3. The individual should be notified of the specific charges and given the name of the arresting of ficer.

4. The arrested person should be allowed three telephone calls to an attorney, to his family and

to a bondsman

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with the state paying for calls. 5. Definite standards for officers to follow should be set up.

6. Standard statewide booking methods should be es-

tablished.

7. Juvenile courts should be overhauled.

Ralph Guzman, a member of the board of the American Civil Liberties Union in Los Angeles, testified that police there dispensed "sidewalk Justice" in the form of unprovoked beatings in the city's big Mexican colony. He said it was difficult to find lawyers to take cases and doctors to testify where innocent people were illegally and brutally beaten up. He advocated legislation making it easier for the public to obtain redress from over-zealous officers.

A bearded character known as Erio Nord pleaded the cause of the Beat Generation, accused police of harrassing Beatniks in San Francisco's North Beach area and defonded his customers as individualists asking only that they be left alone to live happily and peacefully. He acknowledged that business had improved, however, since the alleged police harrassment began.

District Attorney Lynch said he had "a violent objection" to proposed legislation that would require the prosecution to disclose the identity of confidential informants in all cases.

"Let's be realistic", he said. "The defense knows the informants' name 999 out of 1000 cases and usually the defense attorney is just putting on a show in demanding the name of the informant. ... It's been a little ludicrous at times."

Assemblyman John A. O'Connell, chairman of the committee conducting the hearing, observed that some critics argue that the vagrancy law as now stated is so comprehensive it enables the polico to arrest almost anyone and that it