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tv   Mayors Press Availability  SFGTV  January 1, 2024 11:00pm-12:01am PST

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>> good morning, everybody. >> let me start by triathlon all 6 it to bring attention how big tobacco trying to hook the new generations on tobacco produces and tobacco companies appeal to the public with with threatening decades of people. a
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few years ago san francisco put children first and young people first and banning the sale of flavored tobacco products to rest our space and city have enforced against brick-and-mortar rashlt by online arrangements are the nexus next frontier on the study was experienced today, our city attorney's office has announced a lawsuit against three california companies by selling flavored tobacco products online to people in san francisco and you'll hear the press we have some of the products in front of us and after the press veteran you will see the three meanwhile, one incorporated the technical an llc and the smokey an llc sell a variety of tobacco
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products and e circumstances to commissioner green and one of the online sellers with not ship products to the jurisdictions the website of those have two indication will not ship the products. in study by office each defendant sold to our office and fruit or flavors designed to appeal to young people like strawberry and have an he will and all monday and shipped them to the city in violation of the law we are bringing reputes i lawsuits to clear message to the tobacco retailers will not be tolerated in san francisco. we're going bringing to lawsuit to protect the lawsuit especially you from the health risks of tobacco this year alone mill middle school
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high schools students have currently using e significance with 89 percent of flavored products over 20 percent of our high school students have tried e cigarettes we're bringing to lawsuits to shop the tobacco companies through their flagrant disregard of the law and seeking the defendants past violations of the law. now to address this public health crises the advocates and health professionals behind me in the city and state have worked tirelessly, tirelessly against the tobacco companies and a number of people i introduce each of the affair speakers but thank you for the organizations campaign for tobacco for kids represented ken gibbs today thank you and a little known
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fact i worked with this organization they're work as literally saved miles of lives i want to thank the to for the work (clapping.) and for its work in meeting and global listed advocacy because of our vocabulary our first speaker will pass a law that is critical to the lawsuit. working with my preserve dennis herrera and spear hesitate did local law in retail of e cigarettes thank you for being a vocal champion (clapping.) thank you, city attorney good morning, everyone you first of all, we know how along the fight has been. tobacco big tobacco that's been in the city and nationwide go back to in 1998 we
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had all the first first commissioners to take resources from tobacco and equate young people not to use tobacco and then come to find in 2018 that true lab is here in san francisco targeting our children and making sure that they can doing everything we can to addict them to a lifetime of tobacco use we gathered together and figure out hard and goat egging e on the other hand, cigarettes band from san francisco and across the state and across the country and eventually internationally and everyone who understands their directly targeting our young people seen the data and demonstrates that at the focused on making sure the youngest children in our city will become and i indicted and now we have
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every responsible company doing the same thing and articulating our residents and articulating our young 0 people by trying to skirt our laws and by products online three come directly into san francisco we're not going to take down for people skirting around our laws and thank you, city attorney chu for bringing this lawsuit and want to thank all of my colleagues, all my sports here with us today for fire hydrant because this lawsuit is important. because we need to make sure that not only do those big companies not 25eshg9 our residents here but didn't happen anything in the nation and for too long that people are being using online platforms to skirt laws and target residents and in different cities we're going to
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make sure they don't get away with that here in san francisco. we have it continue to protect people we understand the harms of the cigarettes and what is necessary do to the target young people and lead them to a lifetime of tobacco so just like we passed a law in 2019 and fought against big tobacco to make sure they don't over turn laws we're going to do did same thing with the tobacco companies and thank you, for coming up in support of this law and fight and let big companies and corporation know we'll not tlofrnt targeting our young people thank you, (clapping.) thank you, supervisor walton to your leadership we had a number of policymakers part of fight.
