Campos Thanks and Urges Mayor to Fully Implement Due Process for Immigrant Children 

Supervisor David Campos thanks Mayor Ed Lee for partially implementing a City law that provides undocumented youth the constitutional guarantee of due process. The law was introduced by Supervisor Campos and passed in November 2009 by a supermajority of the Board of Supervisors. At yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting, Mayor Ed Lee announced that San Francisco has stopped reporting undocumented youth arrested on suspicion of felonies to federal immigration agents for deportation if they are found to be innocent and if they have family in San Francisco. Supervisor Campos called the announcement "a good first step," but expressed that "it doesn't go far enough." He and Supervisors Kim, Mar, and Avalos, as well as civil rights groups, raised concerns with the Mayor's exclusion of children that don't have families here from due process. They are urging Mayor Lee to fully implement the law passed by the Board of Supervisors to avoid deporting innocent youth. To learn more:

Fog City Journal: Campos Calls on Mayor Lee to Uphold Sanctuary City Law 

SF Chronicle: City revises its stance on illegal immigrant youths 

SF Examiner: San Francisco changes policy on reporting juveniles to ICE after felony charges 

SF Bay Guardian: Campos urges Lee to implement entire due process law  

Crisis of Wage Theft
Supervisors Campos and Mar have called a hearing to inquire how city departments are working to address the crisis of wage theft. Wage theft occurs when employers do not pay workers their legally or contractually promised wages. Common forms of wage theft are non-payment of overtime, not paying for all hours worked, not paying the minimum wage, making illegal deductions from worker paychecks, and not paying a worker at all. Academic studies have found that wage theft costs workers billions of dollars in legally mandated wages each year. Wage theft also harms responsible businesses and government by creating unfair competition and denying tax revenue. The hearing will take place at the Government Audit and Oversight Committee on Thurs, May 12 around 11am. 

Hospital Consolidation Impacts Health Care Costs  Last month Supervisor Campos held a hearing on how hospital market consolidation in San Francisco is affecting health care premium costs for the City of San Francisco and its residents. A distinguished panel of experts in Health Care planning and economics testified that when hospitals consolidate into large systems that dominate a specific region, that hospital system has the power to demand contracts from health plans that include high reimbursement rates for their services and limit the ability of health plans to offer lower cost products and share the data consumers need to compare costs across providers. To watch the hearing click on the May 28, 2011 Government Audit and Oversight Committee on SFGTV.

Supervisor Campos Appointed to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission

The Board of Supervisors unanimously appointed Supervisor David Campos as its representative to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC).  The MTC is the transportation planning, coordinating and financing agency for the nine San Francisco Bay Area counties.  Supervisor Campos will serve on the MTC Programming and Allocations Committee, which is responsible for reviewing funding applications and making funding recommendations. We are thrilled that Supervisor Campos will be advocating for San Francisco's transportation system at the regional level, where key policy and funding decisions are made.