points before we turn into pub hick comment. i believe we have the best police department in the /kupbl /treu and the fact that this police department is having these issues tells me that it must be pretty bad in other parts of the /kufpbl /treu. i think there are many things that this police department has done extremely well. i don't /theup one of them is doing outreach to this particular population. i don't believe that enough has been done to really connect with them and to make them feel like they can come forward. i think a lot more can be done and i ink that there there is an accident and i /tpho*e if any and all can make it happen, [inaudible] will make it happen. so i think that's the /khal listening here is that from what i have seen, there is no trust from this particular population of this police department right now. and so we need to change that. but i

think that it's also an issue of resources. it's not enough to say that they have to be given the resources and the tools to make that happen. so i think it's possible and we' certainly not gonna walk away from this issue, /kopblt to focus on it as much as we need to until something actually -- until we see changes that need to be made, but there is something unique happening about the transgender community in that neighborhood because even though there are some larger issues there that are being addressed, there is something specific to the transgender /hra tee /tpho*e community that needs to be addressed. and it's not just the police department, it's the communality itself. one of the questions i have is we're talking an violence against transgender women in the mission. we have a mission piece, /khrabtive that is

supposed to work on public safety. at the last /phao*ting i /tpho*eted where are you when it comes to transgender issues. transgender /hra tinas, by the way, many of them being targeting by the latino community. with that, let me just call on members of the public who would like to speak. any and all who wants to speak please come up. i see a number of you who are here and i

really would love to make sure that you have an opportunity to say something and thank you for being here. so come on up. >> thank you supervisor campos. i'm [inaudible] just want to let you know that at asian woman's /sheltder we provide support services for [inaudible] and different kind of violence and our shelter is available for all victims. we provides space for both transgender women and men. so in the shelter with work with clients to secure safe housing, new employment and other networkings such as healthcare or child care. but the shelter's stay is very short --

either two or three months -- so we provide follow up -- we just want to say any support for our work is really appreciated from our community. thank you. >> thank you for what you do. next speaker. >> i'd like to thank both of the supervisor /t-r for being here today. i want to add a little bit about what we do in trying to change community attitudes and a lot of that is what we do through our volunteer training program which pros 50 new and vibrant volunteers an language advocates every year. in 40

different languages they take messages that they through the volunteer training. miss /sapblgs about violence in all families, all communities and the importance of inclusive services for all members of domestic violence. some of those experiences and some of those community generated discussions have created a safe space so that transgender m embers in those communities have felt safe and confident to reveal their identities. thank you very much.

>> hi, i'm here as a representative of woman inc, which i wanna thank you for discussing this really important topic today. transgender women are survivor [inaudible] we are thankful for the recent media coverage on the hate against trans communities. [inaudible] of 43

lgtbq /sp-fbg about violence [inaudible] ourity,

>> i have been in as much /s-f for a very short period of time, about four months and i have felt very welcomed in the

organization that's received me with open arms. i'm a volunteer there and i really appreciate the work of this organization. we have many needs in our organization. we offer many services like peer support services, help fiending housing and we're a community that has a wide variety of needs. i see the needs of my

sisters. many of us have to sleep in the street and homeless shelters in situations that are often intimidating and difficult. and ella is a space where we feel at home, we have a cup of coffee, we have any food that's available and offered there, but most importantly it's a space that we feel safe. but we have many needs and i'm asking you today for the city to support our organizations with funding. that's all, hank thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> hi, good afternoon, my name

is [inaudible] and i work for the organization ella. i am here to advocate on behalf of the women in my community. in my community the mission, there is too much violence against my community of women. this is violence that comes from people outside of my community as well as the police. just recently i

was walking with a friend who was assault and we called the police and the police did absolutely nothing. we had to follow the perpetrator of this assault and capture the person on our own and this really was an experience that taught me that we are not a protected community in the city. the only thing i'll here to ask for is more security for myself and the members of my community. thank you so much. >> next speaker please. >> hello, my name is [inaudible] and i am program super /sraoeutz so are at ella. i really shouldn't be here. i

think that [inaudible] they should be here to tell their story, to be able to [inaudible] violence against transwomen but they're not here. they've been murdered brutally. i came across [inaudible] memorial /s*fls and the rally and all the community came out. mark leno was there, /sraeurls various people in this room were there. community organizationings came together and were like, we can't let this go, we need to respond. i reflect on where that incident happened, i refleck where we are now and

really they thinks haven't changed at all. at the memorial service i spoke and i asked the question, what are we left with now? what are we supposed to do ? what is our next step? how do we take on the responsibility to make sure these incidents of violence don't happen? because we can't -- there's no resources available for us. we've had to do bake sales to provide [inaudible] we've repeated the

