July 6, 2024 • 31 mins
Fireworks in SoCal: Why many illegal fireworks could be gone in California next July Fourth. New Laws in SoCal: Hidden fees, gun taxes, date-rape testing kits: New California laws that take effect in July. SoCal 24 Ballot Measures: 2024 California ballot measures: What you need to know. The Ongoing SoCal Homeless Crisis: · Why LA is pulling the plug on a 911 pilot that sent mental health workers on some calls · Nearly a quarter of unhoused adults in LA County report having serious mental illness Fontana unveils new homeless housing solution.
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Los Angeles, Orange County, iE in the Valley. This is Twala
Sharp and you're listening to KFI AMsix forty Soul Cal Saturday on demand on
the iHeartRadio app. Lie from theKFI twenty four our newsroom. I'm Andrew
Caravella. Saturdayday KFI A six fortyLive Benruware Far the iHeart Radio app in
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the Antelope Acres, Brentwood, Orangeand Narco. This is Soul Cal Saturday.
I'm your host, Twala Sharp,welcoming you to another fantastic show.
Yes, today we have your smallbusiness Saturday spotlight with the Beauty Priestess and
that's not a voodoo thing. No. The Beauty Priestess provides all types of
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customized facials for all skin types.So we will be talking to the owner
of the Beauty Priestess, Miss AustraliaJones. So that is coming up on
today's show. All types of funthings to get into to do. I
hope that so far you have beenhaving a fantastic Fourth of July week and
hopefully your weekend, like mine,has been a four day weekend. I
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have been living it up man fourthof July. The fourth of July festivities
at Chateau Le MoU were fantastic,the fireworks, family fund, just all
types of good stuff. No,no, I did not win the baking
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contest. I entered my blueberry sourcream pie, and though it was delicious,
it did not win. Admittedly,though it melted by the time I
got there, because you know,in this three hundred degree weather, living
like right down the street from thesun, no traveling from my house in
Altadena all the way to Moe's housewell out in Harbor City, damn near
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in the oh I was about thecursed close enough, let's go there.
It was a drive. It wasa drive, and so by the time
I took it out, it wasa sad pie. It was very it
was very melty. I blame theFork report. He had an emergency because
he knows the difference between good foodthat is that has just traveled. But
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you know, it just was alittle versus food that just isn't good.
So he would have been able tohave your back. But because he didn't
make it family one. Once again, the look family first always. I'm
not mad at the Fork reporter notbeing able to make it. Trust and
believe, Neil, I understand Mydaughter went through that when she was three,
So yeah, man, I fullyfully understand. But it's all good
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too because most sister one and shewon with a seven layer cake that was
quite possibly one of the most beautifulcakes I have ever seen. Made this
cake Literally when she cut into it, when you look on the inside,
eats layer was layered so perfectly thatit was actually the American flag and it
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just looked picture perfect. It wasn'tleaning, it wasn't just red white and
blue inside like some people do.Uh, it's the Fourth of July cake.
It's just red white and blue dance. I know. Every single layer
was even and I didn't taste it. From my understanding, it was delicious.
But man, look I had aboutout. I was like, wow,
you put foot to behind with thiscake. So that was that was
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amazing and it was just all aroundfun time. I mean super producer Kayla
was there, Uh, Keana wasthere? Who else? Danam KINI I
mean, look, it was aparty to be hobs. Yes, Look
it was Who's who. Hopefully hopefullywe can get Mark Ronner and Fush out
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there next year because the whole latercrew wasn't in the building, but they
were there. With us and spirit. And I know you were there listening.
No, you heard all of thefireworks that we had going on in
the background of our live broadcast fromChateau le Mot. And if your neighborhood
is like mine, the fireworks arestill going off. It is literally the
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fifth of July and the celebration iscontinuing. One thing that is going to
change, at least well, okay, okay, okay, okay, when
I say it's going to change.One thing that California is looking to change
is the import of illegal fireworks intosouthern California, at least in all of
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California in general, by way ofbrokering a partnership with Nevada and I believe
New Mexico to curb the transportation orthe influx of just illegal fireworks into California.
And again, look, if youknow someone who is sensitive to fireworks,
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if you know some one who isa former member of our esteem military
and suffers PTSD and cannot handle thefireworks, if you have a pet,
or if you are someone who haslost the pet due to fireworks, transt
to believe you know the all ofthe downside of Fourth of July here in
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southern cauld Ofilifornia, especially because we'reout here launching m eighties and cherry bombs
and just actual ordinance. It literallysounded like a war zone behind us while
we're trying to broadcast live. Andit was like that all the way home,
the entire both sides of the oneten, although I think from for
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most house, I think until Igot to about usc both sides of the
freeway and the overpasses, fireworks goingoff. So it'd be really interesting to
see how, at least here insouthern California we are able to even attempt
to curb the influx of illegal fireI mean, so far this year alone,
just this year in California, wehave seized more than one hundred and
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twenty tons of illegal firework, whichis well above average. I mean,
this is next level. And maybeit's because more people are coming out,
because you know, everyone's getting together. You know, pandemic for the most
part, is behind us, eventhough we're out here flirting. Even though
we're out here flirting around and itis still real in the field, but
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for the most part, where weare kind of over at least the idea
of not coming together because of COVID, so it was. It was packed.
Every single place was packed. Thestreets were packed. I know the
Rose Bowl was packed, and placeslike the Rose Bowl, places like in
Long Beach and in Newport Beach wherethey have these fireworks shows. I know
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that there are plans to start implementingdrone shows. I know even Disneyland is
moving away from the firework shows.They're like, we're doing water shows now.
