what other response could there possibly be from the biggest non profit in San Francisco? 22 million bucks worth of tax paid confidentiality….Kind of like Blackwater
this is what Tenderloin Housing Clinic is all about. The email was sent from a THC email address. The entire operation is like this, right down to the dozens of lawsuits filed by their own employees that were settled out of court, with strict non disclosure agreements
> CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This document is intended for the use of the
> party to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is
> privileged, confidential, and protected from disclosure under applicable
> law. If you are not the addressee, or a person authorized to accept
> documents on behalf of the addressee, you are hereby notified that any
> review, disclosure, dissemination, copying, or other action based on the
> content of this communication is not authorized. If you have received
> this document in error, please immediately reply to the sender and
> delete or shred all copies.
>
Randy Shaw and Paul Hogarth have the nerve to sit there and use public money to lecture the taxpayers of San Francisco on how to spend their hard earned money in a budget crisis, when they themselves are shrouded in secrecy. And the dumbass Board of Supervisors just hand the money over, no questions asked.
The Public Defenders office lost big this budget season. They are a public entity and not shrouded in secrecy. Tenderloin Housing Clinic is 20 times bigger and is a private entity that is shrouded in secrecy, and is funded by the exact same source, the taxpayer. This is doubly ironic since right now there is a lot of outcry over the possibility of privatizing the very same public defenders. This is exactly what has been done for the last 20 odd years with Tenderloin Housing Clinic and it’s ‘service of the homeless’, and sometimes it involves the exact same people that the public defenders office handles. Something that should be a city/state institution, with full accountability to the public has been auctioned off, contracted out, with much less accountability, and like the Bay Guardian says, depending on which accountants you use, it could be cheaper, but maybe not. Nobody seems to know for sure
The San Francisco Civil Grand Jury warned about this very thing just days ago, but few people are listening
We apparently are not bankrupt enough yet, but if it keeps going like this, we may soon be, and maybe then the people actually paying for all this will start to notice