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>> thank you leah accordingly our extraordinary banning tobacco products and someone next in the city attorney's office like to invite up matt dorsey chp you thank you, city attorney chu. and, you know. more than 25 years ago there was a former city attorney that filed had becomes a groundbreaking lawsuit against big tobacco and hold them accountable and in starting that created a altercation it's city attorney's office of leadership analyzed against big tobacco and the chambers has harms is causing something that dennis herrera continued i'm proud and grateful it is something the city attorney david chiu it the national leader against big tobacco honored to be here as
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someone working with the district attorney's office city attorney's office for years and occurred to me a furious i had the opportunity to stand with another important leader my clearance shamming anyone walton and the labs was proposed to spend this city got ground and spending millions and shadow shoulder to shoulder with some a ragtag bunk 7 advocates we didn't know governor 0 bloomington burger about coming come up but i'm proud of shamming anyone it stands in history as is biggest 2023 as lost for big tobacco several thousands of dollars we spent per vote a losing effort sends a
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powerful message how much san francisco protects kids and others from the harms of tobacco thank you, very much to be port of that and hand side. >> shoulder to shoulder with folks for years to come. thank you. >> thank you. matt dorsey and would not be successful without the leadership the san francisco medical associate and past president the leader in our stay and country (clapping.) >> thank you doctors. >> is always the national heart association and cancer society. >> (calling names.) >> and others and take a a moment to thank the department of health staffers with the endorsement of laws and the next who represents the doctors leading this work please join me
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in welcoming the san francisco health officer. >> (clapping) good morning. my name is did susan philip the health officer for the city and county of san francisco and the direct the population health against or distinction at department of health i'm so happy to be here with the zoo david chiu and others and our wonderful leadership and all of you for decades the department of health has sought so reduce the access to public tobacco and provides services to help people to quit in recent years enforced the restriction of product sales in san francisco. this labor library mu-n thalamus and cheri are marketed to our communities of color and including other vaping products this restriction is critical to protect the happy
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earth day of those in 20 percent of high school students and others eying e seconds are a high concentration of nick tone and can harm the developing brain. adversely effecting the attention and additional starts lifetime addiction before 18 continued to have serious illness of heart disease and flavored product is easily to start and harder to quit i applaud city attorney for protecting the health of san franciscans and for the continued advocacy of supervisor walton and dorsey with the leadership. san francisco adults
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can go to sf quit.org and call at 62867678 request a director howard together we'll continue to help the community if tobacco smoking related issues. thank you. (clapping.) thank you, dr. philip and colleagues for your tremendous work and our efforts will the no be successful without the grassroots for young people the first nonprofit board i joined in any 20s which for decades to train young people to lead comments and stand up for generations i met the next speaker was one of the young applicants come on up.
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>> (clapping) good morning, everybody. um, you know. the youth leaders institutes along with the city of san francisco buildings in the voice tobacco is an issue and a justice issue we've come a long way reducing the access it critical for targeted from the to destroys and culture vat another generation of young people the to destroy masks the hash environment and um, young adults to think they vap and sentencing them to a lifetime of vaping and this may sound harmless but have done traded
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ingredients and dangers to our community and public health. an interesting fact vap are three times more likely to somebody cigarettes within a year and the lierpdz like the folks support of efforts of david chiu and those on stage to reducing accessed to the abstract retailers and again, it will not stop we can't either thank you, (clapping.) thank you. so our last speaker is the more important here because of impact of the actions everyone or of omicron tobacco retailers and the next generation is the leader.