Lights the magic water like fireworks arebecoming really, really, really a
thing of the past and something I'vejust read earlier just before coming on.
I felt it was really heartbreaking.Along the four or five, another one
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of our veneral mountain cats was lost. We literally lost another mountain lion on
the freeway. And I have nodoubts that this son of P fifty two
or daughter of P. Fifty two, even though even though they say P.
Fifty two had no kids. AllI'm saying is I really do think
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that this mountain lion was scared outof its habitat and just onto the freeway
because of fireworks. Another mountain liongone. What are we doing out here?
What are we doing out here?Well, look look again, all
of the people at least in Moe'sneck of the woods. They'd obviously been
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storing these fireworks for who knows howlong they probably had a garage. So
I don't know if this new planis looking to maybe like how in LA
they do a gun buyback program,maybe they're gonna do a firework buy back
program where you bring in your ordinanceand they'll give you a target gift card
or something. But you know,we'll see, because you know, right
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now, according to cal Matters,they're saying that the plan is in effect
and by next July, which isthat's a bold statement, California. This
is a bold statement that by nextJuly, illegal fireworks could be all but
gone. We shall see. Hopefullywe will be here next July to report
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on it, and maybe it'll bea firework free drone fourth of July for
you and me. We shall see. This is KFI AM six forty Life
Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You'relistening to Soul cal Saturday with Tawaala Sharp
on demand from KFI AM six fourKfi and six forty Live everywhere where on
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the iHeartRadio app. This is SoulCow Saturday coming at you from El Segundo
Green medal, sil Beach and yakaipa. I'm your host, Twyla Sharp
taking a look at some of thenew laws that are in effect here in
soul Cow. Yes, July ishere, and that means new laws that
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have just taken effect are affecting.Yes, Where do I want to start?
Because there are some really really coolones and there's the ones that I'm
just like, yeah, I don'tknow about that. One law that took
an effect is one that affects everylast one of us, and I know,
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and we haven't even really known howdeep it affected us. But it
is the hidden fees law. Likeyou know, this is Center Bill four
to seventy eight, which applies toseveral several industries that require businesses including hotels,
food delivery apps, airlines, andconcert venues all include mandatory fees and
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surcharges in their advertised prices. Now, I have actually seen this already taken
to effect. When I ordered apizza last night for the crew. They
detailed all of the different charges,so it wasn't just random hitting charges that
were on there. And I'm like, wait, you're not telling me this
until I get no, it listedthe cost of the pizza and the surcharge
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and the not the delivery. Yeah, the delivery feed, all that before
even got to the checkout. Itwas kind of like estimated it. And
I was like, that was deep. I got an Uber just the other
day and the uber and not onlygave me the cost of the uber,
but it gave me all the servecharges before I even hit order. And
I was like, wow, thisis like immediate that some of these companies
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are are you know, implementing this. I think that's good. I think
because half the time that's super annoying. I know, you know what I'm
talking about when you are buying takeconcert tickets and on face value they may
be sixty nine dollars, but thenyou get you know, to check out,
and it's like eighty nine dollars particular, and you're like, wait,
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where's this extra twenty dollars coming from? Can be that much in tax?
Yeah, it's all those serve charges. And now they're letting you know every
single thing and every cost that's goinginto everything before you make that purchase.
And I think that is absolutely toour benefit here in Southern California. Limit
on security deposits. Hello, forthose of us who are trying to rent.
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Those of us who are renting,they are now limiting the amount that
can be uh charged for like firstand second and stuff like that. Yes,
many Californian landlords will be barred fromcharging more than the equivalent of one
month's rent for security deposits. Yes, hold on, Kayla, cause I
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see you dancing. Landlords could previouslycharge the equivalent of two to three times
and that's what they were doing first, second, and third. And you're
like what, I'm not even inthere yet. No. Now they're like,
they can only charge the equivalent ofone month's security deposits. And this
is an effect. Now, thisis an effect. Now, Yes,
I'm moving July thirty first. Sothat's amazing news. Oh you are,
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Oh you're good. I'm going here. I'm great, Yes you are.
Oh there you go, Kayla.This is for you. Something else that
is for you, But it couldfor me if I ever decided to drink
again. Date rape, drug kissingtesting kits are now mandatory in bars.
Bars, and nightclubs in California willbe required to offer kits for controlled substances
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that could be slipped into drinks.The law requires that bars and clubs offer
to sell or if they are sokind, can give away for free these
stripstickers, straws, or other devicesthat can test alcoholic drinks for the presence
of common date rape drugs, includingketamine, GHB and something that I can
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pronounce but it's really crazy. Ohthe nickname for this one that can pronounce
is Roofie. Yeah, so thatone there, This is AB ten thirteen.
And yes, yes, yes,yes, yes, yes, I
actually personally know someone who was druggedand taken advantage of. And so for
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me, this is something that I'mlike, hell, yes, hope fully,
hopefully this will lead to more ofthese sick s obs being arrested and
jailed and maybe castrated. I don'tknow, I don't know. We have
to get to that, love,We have to get to the point where
we're castrating, uh, these theserapists. You know, something like in
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India, you know you steal somethingback of the day that would cut off
your hand, you know, Well, now you know date rate cashtrate.
