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San Francisco sued over reparations fund, accused of unlawful use of taxpayer money
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San Francisco is being sued over its reparations fund on grounds that its taxpayer money is being “unlawfully” used for a policy that allegedly violates the equal protection clause.
According to the Pacific Legal Foundation, several San Francisco residents and Californians for Equal Rights Foundation sued San Francisco Thursday, challenging an ordinance that establishes a fund for Black residents.
The lawsuit alleges that the ordinance is discriminating on the basis of race because it allows taxpayer money to be funneled into the fund. The plaintiffs said a win would protect taxpayers from supporting a government-based racially motivated program and establish boundaries for other cities implementing similar policies.
The San Francisco skyline April 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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“Acknowledging past injustice does not give the government license to spend public resources on programs that sort people by race and ancestry today,” said Andrew Quinio, an attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation.
“The Constitution requires the city to address proven harm directly, not through sweeping racial and ancestral classifications. This lawsuit is about ensuring that all Americans are treated as individuals under the law and not forced to subsidize government policies that collectively bind them to history that they did not experience or inflict.”
San Francisco officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
The mayor of San Francisco signed an ordinance that creates a reparations fund that could one day grant each of the city’s eligible Black residents up to $5 million in reparations for alleged historic discrimination and displacement.
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The mayor of San Francisco signed an ordinance that creates a reparations fund that could one day grant each of the city’s eligible Black residents up to $5 million in reparations for alleged historic discrimination and displacement. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
The ordinance, passed by the Board of Supervisors in December, was signed by Democratic Mayor Daniel Lurie two days before Christmas. It establishes the legal framework for the fund but does not allocate funds or guarantee payments. The fund can be financed with private donations, foundations and other non-city sources. Any taxpayer-funded reparations payouts would require separate legislation, an identified funding source and mayoral approval.
However, Lurie told Fox News Digital that no taxpayer money would be paid into the potential pot, citing the city’s $1 billion budget deficit.
“I was elected to drive San Francisco’s recovery, and that’s what I’m focused on every day,” Lurie said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “We are not allocating money to this fund. With a historic $1 billion budget deficit, we are going to spend our money on making the city safer and cleaner.”
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“The Reparations Plan outlines a variety of methods to provide restitution, compensation and rehabilitation to individuals who are Black and/or descendants of a chattel enslaved person and have experienced a proven harm in San Francisco,” the ordinance says.
The plaintiffs allege a “misuse of government power” as the city’s Human Rights Commission administers the program.
According to the Pacific Legal Foundation, several San Francisco residents and Californians for Equal Rights Foundation sued San Francisco on Thursday, challenging an ordinance that establishes a fund for Black residents. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
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According to the complaint, “By directing an agency funded almost entirely by taxpayer dollars to administer funding solely dedicated to implement race-exclusive benefits, the city is using public money, public employees, and public authority to carry out an unconstitutional racial spoils system that allocates benefits and opportunities based on race and ancestry.”
“Taxpayer funds cannot be used to manage the assets of an unlawful program,” Quinio said in a statement to Courthouse News.
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AI in Las Vegas: OpenAI leader visits CSN to discuss AI workforce training, Vegas-based AI consultant releases new book
LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — The chief global affairs officer of OpenAI visited the College of Southern Nevada Friday to connect with students and local leaders on the future of artificial intelligence.
Chris Lehane joined lawmakers on stage at CSN, speaking to students about AI’s growing impact.
“Right now, we are in a moment of transition,” Lehane said. “Today in the world, there’s nearly a billion people who use chat on a regular basis. Here in Nevada, it’s almost a million people who use it on a regular basis.”
Lehane said the technology creates economic opportunities by lowering barriers to entry.
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“We need to get these tools into all of your hands, and we need to work to teach you how to use it, because it lowers barriers to entry and produces incredible economic opportunity,” he said.
AI development in Nevada
Lehane said there are about 4,900 developers in Nevada building businesses using AI technology.
CSN began offering an artificial intelligence certificate and degree program last fall to keep up with job market demands.
Throughout the day Friday, OpenAI hosted training sessions designed to help faculty, students and small businesses learn how to use AI tools like ChatGPT. The goal is to grow and scale the partnership between the school and the AI company in the months ahead.
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Las Vegas-based author Michael Schrenk has been building computer systems since the 1970s and just wrote a book called “Structured Prompts” to teach people how to speak to AI.
“When most of us start using chat bots, we’re encouraged to use just plain normal English,” Schrenk said. “There are limitations with that. The limitations are that English is very nuanced.”
Schrenk said an economy built on service workers like Las Vegas is less vulnerable to losing jobs to AI.
“Most of the things you do on the Strip or wherever, you’re interacting with a person,” he said. “And in most of those cases, I don’t think it’d be possible to interface… with a machine, nor do I think people would want to… AI can’t clean your hotel room.”
Data center concerns
Schrenk also spoke about AI data centers and the push to build them across the country to service growing demand, including a proposal to build one in Boulder City.
“The reality is that nobody wants a data center in their backyard,” he said. “They’re noisy. They take a lot of power, so they’re going to raise everybody’s utility rates. Plus, they take up a lot of space, but they don’t employ a lot of people.”
Schrenk predicts about half of proposed data centers are already not going to be built, and suspects fewer will be built in the future.
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