more restrictive on what the authorities as the fbi and the police. i saw first hand, i grew up in a police department and really took it upon themselves to go above and beyond violating enforcing the rules on the community's and how lot of kids were killed. police would pick them up and take them to another neighborhood, and it is horrible to be, unfortunately, in one time, driving black or driving a brown. i want to thank the supervisors, we strongly support this, and we hope that can continue with the other board members that are signing on. >supervisor avalos: i have one more card as well. go ahead.

>> i am an attorney at the national center for lesbian rights. we're proud to be part of the coalition of a lesbian, gay, bisexual, head of transgendered organization. thank you all for your support of this important ordinance. harvey milk had been guiding philosophy as an activist. in a speech rallying people to fight off a bill that would have thrown teachers out of the public schools, he called for a mass movement not just to fight discrimination, but to proclaim, no more racism, no more sexism, no more hatred. we stand by the arab, middle eastern, and the others and the sisters of sexual identities. the legislation today moves us

toward this goal. it addresses racial profiling by requiring the police department and terrorism taskforce to abide by the same civil rights laws that law enforcement must follow. by limiting the power to enter into secret memorandums, the restores a civilian oversight to the police department, which is the cornerstone of cooperation in good faith. on behalf of many individuals and organizations, i urge passage of this ordinance. >> the first of all, i would like to say, i am in support of this ordinance. and in terms of timing, it is

amazing that just this last saturday i was leaving safeway supermarket in the western addition and i was adopted by a security guard at the door. he asked me for my receipt, i asked why, and he said of a suspicious. i have a heavy on. i was,. i suggested to the security guard that maybe we need to look the your policy. if you can't explain what is, he just said, and i am just doing my job. i left, i told him i would be back when i went about four hours later. to make this long story short, i got off the phone with one of the representatives, has she

said, you are right. he was wrong. security has been doing it for years out, getting away with racial profiling had singling out individuals like myself. i still looking out even though i am approaching 50. if i can't wear a heavy in my own neighborhood. it means that these type of laws, it is definitely perfect timing. on another note, i think when you go a little further with our chartered. i was looking in terms of article 25 when it comes to private security. we need some type of oversight. if you have an issue with private security, you have to go to this day. we need more teeth for the city.

as you know, after 9/11, they were given the task of doing most of the police work because they fall under different liability laws. i think it is important that we take a good look at private security companies in san francisco, how they operate, etc.. >> ♪ a man walks down the street i want a shot at redemption. if you be my buddy darden, he will be your long-lost pal. ♪ city, you can call him avalos

if you be my bodyguard, he will be your city pal remember to look through these supplies of love ♪ ♪ i believe that a terrorist storm will survive somehow. we will make it through the city and wait and see. >> almost like being serenaded. thank you. >> thank you for having this meeting. i am a board member and community outreach coordinator.

first, i wanted to say a few words on behalf of my imam. he wanted me to add, since our beginning, we have had a positive and strong relationship with every member of the community, various churches. not just a neighbor, but a dear friend. one of our members, he was murdered a few years ago a few days before thanksgiving, and it was very crucial were the police department helped arrest and led to the conviction of the murderer. in no way are we against the police department. and he proactive measures they are taking. at the same time, there have been issues whether it is the fbi or the center is go police

department. even though we are against the grain compared to other community centers, we have had a positive relationship had a strong relationship with the fbi. we have an fbi file where a member that was a guest was taking down notes and information and pulling criminal records of other members, this was in 2008. we were alerted by members. we have built a very positive relationship and a strong relationship of trust. now there is a trust deficit between us and law enforcement. we thank them for their service. we want everybody to be on the same side. this is about every human being

in san francisco. we have to treat everybody equally. he can't spot people for any particular justification. it is a direct violation of city ordinance and the american constitution. i really thank everybody for taking positive measures, and i am happy to see that there was a compromise. i wish this didn't happen in the first place. since the days -- even before not 11, who were taking active measures of being against terrorism and doing everything to fight extremism. if an individual says something, we try to correct that. media channels will never show that, but we are doing everything we can. i thank you, and i hope you can