There we go. That's the newbill tax on guns and ammunition. I
don't want to get into that one. I know that that was rough,
and I don't want the KFI mikein the upper left hand corner being abused
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by someone saying TWI I was tryingto take away our guns. It's not
me, It's not me. Thisis California. This is just a tax
on guns and ammunition. But look, do hey, look, do you
you want to get your guns?Get your gun on And also we talked
about this several times on Later withmo Kelly with Tech Thursday commentator Marsha Collier
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about the Right Repair Act will nowmanufactures on many electronic devices and appliances will
be required to provide the parts,tools, and instructions needed to repair their
product under this new law SB twoforty four, which is aimed at empowering
us, the consumers who are interestedin fixing our own phones or devices and
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things like that. And yeah,why do I need to take it to
someone if I have these structures thatcan do it myself. Yes, give
the power to the people, allright. On the other side, though,
these are the laws that are ineffect. And something I talk about
all the time is when laws arepassed and people want to complain after the
past. Well, we have acouple of ballot measures that will be coming
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our way on the November ballot thatI want you to know about. We
will be continuing to talk about,but I don't want these things to sneak
up on you. So right afterthis quick break, we are going to
get into that. You're listening tosoul cal Saturday with Tawala Sharp on demand
from KFIAM six forty kfive AM sixforty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and
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Elizabeth Lake Huntington Park. You're Belindaand Will Debar. This is soul Kel
Saturday. I'm your host, TwalaSharp taking a look at some of the
ballid measures coming our way on theNovember ballots for the November elections. And
I know here in southern California wehave quite possibly one of the most apathetic
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voter turnouts in the country when itcomes to local elections, when it comes
to voting on ballid measures. Andit's always shocking to me why people are
so surprised when certain laws are passedor certain things that come across as like
unjust like how is this? Andit's like where were you all in the
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voting pops. I believe in thelast voting cycle that came around, I
think it was like some weird liketwenty eight percent of eligible voters went out,
but we don't vote, and thisis why, you know, we
get what we get. We getwhat we get when we don't show up
at the polling place to vote onthese measures. But just want to let
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you know some of the ones thatare coming our way so that you can
at least be informed and help usto make the right decisions. You know,
I don't want to tell you howto vote, but I just want
you to let you know what youwill be voting for some things that are
coming up. Proposition two, whichallows the state to borrow ten billion dollars
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to build schools. Legislative Democrats putthis on the ballot, which is a
bond issue to give eight point fivebillion to K through twelve schools and one
point five billion to community colleges constructionand modernization. I personally know that the
schools here in southern California they needthat. They need that seriously. You
know, there are so many Kthrough twelve schools that still have some of
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the you know, pre high schoolgrades operating out of bungalows, trailers,
you know, on campuses, andI think that's ridiculous. Proposition three reaffirm
the rights of same sex couples tomarry. This constitutional amendment from the legislature
would remove outdated language from Proposition eight, passed by voters in two thousand and
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eight that characterizes marriage as between asbeing between a man and a woman.
So Proposition three would reaffirm the rightof same sex couples to marry. Proposition
four borrow ten billion dollars for climateprograms. I'm telling you this. If
you think climate talk is a hoaxor a joke, shame on you.
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Seriously, It's not supposed to beas hot as it is in places where
it is right now. A lotof the weather that we are seeing like
right now, a lot of thealgae and bacteria we see even here in
southern California in our beaches, thatis caused by way of our climate not
being right right now. Look,argue with the experts, don't argue with
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me. But Proposition for borrows tenbillion dollars for climate programs. Legislative Democrats
also place the bond issue on thebout that includes three point eight billion for
drinking water and groundwater and one pointfive billion for wildfire and force programs,
and then another one point two billionfor sea level rise. I think it
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was last week. Last week Itold you that here in southern California,
our drinking water is not at statesstandard. It is well below state standard.
This will help to solve that,all right. Right now, we
have so many wildfires running through California, and this is wildfire season. Some
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states have a tornado season where wehave wildfire season. Right now, there's
some wildfires that are burning up allover the place. Well, don't you
think we need some money to gotowards fighting that? Well, yeah,
this helps with that, all right. Proposition five lowers voter approval requirements for
local housing and infrastructure bonds. Okay, yes, we need this. This
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constitutional amendment from the legislature would makeit easier for local governments to borrow money
for affordable housing and other infrastructure.Yeah, okay, we cannot complain about
homelessness, we cannot complain about theblight and all these things that we're seeing
on the streets. But also notvote on a measure that's going to give
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local go for men's the ability topull more money to go towards possibly creating
more affordable housing. Sounds like agood thing, right, Ride Ride Ride
Proposition six This is an interesting onelimiting forced labor in state prisons. I
personally know someone who was serving alife sentence here in southern California, and
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at one point at the prison hewas working at he was making seat covers
for range rovers. Okay, hewas making he was doing the stitching and
all the details for seat covers forrange rover. And then the second job
that he got, he was doingbrochures for hotels. Cannot remember which hotels,
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but he was doing he was likebonding the hotel brochures and all that
stuff he was getting. I meanmaybe a dollar or two an hour that
would just go towards commissary. Absolutelyinsane. So again, I know you're
probably like, look, dude,I don't cry for inmates, but this
is institutionalized slavery, and there issomething to be said, especially for privately
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owned prisons and laws that are writtenunjustly to help fill these prisons, to
help what create this private basic slavelabor in the prisons. Yeah, yeah,
this is something that we do needa limit on Proposition thirty two.
