incoming freshmen would be reserved for students who demonstrate extraordinary potential as opposed to refined skill. and also the policy delineates that the school will limit non-san francisco enrollment to 10% with exceptions permitted based on low enrollment or requirements of certain departments. and the data we saw had non-san francisco enrollment as high as 16%, and so the committee has asked for additional information, including a discussion with the administration about the enrollment policy. secondly, we discussed the board of education policy revisions, we're trying to put online all of the breast cancer -- board of education policies and the committee will be taking a careful look at recommendations of what to put on the web in

alignment with recommendations of the school board association and finally update on advocacy request for proposal. our next meeting will be on october 17 where we'll take up the enrollment policy issue and the board of education policy revisions again. president mendoza: thank you. any other reports? commissioner wynns? vice president yee riley? commissioner wynns: i wanted to make an addition to the rules committee report because all the members of the board have gotten or are supposed to get the 9,000 series, the one that's in detail proposed because we wanted everybody to give us input before the october 17th meeting. tell us what you think of it. >> i didn't get a copy of it, i don't think. i didn't see it in my mailbox. president mendoza: can we get them resent? thank you. commissioner yee? vice president yee: i wanted to make an announcement that we had

a meeting yesterday, the joint committee, and the reason why i want to make the announcement is because i won't be here to report it at our next meeting. and so but i do want to say that the two items of the three that were on the agenda i heard and i have paperwork. i would recommend actually that for one of our educational discussion pieces that we have our staff and maybe invite city college also to talk about the bridge to success program, because it's really interesting. they have a lot of great data that is worth looking at and the nice thing about it is that there's a real collaboration between the two institutions in

using stafford to share the data so if anybody's interested, i have it. president mendoza: thank you for that information. >> the budget and program committee of the san francisco board of education had a meeting. i'll report on it at our next meeting when it is sunshined or whatever but to make that announcement, so, we don't have enough money. president mendoza: any other announcements from board members? this is the informational place that if i were to announce something that's coming up, this is the right place to do that? >> we can as a matter of moving forward, we can agendize all the committees that met in the previous two weeks as a place holder so we can properly compile it. >> we're usually pretty good about it. let's make sure that the committees -- whatever -- whenever we have any meetings set, let's put it in the agenda. and i want to make a quick

announcement that this weekend is the 11th annual harley strictly blue grass festival put on for free for the city which is a huge contribution to our city and he, every year, kicks it off by taking all of the middle schoolers to listen to blue grass music so he's going to do that again. he's moving it up to a thursday because friday is going to be all day he's actually adding acts so all day friday will be the festival itself. so once again, m.c. hammer will be performing for the kids on thursday from 10:30 to noon if anybody would like to come out and join the kids. commissioner norton? commissioner norton: i wanted to say that many of the schools located around golden gate park have turned this into a fundraiser and are allowing people to pay to park on their schoolyard grounds so if you want to support your local schools and are looking for a place to park, of course we

always recommend public transportation first as city policy but if you do find yourself in a car going to the festival, you can support a school and park on the schoolyard. president mendoza: i love that we're opening school yards for parking. commissioner murase? commissioner murase: ruth asal school of the arts had a dedication ceremony on september 14 and i wanted to congratulate that community and tonight actually comcast is going to present sort of with donation, they're having a precedent tonight, announcing new asian-american media content so we're very proud of soda and the contributions they're receiving and support from the community. president mendoza: commissioner yee? vice president yee: wherever these schools have celebrations, especially the 100th anniversary celebration, one of the most difficult things to do is find

alumni, because we don't have a list. if anybody know of somebody actually went to school at gene parker at any time, let them know that there's going to be a 100-year celebration of gene parker tomorrow night at 6:00. so please join us there. president mendoza: i also wanted to share that the college track did their groundbreaking for their new facility site on third and gerald which is really exciting so it will have a big college track sign which is on the corridor which will set the tone for our kids in the bayview so i want to thank college track for their partnership and the work they're doing with our kids and there was a backpack give-away this weekend at garfield park that was put on by the city that benefited so many of our kids in our superintendent zone, the mission superintendent zone. thank you for doing all of that, as well. are there any other final announcements? great. thank you.

