have a nurturing school environment. so because of his skepticism of school desegregation, he didn't file a case to desegregate the schools in the atlanta until 1958 although he promised thurg