I thought this was already a donedeal, but it raises the state minimum
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wage to eighteen an hour. Nowin southern California. Yes, I know
that fast food workers are already receivingtwenty dollars an hour, and that and
healthcare workers are eventually going to getsome twenty five dollars an hour, but
this bill here or this yeah,this, this bill is going to just
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raise the overall minimum wage to eighteenan hour, no matter what the job.
Now, eighteen an hour is stillnot twenty dollars an hour. So
even if you have jobs there areeighteen thousand an hour. I'm thinking to
myself, if I'm getting eighteen anhour to work at Walmart, but I
could get twenty dollars an hour towork at you know, the in and
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out right down the way, whyam I not going over to the in
and out? I don't understand ifwe're trying to increase the minimum wage to
meet state requirements, just California livingwage requirements, but fast food workers are
getting twenty dollars an hour. Shouldeverything just be twenty dollars an hour again,
if we're trying to do that.But okay, look, people brighter
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than me are the ones figuring thisout. But that's going to be on
the November ballot. Wrapping up Propositionthirty three allows local governments to impose rent
controls. I hope we all showup for that one. Every single person
talking about rent in California, thehigh cost of living in California. It
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is literally our fault. We didnot vote this down. I know I
did. Maybe you did. Butthe person sitting next to you, they
might not have. Okay, theymay now quietly going into the battleocks.
I'm not voting for that. Idon't even know what that is. Well,
this is why rent and everything isso out of control, because we
didn't vote on it. Now wehave another opportunity to vote on it.
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Proposition thirty four requires certain health providersto use nearly all revenue from a federal
prescription drug program on patient care.Yeah. Someone who has I don't know,
fifty eleven prescriptions that I take,Yeah, i'd like to see that
happen. Proposition thirty five make permanenttax on managed healthcare insurance plans apps sosolutely
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And Proposition thirty six increases penalties fortheft and drug trafficking. Hell yes,
hell yes. Hopefully the funds fromProp thirty six will build prisons that we
can put some of these criminals underunder the prisons all right, it's CAFI
Ham six forty live everywhere on theiHeartRadio app. You're listening to Soul Cal
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Saturday with Tawla Sharp on demand fromKFI AM six forty. KFI AM six
forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio appin Canola, Mesa, Lomita, Riverside,
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and Marino Valley, Mo val Thisis Soul Cal Saturday. I'm your
host Twala Sharp taking a look atsome things surrounding our homeless crisis here in
southern California. And this ties intoone of the the main kind of causes,
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or not even main causes, butI believe that it is an underrated
causality that deals with homelessness, andthat is that right down, nearly a
quarter of unhoused adults in La Countyreport having serious mental illness. This is
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something that I continuously have talked aboutas being part of the problem with getting
individuals even into homeless shelters or someof the transitional housing programs, because you
have so many cases of undiagnosed mentalillness. And say, if if you
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are a woman with children, oreven if you're a woman period and or
you're a young person, you know, because We have a lot of young
people who have aged out of thefoster care system, the Falster Care youth
system here in southern California, andthey find themselves on the streets. You
know, you age out of theprogram and you're on the streets. You're
a young person, and you knowgoing to a shelter is not just you
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know, you're going to just shownesslike you're in a rom possibly given a
bed, and there are several adultsin there who you'll know who if they
do suffer from some form of undiagnosedmental illness or even diagnosed mental illness.
The unpredictability of what can happen toyou while you are in one of those
systems, it's something that many don'teven want to deal with. And now
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this new report that comes from theLA Homeless count shows a slight dip in
the number of unhoused adults who saythey live with a serious mental illness.
But there's still so much that needsto be done to account for the mental
health of individuals who are on thestreet, and that being one of the
main things that has them out there. A lot of these programs that are
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being developed, they are being developedfor people who have possibly fallen on hard
times and need a leg up andneed to get back into the system and
maybe you know, just just getright. But what is being done for
those with mental health issues? Andthis is something that absolutely we've got to
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take into account, got to dealwith. And interestingly enough, and connected
to this nine to one, pintone is pulling the plug on this test
pilot program where they were going tobe sending mental health care workers on some
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calls like so that when you havea lot of police officers who are interacting
with people who are suffering from amental health crisis, and you have these
officers who are not fully trained onhow to deal with someone having a mental
health crisis, and lots of timeswe have seen I don't have the report
with you, but we have seena lot lot of the officer involved shootings
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of individuals over this past year havehad to do with officers who have been
involved with or confronting someone having amental health crisis. Breakdown, looking at
all this, why is Nie oneone pulling this program? I mean it's
heartbreaking city authorities or citing low patientnumbers and ongoing staffing difficulties as a reason
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for the break county authorities have saidthat they will continue the program without the
city, which I absolutely hope thatthat can happen. But look, I
know just at the school that Iwork with, and it's not to try
to compare the two, but atthe school that I work at for children
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with special needs, I know howhard it is for us to get people
to work there, to get paraprofessionals to work there, because our staff
deals with some of the most extremecases. We deal with children who bite,
we deal with children who hit,We deal with children who who may
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disrobe and may try to you know, attack you with bodily fluids and things
like that. And I know itis rough. That's why I tell people
I work with actual angels. AndI can only surmise that the individuals who
work in this existing mental health outreachprogram with nine to one one or the
county are the same individuals who havea heart for the job. And I
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know how hard that can be,but I just I hope and I pray
that this program is kept alive inthat Mayor Bass in her reelection, which
she has just you know, announcedher bid for reelection. I hope,
Mayor Bass, that you keep thisfront and center, and do not let
this program fall by the wayside.This is AM six forty live everywhere on
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the Antelope Acres, Brentwood, Orangeand Narco. This is Soul Cal Saturday.
