i would think both the commissioners for -- thank both the commissioners for making the motion to put this on a future agenda for the referral regarding jewel gomez. a lot of people have felt it is kind of not good for your purchase -- your disposition if you make a recommendation and it disappears and that is the end of it. if the mayor wrote a letter and said, i considered to recommendation and decided no, fine. if he writes a letter and take some action, find. but simply to have nothing is not acceptable. i think it is an insult to the commission and i think it puts them in the awkward position of saying we make recommendations and they sometimes just disappear and we do not know what happens to them because occasionally, as has happened a

number of times in jewel gomez's case, people will say what happened and your answer is -- that does not reflect well. i did not come here to cause problems, but i do come here to point out areas where i think things are not being handled properly. when i go to other public meetings, i tell them, my two main concerns here are to ensure that members of the public are free to make meaningful public comment and they're given access to public records which in most cases you need access in order to form a format. a friend went with me to an arts commission meeting and after he recommended they might get some sunshine ordinance training, one of the commissioner said, and my allowed to comment to him? which if they knew the ordinance

which he signed he have known td to respond and he said to the man, mr. whatever your name is, i do not know who the hell you think you are but that is a bunch of bullshit and i do not appreciate coming here and being lectured by someone like you. if that is the response by the board commissioner to public comment, especially of legitimate public comment, it is disgraceful. people have a hard enough time public speaking. it is one of the things people fear most in their life and it is hard enough for citizens of the city to come to a board or commission when they are concerned about an item then address those boards and commissions and to be aware of the fact that members in the auditorium and members on sfgtv are also watching them. to have someone showed a total animosity not only says that

message to that individual but it sends a message to every other person in the chamber and every person watching on government television. it's as we did not want your comments, we did not appreciate them, and if you see the wrong thing to us, we will attack you. our response is ok, the ordinance clearly says members are free to express their opinions, to respond, and i want to thank you for the responses i have gone although i may have not agreed with each one. i respect the fact there were given and it is that give-and- take that really encourages people to participate in government. i think one of the things that i see separately is the fact that many people to not go to boards and commissions because they really do not feel that the board and commissions care about what they say. i have heard them do it. one time in a police commission meeting, they went to item no.

2 and covered a and b and went into closed session for four hours, it made everyone leave the chamber. there were 15 people that came to talk about item number two. after the four hours, they came back, covered agenda item 2c, and asked for public comment and i was the only one that was left and i said that was not right. i was told by the vice- president, you cannot talk about that. it can only address the substance of the item, you cannot address -- you cannot address how you handle that. i respect the constitution and whenever i see people who are not allowed to comment freely without being discouraged, i will speak out.

>> the last item on the agenda is public comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda within the jurisdiction of the ethics commission. >> when i joined the navy, i took an oath to support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic, to bear true faith -- true faith and allegiance. one of the interesting things about that later when i left the armed forces examining station, i realized i had lived 20 years of my life, had these liberties granted to me by the constitution, not only in this case of the u.s. but in california, and i had never had to do anything in return. i also realized at that point i

was never going to be able to and accountants to put the burden down. polehinke no me by my appearances here and i am not too shy about -- i think you know me by my parents is here and i am not too sure about my parents is. it is my right to do so and i feel it is my right to do so, petitioning government for redress of grievances. when i see of their careers of the public and they're not given an opportunity to speak, or their comments are disparaged or whatever, i find that totally unacceptable. primarily because in many of those meetings, every member of the commission or board is taken -- has taken an oath to support the constitution of the ninth seat in california. by denying people those rights, they are violating that both in my mind. it is critical that people

participate in government. one of the things i have learned in life, none of us is smart as all of us. one of the raises the bay area is such a magnet and such a vibrant and dynamic area is because we have people here who've come, who are free to express themselves, whether it is the technology field or any other field and i think that shows well. government benefits at all times by being open and not just accepting public comment. so let's have a public comment. we're not just going to allow you to speak, why it to speak. thank you. >> is there a motion to adjourn >> all in favor? opposed? the motion passes. the meeting is adjourned.

>> good morning.

thank you for being here this morning at the san francisco police academy. i want to introduce some of the folks behind me. obviously our mayor, ed leigh. the president of the san francisco police commission. ron conway, caroline, the director of global human engagement for hewlett packard. our chief information technology person here at the san francisco police department, leo solomon, director of project i.t. management. adam, founder of arc touch. zach, product lead, arc touch, and the newest classes of the strans police academy, lateral and spri level. the entry level officers are starting today. without delay i am going to introduce mayor leigh to explain why you are here. it is a very exciting day for me as chief of police as we