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>> (clapping) good morning you my name is (unintelligible). >> i'm 23-year-old i was born and raised in the bay area i will be congratulating into college and have been in the er merging community leader with over a year. i help lead the community action model program where people are working to address the negative feedback and the policy alternatives that protect the community health i'd like to not referring to the ceremonial use the problem is that tobacco that the tobacco destroy prioritizing the young people tobacco retail marketing strategy specifically charges
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the next door communities more than any other. and current as of policy young people are still using commercial tobacco products when i was 5 i opposed my first book history one of my interests i was 7 when the ceremonial tobacco was introduced i had to navigate negative associations that came from culture bias and presentations. i was 11 many i saw the impact of commercial tobacco products. that commercial products had on my peers and had consequences. and at 13 my turn to learn about tobacco. how significant to indigenous communities and the simple truth it is introduced and promoted and became a wide
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commodity. i have seen this circle happen to my young people. the young leaders in and the program have believed in a commercial free tobacco generations and commercial tobacco anyone born after january 1st, 2005, would suggested policy implementation within the next 5 years or by january 1st, 2026, with our support with we can unite and have solutions for people now and a positive change for future generations. thank you. (clapping.) thank you. i have a couple of closing comments one thanks to the incredible legal professionals from our city attorney's office had folks from three teams in the office our
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teams are investigation team and the healthcare team and specifically shout out to julie iceberg and julie. >> (calling names.) >> carol constituting for your great work thank you, guys. >> at the beginning of the session we have some of the products available here in the media wants to take photos of them and i will reiterate products not only not welcome in san francisco, they are legal to sell or distribute the last thing to say thanks to everyone who is standing with us and the folks have been working on the issues in to throughout the years together we will hopefully have some day soon a tobacco free generation. with that, thank you for being here. and folks are available for questions and interviews if you
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like. thank you very much. please stand by for the san francisco sheriff's department oversight board swearing in ceremony of december 20, 2023. >> i'm julie soo president of the sheriff department oversight board. today is historic day. last week the giants signed jung hu lee. today san francisco city hall signs a cal football and track and field star from the south bay. i'm joined by colleagues, vice president carrion and member brookter to officially announcing the appointment of
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our inaugural inspector general, mr. terry willie. [applause] after a year long national search, terry was the best fit. he had a distinguished legal career in alameda county spanning three decades. he experienced with criminal justice system and he celebrated history of working on reforms. his public services working with diverse communities is impressive. before i have vice president carrion speak to the recruitment process, some acknowledgments of appreciation are in order. thank you to sheriff paul miyamoto and chief for coordinating the training for our board as mandated under the san francisco charter. thank you to the department of human resources for their
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guidance. ben ritchie, paul green, shawn sureburn i director carol isen. thank you to department of police accountability for infrastructure and budget analysis support from director paul henderson, chief kine, operator officer nicole armstrong and legal assistant and active secretary, dan leung. especially today, thank you to city hall facilities rohen lane and sequoia condon and staff at sfgovtv. now to the recruiting process with vice president carrion. >> good morning everyone. thank you all for being here. it is so exciting. it was a long journey to get here and we are excited to share with all of you what our recruitment process was. we did a lot of work in a year and 3 months so what i'm going to do is highlight of things
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that happened to get us to this point. now, we have three regular meetings in 2022 and 10 regular meetings in 2023. now, we also went out into the community four different places to hear the words of our people. to hear san franciscans tell us what they wanted in the qualifications. what were the issues that they felt were important to them and they wanted to see in our inspector general. those were in 4 different locations rchlt the bayview opera house, hamilton recreation center, crocker amazon club house and mission arts center in addition in september of this year, two commissioners went to the jails and talked to currently incarcerated people to find out what were the jail conditions that they wanted our ig to address and more importantly the qualifications that they think should be part of a ig. now, we got a lot of support.
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this has been a san francisco project, but it is also been a local state and national project, because we have key leaders from all over talking to us about the best practices for hiring and recruiting an ig. for example, we had folks from los angeles county, bart, madison wisconsin, berkeley, from oakland and from the la sheriff and bart independent police auditor and previous berkeley police commissioner. they all gave us the information to make such a critical decision. now, there is a couple key motions. one which was to create a task force to work specifically with the department and health resources-human resources and to create a job draft description. so, we met that same month in january. the minute we got going, the minute we started working.