I'm your host, Twala Sharp,welcoming you to another fantastic show.
Yes, today we have your smallbusiness Saturday spotlight with the Beauty Priestess and
that's not a voodoo thing. No. The Beauty Priestess provides all types of
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customized facials for all skin types.So we will be talking to the owner
of the Beauty Priestess, Miss AustraliaJones. So that is coming up on
today's show. All types of funthings to get into to do. I
hope that so far you have beenhaving a fantastic Fourth of July week and
hopefully your weekend, like mine,has been a four day weekend. I
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have been living it up man fourthof July. The fourth of July festivities
at Chateau Le MoU were fantastic,the fireworks, family fund, just all
types of good stuff. No,no, I did not win the baking
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contest. I entered my blueberry sourcream pie, and though it was delicious,
it did not win. Admittedly,though it melted by the time I
got there, because you know,in this three hundred degree weather, living
like right down the street from thesun, no traveling from my house in
Altadena all the way to Moe's housewell out in Harbor City, damn near
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in the oh I was about thecursed close enough, let's go there.
It was a drive. It wasa drive, and so by the time
I took it out, it wasa sad pie. It was very it
was very melty. I blame theFork report. He had an emergency because
he knows the difference between good foodthat is that has just traveled. But
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you know, it just was alittle versus food that just isn't good.
So he would have been able tohave your back. But because he didn't
make it family one. Once again, the look family first always. I'm
not mad at the Fork reporter notbeing able to make it. Trust and
believe, Neil, I understand Mydaughter went through that when she was three,
So yeah, man, I fullyfully understand. But it's all good
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too because most sister one and shewon with a seven layer cake that was
quite possibly one of the most beautifulcakes I have ever seen. Made this
cake Literally when she cut into it, when you look on the inside,
eats layer was layered so perfectly thatit was actually the American flag and it
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just looked picture perfect. It wasn'tleaning, it wasn't just red white and
blue inside like some people do.Uh, it's the Fourth of July cake.
It's just red white and blue dance. I know. Every single layer
was even and I didn't taste it. From my understanding, it was delicious.
But man, look I had aboutout. I was like, wow,
you put foot to behind with thiscake. So that was that was
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amazing and it was just all aroundfun time. I mean super producer Kayla
was there, Uh, Keana wasthere? Who else? Danam KINI I
mean, look, it was aparty to be hobs. Yes, Look
it was Who's who. Hopefully hopefullywe can get Mark Ronner and Fush out
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there next year because the whole latercrew wasn't in the building, but they
were there. With us and spirit. And I know you were there listening.
No, you heard all of thefireworks that we had going on in
the background of our live broadcast fromChateau le Mot. And if your neighborhood
is like mine, the fireworks arestill going off. It is literally the
(04:13):
fifth of July and the celebration iscontinuing. One thing that is going to
change, at least well, okay, okay, okay, okay, when
I say it's going to change.One thing that California is looking to change
is the import of illegal fireworks intosouthern California, at least in all of
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California in general, by way ofbrokering a partnership with Nevada and I believe
New Mexico to curb the transportation orthe influx of just illegal fireworks into California.
And again, look, if youknow someone who is sensitive to fireworks,
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if you know some one who isa former member of our esteem military
and suffers PTSD and cannot handle thefireworks, if you have a pet,
or if you are someone who haslost the pet due to fireworks, transt
to believe you know the all ofthe downside of Fourth of July here in
(05:19):
southern cauld Ofilifornia, especially because we'reout here launching m eighties and cherry bombs
and just actual ordinance. It literallysounded like a war zone behind us while
we're trying to broadcast live. Andit was like that all the way home,
the entire both sides of the oneten, although I think from for
(05:41):
most house, I think until Igot to about usc both sides of the
freeway and the overpasses, fireworks goingoff. So it'd be really interesting to
see how, at least here insouthern California we are able to even attempt
to curb the influx of illegal fireI mean, so far this year alone,
just this year in California, wehave seized more than one hundred and
(06:06):
twenty tons of illegal firework, whichis well above average. I mean,
this is next level. And maybeit's because more people are coming out,
because you know, everyone's getting together. You know, pandemic for the most
part, is behind us, eventhough we're out here flirting. Even though
we're out here flirting around and itis still real in the field, but
(06:26):
for the most part, where weare kind of over at least the idea
of not coming together because of COVID, so it was. It was packed.
Every single place was packed. Thestreets were packed. I know the
Rose Bowl was packed, and placeslike the Rose Bowl, places like in
Long Beach and in Newport Beach wherethey have these fireworks shows. I know
(06:49):
that there are plans to start implementingdrone shows. I know even Disneyland is
moving away from the firework shows.They're like, we're doing water shows now.
Lights the magic water like fireworks arebecoming really, really, really a
thing of the past and something I'vejust read earlier just before coming on.
I felt it was really heartbreaking.Along the four or five, another one
(07:12):
of our veneral mountain cats was lost. We literally lost another mountain lion on
the freeway. And I have nodoubts that this son of P fifty two
or daughter of P. Fifty two, even though even though they say P.
Fifty two had no kids. AllI'm saying is I really do think
(07:33):
that this mountain lion was scared outof its habitat and just onto the freeway
because of fireworks. Another mountain liongone. What are we doing out here?
