华人青年社会创新和公益团体总结在全球疫情下的杰出贡献与观察

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华人青年社会创新和公益团体总结在全球疫情下的杰出贡献与观察

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（AACYF）6月8日华盛顿/洛杉矶 – “世界青年在全球疫情下的杰出贡献与观察”国际视讯研讨会6月6日晚在美国首都华盛顿、洛杉矶、北京等地同步举行。来自知名华人青年社会创新和公益组织的十余位重量级嘉宾共同探讨杰出青年理想所在，疫情期间各自的职责与义务，以及对未来的规划和对世界的认知。

南加州大学社会创业研究生毕业，现任职华盛顿知名影响力投资基金担任影响力分析师。SEED社会创新种子社区Thought研究组成员，他分享了在新冠疫情研究中，与志愿者共投入2000多个小时撰写的12万字疫情研究报告。为与会嘉宾提供了一个宏观的研究背景，来阐释中国青年在世界各地，为抗击全球疫情所做出的贡献与观察。他同时分析了志愿者活动的初衷，坚定帮助他人、服务社会的决心。

哈佛大学法学院研究生毕业，现在洛杉矶从事律师工作的谭君子，2020年2月参与创办天使守护慈善基金会（GoA Foundation）并出任执行总裁，此前她在武汉封城当天发起成立北美华人捐物小组援鄂抗疫。她在主题演讲中分享了新冠疫情期间创办两个组织的初衷。GoA Foundation自2020年2月至今，共募集440万美元的医疗物资和资金支援中美两地的前线医护人员和急救医疗机构，捐助国内多位一线抗疫医务工作者和美国16个州的71家医疗机构。她组织的北美华人捐物小组在42天内累计运送50吨医疗物资覆盖中国湖北省100多家一线医院。

君子后半段的分享更是结合自己的家庭教育、学校教育和社会经历三个层次，剖析自己的出发点和落脚点，为青年提供如何“承担社会责任、成为时代先锋、做出杰出贡献”的方法论。
伊利诺伊大学香槟分校硕士毕业的吕玺劼，2018年加入亚洲开发银行(ADB)。作为亚开行的中国职员协会理事成员在疫情期间参与协调帮助中菲灾区募捐抗疫。他介绍了参与亚开行（ADB）为49个成员国提供医疗设备、财政支持，也有精准帮助防疫弱势群体的工作。
全美中华青年联合会会长任向东，华人青年、留学生团体在美国各地投入抗击疫情的公益活动中做出了不可或缺的积极贡献。这个研讨会是第一个为中国青年参与全球抗疫的活动从社会学层面的分析和总结，意义重大。

毕业于南加州大学的子知教育创始人，子知教育文化沙龙系列活动策划者曾天赐在总结发言中表示，举办这系列活动，希望能促进不同领域优秀青年之间的交流，碰撞思想的火花，拓展自己的视野。“当我们中国青年在世界各地积极进取，国家就有前途，民族就有希望”。

参与当天研讨会的还有就职于世界银行集团总部王靖穗；美国航空航天局“与星同在”(NASA Living With a Star)项目首席科学家李金星博士；目前在美国华盛顿的国际食物政策研究所工作的高琳；“只为你进步”公益教育组织创始人邓杨；哥伦比亚大学教育学硕士毕业、子知教育青少年发展规划导师，“十年一剑”全球系列研学项目总策划温钧茹等。
当天的研讨会由子知教育发起主办、天使守护基金、全美中华青年联合会、社会创新种子社区（SEED）、“只为你进步”基金会等机构参与合作支持。            

波士頓市已有200家餐廳可戶外待客 華埠內尚無店獲准

           (Boston Orange) 麻州恢復開放進入第二階段，波士頓市市長馬丁華殊(Martin J. Walsh)今(10)日表示，已有500家餐廳遞交了臨時戶外用餐的快速批准申請，目前已有200家獲批。

