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Resident Haren Hers alleges board suppressed public testimony, raises concerns about Alameda homeless-services funds
Summary
Resident Haren Hers told the board she was cut off at a prior meeting, that her public comments were omitted from the official minutes and that she has raised concerns about “millions of dollars” unaccounted for in homeless services contracts; the board ended her three-minute statement and did not ask follow-up questions.
Haren Hers, a longtime Alameda resident who identified herself at the meeting as a former educator and a person who has experienced homelessness, used the public-comment period to accuse the Social Service & Human Relations Board of cutting off her remarks at a prior meeting and omitting her comments from the official minutes.
"When a board omits public testimony from the official record, it effectively erases a resident's attempt to alert a city advisory body to potential harm occurring under municipal contracts," Hers said, adding she had raised "documented concerns about the well‑being of…
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