What are we doing out here?Well, look look again, all
of the people at least in Moe'sneck of the woods. They'd obviously been
(07:55):
storing these fireworks for who knows howlong they probably had a garage. So
I don't know if this new planis looking to maybe like how in LA
they do a gun buyback program,maybe they're gonna do a firework buy back
program where you bring in your ordinanceand they'll give you a target gift card
or something. But you know,we'll see, because you know, right
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now, according to cal Matters,they're saying that the plan is in effect
and by next July, which isthat's a bold statement, California. This
is a bold statement that by nextJuly, illegal fireworks could be all but
gone. We shall see. Hopefullywe will be here next July to report
(08:39):
on it, and maybe it'll bea firework free drone fourth of July for
you and me. We shall see. This is KFI AM six forty Life
Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You'relistening to Soul cal Saturday with Tawaala Sharp
on demand from KFI AM six fourKfi and six forty Live everywhere where on
(09:22):
the iHeartRadio app. This is SoulCow Saturday coming at you from El Segundo
Green medal, sil Beach and yakaipa. I'm your host, Twyla Sharp
taking a look at some of thenew laws that are in effect here in
soul Cow. Yes, July ishere, and that means new laws that
(09:46):
have just taken effect are affecting.Yes, Where do I want to start?
Because there are some really really coolones and there's the ones that I'm
just like, yeah, I don'tknow about that. One law that took
an effect is one that affects everylast one of us, and I know,
(10:07):
and we haven't even really known howdeep it affected us. But it
is the hidden fees law. Likeyou know, this is Center Bill four
to seventy eight, which applies toseveral several industries that require businesses including hotels,
food delivery apps, airlines, andconcert venues all include mandatory fees and
(10:31):
surcharges in their advertised prices. Now, I have actually seen this already taken
to effect. When I ordered apizza last night for the crew. They
detailed all of the different charges,so it wasn't just random hitting charges that
were on there. And I'm like, wait, you're not telling me this
until I get no, it listedthe cost of the pizza and the surcharge
(10:56):
and the not the delivery. Yeah, the delivery feed, all that before
even got to the checkout. Itwas kind of like estimated it. And
I was like, that was deep. I got an Uber just the other
day and the uber and not onlygave me the cost of the uber,
but it gave me all the servecharges before I even hit order. And
I was like, wow, thisis like immediate that some of these companies
(11:20):
are are you know, implementing this. I think that's good. I think
because half the time that's super annoying. I know, you know what I'm
talking about when you are buying takeconcert tickets and on face value they may
be sixty nine dollars, but thenyou get you know, to check out,
and it's like eighty nine dollars particular, and you're like, wait,
(11:41):
where's this extra twenty dollars coming from? Can be that much in tax?
Yeah, it's all those serve charges. And now they're letting you know every
single thing and every cost that's goinginto everything before you make that purchase.
And I think that is absolutely toour benefit here in Southern California. Limit
on security deposits. Hello, forthose of us who are trying to rent.
(12:03):
Those of us who are renting,they are now limiting the amount that
can be uh charged for like firstand second and stuff like that. Yes,
many Californian landlords will be barred fromcharging more than the equivalent of one
month's rent for security deposits. Yes, hold on, Kayla, cause I
(12:28):
see you dancing. Landlords could previouslycharge the equivalent of two to three times
and that's what they were doing first, second, and third. And you're
like what, I'm not even inthere yet. No. Now they're like,
they can only charge the equivalent ofone month's security deposits. And this
is an effect. Now, thisis an effect. Now, Yes,
I'm moving July thirty first. Sothat's amazing news. Oh you are,
(12:50):
Oh you're good. I'm going here. I'm great, Yes you are.
Oh there you go, Kayla.This is for you. Something else that
is for you, But it couldfor me if I ever decided to drink
again. Date rape, drug kissingtesting kits are now mandatory in bars.
Bars, and nightclubs in California willbe required to offer kits for controlled substances
(13:13):
that could be slipped into drinks.The law requires that bars and clubs offer
to sell or if they are sokind, can give away for free these
stripstickers, straws, or other devicesthat can test alcoholic drinks for the presence
of common date rape drugs, includingketamine, GHB and something that I can
(13:35):
pronounce but it's really crazy. Ohthe nickname for this one that can pronounce
is Roofie. Yeah, so thatone there, This is AB ten thirteen.
And yes, yes, yes,yes, yes, yes, I
actually personally know someone who was druggedand taken advantage of. And so for
(13:56):
me, this is something that I'mlike, hell, yes, hope fully,
hopefully this will lead to more ofthese sick s obs being arrested and
jailed and maybe castrated. I don'tknow, I don't know. We have
to get to that, love,We have to get to the point where
we're castrating, uh, these theserapists. You know, something like in
(14:16):
India, you know you steal somethingback of the day that would cut off
your hand, you know, Well, now you know date rate cashtrate.