           數週前，波士頓市已推出計畫要讓沒有庭院的餐廳能夠擴張到人行道上，或者甚至街上，來提供新鮮餐飲，期以抑制COVID-19的傳播，或者讓顧客感到更安全，也幫助那些面對室內用餐限制的餐廳有點生意。

           馬丁華殊說，波士頓市已為想要做這類擴張的餐廳、食肆設計了加快批准手續，也免除了牌照費。波士頓市牌照局上個月已暫時取消在戶外空間”酒品必須與食物一起出售”的全市規定。

           馬丁華殊表示，從社區裡的小餐廳到城中區的大餐館，市府已收到約500份申請表。大約有200家已獲得全權批准獲，或有條件的批准。

           已經獲得批准的餐廳，可立即開始在餐館所在地或其停車場的戶外空間，開始營業，並且一直開門到晚上10點為止，週末時，營業時間可以延長到晚上11點。

           餐廳必須遵守一些基本規定，包括戶外的桌子必須彼此距離6英尺，一同用餐的人不得多於6人。工作人員必須戴面罩，顧客在坐下用餐之前也必須臉部蒙著。

          馬丁華殊說，波士頓市的北端(North End)餐館密集，做法有點不同，週四才能開始戶外用餐。

           他說，波市府會在網上張貼所有獲得批准的餐館名單。他以波市府曾實施的小公園(parklets)為例，稱有意經營戶外供餐的餐廳，可以把停車位或人行道暫時轉作用餐區。有些街道可以封一段路，然後把那兒變成餐廳空間。

           波士頓市府指出，市長馬丁華殊在5月26日時宣佈了600萬元的免償還補助款，用於協助市內小企業健康、安全的恢復營業。若加上市府，聯邦政府，以及私人企業提供的資助，波市府總共為受COVID-19影響的小企業，提供了1350萬元補助。

           根據波市府提供的已獲批准戶外營業餐廳名單，波士頓華埠內還未有任何一家餐廳獲得批准，但位於芬紐廣場 Chatham 街65號的"香港餐廳(Hong Kong at Faneuil Hall)”，以及華埠鄰近南街(South St.)上的 Troquet，Kitchen Cafe，以及夏日街(Summer St.)上的La Cancun，位於華盛頓街1595號，由華裔餐飲名人張安柔開設的Flour   Bakery+ Cafe已獲批准。

昆士市發給376家小企業250萬元補助款

$2.5M IN SMALL BUSINESS EMERGENCY GRANTS AWARDED

June 9, 2020 QUINCY, MA - Mayor Thomas P. Koch and the Department of Planning & Community Development are pleased to announce that the City’s Small Business Emergency Grant Program has awarded 376 small business owners with a combined total of nearly $2.5M in grant funds to help pay for rent, mortgage, and other operating expenses during this time  of need.The program was funded through an appropriation authorized by Congress under the CARES Act, with almost $1.1M coming from the Community Development Block Grant program, which is administered by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).The Small Business Grant Program was established and launched by Mayor Koch on April 30 to assist  in the stabilization of existing small businesses within the City that have had significant business disruption due to the impact of COVID-19. Applications were accepted through May 15, and checks were mailed to grant recipients this past Friday, June 5. These grant funds will assist small  businesses in the City to cover the unexpected loss in revenue due to the State’s mandate to close all  but essential businesses during the height of the pandemic.“Small businesses are truly the economic engine in our great City and across the country,” said Mayor Koch. “I am  truly grateful to Congressman Stephen Lynch for his support in making these federal funds available in Quincy, and I hope these grants are able to provide local businesses with some level of financial relief as we work together to fully reopen the economy.