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the following month it was very exciting to be able to have our amazing president at that time commissioner soo be elected to be and be voted on to be the liaison for the department of human resources while the entertain and take care of this incredible project. thank you to president soo for her tireless work. the multiple hours she put in. i know she is very humble that rnsh but i want to make sure she gets the accolades she deserves as she gives acknowledgments to all that helped us. october, november was the grind. looking at amazing apcants that came nationally and determining who were the highly qualified, who were the best of the best and we are lucky that terry willie was in that. it is a absolute honor to be here. it look a lot of work from a lot of people to get to this moment and we are here to
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celebrate in community and continue learning from you and doing the work that needs to get done. i look forward to continue serving you as vice president and we look forward having you participate so community, come to us, e-mail us, public comment, all of those things. we want to hear your voice. we want to incorporate your voice in the decisions we make, so thank you all so much for being here and have a wonderful rest of the event. [applause] >> thank you. i just want to recognize izy ramsey, our u.s. attorney from northern district of california here with us today. [applause] we also have some well wishes from our public defender manohar raju. district attorney. terry you are famous because i
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was getting text messages 10, 11 at night. give terry my best wishes. i can't be there, but in spirit. susan, county administrator for alameda county and i also need to let you know, in san francisco city hall, we are generally very collaborative. is was working to our county clerk diane ray office but ran into the city administrator and city county enter ourselves and say city administrator carmen chui, asked when i was going and had not met diane and said let me walk you and call to make sure. carmen chui also sends her best. and to give an official welcome to city hall, we will have paul miyamoto and paul henderson. first up, sheriff paul miyamoto. [applause] >> thank you president soo. good morning everyone. if we could have a turn-out like this at our board
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meetings, i will be very happy if that is what you accomplish, terry. want to acknowledge everybody presence. thank you for all being here. it is important to continue that sort of engagement and our office actually very much looks forward working hand in hand with our new inspector general. one thing very important to understand, this supports our shared goals, our shared vision. t nojust with the sheriff office and oversight bored and your mission as the inspector general, but with the community at large. transparency, accountability, continuous improvement, those are the goals we hope to achieve and reach and continue to reach to and with your 33 years of experience in al meady county at the district attorney office that represent immense amounts of experience and knowledge which we are very confident will represent fair
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and impartial approaches to independent investigations. fair and impartial approaches to who we are and what we are capable of becoming in the time and years to come. would no agenda other then public interest, public safety and the best that we can do for the community. collaboration is actually going to present us as a agency with a extra set of eyes that is very much needed. not just acknowledging the work and the achievements and gad work of our personnel and members. the every day things that happen in our department. the every day things that we do, but it is a look at those things and how we can improve on those things. we want to always be at the highest level of standard for not just law enforcement and public safety, but also for the community and we are looking forward to having you make sure that we meet those standards.
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you will play a crucial role helping us identify and address concern to the community. most importantly, investigation of allegations, not just of of staff, contractors, and members, but those independent investigations are important to make sure the community knows we are dedicated to and i want to acknowledge right now the next speaker who is coming up, executive director paul henderson from department of police accountability who has been a partner for a number of years to address these very concerns. absence the presence of inspector general and the work we have done through the years to insure that we have that viewpoint to insure we have that independent investigation into all of these different things has been a important part of what he has done and we had challenges in terms of getting the support to make sure that he has the resources available. i want to acknowledge the work you have done for us and as we
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transition now into this, not to forget everything you have done so thank you very much director henderson. [applause] to you and your staff. i think one thing important too and i want to make sure i address before we move on is that, working closely with the oversight board through you is going to help us bridge a lot of gaps that we've seen since we've created and we've worked with the oversight board. it will be very-invaluable in addressing areas of concern for us in ways we can improve how we do our job and we want to identify those issues before they escalate and become a incident or problem or concern or lawsuit or anything else. i am looking forward to working with you, to working with the board and continuing to improve our processes and getting that viewpoint and making sure that
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we have a positive progressive step towards building trust to our community, to our public, to the city and county, which is very unique here, and while you have the experience in alameda, i look forward to many new experiences here in san francisco and your engagement with our community is something that we are all going to support and regards to making sure we are transparent and continue our mission in sheriff office in partnership and collaboration with oversight board and office of inspector general, so thank you. [applause] >> before i bring director paul henderson up, what a phenomenal job he and his entire staff do. i have been to the nacol conference, the national association of oversight of law
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enforcement. many y oversight organizations have missed statutory dates, paul's team, the investigators and attorneys have not missed a beat and they are a national model so that is a impressive. independent third parties have lotted our police department of accountability and that is something to be said for a very lean and mean office and i can't thank them enough for helping set up the infrastructure so the new inspector general had something to walk into not just a empty office and offered unwaver report so thank you. mr. paul henderson. [applause] >> people said so many nice things already. amazing how nicely people talk about you when they are not under oath. [laughter] i appreciate all that.