There we go. That's the newbill tax on guns and ammunition. I
don't want to get into that one. I know that that was rough,
and I don't want the KFI mikein the upper left hand corner being abused
(14:37):
by someone saying TWI I was tryingto take away our guns. It's not
me, It's not me. Thisis California. This is just a tax
on guns and ammunition. But look, do hey, look, do you
you want to get your guns?Get your gun on And also we talked
about this several times on Later withmo Kelly with Tech Thursday commentator Marsha Collier
(14:58):
about the Right Repair Act will nowmanufactures on many electronic devices and appliances will
be required to provide the parts,tools, and instructions needed to repair their
product under this new law SB twoforty four, which is aimed at empowering
us, the consumers who are interestedin fixing our own phones or devices and
(15:18):
things like that. And yeah,why do I need to take it to
someone if I have these structures thatcan do it myself. Yes, give
the power to the people, allright. On the other side, though,
these are the laws that are ineffect. And something I talk about
all the time is when laws arepassed and people want to complain after the
past. Well, we have acouple of ballot measures that will be coming
(15:41):
our way on the November ballot thatI want you to know about. We
will be continuing to talk about,but I don't want these things to sneak
up on you. So right afterthis quick break, we are going to
get into that. You're listening tosoul cal Saturday with Tawala Sharp on demand
from KFIAM six forty kfive AM sixforty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app and
(16:15):
Elizabeth Lake Huntington Park. You're Belindaand Will Debar. This is soul Kel
Saturday. I'm your host, TwalaSharp taking a look at some of the
ballid measures coming our way on theNovember ballots for the November elections. And
I know here in southern California wehave quite possibly one of the most apathetic
(16:41):
voter turnouts in the country when itcomes to local elections, when it comes
to voting on ballid measures. Andit's always shocking to me why people are
so surprised when certain laws are passedor certain things that come across as like
unjust like how is this? Andit's like where were you all in the
(17:03):
voting pops. I believe in thelast voting cycle that came around, I
think it was like some weird liketwenty eight percent of eligible voters went out,
but we don't vote, and thisis why, you know, we
get what we get. We getwhat we get when we don't show up
at the polling place to vote onthese measures. But just want to let
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you know some of the ones thatare coming our way so that you can
at least be informed and help usto make the right decisions. You know,
I don't want to tell you howto vote, but I just want
you to let you know what youwill be voting for some things that are
coming up. Proposition two, whichallows the state to borrow ten billion dollars
(17:48):
to build schools. Legislative Democrats putthis on the ballot, which is a
bond issue to give eight point fivebillion to K through twelve schools and one
point five billion to community colleges constructionand modernization. I personally know that the
schools here in southern California they needthat. They need that seriously. You
know, there are so many Kthrough twelve schools that still have some of
(18:12):
the you know, pre high schoolgrades operating out of bungalows, trailers,
you know, on campuses, andI think that's ridiculous. Proposition three reaffirm
the rights of same sex couples tomarry. This constitutional amendment from the legislature
would remove outdated language from Proposition eight, passed by voters in two thousand and
(18:37):
eight that characterizes marriage as between asbeing between a man and a woman.
So Proposition three would reaffirm the rightof same sex couples to marry. Proposition
four borrow ten billion dollars for climateprograms. I'm telling you this. If
you think climate talk is a hoaxor a joke, shame on you.
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Seriously, It's not supposed to beas hot as it is in places where
it is right now. A lotof the weather that we are seeing like
right now, a lot of thealgae and bacteria we see even here in
southern California in our beaches, thatis caused by way of our climate not
being right right now. Look,argue with the experts, don't argue with
(19:26):
me. But Proposition for borrows tenbillion dollars for climate programs. Legislative Democrats
also place the bond issue on thebout that includes three point eight billion for
drinking water and groundwater and one pointfive billion for wildfire and force programs,
and then another one point two billionfor sea level rise. I think it
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was last week. Last week Itold you that here in southern California,
our drinking water is not at statesstandard. It is well below state standard.
This will help to solve that,all right. Right now, we
have so many wildfires running through California, and this is wildfire season. Some
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states have a tornado season where wehave wildfire season. Right now, there's
some wildfires that are burning up allover the place. Well, don't you
think we need some money to gotowards fighting that? Well, yeah,
this helps with that, all right. Proposition five lowers voter approval requirements for
local housing and infrastructure bonds. Okay, yes, we need this. This
(20:36):
constitutional amendment from the legislature would makeit easier for local governments to borrow money
for affordable housing and other infrastructure.Yeah, okay, we cannot complain about
homelessness, we cannot complain about theblight and all these things that we're seeing
on the streets. But also notvote on a measure that's going to give
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local go for men's the ability topull more money to go towards possibly creating
more affordable housing. Sounds like agood thing, right, Ride Ride Ride
Proposition six This is an interesting onelimiting forced labor in state prisons. I
personally know someone who was serving alife sentence here in southern California, and
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at one point at the prison hewas working at he was making seat covers
for range rovers. Okay, hewas making he was doing the stitching and
all the details for seat covers forrange rover. And then the second job
that he got, he was doingbrochures for hotels. Cannot remember which hotels,
(21:44):
but he was doing he was likebonding the hotel brochures and all that
stuff he was getting. I meanmaybe a dollar or two an hour that
would just go towards commissary. Absolutelyinsane. So again, I know you're
probably like, look, dude,I don't cry for inmates, but this
is institutionalized slavery, and there issomething to be said, especially for privately
(22:11):
owned prisons and laws that are writtenunjustly to help fill these prisons, to
help what create this private basic slavelabor in the prisons. Yeah, yeah,
this is something that we do needa limit on Proposition thirty two.
I thought this was already a donedeal, but it raises the state minimum
(22:36):
wage to eighteen an hour. Nowin southern California. Yes, I know
that fast food workers are already receivingtwenty dollars an hour, and that and
healthcare workers are eventually going to getsome twenty five dollars an hour, but
this bill here or this yeah,this, this bill is going to just
(22:57):
raise the overall minimum wage to eighteenan hour, no matter what the job.