MAYOR WALSH, OFFICE OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT DEVOTE $2.4 MILLION IN NEIGHBORHOOD JOBS TRUST FUNDS TO EMERGENCY WORKFORCE SUPPORT, TECH TRAINING FOR RESIDENTS

MAYOR WALSH, OFFICE OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT DEVOTE $2.4 MILLION IN NEIGHBORHOOD JOBS TRUST FUNDS TO EMERGENCY WORKFORCE SUPPORT, TECH TRAINING FOR RESIDENTS  Distributed funds will address the needs of Boston's workforce impacted by COVID-19

BOSTON - Wednesday, June 10, 2020 - Mayor Martin J. Walsh and the Mayor's Office of Workforce Development today announced the dedication of $2.4 million in Neighborhood Jobs Trust (NJT) funds to address the pressing needs of Boston's workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic. These needs include educational and financial support for college students, remote learning assistance for English language learners, re-training for hospitality and restaurant workers who lost jobs due to the pandemic, and continued funding for community-based organizations that are crucial to Boston's long-term economic recovery. The NJT funds will also support training programs to help job-seekers enter tech sector job openings as cybersecurity analysts, computer support specialists, application developers, IT business analysts, and network field engineers. "Supporting our students, workers, and community-based organizations that are re-training our workforce to be ready for the economy post-COVID-19 is crucial for Boston's equitable, long-term recovery," said Mayor Walsh. "Leveraging funding from new development to invest in job training and job placement was our priority before COVID-19, and it will continue to be a priority so that we can help all of residents have opportunities to succeed."  The Neighborhood Jobs Trust is a public charitable trust that funds education and job training programs for low- and middle-income Boston residents. The Trust is replenished by linkage fees paid by developers of large-scale commercial projects in Boston. Since 2014, new development approved by the Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA) is generating over $75 million in linkage fees, with $61.6 million to support affordable housing and $13.5 million to support job training.  Since the start of the pandemic, NJT has issued more than $500,000 in emergency grants to nonprofit organizations that provide front-line support to Boston's workforce. For example, BEST Hospitality Training - which traditionally trains workers for Boston's hotel industry - is pivoting to train job-seekers for environmental services positions in healthcare settings. Another nonprofit, Tech Goes Home, is using NJT funds to help adult education and ESOL English programs transition to remote learning by providing technical training to instructors and laptops to students.  "During the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen how quickly low wage work, language barriers and historic systems of exclusion have exacerbated income inequality in our communities and neighborhood," said Lisette Le, executive director of VietAID, an emergency grant recipient. "As our organization responded to addressing basic needs - food insecurity, support with unemployment - with support from NJT, we also saw it as an opportunity to provide workforce training to those who were unemployed and underemployed because of COVID-19." NJT has also devoted nearly $30,000 to an emergency fund for Tuition-Free Community College (TFCC) Plan students struggling to continue their spring semester due to financial or educational challenges brought on by the pandemic. Approximately half of all TFCC students applied for support to help with college completion. Nearly two-thirds of the applicants indicated that they or their family had experienced a loss of income due to COVID-19. "I am super thankful and blessed for the emergency funds that I received because it helped me finish up this semester when I didn't think I could," said Shayne Clinton, a student at Bunker Hill Community College. Last year, NJT funded 23 community-based organizations that provide low-income Boston residents with job training and support services. The Trust is committing $1.27 million to level-fund these programs in order to support their work, stabilize their budgets, and ensure they can continue to serve the City's growing number of job-seekers. This year, the Trust is distributing more than $550,000 to 12 organizations that will train residents for careers in the tech sector, Boston's second largest industry. The programs, selected through an open Request for Proposals (RFP) process this spring, employ unique designs to confer particular technical training. Resilient Coders, for example, teaches software development skills to low-income people of color in a coding bootcamp environment that emphasizes communication, collaboration, and networking. Another grantee, Apprenti, prepares tech trainees from under-represented populations for paid, registered apprenticeships with local employers.  "This funding from the Neighborhood Jobs Trust will provide the opportunity to train more Black and Brown young adults as full stack software developers and connect them with tech jobs in which the average starting salary of our last class was $98,200," said David Delmar, executive director of Resilient Coders. "The Trust's funding will significantly impact the lives of Black and Brown men and women and their families, and help reduce Boston's income inequality."  A comprehensive list of NJT tech training grantees can be found below.    FY21 NJT Tech Training Grantees Organization Funding Program Description Apprenti $85,562 Technical training culminating in registered IT/technology apprenticeships with employer partners CodeSquad $90,000 Training program focused on software development Fenway Community Development Corporation $25,000 Recruitment program to connect job fair attendees who have tech-related skills to ongoing training programs Mayor's Office of Returning Citizens $25,000 Training in the QuickBase database application for individuals returning from incarceration Mujeres Unidas Avanzando $25,000 Training in desktop support for English language learners Per Scholas $92,000 Computer service technician training program leading to CompTIA A+ and Network+ certifications Resilient Coders $95,000 Coding bootcamp that recruits people of color and people who identify as female/non-binary Roxbury Community College $20,000 Training in green building maintenance technology St. Mary's Center for Women and Children $25,000 Technology training component for Women@Work, a job readiness program for women with multiple barriers to employment STRIVE program of BPS and Wentworth Institute of Technology $25,000 Technology training for young adults with disabilities Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts $50,000 Training in software development and web development  ###

