Guest host, Christina Aanestad, discusses the federal governments end of year spending spree ($5 million on lobster and crab and $673,000 on golf carts) and what closing down San Francisco’s juvenile hall could look like.
In our first hour, guest, Adam Andrzejewski, founder and CEO of Open the Books discusses their new report, “The Federal Governments Use-It-Or-Lose-It Spending Spree,” which details the $97 billion dollar spending that took place in September 2018–the last month of the fiscal year. The largest spender was the Department of Defense at $61 billion dollars.
In the second hour, three guests discuss a proposal to close San Francisco’s juvenile hall. Supervisor Shamann Walton is sponsoring legislation that is backed by a super majority of supervisors to close San Francisco’s juvenile hall, amidst a San Francisco Chronicle report that youth incarceration rates have plummeted in the last 20 years. Walton joins us in conversation with Kera Gomez of the Young Women’s Freedom Center and Mike Males with the Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice to discuss the low rates of juvenile incarceration, what shutting down the city’s juvenile hall looks like and what to replace it with.