incurs the mayor to saigon to this. >> any other member of the public would like to comment? >> i want to express my appreciation for the supervisors for supporting this ordinance. we don't want to wait for something to happen and then we try to rally together to do it. this is about prevention of racial profiling and people really getting attacked on stereotyping. that is why that member of the community is working with young people. and also after 9/11, hopefully

the mayor will not veto it and will support this and continue to work towards helping us have a better community. i appreciate the fact that the fbi wants to make sure that our nation is safe. a lot of times, they overlap on the laws and rules that we have. we want to make sure it is about san francisco had not connected to any other cities. i would really appreciate that. >> in the afternoon, supervisors. i am here on the council of american islamic relations. i want to say that we support this compromise legislation. we thank the supervisor for continuing to take aledo.

it has been a long-time coming. i will share a story, i wanted to share that we received a complaint from someone contacted by the fbi, questioned about international travels. they asked about their experiences there and asked to come in for a voluntary interview to talk politics and foreign policy. we look forward to working with all of you to make sure that this isn't just civil rights protections that are written into the administrative code, but that they are implemented correctly. supervisor avalos: next speaker, please.

>> i am glad to see that you have three of our supervisor great ones. i come to support the lady that talked before me. i would like our mayor to open his eyes, and i force you to open your eyes to stop against any discrimination or any wrong action. i am a muslim, i am here 28 years. but for every one of you coming to my city. our beliefs, our supervisor, our marriage to stop discriminating against any muslim, including myself. lake up and smell the coffee. we are not less than any kind of

other people here. we respect everyone. if you don't believe me, read the koran. they tell us tell of equal treatment. i am glad to see young people coming to this place. other people are going to replace her sooner or later. you know i speak in my heart, i don't have nothing today. >> next speaker, please. >> i would like to speak in support of this ordinance.

i feel that it is compromise. i would also like to take this opportunity to speak on behalf of the stanford is go police department and the fbi. it is obvious that everybody makes mistakes. i know the board of supervisors make mistakes, so we should allow some slack. we should not stigmatize either organization for the errors done by past members, 25, 50, 100 years ago. i am saying you should not stigmatize the current police department and the fbi because past members made obvious mistakes. since the san francisco is supposed to be tolerant, why don't we say everybody makes a mistake, even the mayor and the board had cut them a little

slack. since we're dealing with federal counter terrorism, how would like to remind everybody that in this field of work, you can't afford the one mistake. one mistake could lead to death for many people. as long as they can explain to the public when they are doing and why they are doing it, we should be able to give them the benefit of the dow. if you people here really want to reduce tensions among groups, i would suggest you pass an ordinance forbidding the use of hyphenated identity words like african american, chinese american. president teddy roosevelt was against using such phrases. what i looked at the supervisors, i see americans. i don't see an asian-american, a

latin american or any american. if you people here are serious about getting rid of tensions among different groups, which ever way you want to identify yourself, you ought to call yourself americans and get rid of the have that of saying i am a chinese american, i am african-american, i am latin- american. the fact remains, everybody here is an american and if you just look at each other that way, maybe a lot of the prejudice and past mistakes will gradually fade away, because when you talk to each other, you say you are an american, i have an american, leave racing and all of these other factors out and maybe the kids will learn that is the way to look each other. for get all of the adjectives and maybe that is a stark and the right direction.

>> i wanted to weigh in on the ordinance aside and support of it. in the african-american community and lo hasnged for -- has longed for stopping the racial profiling. the operation of ceasefire with the fbi, we have the game in junction had is giving our african-american youth federal crime. they are enhancing their sentences from being on the operation cease-fire that i was part of myself. and now we have over 20 members of the western addition locked up in federal prison right now view to gaining injunction ceasefires, and the fbi and police relationships that we really don't know what is.