Governor Baker Files COVID-19 Data Collection Bill

Governor Baker Files COVID-19 Data Collection Bill

BOSTON – Governor Charlie Baker has filed “An Act to Ensure the Collection of COVID-19 Data,” which will build on legislation recently signed by the governor to expand data collection during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Throughout the pandemic, our administration has continued to expand the information that is made available daily to the public, and this bill will build on the legislation recently passed by the Legislature to further increase data collection by the Department of Public Health,” said Governor Charlie Baker. “COVID-19 has taken a tremendous toll on the residents of the Commonwealth, and has disproportionately impacted certain populations including communities of color and older residents. We have moved to file this bill quickly to ensure that entities are required to report to DPH in a timely way, and look forward to working with the Legislature to pass these updates to help further address the health disparities affecting these communities.”

“This bill will help further enhance the data our administration publishes daily to inform the public about the impact of COVID-19 within the Commonwealth,” said Lt. Governor Karyn Polito. “We know that some communities have disproportionately felt the impact of this terrible virus, and we will continue to work with the Legislature to address these issues.”

Click here to read the filing letter

Click here to read the legislation

This week, Governor Baker signed “An Act Addressing COVID-19 Data Collection and Disparities in Treatment,” which will allow for the collection and publication of additional data to understand the impact of COVID-19 on underserved and underrepresented populations and other groups.

The bill filed by Governor Baker proposes several updates to this law to ensure the timely reporting of information to the Department of Public Health (DPH).

The quality of the data reported by the Department is entirely dependent on the quality and completeness of the data that is submitted by health care providers and laboratories. While the newly passed law makes clear that DPH is required to collect data on COVID-19 cases and patient demographics, it does not codify the providers’ and laboratories’ responsibility to timely and completely report this data to the department. The governor’s legislation amends the reporting law to make this responsibility clear, and to give DPH the power to issue fines if providers do not comply.

The recently passed bill also requires that a list of designated elder care facilities report COVID-19 data about their residents and staff. While it makes sense to collect this data from the facilities that have access to their residents’ health information, like nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities, this law also imposes this obligation on housing complexes and rental units that merely offer housing to the elderly. The governor’s legislation proposes to remove this requirement due to privacy considerations and concerns over the quality of data available from these entities.

The governor’s bill also includes an amendment that would allow the Department to aggregate the data where not doing so would violate federal law or an individuals’ privacy right.

Baker-Polito Administration Visits Lawrence to Tour New Balance’s PPE Production Line

Baker-Polito Administration Visits Lawrence to Tour New Balance’s PPE Production Line

LAWRENCE — Today, Governor Charlie Baker and Lt. Governor Karyn Polito joined New Balance chairman Jim Davis for a tour of New Balance’s Lawrence factory, a facility that has helped the company produce more than 1 million masks in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency. The tour highlighted the company’s face mask models, including a new version being rolled out to consumers in the coming weeks, and a new surgical mask model for frontline health care workers.