yes? sorry. are you ok? item t is the report of closed session activities. this is the closed session actions of september 20, 2011. the board of education approved a credit for one direct, one principal and two assistant principals. in the existing litigation case oah case no. 20011160521, the board, by a vote of 7 aye's, approved a settlement. in the existing litigation of case no. 2011060361, the board, by a vote of seven aye's, approved settlement in $3,000. in the existing litigation case of jh versus sfusd oah case 2011060553 the board approved settlement in the amount of $3,000. in a public employee discipline

release matter the board resolved by a vote of seven aye's to accept the resignation of a classified employee and to waive certain damage claims against the employee in exchange for the employee's agreement to reimburse the district the sum of $14,300.34. we also have -- do you have a question? >> i was at that meeting. i arrived late. president mendoza: you were absent for that vote. yes, thank you. and then we also had a closed session action on today this evening september 27, 2011, the board by a vote of seven aye's approved joining the california school board association's los angeles unified school district turlock unified school district and association of california school administrators in initiating litigation against the state of california, anna j.

monte santos and her capacity of director of finance, director of public instruction and john chang as state comptroller. item u are other informational items, there are no one tonight. and we are going to adjourn our meeting in memory of elaine fong. elaine was a retired district administrator who passed away on december 16. she started her career as a teacher at sherman elementary. she served as principal of treasury island. elaine remained active after retirement and belonged to church choir, taught yuk laely lessons and was interested in any hawaiian activities in the bay area. she served as a day-to-day substitute after retiring in 1997. the board of education and superintendent of schools express sincere condolences to the fong family. meeting adjourned.

if you would please turn off any cell phones or pagers. would you please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

>> thank you. we will now take a roll call of commissioners. the commission president? >> present. commissioner dejesus? >> she was excused this evening. >> commissioner carol kingsley? >> present. >> commission president, you have a quorum. president mazzucco: thank you very much, lieutenant, and ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the october 5, 2011, san francisco police commission hearing. i see a lot of folks in the audience tonight. there is an item that is not on

the calendar. given the size of the audience, we will limit public comment to two minutes. without further ado, please call line item 1. >> item 1 is general public comment. the public is welcome to address the commission on items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but are under the jurisdiction of tonight's commission. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not individual personnel. under rules of order, during public comment, neither the police or the occ personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public, but may provide a brief response. individual commissioners and police and occ personnel should refrain from entering into any debates or discussion with speakers during public comment. please limit your comments tonight to two minutes. president mazzucco: ladies and gentlemen, i see a lot of folks

in the audience for a matter that is not on the calendar. however, it is regarding an issue that is found to be important. we welcome you encourage you to do that. if the item that i think you are here for that we were going to discuss if there were any new answers regarding jttf anbar procedures -- and our procedures for that. there are no answers. we met with the attorneys yesterday, and we are continuing to look into certain aspects of this, but as it stands today, the matter is not on the agenda. we ask you to come forward. we want to hear your feelings and thoughts regarding our participation in jttf. briefly, i will turn this over to commissioner slaughter, who has been doing the heavy lifting on this. san franciscommissioner slaughtk

you, commissioner mazzucco. i know there was a representative of the mayor's office who is here and i think will come back and give the mayor's office opinion on the matter, but beyond that, please feel free to speak. president mazzucco: one, our officers will not violate anyone's constitutional rights. second, our officers will not be involved in racial profiling. that should be made clear before going in there. third, we are not the fbi. for, we're not the department of justice. we are the san francisco police commission, dealing with the san francisco police department, and we give our guarantee our officers will not dissipate in

