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>> if we could call line item 3 c. >> 3 c, commissioner reports of the discussion. commission president's report and the commission's reports. >> we had our meeting last week in the community in northern station, i have to say that captain did a excellent job with the out reach it was probably the best attended meeting with over 100 community members and two members of the supervisors and mark farrell and one of the new supervisors were present and so i want to thank you for the excellent job and thank you for the officers at northern station and thank the father, the pastor and called in the church who allowed us to use the new community room there. and it was again, it was a very successful community meeting. so i want to thank them for that. so that is all that i have to report, and other than the fact that i want to tell you that your chief i know that you are tired and you reported about a lot of things that happened. this police department has done a lot in the last week. and people really have to appreciate your hard work and i appreciate what you do and what
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the men and women do out on the street this last week and if we were to give a report card it would be an aplus, so thank you. >> appreciate it. >> commissioners in anything to report? >> no. >> please call line item 3 d. >> commission announcement and scheduling of items identified for consideration at future commission meetings action. >> any announcements? inspector monroe? that we are here march 13th in room 400, at city hall for the next meeting. and then we will have a committee meeting in the mission on march 27th. >> yeah, i have two things for future consideration. commissioner chan is next. but there are two things that we need to do. you know, every day we get a report of all of the major incidents and crimes that take place. and i can't help but see that every time that we get this, robbery iphone and we hear this at our committee meeting and so i have done a little research into this and i would like the police department to give us an
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idea of what percentage of the robberies, because the robberies are up are for iphones and the captain gave the example of driving by a bus stop and seeing 14 people looking at their iphones. and it is a problem. and there is always one way to stop this problem if we could have somebody from apple come here and explain to us why they cannot deactivate those phones once they are taken in a robbery so that they have no resale value. so that there is no need for somebody to take those phones if they are deactivated we would have fewer robberies. i would like to get the ideas from the statistics and somebody can get hurt or killed over an iphone and if apple can't explain to us why we do tha. we are in charge of policy and procedure. people are being robbed on a daily basis for the iphones, we need an explanation of what they can and can't do. >> if we can put that on the agenda, and i know that i talked to the chief about this and the statistics are probably the majority of robberies are
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for phones and not just apple >> we have concerns about how things are going with the patrol specials that we deal with them all of the time and there has been some and we have hired new assistant parole specials and i am hoping that we will reach out to the thorough commissioner, chan that we are willing to take a look at some of the rules and procedures that meet with the new patrol coordinator and an inventory of the specials that we have and how are things going, if you would not mind doing that, it is just your expertise and we have to talk about this if you like to talk to this before it is a problem. >> i could do that and perhaps i will recruit another commissioner >> commissioner chan? >> okay. >> and just to clarify to make sure that i am clear on this. on the patrol specials what are the questions? >> our questions are, are they staying in compliance with our
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rules and procedures? are these beats being monitored? again i think that we have lost track of who is running what beat and who is doing what? we hear different things about for example the patrol specials that are no longer with them but on the beat. we need to clean up the mess a bit. it did get better. but it is out of hand >> who is working with them? >> sergeant simon kim. >> and so i will recruit them so he will have more information. >> thank you very much. >> so, my question that i had was about dgo 0.05, i am wondering what is the good date for that. >> we are at revisions 31, and we are ready to send it as a final... (inaudible) as one hopes draft to the occ and to the poa for consideration. so as far as sending a draft,
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and i think that we are done. so, whenever you would like to counter, obviously i will not be here next week, the next week we are dark. and the next week we are in the community. so perhaps the next meeting after that. >> march 13th, we changed it a bit, so on the second wednesday we meet now but not on the third wednesday. so would it be possible to hear it on march, am i seeing this right? you will be gone, i am seeing. i think that it is february still. >> so we are looking at april third? would that work? >> that is fine with us. >> okay. >> so april third for the pursuit driving dgo. >> i mean the only caviot with that is if the poa wants to meet and confer on the policy changes and that scheduling then may have its own course that might delay a little bit. but there is a legal obligation to provide notice of the change and confer with the oa request. >> and since we are a month out, hopefully that is enough
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time for them to respond. sometimes it is hard to put all of the schedules together. for the people who need to be there. okay. >> for now, april third. >> thank you. >> commissioner kingsley? >> i would like to also schedule on the april third, meeting the scheduling resolution. commissioner turm an and i have been working with the city attorney katie porter for the last several months and we have received report from director hicks and the department on that and we are getting it into a format to be able to be able to be discussed by the commission as a whole. and just kind of as a heads up on this, when you receive the document, you know, the commission has a number of mandates on it. you know, for its responsibilities and activities and they come from many different directions. and this resolution is an attempt to organize that bring it together for us to assess