Nearly 100 New Balance employees are manufacturing products at the factory and a nearby distribution center in Lawrence, an effort which began in late March with the production of general-use face masks. The company has been supported by the Massachusetts Manufacturing Emergency Team (M-ERT), which provided support around regulations and labeling for medical equipment, as well as feedback on the demand for personal protective equipment (PPE), which has risen greatly since the M-ERT’s establishment in early March. The M-ERT is a coordinated effort comprised of members from academia, industry and government to address the urgent need for PPE to support health care workers on the front lines of Massachusetts’ COVID-19 response.

“As the Commonwealth continues its fight against coronavirus, face coverings will remain critical to supporting public health,” said Governor Baker. “Our Administration remains committed to partnering with local companies such as New Balance to ensure there is a reliable supply of PPE to protect frontline workers and the general public.”     

“With millions of pieces of PPE already produced by participating companies, M-ERT has played a key role in the gradual reopening of Massachusetts,” said Lt. Governor Polito. “We are thankful to New Balance and the other M-ERT companies that have leveraged this program to shift to the production of life-saving gear and supplies.”

New Balance was directly assisted by experts from the M-ERT team, including Ben Linville-Engler from MIT’s System Design & Management Group and Haden Quinlan from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE), who hosted bi-weekly meetings with the company to confer over the regulatory environment for medical products, connect the company to testing resources, and deliver information regarding the demand and need for certain types of PPE. Another M-ERT expert, Dr. Michael Rein, the Senior Product Engineer at Advanced Functional Fabrics of America, provided critical guidance around product testing.

Starting today, New Balance will make available a new general-use face mask for the public, called the ‘NB Face Mask V3,’ a three-layer, lightweight and breathable, non-sterile physical barrier face mask with a moldable nose piece. In addition to the masks produced directly by New Balance, the company has also repaired straps on 50,000 N95 respirator masks for Brigham & Women’s Hospital, enabling them to be used by their medical staff.

Today’s tour featured several prototypes the company is looking to produce, including a disposable, 3D-printed stethoscope. In addition to founder Jim Davis, the Governor and Lt. Governor were joined by several New Balance leaders who highlighted the production teams making the masks, including: Joe Preston, President & CEO of New Balance; Dave Wheeler, Chief Operating Officer; and Kevin McCoy, Vice President of Made Product Development & Manufacturing.

“The incredible passion, industrial R&D ability and innovative thinking of our associates combined with our New England manufacturing resources enabled us to pivot quickly to produce PPE for frontline workers and health care facilities facing the COVID-19 health crisis,” said Joe Preston, President & CEO of New Balance. “We applaud the Baker-Polito Administration for establishing a strong and highly-engaged Manufacturing Emergency Response Team that has provided us with meaningful and expert guidance throughout our journey.”

“We are incredibly proud and humbled to do our part to help so many in our health care community by producing more than one million masks in the past two months,” said Dave Wheeler, Chief Operating Officer of New Balance. “We are thankful that the innovative thinking of our associates, our long history of domestic manufacturing and the work of our highly skilled teams in our factories have allowed us to quickly adapt to help meet the immense mask needs of the health care community, and now the general public.”

New Balance is one of the Massachusetts manufacturers featured on a new website launched by the MassTech Collaborative that profiles nearly 20 Massachusetts manufacturers that have shifted operations to produce critical PPE and other materials. The M-ERT effort is being managed by MassTech, the quasi-public economic development agency that oversees advanced manufacturing programs for the Commonwealth, and was devised as an emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Nearly 750 companies from around the world have submitted their interest to the M-ERT, including nearly 450 from Massachusetts. Of those, 27 companies have made it through the program, producing 4 million pieces of PPE and other critical materials to date.

Immunic, Inc. Announces U.S. Food and Drug Administration Allowance of its Phase 2, CALVID-1 Clinical Trial of IMU-838 in COVID-19

Immunic, Inc. Announces U.S. Food and Drug Administration Allowance of its Phase 2, CALVID-1 Clinical Trial of IMU-838 in COVID-19

NEW YORK, June 9, 2020 – Immunic, Inc. (Nasdaq: IMUX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing best-in-class, oral therapies for the treatment of chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, today announced receipt of regulatory allowance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate its phase 2, CALVID-1 clinical trial of IMU-838, the company’s selective oral DHODH inhibitor, in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at centers in the United States.