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they told me i only have 40 minutes, so i want to [laughter] let me start by thanking the commission. julie in particular for so much work that she's done in navigating those of you that watched these commissions and those that paid attention to the machinations we have all gone through as a city. the leadership she has shown in this process has been phenomenal and gettings us here to this day where we can finally celebrate new leadership coming into san francisco and i personally thank you for bringing us a extra body because these past few years wearing double hats has been complicated and arduous. i had two commissions, two commissions, so this is great. i do want to thank you in particular julie, but also the
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rest of the board that worked so hard back and forth both to develop and execute a process to choose the leadership that we have here today. i do think it is worth noting that here in san francisco we are taking a big step forward in civilian oversight. we are committing to reforms and accountability where other counties, other cities, other states, other movements are taking steps back from the commitments they made to independence and civilian oversight for law fl forcement and that isn't the case here in san francisco. from the very beginning of the legislation, we had the sheriff stepping up saying, i wanted this to be collaborative and just so we are clear, that collaboration started before we even had the legislation codifying where we are today. this culmination is a very big step both of affirming leadership for terry whom we
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all know and seen his work for many many years. we won't say the numbers, but for many many many many years because we started off around the same time, but he is way older then me! [laughter] way! like four years older! it is nice to have that level of experience coming to the table to join the work, but i do think that this is important and it says a lot about who san francisco is and it says a lot about where san francisco is heading. i also just want to acknowledge shamann walton for putting together the legislation that created a lot of this position and more importantly, the funding allocation for this kind of work. there are so many hands that lifted up this bucket of
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success that i just want to make sure i'm sure i'm forgetting people, the folks like marshal kind and my office who did the work daily and who is at so many of these meetings. the rest of city hall and the budget team that helped pull all this together whom we have big expectations for moving forward, and all of you paying attention to all of this as well. it is easy to be an advocate knowing community supports you and there is political support for the work we do and committed to as public servants so thank you all for being here this morning and thank you most of all terry for applying and your willingness to bring your expertise, your professionalism, your management and your character to this work where it is so desperately needed, so well received. i think civilian oversight is taking a big step forward with
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you at its side and we can't wait to see what the future holds and how we may be able to serve and assist you in defining success for san francisco. thank you so much. [applause] >> so, budget will be the operative word for the next couple months. i also do need to thank the mayor budget office and please please give us more money. [laughter] so, now i want to also have a couple people speak before terry takes the oath of office. this is terry up close and personal. we have yolanda williams the executive director-yolanda jackson, so sorry. yolanda jackson, executive director of the bar association of san francisco. [applause]
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>> please let me start by saying congratulations for this amazing amazing honor and accomplishment that you are about to walk into. so, it is with immense pride that i'm here to speak today for the swearing in for the city and county of san francisco inaugural very first ever inspector general, terry. terry and i have been friends 28 years. i owe my bar association and the role they play in the legal community and broader community to terry. when i passed the bar in 1995, so think you ask i are the same age paul-- i saw a flier and signed up to volunteer to legal clinic at the allen tempe baptist church. terry was a [indiscernible] and leading that clinic. i was a brand new lawyer, didn't know what i was doing and terry was a great mentor
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and helped to get me appoint ed to the charles houston bar association board. that is who terry is. he is a good friend, an amazing criminal justice lawyer, a brilliant community servant. terry has spent 33 years of his life serving the public. as a deputy district attorney he spent part of his career pursuing police accountability justice. fast forward to today, terry will be the first inspector general to head the san francisco sheriff department office of inspector general. the ig will receive review and investigate complaints at the sheriff department for employees and contractors and to be effective in this role, the ig must understand the importance of and well versed in the best practices related to police and law enforcement reform. these are critical issues as paul just mentioned and
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practice is changing nation wide. use oferse fo, bias pleasing, racial profiling are examines in many law enforcement agencies across the country. this role requires someone open-minded, willing to think differently about law enforcement, someone who is a change agent, someone who knows and understands the role of law enforcement and someone who knows how to come to the table to build consensus in order to solve problems. these issues cannot be solved by one department or one agency. the work requires collaborative efforts. terry is a people person. he's a collaborator. he's willing to listen, he keeps an open mind and a strategic thinker. at the same time, he knows how to make tough decisions. he understands law enforcement reform and these are the skills and experience that will make the new office of inspector general successful and impactful. our bar association of san francisco has a criminal
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justice task force where we collaborate from members from nearly every law enforcement agency in the city. criminal defense agency, oversight agency and criminal justice organizations throughout the city. we understand law enforcement accountability and the related thoughtful reform. to the sheriff department oversight board, you absolutely made the right decision in selecting terry willie to shape and execute the work of this new office. congratulations to you terry. congratulations to you sheriff and congratulations to the city and county of san francisco. [applause] now i like to have the honorable mayor willie brown. [applause] >> thank you very much and i'm really delighted to see so many
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people here on behalf of saying welcome to the man who called me and said, would you swear me in. i swear at people. [laughter] but i'm altering my role. i'm going to swear-have the honor of swearing in the first inspector general, the sheriff department of san francisco and as indicated by all of you who have been ahead of me, you know how really important this is and so terry, you want to come up and you should know that i actually showed up. make sure it is legal. i went down and had the county clerk swear me in as a deputy county clerk so if some of you people have problems at the moment, you need a county clerk, i'm here.