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that and update it for 2013, with how we think that we should go forward. you know, on our many responsibilities and activities. those that we have can control that are resolution based and also to provide a road map not only for us, on an annual basis, but also for new incoming secretaries of the commission, as well as new commissioners. everything will be in one spot. and that it will serve as a good road map. and just also keep in mind, when you get this draft, is that the city attorney in putting it together, used as basically a blueprint the resolution, similar resolutions for the fire department, i believe. and so, we are not creating those completely from scratch. so, we thank you for that, and
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april third is it? it would seem to be a good time for that. >> dr. marshall? >> commissioner? someone brought up, i think that out the whole taser thing that we had the three community meetings. so what is the next step? i am just curious what is the plan? >> sure. i need to meet with the other commissioners, the chief as well as the occ, to debrief on the three meetings that we have had and because we have had three meetings, that is six hours plus of any community testimony and questions and discussion and each of us have probably a box full of information. so we need to meet and figure out what have we gathered so far, how does that track with the resolution that this commission, i think that it was unanimously passed in 2011, that we meet all of those requirements and that, based on that, i assume that we need to write up or have some sort of finding of some sort. and then, once that is ready,
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get that in front of the commission, so that is what i see as the next steps as a single commissioner without conducting with the other ones and i need to talk to them and make sure that that is right. >> and for me, nobody else. and my idea of the time frame in that? >> i am not sure. i am not sure. >> but you guys could let us know. >> we will let you know. >> we did say at the last commission or community meeting that we would try to make it as close as we could within 30 days. so, i know that my hope would be that we could have at least we could have the findings to the full commission by at least the middle of april. >> we could work and watch the bench mark dates and i know that it is not easiest and we will do it all of the time so that we will at least try so that everybody will have a time frame.
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>> thank you. >> commissioners, anything further? >> hearing none, it is now public comment on-line items 3 abcand d. >> commissioners, good evening, very briefly is that i brought it up in 2011 and brought it up in 2012. that for the (inaudible) local neighborhoods you need to do more advertising. plain and simple. on the medians all that i saw was a little 4 x3, in the bay view times on those meetings, they were not listed anywhere else that i know of on planet earth. and then i saw a flier on the door. we are going on with your meeting in parts of the city where the people and those parts of the city don't even know that you exist on the planet.
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there is no notification, outside of a website, or i don't know what other meetings you are using to put the advertise those, but it is not anything that i read papers in the san francisco. the chronicle and the examiner, some of the local ones, and i have yet to see one ad. and the police commission, notified that neighborhood that you are having a meeting. and you wonder why, hey, most of people that show up are well informed which is fine. but the public at large, the layperson has no idea that you are even there. and he is the person or she is the person or should be at your meetings bringing up the local problems. >> and i would like to see more, i would like to see advertisements either on the bus, the community would be very good and i am sure that the community can give me free spots if somebody will dig up the posters they could put it on 150 meeting buses in the mission or the sunset or whatever, i think that you need more of that and i think, don't need to talk about it again late this year and not in 2014,
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i will find out that nothing has ever been done and i thank you for your time on that issue >> any further comment on a, b, c, d, three? >> >> hi, my mame is mark capastany i am a property manager with stewart company. we manage several buildings on the sixth street corridor and i had the pleasure of having the chief in one of the buildings recently in response to an assault that occurred between a couple of our residents. this is my first one of these meetings that i have attended in the 25 years that i have been in property management and real estate and this is new for me. but i did want to take just a moment to thank the san francisco police department for the work that they do on a daily basis in the central market district of san francisco. i have been on 6th street for three years now, and i come from the other side of the
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planet, so to speak, where most people can handle their own housing, afford their own housing and all of this, this area is impoverished and full of people that have trouble taking care of themselves and often get themselfs in trouble and the only thing that i think makes a difference in this area is the san francisco police department's presence on the streets. and the opening of the substation there or whatever it is being referred to as is something that we were hoping for when we first saw the plans drafted. and we were extremely happy to see it coming into existence, because i really believe that this is an important part of dealing with the neighborhood there. other than that, i just want to say, thanks for the effort that everybody makes to keep crime down in the city. because there are a lot of people that don't have anything to lose in this city.
