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Kamala Harris on Families & Children
Democratic candidate for President (withdrawn); California Senator
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Six months paid family leave; burden still falls on women
Q: Your paid family leave proposal -- why six months? HARRIS: Many women are having to make a very difficult choice whether they're going to leave a profession for which they have a passion to care for their family,
or whether they are going to give up a paycheck that is part of what that family relies on. So six months paid family leave is meant to and is designed to adjust to the reality of women's lives today.
Source: November Democratic primary debate in Atlanta
, Nov 20, 2019
Keep families together; end solitary confinement
I made a decision to become a prosecutor for two reasons. One, I've always wanted to protect people and keep them safe. And second, I was born knowing about how this criminal justice system in America has worked in a way that has been informed by
racial bias. I created one of the first in the nation requirements that a state law enforcement agency would have to wear cameras and keep them on full-time.If I was going to reform the system, I would do it from the inside.
So I took on the position that allowed me to create one of the first in the nation initiatives around people who were arrested for drugs and getting them jobs.
My plan is about making sure that, in America's criminal justice system, we de-incarcerate women and children, that we end solitary confinement and that we work on keeping families intact.
Source: September Democratic Primary debate in Houston
, Sep 12, 2019
Keep families together; end solitary confinement
I made a decision to become a prosecutor for two reasons. One, I've always wanted to protect people and keep them safe. And second, I was born knowing about how this criminal justice system in America has worked in a way that has been informed by
racial bias. I created one of the first in the nation requirements that a state law enforcement agency would have to wear cameras and keep them on full-time.If I was going to reform the system, I would do it from the inside.
So I took on the position that allowed me to create one of the first in the nation initiatives around people who were arrested for drugs and getting them jobs.
My plan is about making sure that, in America's criminal justice system, we de-incarcerate women and children, that we end solitary confinement and that we work on keeping families intact.
Source: September Democratic Primary debate in Houston
, Sep 12, 2019
Supports broad paid family and medical leave plans
Harris supports broad paid family and medical leave plans.15 CANDIDATES HAVE SIMILAR VIEWS: Michael Bennet; Cory Booker; Peter Buttigieg; Julian Castro; John Delaney; Tulsi Gabbard; Kirsten Gillibrand; John Hickenlooper;
Jay Inslee; Amy Klobuchar; Seth Moulton; Beto O`Rourke; Tim Ryan; Bernard Sanders; Elizabeth Warren.
The congressional plan creates a universal, gender-neutral, national paid family and medical leave program allowing for up to 12 weeks of paid leave.
Source: Politico "2020Dems on the Issues"
, Jul 17, 2019
Sanctuary for prostituted youth so they can escape pimps
[In San Francisco in 2000] one of our priorities was creating a safe place for prostituted youth to get love and support and treatment. I knew from years of experience that the survivors we were trying to help usually had nowhere to go. People often
wondered why it was that exploited kids picked up by the police would go right back to the pimps who "took care of them." It didn't seem so strange to me--where else were these kids able to turn? Our task force proposed establishing a safe house for
sexually exploited youth--a sanctuary that would offer substance abuse and mental health treatment; the resources needed to get back to school; and a network of support to keep vulnerable young people safe, healthy, and on track. We advocated for
funding to create the safe house as well as to run a public education campaign.
To our delight, the board of supervisors adopted and funded our recommendations. We were able to rescue scores of runaways within the first couple of years.
Source: The Truths We Hold, by Kamala Harris, p.35-6
, Jan 8, 2019
Shut down brothels masquerading as massage parlors
[In S.F. in 2000] I spent two years at the city attorney's office. I started by co-founding a task force to study the issues of sexually exploited youth. We believed it was important to disrupt the network of brothels masquerading as massage parlors,
where so many people were being sexually exploited, so we asked the board of supervisors to direct law enforcement to investigate them.
[After S.F. funded a task force on prostitution], law enforcement shut down nearly three dozen brothels in the city.
Source: The Truths We Hold, by Kamala Harris, p.36
, Jan 8, 2019
2004: Performed same-sex marriage despite state ban
In the year 2000, California voters approved a ballot initiative--Prop 22--that required the state to define marriage as a union between people of the opposite sex. For years we fought it.During Valentine's Day week in 2004, then-San Francisco mayor
Gavin Newsom decided to allow marriages for same-sex couples to proceed anyway.
around the block, waiting to get in. They were counting down the minutes before a government would finally recognize their right to marry whomever they loved. The joy and anticipation were palpable. Some of them had been waiting decades.
I got out of my car and walked up the steps of City Hall, where I bumped into a city official. "Kamala, come and help us," she said, a glowing smile on her face. "We need more people to perform the marriages." I was delighted to be a part of it.
Source: The Truths We Hold, by Kamala Harris, p.111
, Jan 8, 2019
Punish parents of chronically truant kids
She championed a statewide version of an anti-truancy law she had put in place in San Francisco that threatened parents of chronically truant children with as much as a $2,000 fine and a year in jail. By Oct. 2012, two mothers had been imprisoned
under the law. "We are putting parents on notice," she said in her inaugural speech as attorney general. "If you fail in your responsibility to your kids, we are going to work to make sure you face the full force and consequences of the law."
Source: Jacobin Magazine on 2018 California Senate race
, Aug 10, 2017
Served as attorney in Division on Children and Families
Attorney General Harris began her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, where she specialized in prosecuting child sexual assault cases. In 1998, she joined the San Francisco District Attorney's
Office, where she led the Career Criminal Unit. She also served as the head of the San Francisco City Attorney's Division on Children and Families.
Source: 2016 Senate campaign website, KamalaHarris.org
, Apr 1, 2015
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