CALVID-1 received regulatory allowance from the German health authority, BfArM (Bundesinstitut für Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte), on May 13, 2020 and has subsequently also received regulatory allowance in other European countries involved in the study. It is a prospective, multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trial in patients with moderate COVID-19, designed to evaluate efficacy, safety and tolerability of IMU-838. Top-line data is expected to be available later this year.

For more information on this clinical trial, please visit: www.clinicaltrials.gov, NCT04379271.

Michelle Wu hosts hearing on banning use of face surveillance tech

Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu Hosts Hearing Today On Ordinance Banning City Government Use Of Face Surveillance Technology; Tomorrow Will File 17F Order To Request Information Regarding Boston Police Department's Military Equipment 

Boston, MA—  Today, the Boston City Council will host a hearing on the proposed ordinance banning city government use of face surveillance technology introduced by Councilors Michelle Wu and Ricardo Arroyo. The ordinance is the first of its kind offered in Boston.

The face surveillance ban would prevent city agencies from using face surveillance software, ensuring that people are not subject to unregulated, mass surveillance in public spaces. As protests against police brutality continue, the need to prohibit face surveillance is particularly important to protect freedom of speech and privacy, and advance racial justice.

Banning face surveillance is a part of Councilor Wu’s greater push to demilitarize the police force. At tomorrow’s Boston City Council meeting, Councilor Wu will formally introduce a 17F order to require the Mayor to provide information on the police department’s equipment, tactics, and training, as well as documentation on what was deployed during recent protests. 

The order seeks a comprehensive inventory of all Boston Police Department (BPD) equipment and resources that could reasonably fall under the definition of ‘militarized,’ including but not limited to armored personnel carriers and other armored vehicles, assault rifles, submachine guns, sniper rifles, flashbang grenades and grenade launchers, Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT)/Rapid Response Team (RRT) resources, and other weapons of war, as well as acquisition cost and method.

Today’s hearing will be hosted by ordinance sponsors Boston City Councilors Michelle Wu and Ricardo Arroyo and Committee Chair Councilor Lydia Edwards focusing on banning city government use of face surveillance technology and a companion ordinance to bring transparency, accountability, and oversight to the City’s use of surveillance technology more broadly, and to protect student privacy.

At Wednesday’s Boston City Council Meeting, Councilor Michelle Wu will  introduce 17F ordinance to request information from the City of Boston on the department’s heavy-duty equipment and how it was deployed during recent protests. 

Both today’s hearing and tomorrow’s city council meeting will be livestreamed at this link: https://www.boston.gov/departments/city-council/watch-boston-city-council-tv

Read the full face surveillance ban ordinance here and the surveillance oversight and information sharing ordinance here. Read the full 17F Boston Police data request here. 

OFFERED BY COUNCILORS MICHELLE WU AND RICARDO ARROYO  

  
CITY OF BOSTON IN CITY COUNCIL   ORDINANCE BANNING FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY IN BOSTON 

WHEREAS, Governments around the world are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with an unprecedented use of surveillance tools, including face surveillance technology, despite public health and privacy experts agreeing that public trust is essential to an effective response to the pandemic; ​and  
 WHEREAS, Facial surveillance technology has been proven to be less accurate for African American and AAPI faces, and racial bias in facial surveillance has the potential to harm communities of color who are already facing increased levels of surveillance and harassment; ​and 
 WHEREAS, Several municipalities in Massachusetts, including Springfield, Somerville, Brookline, and Cambridge, have passed local legislation to ban face surveillance; NOW ​ THEREFORE ​ BE ​ IT ​ ORDERED ​ ,  
 That the following shall take effect immediately upon passage: 

(a) DEFINITIONS 1. “​Face surveillance” ​ shall mean an automated or semi-automated process that assists in identifying or verifying an individual, or in capturing information about an individual, based on the physical characteristics of an individual’s face.  2. “Face surveillance system” ​ shall mean any computer software or application that performs face surveillance.  3. “Boston” ​ shall mean any department, agency, bureau, and/or subordinate division of the City of Boston.  4. “Boston official” ​ shall mean any person or entity acting on behalf of the City of Boston, including any officer, employee, agent, contractor, subcontractor, or vendor. 

