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Flores, Dora From: Ramon Campos <ramon@undergroundgrit.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2024 7:05 PM To: eComment Subject: Agenda item 21 Attention: This email originated from outside of City of Santa Ana. Use caution when opening attachments or links. Hood evening, My name is Ramon Campos. I am a resident of Santa Ana and a staff member of Underground GRIT. Underground GRIT is a reentry service program that works with currently incarcerated people, formerly incarcerated people, foster care youth, and systems impacted people from across Orange County including Santa Ana. We are here to defend prop 47 and to oppose agenda item 21. Prop 47 has successfully reduced Californias reliance on harmful and costly incarceration while providing critical resources to those that need them most. Today fewer Californians cycle through jails and prisons for low level offenses. This keeps families and communities intact while saving the state and counties nearly $1 billion since 2014. The money that has been saved in turn has funded k-12 public schools, housing programs, drug treatment programs, and funds organizations like Project Kinship and Neutral grounds, organizations who's funding will be slashed if prop 36 were to pass. I hope the council truly believes in providing second chances and truly believes that all people are capable of developing into their best selves. I ask the council to vote no on agenda item 21 and oppose prop 36. Thank you. Ramon Campos I Case Manager Underground GRIT 1914 West Orangewood Avenue, Suite 101 Orange Ca, 92868 C: 714-867-3338 www.under rg ound ritg.org o 0 "The information contained in this electronic message is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or taking any action in reliance on the content of this information is strictly prohibited." "If you have received this copy in error, immediately notify the sender by e-mail and delete the information from your system." (Welfare and Institutions Code, Section 5328)