Now, eighteen an hour is stillnot twenty dollars an hour. So
even if you have jobs there areeighteen thousand an hour. I'm thinking to
myself, if I'm getting eighteen anhour to work at Walmart, but I
could get twenty dollars an hour towork at you know, the in and
(23:19):
out right down the way, whyam I not going over to the in
and out? I don't understand ifwe're trying to increase the minimum wage to
meet state requirements, just California livingwage requirements, but fast food workers are
getting twenty dollars an hour. Shouldeverything just be twenty dollars an hour again,
if we're trying to do that.But okay, look, people brighter
(23:42):
than me are the ones figuring thisout. But that's going to be on
the November ballot. Wrapping up Propositionthirty three allows local governments to impose rent
controls. I hope we all showup for that one. Every single person
talking about rent in California, thehigh cost of living in California. It
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is literally our fault. We didnot vote this down. I know I
did. Maybe you did. Butthe person sitting next to you, they
might not have. Okay, theymay now quietly going into the battleocks.
I'm not voting for that. Idon't even know what that is. Well,
this is why rent and everything isso out of control, because we
didn't vote on it. Now wehave another opportunity to vote on it.
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Proposition thirty four requires certain health providersto use nearly all revenue from a federal
prescription drug program on patient care.Yeah. Someone who has I don't know,
fifty eleven prescriptions that I take,Yeah, i'd like to see that
happen. Proposition thirty five make permanenttax on managed healthcare insurance plans apps sosolutely
(24:48):
And Proposition thirty six increases penalties fortheft and drug trafficking. Hell yes,
hell yes. Hopefully the funds fromProp thirty six will build prisons that we
can put some of these criminals underunder the prisons all right, it's CAFI
Ham six forty live everywhere on theiHeartRadio app. You're listening to Soul Cal
(25:12):
Saturday with Tawla Sharp on demand fromKFI AM six forty. KFI AM six
forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio appin Canola, Mesa, Lomita, Riverside,
(25:36):
and Marino Valley, Mo val Thisis Soul Cal Saturday. I'm your
host Twala Sharp taking a look atsome things surrounding our homeless crisis here in
southern California. And this ties intoone of the the main kind of causes,
(26:03):
or not even main causes, butI believe that it is an underrated
causality that deals with homelessness, andthat is that right down, nearly a
quarter of unhoused adults in La Countyreport having serious mental illness. This is
(26:23):
something that I continuously have talked aboutas being part of the problem with getting
individuals even into homeless shelters or someof the transitional housing programs, because you
have so many cases of undiagnosed mentalillness. And say, if if you
(26:47):
are a woman with children, oreven if you're a woman period and or
you're a young person, you know, because We have a lot of young
people who have aged out of thefoster care system, the Falster Care youth
system here in southern California, andthey find themselves on the streets. You
know, you age out of theprogram and you're on the streets. You're
a young person, and you knowgoing to a shelter is not just you
(27:11):
know, you're going to just shownesslike you're in a rom possibly given a
bed, and there are several adultsin there who you'll know who if they
do suffer from some form of undiagnosedmental illness or even diagnosed mental illness.
The unpredictability of what can happen toyou while you are in one of those
systems, it's something that many don'teven want to deal with. And now
(27:33):
this new report that comes from theLA Homeless count shows a slight dip in
the number of unhoused adults who saythey live with a serious mental illness.
But there's still so much that needsto be done to account for the mental
health of individuals who are on thestreet, and that being one of the
main things that has them out there. A lot of these programs that are
(27:57):
being developed, they are being developedfor people who have possibly fallen on hard
times and need a leg up andneed to get back into the system and
maybe you know, just just getright. But what is being done for
those with mental health issues? Andthis is something that absolutely we've got to
(28:19):
take into account, got to dealwith. And interestingly enough, and connected
to this nine to one, pintone is pulling the plug on this test
pilot program where they were going tobe sending mental health care workers on some
(28:40):
calls like so that when you havea lot of police officers who are interacting
with people who are suffering from amental health crisis, and you have these
officers who are not fully trained onhow to deal with someone having a mental
health crisis, and lots of timeswe have seen I don't have the report
with you, but we have seena lot lot of the officer involved shootings
(29:03):
of individuals over this past year havehad to do with officers who have been
involved with or confronting someone having amental health crisis. Breakdown, looking at
all this, why is Nie oneone pulling this program? I mean it's
heartbreaking city authorities or citing low patientnumbers and ongoing staffing difficulties as a reason
(29:27):
for the break county authorities have saidthat they will continue the program without the
city, which I absolutely hope thatthat can happen. But look, I
know just at the school that Iwork with, and it's not to try
to compare the two, but atthe school that I work at for children
(29:49):
with special needs, I know howhard it is for us to get people
to work there, to get paraprofessionals to work there, because our staff
deals with some of the most extremecases. We deal with children who bite,
we deal with children who hit,We deal with children who who may
(30:11):
disrobe and may try to you know, attack you with bodily fluids and things
like that. And I know itis rough. That's why I tell people
I work with actual angels. AndI can only surmise that the individuals who
work in this existing mental health outreachprogram with nine to one one or the
county are the same individuals who havea heart for the job. And I
(30:36):
know how hard that can be,but I just I hope and I pray
that this program is kept alive inthat Mayor Bass in her reelection, which
she has just you know, announcedher bid for reelection. I hope,
Mayor Bass, that you keep thisfront and center, and do not let
this program fall by the wayside.This is AM six forty live everywhere on
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