In Santa Cruz County, California, many people are refused their prescribed medication when they go to Santa Cruz County Jail. The prescribed medication that they take regularly, under the direction of their doctor. It can be very dangerous and even life threatening, to be suddenly cut off of a prescribed medication, especially when it is against the advice and direction of the doctor who knows them and prescribed the medication! But this hasn't stopped the medical director at this jail, Dr. Terry B. Lapid, from behaving so recklessly... This is why I'm hoping this petition might bring change to how things are done when it comes to inmates receiving their important, prescription medications... I know firsthand how dangerous this can be, because my boyfriend recently went to jail. He is prescribed methadone. When he got to the jail, they were very eager to take a urine sample. After many attempts to find out what they wanted the sample for, he found out... They told him that if he tested dirty for ANYTHING else, he would not be given his prescribed medication. That includes testing "dirty" for marijuana, alcohol, or any other prescription medications that he couldn't show proof of having at the time, etc... ANYTHING ELSE!! My boyfriend smokes pot, and had a prescription for it, but it expired a few months previously. This meant he was cut off, suddenly, from methadone, which is a very important medication for some people to take! It causes complete chaos, cutting someone off of a medication like that suddenly! And not only that, but his doctor who prescribes him methadone wanted him to continue taking it! Dr. Lapid went against his doctors advice, and had complete disregard for my boyfriend's wellbeing, health and LIFE! People's lives are NOT a game to be played with! Like my boyfriend, many people in jail are waiting for their guilt or innocence to be determined in court. So this means that someone who may not even be guilty of a crime, are having their lives thrown into upheaval, being denied their prescription medication, for no reason! They are being punished for nothing! It is NOT justice, it is completely unethical and recklace for Dr. Lapid to ignore the advice and direction of a person's regular doctor. These are people's LIVES! If Dr. Lapid refuses to give EVERYONE their prescribed medication, when the prescribing doctor is advising that they continue taking it, he needs to lose his job, and be replaced with someone who can do the job properly.

Anybody who knows the past of Al Sharpton should be concerned that he has become the go-to guy in matters dealing with race. Al Sharpton does nothing but divide this country and is of no benefit to President Obama. He is a self-appointed civil rights leader who only cares when the aggrieved are black. He does not show up protesting the police when the mentally disabled or mentally ill are the victims. He is a fraud who also evades paying his taxes while living a lavish lifestyle. Perception is reality and none of this benefits the President. There is a reason Al Sharpton has been called a racial arsonist. He poisons the atmosphere. Sharpton falsely accused a man of rape. Sharpton became famous by championing the cause of a black teenager named Tawana Brawley, who, it turned out, lied when she claimed that she'd been abducted and sexually assaulted by whites. A grand jury found that Tawana Brawley fabricated the whole thing. Sharpton not only refused to apologize, he dared white Asst. A.D. Pagones to sue him for defamation. Pagones obliged. A jury unanimously found Sharpton liable, and Pagones' lawyer spent years trying to get Sharpton to pay the judgment. To this day, Sharpton refuses to apologize to Pagones, who said he received death threats. Tawana Brawley had by 2013 only paid 1% of what she owed in punishment for the defamation. There is a FBI surveillance video of Sharpton arranging a cocaine/money laundering deal with a mobster-turned-informant. Nothing about Sharpton calling the first black mayor of New York a "n**er whore." Sharpton was a paid pitchman for LoanMax, a "predatory lender" that could not legally operate in New York. Crown Heights tells us everything one needs to know about Sharpton. A 7-year-old black child was accidentally struck and killed by a car driven by a Hasidic Jew in that section of Brooklyn, N.Y. It sparked three days of riots, resulting in a hundred people injured and the stabbing death of a young Jewish scholar, who was surrounded by a mob chanting, "Kill the Jew." Sharpton fanned the flames, leading some 400 protesters through a Jewish section of Crown Heights. Al Sharpton later said, "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house." He also defended the lying Duke Lacrosse accuser (and now murderer) with "There is a lot of racism that's in the air." There are more examples but this is a petition and not a book.

Consequences! This man truly believes he can do and say whatever the heck he wants because his wife and children are black, so that apparently in this country now means you hand the right to tell "my fellow black family: Go out and protest as you may, and may it stay peaceful. We have the police there to help you". Then why did you tell them to go against them? My family comes from an incredibly long line of service men and I have had enough! I will be the voice for you!

This is in opposition to annexation to the area known as HWY. 90 & LOOP 1604 .

The Governor's interference in education has cost our children in Detroit, unequal funding and quality education.

The Uintah Express Pipeline is proposed to travel through rural agricultural areas and fragile ecosystems. The Land is home to many endangered and rare wild life species as well as several human populations. The Pipeline puts the Kamas Valley aquifir at risk which provides drinking water to about 1/3 the population of Utah, and also connects to numerous other water reservoirs, rivers, lakes and other aquifer sources. The communities affected have limited resources and are ill equipped to handle the imminent danger of a spill. The oil which will travel through the pipeline is a waxy crude derived from Bitumen mined at the PR Springs tar sands mine. Bitumen crude is 20 times more corrosive than traditional crude oil and presents a more significant danger. The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a warning about the difference between Bitumen pipelines and Crude pipelines stating that Bitumen pipelines should be given higher concern given the corrosive nature of the substance it carries and the extent of damage caused in the event of a spill. Stop the Uintah Express Pipeline, there is too much risk.

It is sad to hear children say they can't share the bible in school and their teachers want let them.God is our foundation and always will be what are we doing?

For too long we have let Pat Lynch be a divisive & destructive voice in our great city. It's time for a change.

I live in the middle of the fracking frenzy in Doddridge County, WV. We are the true sacrifice zone folks keep hearing about.

Movements to enfranchise groups (by property, age, gender, race, birthplace, etc.) have been afoot since the foundation. While well intentioned, such criteria miss the mark. Alone, the act of voting is hollow, signifying little.

We have a local park in Mt. Morris, Wisconsin. Without anyone's consent in Waushara county, local loggers are clear cutting trees, stating the trees are diseased. A highly educated arbitrator looked at the acres that have thus far been destroyed by loggers for personal profit, stating there are very few trees with disease. We need to save this beautiful mountain-park.

There are too many people who are dumping off their pets along the roads, killing them, beating them, hoarding them, running puppy mills and fighting them with other animals. People should have to qualify to adopt a pet from anywhere and from anyone. If they can not afford them, then they should not be allowed to care for them. It is a proven fact that even though pets forgive unconditionally, they still have the emotions, feelings and the mentality of a 3 to 5 year old. Imagine someone mistreating your child at that age; they would go to jail and be charged with a felony. We rescued a sky terrier that was kept in a cage, fed saw dust and molasses, never taken out of the pen, picked up by her ears, and continuously bred for half her life. When we got her home and sat her in the grass, she got used to it and she ran and jumped and rolled in it. You would have thought she was crazy when all it was was excitement to be able to run and play. We rescued another puppy. When the owner would return to his house and the puppy barked and jumped with excitement, the man kicked the puppy clear across the room yelling at it to shut up and get down. These two dogs are the most gentle babies ever. We could go on and on about animals we have rescued but won't do that. Please, let's get the word out and stop animal cruelty.