if we can go back and look at some of those issues have to see if that is destroying our community also, we would be grateful. supervisor avalos: any other member of the public that would like to comment? supervisor olague: i just wanted to thank all the other supervisors that worked so hard on this. i especially want to thank the community for coming out and working to a compromise with the mayor's office. i know is not where we want to be, but it is somewhere. it helps for the the goals that we set out with from the beginning of this conversation. i noticed that it did say something about our manual reporting, which a think this report and, but i will be interested in always hearing

from the community on some level. because i am concerned about the level of harassment that we have heard about in these rooms. we have had grown men in tears and terrified by the level of harassment they are having to live within their daily life. we heard from people of color here this morning, not sure they can leave a safe way without being harassed by someone. you live with the stress or tension that is constantly there because you're never sure. even as a woman of color, being in society, i have a certain self conscious that comes with living as a person of culture and of color. certainly, this type of inaction, the tension is to stop terrorism.

the intention should not be to harass members of the public based on the color of their skin. i want to thank you for having the courage to come out and testify and inform us about heehaw grief and pain that the community has been through since all of this began, beyond just 911, but certainly a lot of education that still needs to be done. i think the public in general needs to be educated about what the muslim religion is. the prayer circle was beautiful a couple of weeks ago, and i think there is a level of ignorance that should not be tolerated in this culture. we will have the hearing on protocol for addressing, ha ha. i thought about bill level that

all of us kind of live with, so i think that i just want to apologize for that on some level and because i think that we have to support each other. i am glad that the african- american community, latino community, the japanese american folks came in to show solidarity. i hope that we can continue moving forward and educating each other about the issues that violence gives. it is the start of something. supervisor avalos: supervisor kim? supervisor kim: i want to thank my colleagues that are here today for strongly supporting this ordinance.

not just supporting it but being so gung ho. for me, the ordinance came to us in august and it was a no- printer. it was a safe measure that we were taking and an easy measure for us to take on the residents here in san francisco. we have to say that we are unnecessarily engaging in this type of activity. we have many upstanding officers that this type of activity is not acceptable whether we are engaging in the activity or not.

it is incredible to see the community leaders from the broader api community, thanks op-ed pieces. in legislation, it was incredibly strongly and passionately written. i have really enjoyed participating in that process. and the labor partners for coming at that support. i am glad that we are able to move forward done something. i'm glad that we will have certain -- thank you to my

colleagues. supervisor avalos: i want to thank you for bringing this legislation forward, i am proud to be supporting it with you. we see that this legislation happened, and i want to thank the police department for their flexibility and their willingness to hear from the board of supervisors on how we can put some transparency in place. it gives a lot of comfort for san franciscans and i believe it has been really important to

codify what the relationship would be, much like we have codified what the relationship between the departments with the federal government around immigration issue i want to thank all the flexibility. we heard from many people of the community. especially the federal government, i think we need to do everything we can to make sure that we have a sense of justice and i think this legislation provides a sense of that. i will be supporting this legislation wholeheartedly, and if we can have a motion to move it forward, we will do so.

we have a guest here that would like to comment. president chiu: i want to thank all the members of the community that have been so diligent in your advocacy and your patience with the political process of getting us to where we were. i would hope that we would be able to resolve this before we took it to the board, and the veto that came down. we think it is better that we were able to resolve this with legislation that not resolve this at all. the key to the sponsor of the measure. supervisor avalos: this message will pass with the recommendation to the full board. can we go to the first item to finish business on that one? president chiu: i have

circulated a one amendment to address the issue that our chairman have suggested of what happens if the waiver is granted for criminal nuisance or public safety incident. they grant a waiver, the criminal nuisance a report, the chief may revoke that maybe -- waiver. colleagues, i would ask for your support of the amendment and there is one other amendment that was raised during public comment by the parking lot operators. it had to do with the language around hours of operation and whether or not this legislation was intended to apply to daytime hours as well as nighttime hours. i am prepared, after

discussions, to propose that the language on page 8 that says, this would be only required for parking lots within 1,000 feet of an entertainment establishment, and only if the chief of police does not waive the requirement. if there hasn't been or there has been a criminal nuisance history or public safety incident. the language states that he would be required, in that instance, a security guard to remain on site for all hours of operation until 3:00 a.m. and i suggest we amend that to any operating hours from 7:00 p.m. until 3:00 a.m.. i should also mention that it would be within the discretion of the police chief to decide whether it needed to happen every single day. the police chief could decide that it wo