(b) BAN ON CITY USE OF FACE SURVEILLANCE 
1. It shall be unlawful for Boston or any Boston official to:  a. obtain, retain, possess, access, or use (i) any face surveillance system, or (ii) information derived from a face surveillance system;  b. enter into an agreement with any third party for the purpose of obtaining, retaining, possessing, accessing, or using, by or on behalf of Boston or any Boston official any face surveillance system; or  c. issue any permit or enter into any other agreement that authorizes any third party to obtain, retain, possess, access, or use (i) any face surveillance system, or (ii) information derived from a face surveillance system 

2. Nothing in (b)(1) shall prohibit Boston or any Boston official from:  a. using evidence relating to the investigation of a specific crime that may have been generated from a face surveillance system; or b. obtaining or possessing (i) an electronic device, such as a cell phone or computer, for evidentiary purposes, or (ii) an electronic device, such as a cell phone or tablet, that performs face surveillance for the sole purpose of user authentication;  c. using face recognition on an electronic device, such as a cell phone or tablet, owned by Boston or by any Boston official, for the sole purpose of user authentication;  d. using social media or communications software or applications for communicating with the public, provided such use does not include the affirmative use of any face surveillance;  e. using automated redaction software, provided such software does not have the capability of performing face surveillance; or f. complying with the National Child Search Assistance Act.  

(c) ENFORCEMENT 1. Face surveillance data collected or derived in violation of this ordinance shall be considered unlawfully obtained and shall be deleted upon discovery, subject to applicable law.  2. No data collected or derived from any use of face surveillance in violation of this ordinance and no evidence derived therefrom may be received in evidence in any proceeding in or before any department, officer, agency, regulatory body, legislative committee, or authority subject to the jurisdiction of the City of Boston.  3. Any violation of this ordinance constitutes an injury and any person may institute proceedings for injunctive relief, declaratory relief, or writ of mandate in any 
court of competent jurisdiction to enforce this ordinance. An action instituted under this paragraph shall be brought against the respective City department, and the City and, if necessary to effectuate compliance with this ordinance, any other governmental agency with possession, custody, or control of data subject to this ordinance.  4. Violations of this ordinance by a City employee shall result in consequences that may include retraining, suspension, or termination, subject to due process requirements and provisions of collective bargaining agreements.  5. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit any individual’s rights under state or federal law.  


(d) SEVERABILITY  1. If any portion or provision of this ordinance is declared invalid or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction or by the Office of the Attorney General, the remaining provisions shall continue in full force and effect.    Filed on: May 6, 2020 

