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Two Black young women, one late 20's and the other in mid 30's, seated at a table with mics in a courtroom with an audience. An attorney seated at the other end of the table talks into a mic to the state Congressional Committee (unseen) about various potential and real drug treatment services being made available to pregnant drug addicts .
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| 01:00:51 52 |
Same attorney continues talking to the Committee about the need for dedicated beds at hospitals specifically designed for the detoxification of drug dependent pregnant women.
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| 01:01:38 98.33 |
WS courtroom, the two Black girls at one end of the witness table and 4 or 5 attorneys or state officials at the other end, and audience.
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| 01:01:43 104.02 |
Z'in on a female official, Miss Agnos(?) maybe attorney or from social services. She talks into the mic at the unseen judge about the importance of public and private partnerships in establishing the treatment programs for drug dependent pregnant women. She talks about this as a being a public health emergency in San Francisco and states there are 700 drug exposed babies born every year.
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| 01:03:37 217.5 |
Pan over to one of the Black women, Miss Thomas a representative from the Mandela House. She talks into the mic about the waiting list she has there, and hopefully a potentially new and larger building with a program for drug addicted pregnant women which would include a drop in center, a treatment center and transition housing.
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| 01:06:02 362 |
Pan to the younger woman sitting next to Miss Thomas, a former police dispatcher who ran into some drug problems and wound up pregnant and in jail. She talks about how priorities should be placed on the drug epidemic itself and states that the drugs are what causes 99% of the crimes.
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| 01:08:08 487.97 |
Pan across room from Miss Thomas to Senator Wilson on the panel. He asks several questions of Ms Hagen and miss Thomas - about the Mandela House and its effectiveness. Miss Thomas talks about the people who voluntarily go to the Mandela House and how she must ensure they are serious about getting the help by putting them through a protocol, and interviews.
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| 01:10:54 654.64 |
CU Senator Wilson. He asks further questions about the outpatient programs. Miss Thomas talks about the costs of the program and funding and their high success rates..
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| 01:12:30 750.63 |
The hearing concludes. A member of the committee unseen thanks everyone. Folks are seen leaving the courtroom.
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| 01:14:39 879 |
End reel.
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