anything you feel comfortable with. we will not stand for that. if we could start with representatives from the mayor's office, mr. henderson? commissioner slaughter: i am sorry, one of the thing i wanted to mention, we had a frank and open discussion yesterday with the aclu and asian law caucus, which is an important conversation. i think the lines of communication are open and continue to be and are constructive, and we agree on big picture items and on the values, the important values that are represented in the san francisco police practices. we are committed to making sure that all of our officers at all times are following all of our bureau orders. i know that mr. henderson from the mayor's office has a

commitment letter in the evening, so we asked him to speak first, and everyone else please line up and feel free to speak. >> i think i have the time limit of two minutes? a little visual reminder not to babble to long. paul henderson, the deputy chief of staff for the mayor, also the director for public safety issues, and i already have met with everyone in this room. i see many people in the audience, who i saw at the last hearing, but this came to the mayor's office's attention a long time ago. i met with a lot of advocates and committee members, the police department, i met with representatives from the federal government as well, and from the last hearing, but the mayor's office, it specifically, feels

comfortable with the order we are addressing the concerns of both the community in terms of public safety and in terms of racial justice as well on this sensitive issue, obviously, but we are committed to maintaining our course. >> could you get off the door handle, please? >> we are committed to maintaining -- our concerns are we continue to receive the information with the federal government, which is why are we year are supporting the decision. which is why we are supporting the decision, as inclusive of the amendment with the general order we have. i wanted to comment and make an

appearance today to make it clear that we support what the commissioners have done thus far and the decisions that have been made in relationship to this topic. thank you all for your hard work, and also your input. i look at this as a win for the community and the advocates to have been able to help craft a solution and helped craft the general order to address their concerns. thank you all so much. i am around if anyone needs me. president mazzucco: we also have the president of the human rights commission, and the executive director. >> thank you, commissioners. it is always a pleasure to spend wednesday nights here, at least one. it is a pleasure to be here. i wanted to express our appreciation to the committee

and the advocates for the amount of work they have been putting in on this. i was at a meeting yesterday in which many of the same people were at that meeting, and they continue to work on this to come to the best resolution for the community from the nondiscrimination perspective and public safety perspective. i want to thank the commission for your work because of continued work on this, and particularly the chief. we have spoke with him a few times and he continues to be receptive to new ideas and evolved in his thinking about this and continues to move towards a settlement and agreement that we can all share. i think so far we have come a long ways. if you recall the first meeting we had and the first public hearing we had over a year ago, which generated a report, and we had a second public hearing and now we're having hearings periodically with many of the same people. the dialogue is different, the tenor of the meeting is different, and we've come a long way from where we started.

i want to thank the department for everything you have done. i want to thank the chief for everything you have done. i think the special agent in charge definitely douglas's letter of the last 10 days -- stephanie douglas's letter of the last 10 days and knowledge she will not require any officers retire. assigned to jttf is a big step forward. we all agree at some point in the future every negotiated m.o.u. would be the vest final result -- the best final result. we will continue to move on this item and continue to work with the wall and that the committee to try to come to resolution. thank you so much, commissioners. president mazzucco: thank you. next speaker? >> i am a legal fellow at the asian law caucus.

the purpose of the police commission is to provide civilian oversight over sfpd activities. this commission has been on notice about their involvement with the fbi. we have held hearings, focused political comment, and spoken with many of you one-on-one. with explain the problem and proposed viable solutions. yet, two weeks ago today, some of you were still not clear what the problem is. on behalf of the asian law caucus, i am here to answer that question out and clear. sfpd's participation with the fbi under the memorandum of understanding is not acceptable. that's all of the power in the hands of the fbi. that ensures that sfpd officers follow their rules rather than san francisco's. verbal assurances to trust nothing bad is happening is not enough. that is not how democracy works. we demand real oversight and accountability, and right now, the fbi is blocking your

oversight and accountability. the arab, middle eastern, and south asian committees have all lost faith in the fbi. agents have visited our homes, infiltrated our organizations, the minute interviews while we are at work, and as intrusive questions about our families and identities. this is a deeply held culture of bigotry and racism, reflected in fbi training materials which refer to the prophet mohammed as a cult leader and that civilians as militants. it is highly likely that officers assigned to the jttf received fbi training, which talks about islamic domination of the world. if you're officers have received such training from another agency that stated that african- americans have a tendency toward violence or more likely to be sex offenders, would this be acceptable? absolutely not. would you act on it immediately? of course you would.