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[laughter] terry, you will put your right hand up and you will repeat after me. i terry willie do solemnly swear i'll support and defend the constitution of the united states and constitution of the state of california. against all enemies foreign and domestic. i bear truth and allegiance, to the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of california. that i take this obligation, freely without any mental reservation, or purpose of
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evasion and i will well and faithfully discharge, the duty upon which i'm about to enter or so long as i serve. you know what you are going to do? what? >> i'm going to be a good inspector general [indiscernible] [laughter] >> come back up, you got to sign this. [laughter] she told you. okay, you can sit down. >> okay. [laughter] >> i'm taking it back.
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>> thank you. thank you. >> so, ladies and gentlemen, let me present san francisco's inaugural inspector general, mr. terry willie! [applause] >> alright. alright. thank you. thank you. so, let me begin by first acknowledging a few people. i want to acknowledge the sheriff oversight board commissioners, specifically president julie soo. i cannot tell you how much work that has gone into to putting this together and the work that julie has-it is night and day that i receive phone calls from julie because she is putting this whole program together, so julie, thank you so much for all your efforts. i also want to acknowledge vice
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president carrion and board member brookter here and all the members of the sheriff oversight commission. i appreciate your decision to select me as the first inaugural inspector general of san francisco. i also want to acknowledge paul henderson. paul-i have known paul for a long time and i tell you something, he is as sharp a lawyer as you will find anywhere in california and the united states and someone that when i went over to the offices where the inspector general will be located, i had a opportunity to spend some time going over some of the preparations that have been done for my office by paul and marshal and it is just been a tremendous amount of work that they've done in order to t us up to get ready to do the work we need to do, so paul, i
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really appreciate your work and i look forward working with you. [applause] i too was to acknowledge supervisor shamann walton, because he was the person that created the legislation that created the office of inspector general, so i want to acknowledge him. i also want to acknowledge my family, my wife, denise who puts up with me. [laughter] [applause] yeah. my sister in law and family and friends that are also here, and my twin brother was supposed to be here but he was coming from livermore so i don't know what's up with that, but i have a identical twin brother so if you see somebody wandering around who doesn't know where
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he is going that is my twin brother. i want to acknowledge willie brown. mayor brown has been someone in my 30 years, he has been a mentor, he has been someone that xae any time i call, mayor brown answers the call. when i call and say, mayor i need you to swear me in, i did n't know what response i was going to get, but he's here, so it is all good. willie has never or mayor brown has never said no to me and so willie i really appreciate it. i also talked to the mayor about the sheriff and he had nothing but really kind things to say about sheriff miyamoto. me and the sheriff had convarsation today. sheriff i look forward working with you and think we will be able to do really big things in terms of making the san francisco sheriff department a top office. i'm thrilled and honored to
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serve as inaugural inspector general for city and county of san francisco. as we embark on this journey i'm filed-my enthusiasm knows no bounds. building a team of tal wanted and professionals is not just a goal,b it is a commitment to excellence and service and upholding the values that define the city of san francisco. our office will stand on the pillars of accountability and open transparency. fairness, integrity and honesty. i firmly believe that accountability is the lenchpin maintaining public trust in the criminal justice system and the sheriff office. it is our duty to insure that every action taken under our watch reflects these values and serves the best interest of the community. the city and county of san
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francisco deserves nothing less then inspector general office that is guided by the principals of integrity, accountability, open transparency, objectivety and dependence. confudenchality, professionalism and to me the most important thing is competence. these principals guide us in every decision and action we take. under my leadership we will work actively work to insure that justice is blind and fair to everyone. especially those who have been historically disinfraenchised. people of color. women. the lgbtq community. our commitment is to create a environment where everyone is treated with dignity and respect they deserve. as long as we have the