step into the next stage of progressive technology for the san francisco police department. mayor ed leigh. a [applause] >> thank you, chief. thank you very much. i am glad to be here this morning and certainly the very first thing i want to do is challenge the chief and thank all of the men and women of the new class, who will also share in the responsibility of taking care of our citizens. i want to thank you for your sacrifice and the work that you will be doing with us. our police department of course is essential to a safe city. when the chief and i first did our interviews when he was coming in to see me, we talked about the technology, and i had said in my previous role that we were part of the effort to help sue and her efforts to modernize our police department. of course within months sue was

coming in to the city administrator's office telling us what the department did not have set up. with commission president mizuko and the chief, as they have come together during this administration, we wanted to take care of that in the most passionate way. a couple of weeks ago we were up here already announcing our city's support and efforts to create multiple classes for the future to make sure that as we see so many other of our officers retire, that we fill those ranks. i think that our new recruits are completely reflective of that effort, and we will see more and more of our recruits in the months to come as they help take care of the future ranks in our city. today we are announcing a very special endeavor, one that reflects so many of our administration's effort to

modernize our police force. as you know, i have been very much focused on our openness in inviting technology to help us solve problems, social problems, communication problems, challenges that each of our departments have. and i'm thrilled because the formation that ron conway led with the creation of sf-city and the promise that not only would it be a voice for technology and innovative companies to tell us what we could do to help the industry succeed in our city, but there was also a promise that we mutually made together, which was how could we help our technology companies help us become a better city to help us serve our residents, smarter and more efficiently. we identified quite a number of projects in our city.

some of them are being baked, if you will. this is one we wanted to put out front and center. six months into this new administration, we are ready to announce today that in partnership with sf-city and one of the key members, arc-touch, and h.p., hewlett packard, we have formed a two-phase project that will address something that we have identified for many years that has hampered our police department's efficient use of time. one of the things that the street officers do on a daly basis is they have to write instant reports and get the data to do their job. most of that is done by the officers leaving the streets and returning to their stations or to the downtown office to access the ready computers that

are there so they can get the data there. we don't have the mobility, if you will, to have the officers access that information while they are in their cars or on the streets. so in a two-phase process what we are doing today is announcing a partnership with h.p., who is donating some 60 of the initial first-class laptops to be used by this particular class to train them, and sf-city is donating $100,000 in that effort with the whole training program. combined they are working with arc-touch to develop application soss that once these officers -- applications so that once he these officers are trained, arc-touch will be then in phase two developing applications so that various

mobile devices in addition to the laptops, and eventually it will be tablets and then mobile applications that might be on their phones, to be able to access crime data, be able to utilize new technology in order to transfer speech and video into written reports that will make the officers very versatile in the field. that is important to stress. one of the problems we have always faced in both limited budget times and even robust times, is whenever you have to have an officer remove him or herself off the street, out of the the presence of the community, in to a station to write reports for several hours, that presence is missing. in order for the officialses to be had, we have to develop

innovatively technology that offers access in a mobile way. that is what this relationship will do for us. it begins with this donation, but the essential part that will take place in these walls is the actual training to utilize the accessed abilities from the h.p. lap tomas into the crime data warehouse and have the applications developed over time. it's a wonderful program. it is one i think that reflects exactly the relationship that ron conway and i discussed months ago when we started this, how we can be a more efficient city, how can we save time, and how can we still have the officers perform the essential service of being physically there in the neighborhoods on our streets, protecting our citizens and visitors. so this is a wonderful announcement. i am fully endorsing this. i want to thank the chief and

the president of the commission and the whole commission. i want to give a strong shutout-out to sf-city and the members, who have stepped up so quickly to identify this area that will have endless, i think, solutions to giving us the ability to be even more efficient. the time-saving aspect of this is so critical because the more police presence that we have as we invite and have events in the city, we have to have the officers out there even more. so over a short period of time, you will see the absorption of this technology into our officers presence out there. i think in a very short time the ability to have mobile applications will be a very, very good answer of efficiencies for our officers. again, i want to thank h.p.

their team is here today. arc-touch, and their leaders are here. of course sf-city. this is just one. we have so many other departments that are asking for modern technology. as we go through other things, we will come out of our baking oven and on to modernizing our whole city government. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, mr. mayor. i can't tell you how exciting this is for the san francisco police department. much has been made in the media that we are currently down between hundred and some-odd officers, and we will be down 300-plus officers by this time next year before we catch the bounce from these new officers hitting the streets. by being able to have these officers remain in the field through mobile technology, it will increase their time on the street 3-4 hours a day, 30% to