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that live in tenderloin and central market and depending on how, or what state of mind they are in or how much they have had to drink or take, anything is possible. and it just the increased police presence in the area, i noticed that there was a push to have more uni formed officers? the region, there was a large control truck parked for 3 or 4 months and it made a huge difference in what was going on there. and in the last three months, i have had six aggravated assaults inside my building alone. and this is the cash building that houses formally homeless adults and that is just one building out of a dozen on 6th street. and so, it is very important that the commission be aware of the need in this particular
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area for increased police presence and i thank you again for your work. >> thank you very much. >> any further public comment? >> hearing none, the public comment is closed. call line item number 4. >> public comment on the matters pertaining to item 6 below, closed session, including public comment on vote whether to hold items 6 in closed session. >> public comment regarding our closed session matter where we deal with personnel matters? >> hearing none, public comment is now closed. >> the next line, thank you. >> called on vote on whether to hold item 6 in closed session, action. >> is that a motion? >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> thank you very much. ladies and gentlemen we are going to move into closed session. >> president mazzucco and back in open session and you have a
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quorum. >> i have a motion with reference to... >> second. >> all in favor? >> aye. >> any public comment. >> hearing none, please all the next item. >> next item 8. adjourn. >> i move to motion. >> i move that we adjourn. >> thank you very much everybody. >> thank you.
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to the whole cause of anti-trafficking. we are waiting for mayor lee. my name is nancy goldberg, cochair of the seven cisco collaborative against human trafficking. i wanted to introduce my past chair, and my new cochair. when i tell people of my involvement their shock to hear that san francisco is in major definition of human trafficking. they think it is people from other parts of the world. there are also so many right here, from our own bay area communities. in the city that is out of human trafficking we are also committed to being an agent of
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change. i want to give you a brief history of sf cat, san francisco collaborative against human trafficking. in response to what we saw is a growing problem, four organizations formed up in 2008, the jewish coalition against human trafficking; national council of jewish women, jewish reel fund, -- we then realize would needed a wider coalition in order to be more effective we reached out to a large variety of the government sectors. in february 2008 the jewish coalition held
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a conference against human trafficking which included agencies such as the san francisco commission on the status of women, representative of the mayor's office and other nonprofits. this event also attracted members of the state assembly and a few congressional offices. at a meeting following our conference a i was asked to chair the larger group and my condition was that there be a cochair from the mayor's office at that time was catherine dodd. the san francisco collaborative against human traffic was born. in 2010 - from the beginning emily morassie (sounds like) executive director of the san francisco commission on the status of women was
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always involved as well as theresa sparks, executive director of the human rights commission. they were not only the core of the beginning but also generously offered to help us and support us and today that is where we are housed. we have a membership of over 28 agencies public and private representing a wide area of government agencies, law enforcement agencies, service providers, educators and community members. we are committed to ending human trafficking through collaboration, education, outreach, raising awareness and supporting survivors of human trafficking. how many cities have this kind of public private cooperation? i don't know but we are among the first and speaks about the efforts put forth in the city but isn't this the city where
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all things that are impossible can happen? i wanted to just a few people who are here. first and foremost the honorable mayor ed lee. and supervisor carmen chu, has been a great champion. the winners of the sf cat annual poster concert and the keynote speaker, -- a human traffic survivor and advocate. i want to say that other human rights commissioners are here, -- and vice chair doug chen, -- commissioner, the president julie -- nancy kirshner rodriguez, police chief greg sur (sounds
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like) -- i will like to turn this over to mayor lee.diana are you here? he is on his way. well - thank you. why don't we do that? why waste a moment. >> nancy did mention that we will announce the winners of the fabulous poster contest. i am the executive director of commission on the status of women. the mayor will be announcing not only the winners of the poster contest but also the winners of this year's abolitionist awards.
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fire commissioner -- is here and emily conroy from the department of justice is here. thank you for joining us. i want to bring up mayor lee so she can bring up the announcements of the honorees for today. apl(applause) >> thank you emily and thank you to the commission on the status of women to our human rights commission thank you for being here and the commissioners and staff as well. thank you police chief for being here and certainly all the other department heads. wendy thank you for being here as well. members of the community. advocacy groups that have been so important to this movement. supervisor carmen chu, i know you and mayor newsom had this initial effort back some years ago to recognize the need to abolish human trafficking.
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an san francisco being such an international city, many of our roots are from immigrant families. we understand the problem. we did do something about it and continue that effort. i want to thank the us attorney's office for being here. and so many of you who have from the community done and continue to do what you can do to end human trafficking. this is such an important challenge for all of us. and because we here at from immigrant families; we hear from immigrant women and girls. the stories are real. they come across international borders. and so san francisco being the city that is not only aware of this, and aware of international traffic that occurs we have to
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continue doing something about it. if anything, our goal is of course to educate our youth; to make sure they understand that they have partners in both city government and in the community to help. those that are lucky and can survive; all of this and when they end up on the shores of san francisco, if we can find them and provide them with support and help them change their lives. and then get to the business of the criminal acts involved in exploiting our kids. we should do all of that and this trafficking. i want to thank everybody for being here today, helping celebrate this event recognizing the awareness month but also recommitting ourselves in every possible way to do what we can do to end this on a worldwide basis and to know the src