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necessary resources, as long as we have the necessary resources [laughter] we are confident, we will not only meet but exceed expectations placed upon us. i'm excited about the positive impact we can have on the community. i look forward to the challenges and successes that lie ahead, so let us forge a path that reflects the spirit of san francisco. a city that values diversity, justice, equity, inclusivity and the wellbeing of all its residents. thank you. [applause] >> i just in closing wanted to
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thank you all for being here to witness this historic moment. terry's reputation precedes itself. i got a text message from nick greg rotoswho heads prison legal service. it is unprecedent we have a prison legal service, so want to embrace the sheriff department for doing a lot of right things and can only improve but there is such great foundation. he said he is delighted and anxious to be working with you and i also want to acknowledge ken is here with the sheriff deputy union. ken, i don't know where you-right there. so, our oversight mission is very broad. we want to look at individuals and families effected by the criminal justice system. the services availed to those incarcerated. reentry service. support for reentry, but we
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also want to look at the wellbeing of our deputies. they are working tremendous hours right now because they are short-staffed, but it is important that we make sure that we look at recruitment and mental and physical wellbeing of our deputies, so thank you everyone and special message to--yes? yes. he forgot to say something. one more thing and i'll let him before i close out. >> sorry. the problem when you have prepared remarks you just read the prepared remarks and there are two people here i didn't know was actually going to make it and i wanted to acknowledge alameda county board of supervisors member nate miley. nate has always been a big supporter of mine and i want to acknowledge his comeic across the bay and appreciate you being here. also want to acknowledge u.s. attorney izy ramsey who is also a big supporter and izy thank you for being here.
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[applause] >> and i want to recognize under sheriff catherine johnson wearing three hats and budgeting everything operations, thank you for being here and also assistant chief carter who keeps us informed of community events to make sure we are out and visible and taking in information. i also want to thank those who got it the word out. i heard the word got out sooner then we thought. carolyn wisinger with police department of accountability and terry mor yarty with sheriff office and special word for terry. go bears! [applause]
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[music] welcome to the ethic's commission introduction to gift rules. we will discuss why the city and county of san francisco and the state of california have rules regarding give and accepting giftss an employee or officer. as city officers and employees we serve the public. everyone who lives, works or plays in san francisco trusts us with important decisions every day. this trust is honored boy making decision for the public good. if someone gives you i gift than i miexpect manage in return. if you accept i gift you mifeel pressureed give something. even if you don't feel pressured, members of public could perceive it different low. creates the appearance of i
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conflict of interest real or perceived. to foster an environment gentleman decisions are fair and in the based on person interests tr are restrictions on giving and receiving gifts employs well wellace reporting requirements. these may include refusing gifts the people you serve or those doing business with your agency. only accepting gifts below a certain value or public low disclosing the gift you received. because gift lus and limits vary depending on circumstances, it is always important it seek guidance before accepting i give to avoid violating the lu. rules support the trust tht people of san francisco have put us. had our decisions are fair and transparent and we are accountable we live up to ideals. for more information visit the
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san francisco ethic's commission's website at sfethics. org or phone, e mail or in person. thank you for watching. in cases where there is aapply. >> (music). >> wishing sfgovtv all the very
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the board of directors and parking authority commission. good afternoon directors, staff and members of the public. we thank you for joining us. this meeting is being held in hybrid format, occurring in person at city hall, room 400 broadcast live on sf govtv and by phone the phone number to use today is (415) 655-0001 access. code 26611010021. when the item is called dial star three to enter the queue, commenters will have up to two minutes to provide comment unless otherwise noted by the chair. a time limit of ten minutes of remote public comment on each action or discussion item has been set and notice for this meeting. please speak clearly and sure. you're in a quiet location and turn off any tvs or computers around you. we thank you for your cooperation and places you on item two. roll call director hemminger. here are present director henderson here henderson present director hinsey present hinsey present. director so