the why is this type of racism acceptable when it is aimed at our communities? thank you very much. president mazzucco: thank you. next speaker? >> thank you. i am a professor of psychiatry and global health at ucsf, and i am also the former president and board member of the arab american cultural center. i represent a large segment of our community. i have met with the chief on a few occasions, and i'm very disturbed about where we are right now. i am asking the commission takes seriously the idea of suspending the m.o.u. the chief and commission had said on numerous occasions that want to build a relationship with us, and gender trust. i can guarantee you the relationship you have based on the jttf does not engender

trust. if we are here to build relationships with our community, we're taking major steps backwards. i am asking you to reconsider that. we're happy to build relationships based on trust and transparency and not stepping back. when are we going to learn? the history with other governments of israel and south africa, where the police department was able to share information on san francisco citizens? these were egregious violations of commission oversight. why are we here again and discussing these issues right now what we're supposed to be taking steps forward with our community? i am urging you in the strongest possible language to build relationships with us based on trust and transparency, and i hope the chief will honor his word when he said he was willing to do that. thank you very much. president mazzucco: thank you, doctor. next speaker?

>> i am with the islamic society of san francisco, and i want to start by asking several questions to the chief of police and the hon. members of the oversight committee. any of the hon. civilian oversight committee members, muslims or arabs, it is impossible to go to a courthouse or court room in the state and find want arab-american judge or muslim american judge. thus, it is consistent there is no islamic order representation here either. the you share with me that california and america is fashioning itself after an apartheid state in the middle east, albeit selectively apartheid, that aims to keep arabs and muslims mired in stereotypes, worthy of compromising laws and state constitutions to achieve all of

that? how american is that? how american is the introduction of apartheid to america, albeit selectively apartheid? considering your concern with public safety, how have any of you, the chief of police firstly, and hon. members, have you read it anything about the lavon affair of the 1950's? it is worthy of your consideration and examination. there is heavy presence in america of elements pro- oppression of arab-americans and muslims, and intruded into the lives of innocent arab muslims is their agenda aand they seek

that under the most ugly conspiracy. why is there not an m.o.u. with the fbi that keeps us all safe from false flag attacks? thank you. president mazzucco: thank you very much, sir. next speaker, please? >> good evening. thank you very much for having this meeting and continue in this discussion about this issue. while it is not on the agenda today, i hope that you continue to learn more about our point of view. i am a board member and community outreach coordinator at the downtown moscow. -- at the downtown mosque. i have been here before and i have told the commissioners here that our community center has a

strong and friendly relationship with the sfpd, and we are happy you are having these discussions. but what we would like to see his words should parallel actions. i am happy that you are saying that sfpd is against racial profiling and will never happen, but we like to see that in action. there have been some cases in san francisco and other cities where racial profiling has occurred. we will like to overcome that. if we are wrong, please prove us wrong and let us know how we can overcome that. we're definitely not portland. we are san francisco. we should be better than portland. i ask you to come up with better resolution than portland, in a way to be an example for every city in the that the states and how to overcome this. if you want to hunt down a terrorist, go after them, but

please make sure that we do not interrogate, she million, and denigrate law-abiding americans -- interrogate, denigrate, and humiliate law-abiding americans. thank you. president mazzucco: thank you. next speaker, please? >> good evening. my name is rachel roberts, and i am the civil rights coordinator for the council on islamic american relations. i'm here to join these other organizations asking you to exercise the 60-day out clause and coming up with a local resolution for counter- terrorism. our office has heard complaints over the past year alone from more than three dozen muslim americans that and contacted by the fbi and jttf. in none of these cases have charges been filed. our clients have been asked about the ig