40% a day. multiply that times the well over 1,000 officers we have in the field, and you can imagine the efficiency that promotes for the police department and contribute toward public safety. i have to tell you though, mayor leigh is all about efficiency, technology, public safety, and public-private partnership, and we are lucky to have as our mayor. with what a friend of mine saw in 2003, and we are naming this the michael j. homer initiative. his mom's sister and niese just walked into the room over here. so i am going to ask them to come forward. mike was a tech giant, one of the starters of net escape, and bill campbell, ron conway, and todd bradley of h.p. we would often talk about having to make san francisco and the police department the

most technologically progressive police department in the country. and if we could ever be in a position to make that happen, we would do that. then we were blessed with a mayor who wanted to see that happen and an i.t. director that could make it happen. so going forward, this initiative, however it can help the san francisco police department be connected and then hopefully eventually grow it regionally, to make it simple, this is in fact the bat computer. we can punch a single piece of information into a google search system to tell us what we need to know, whether it is a car, a person, a description like that. we can find it out like that. you would think we would have been able to do this already, but that has not been the case. we just got e-mail department-wide last year.

so we have moved tremendously just in the last 13 months, and we have left the note post-it days, and we are now into a google searchable web base data warehouse and now have a partnership with sf-stit, h.p., arch-touch and a mayor pushing the whole thing forward with his full sort. and these officers behind me will never know a desk top computer. they will only know mobile technology, and that includes the three classes a year for the next six year and two classes a year after that. so eventually we will be the most tech no logical progressive police department to make this -- not only san francisco, but the entire bay area as safe a community as there is in the country. so i think you, and again i want to recognize mike's mom,

irene homer, sue homer, and sue's gorgeous daughter. [applause] for giving us mike for as long as we had him. there wasn't a smarter guy on the planet. we will try to carry on in his memory. our next speaker will be president thomas mizuko of the police commission. [applause] >> thank you. i will be brief. you noticed some emotion with the chief. he was good friend with mike homer. he was very successful in the computer industry. yet he never lost his friend who were working and serving the city as police officers. i know they were very dedicated to him. so i want to thank his family. when i first joined the police commission four years ago, we were having a meeting regarding crime mapping, and it was important to us to have the community able to go online and

see what is going on in their area. then i asked the chief, "well, when the officers get to work, are they able to go on line in their station and see what has been happening in their car sector?" the confer was no. i said what is going on? we don't have internet capability at the police stations. that was a shock. that has changed thanks to mayor leigh, chief conway and folks before him and sue. we set out and hired the first director of technology, who reported back to the commission and told us there was no technology. so we have made great strides. i want to thank the members of the community who came forward. we talk a lot about community policing. we wondered about our neighbors in silicon valley, what can this do to make our officers more efficient? how can they help us?

that is a form of community policing. they came forward. from the bottom of my heart i want to thank everybody, mr. conway, h.p., sf-city. this is an incredible accomplishment. and i want to thank our new officers. this is a sight for sore eyes. this is what mayor leigh made possible through his work with the board of supervisors. this information technology is going to them. they are more second knowledge sandovaly. look at them. they are younger. they were raised on laptops. i want to thank everybody for being here and making this possible. thanks. [applause] >> i want to reasure everybody that even though we couldn't share information, we are a very chatty police department, and we told everybody what

happened the day before. our next speaker is no stranger to really anything that is progressive in the bay area. he has been a great friend to the city and to me, and that would be ron conway, chairperson of s.f.-city. [applause] >> thank you. it is an honor to be here. i represent sf-city, which is an organization that i founded in january. it is kind of a product of the election of ed leigh as mayor of san francisco and more specific engagement in the city. sf-city has approaching 300 member companies in the city of san francisco. these are all tech companies that now represent well over 90% of the tech population in

san francisco. so we are very representative of the tech commont. we adopted five pillars where we are going to be involved in san francisco. the first pillar is jobs. the second pillar is transportation. the third pillar is philanthropy. the fourth pillar is policy, and the fifth pillar, which we are here to talk about today, is public safety. sf-city got involved last week with the future grads program, which is going to take kids off the street and give them internships during the summer. this is a program founded by greg sur and the sfpd. but we thought it would be very appropriate for sf-city to get involved in helping san francisco's police department leap row frog -- leapfrog

technology and be a national showcase for the use of technology. why not do that right here in san francisco, which is the innovation capital of the world as stated by mayor ed lee at your inauguration. and we are going to make that happen. going back to 2003 when make homer visited greg sur here is he sfpd and would ridicule him for how backward the police departments basically across the country were in technology, it may have taken us a while, but today we are here to announce that we have fulfilled mike homer's dream. his dream was to be ahead of technology, not along with it or behind it, but ahead of it. by equiping these cadets, soon to be police officers, with

technology, as greg sur said, 30% more time on the streets of san francisco with the distance of -- the citizens of san francisco. that is a material change. like greg, i want to honor mike, mike's mom and her family who are here, who live just down the street, i think. so with that, sf-city is honored to be here, honored to be included, and i think we will help the city of san francisco continue to stay ahead of technology and utilize technology first and be a national showcase for technology in police work. [applause] >> our next speaker is >> our next speaker is caroline, director of global