Joint Statement by SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin Regarding Enactment of the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act WASHINGTON –SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin issued the following statement today following the enactment of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Flexibility Act: “We want to thank President Trump for his leadership and commend Leader McConnell, Leader Schumer, Speaker Pelosi, and Leader McCarthy for working on a bipartisan basis to pass this legislation for small businesses participating in the Paycheck Protection Program. “We also want to express our gratitude to Chairman Rubio, Ranking Member Cardin, Senator Collins, Congressman Roy, Congressman Phillips, and other members of Congress who have helped to create and guide our implementation of this critical program that has provided over 4.5 million small business loans totaling more than $500 billion to ensure that approximately 50 million hardworking Americans stay connected to their jobs. “This bill will provide businesses with more time and flexibility to keep their employees on the payroll and ensure their continued operations as we safely reopen our country. “We look forward to getting the American people back to work as quickly as possible.” Upcoming Procedures SBA, in consultation with Treasury, will promptly issue rules and guidance, a modified borrower application form, and a modified loan forgiveness application implementing these legislative amendments to the PPP.  These modifications will implement the following important changes: Extend the covered period for loan forgiveness from eight weeks after the date of loan disbursement to 24 weeks after the date of loan disbursement, providing substantially greater flexibility for borrowers to qualify for loan forgiveness.  Borrowers who have already received PPP loans retain the option to use an eight-week covered period. Lower the requirements that 75 percent of a borrower’s loan proceeds must be used for payroll costs and that 75 percent of the loan forgiveness amount must have been spent on payroll costs during the 24-week loan forgiveness covered period to 60 percent for each of these requirements. If a borrower uses less than 60 percent of the loan amount for payroll costs during the forgiveness covered period, the borrower will continue to be eligible for partial loan forgiveness, subject to at least 60 percent of the loan forgiveness amount having been used for payroll costs. Provide a safe harbor from reductions in loan forgiveness based on reductions in full-time equivalent employees for borrowers that are unable to return to the same level of business activity the business was operating at before February 15, 2020, due to compliance with requirements or guidance issued between March 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020 by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, related to worker or customer safety requirements related to COVID–19. Provide a safe harbor from reductions in loan forgiveness based on reductions in full-time equivalent employees, to provide protections for borrowers that are both unable to rehire individuals who were employees of the borrower on February 15, 2020, and unable to hire similarly qualified employees for unfilled positions by December 31, 2020.  Increase to five years the maturity of PPP loans that are approved by SBA (based on the date SBA assigns a loan number) on or after June 5, 2020. Extend the deferral period for borrower payments of principal, interest, and fees on PPP loans to the date that SBA remits the borrower’s loan forgiveness amount to the lender (or, if the borrower does not apply for loan forgiveness, 10 months after the end of the borrower’s loan forgiveness covered period). In addition, the new rules will confirm that June 30, 2020, remains the last date on which a PPP loan application can be approved

波士頓經文處代表台灣送10萬片醫用口罩給羅德島州

左起：羅州眾議會代議長Brian Kennedy、波士頓經文處處長徐佑典、

羅州緊急事務管理署署長 Marc Pappas及羅州州長辦公室

資深顧問Michael Prescott。

(Boston Orange) 駐波士頓辦事處響應羅德島州州長雷萌朵(Gina Raimondo)的支援羅州醫護人員及中小企業呼籲，6月5日由處長徐佑典代表中華民國政府捐贈該州10萬片醫療用口罩。

羅州緊急事務管理署(RIEMA)署長Marc Pappas 當日代表羅州州長接受捐贈，州長辦公室資深顧問Michael Prescott代表州長送上感謝狀給徐處長，長期對台灣友好的該州眾議會代議長Brian Kennedy也特地出席觀禮並致感謝詞。

左起：羅州Central Falls市長James Diossa、羅州黑石谷旅遊局Bob 

Billington、商務廳國際貿易主任Katherine Therieau、波士頓經文處

處長徐佑典、羅德島州副州長Daniel McKee 、羅德島華人協會

主席葉超(Louis Yip)及會長吳子平(Sunny Ng)。

波士頓經文處表示，台灣與羅德島州的友誼深厚，長期有合作關係，這次捐贈的10萬片口罩，全是台灣製造產品，從台灣直接運抵羅德島州，這也是新型冠狀病毒疫情爆發以來，羅德島州首次直接收到外國政府捐贈的個人防護用品。波士頓經文處稱台灣珍視與羅德島州的夥伴關係，將繼續攜手，合作抗疫，一同度過難關。

波士頓經文處除了送口罩給羅德島州政府之外，還另外各捐贈10,500片醫療用口罩給羅德島州商務廳，普塔吉市及中央瀑布市的市政府。羅德島州副州長馬基(Daniel McKee)特地出席了在羅德島州黑石谷旅遊局舉行的捐贈禮，並致詞感謝來自台灣的愛心。
羅德島州州長雷萌朵(Gina Raimondo)本人，今(8日)早也在有8萬多粉絲追隨的推特上發出圖文，感謝波士頓經文處支持羅德島州。(更新版)