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Rules Committee forwards Teshia Naidu for Sentencing Commission seat, grants residency waiver
Summary
The Rules Committee voted July 19 to forward the mayoral appointment of Teshia Naidu to the San Francisco Sentencing Commission and to waive the residency requirement; two applicants were considered and supervisors flagged the commission's need for gender balance and sentencing expertise.
Teshia Naidu, an attorney with the Drug Policy Alliance, won committee backing July 19 to be forwarded to the full Board of Supervisors for appointment to a seat on the San Francisco Sentencing Commission, and the committee agreed to waive the usual residency requirement.
In a two-candidate hearing, Naidu told the Rules Committee she has worked on drug policy reform and criminal-justice issues at state and local levels, and said racial disparities in enforcement remain stark: "African Americans are 19 times more likely to be…
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