/sta /teus statistics over and over. the knowledge is here. what has been said from past leaders is known so i hope we can move forward and talk about transformative approaches. thank you. >> hi, my name's stacy and i'm program's codirector at community [inaudible] we've been in the community for over 34 years and i have to echo what has been said. we've seen the trends of transgender women [inaudible] broader lgbtq community. i'm excited we get to talk about this issue and i hope this results support from

not just in funding, but for the broader issue that transgender women are living with be [inaudible] which results in unstable housing and results in conditions that [inaudible] isolation and fear. and so family rejection -- all these things create a culture where it's not safe to be

transgender. we've been trying to provide more holistic support so we can mitigate some of the psychological and mental impacts that the violence has. thank you for your time. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon supervisors. i stand here not representing the organization that i advocate for, but a concerned community member. i will continue [inaudible] she was mission police department has been working on transgender

community on [inaudible]. next month is our tenth year. there's gonna be a whole lot of transgender out in the community that's gonna be out to celebrate. the hotels know crimes that were committed in the hotels -- the owners of these private hotels tell law enforce /-pl force [inaudible] do not warrant any additional investigation for being [inaudible] on some shelf over in the evidence room is not sent to the state crime lab for analysis. these are the crimes that take [inaudible] that do not warrant notice. education,

education is the key to a lot of intervention and prevention and that's what we need. the community do not communicate with the police. there's another group of crime that's talking place. blacks committing blackings committing crimes against other african american and they all [inaudible]. >> thank you. next speaker. >> i'm the deputy director over at lyric and i have to echo our community partners and say we've been around for 25 years and this epidemic has been unchanged. it persists because

of'slation, over the years have been attacked and assaulted in the streets because they are transgender. our youth are abused in their homes. they're threatened with weapons in the schools. this is an ongoing problem and it hasn't changed. i think one of the key things to focus on is what are some of the solutions and it's about getting behind the februarys actually we have a team of youth and [inaudible] their launching a campaign to make their school transgender inclusive and to have

transgender bathrooms. they weren't aware their school had policies around it, weren't aware that there were resources available. it's their queer brothers and it's their fierce straight allies. we see this in the community as well and it's been the partnership with groups like the domestic violence [inaudible] so i thank you for making space for this conversation and i'm excited to take meaningful steps forward that will stop this violence. >> good afternoon supervisors. beverly [inaudible] first i

last year shocking and absolutely upsetting about the level of fear and violence towards our transgender students in the school district. we applaud this work for being done and presented. we do know it's the first in the country, but it really

presents both the responsibility and the call to action to san francisco. we also want to be a part of that as well. we think that we can do better and should do better. i think one of the other issues we heard sparks address is that secure communities and immigration issue. i just think that it puts all immigrant survivors of any kind at risk, but you can only imagine if you -- maybe your id does not match what you are appearing to be in public. also the language access issues when you couple that with just repressive secure communities policies, we are looking at just a terrible cross roads for this community and so many other communities trying to dig their way out of violence towards safety and dignity. so with that i'll say thank you

for your work on this. i hope we see unanimous support on this issue. >> thank you. is there any other member of the public who has not spoken who would like to speak. seeing none, public comment is closed. i do have some closing remarks, but i want to give supervisor yes yee to speak. >> i want to thank you supervisor campos for shining some light on what's going on with this population. it's obvious we have a lot more work to do to protect these citizens and that when the opportunity comes up for us at the board of

supervisors to provide more resources for those efforts i will be supporting it. >> thank you supervisor yee. i want to thank all of the agencies who have been here today -- da, police department, our school district, our human rights commission and i also want to acknowledge and appreciate the work of the domestic violence consortium because they have really 'em embraced this issue and i think there are many things we can do here. i would like to continue this item to the call of the chair so we can bring it back in a few months to see where things are, but i think that the most immediate thing -- and i would like to set up a meeting with some of the key play ers here to make sure that we have comprehensive

strategy about the budget in terms of what additional resources that are needed. clearly there are resources [inaudible] efforts that are funded, whether it's ella, lyric, so i think that's one piece of the puzzle that we need to create domestic violence funding for the transgender community. we need to look at the police department to see if we need more support in the hate crimes unit. i think we need to look at funding. like wise with the district station. i think the human rights commission is really key. my understanding is that you don't have a hate crimes unit so i think that's

really critical because it's not enough for these other agencies to have that funding. the hfc plays a very important role in making sure that we as a city are /tkoupbg doing this. and then there are other policy issues that need to be addressed and then larger issues around services that need to be provided for this community. but i thank you all for being here and i want to thank the women who have come out to share their stories. i want you to know that the city is committed and we are

committed to see action. so with that i want to thank all of you. i want to thank stephanie ash ashley at my office in helping to coordinate this item, i want to thank our police department again, or da, and all of you for being here. let's make this hope. with can take the motion to continue to the chair without objection. >> that concludes today's agenda. >> thank you. the meeting adjourned.

[ >> welcome to the regular rules committee meeting for thursday, june 6th, 2013. i am supervisor norman yee and i will be chairing this meeting. to my left is supervisor malia cohen and to my right is supervisor london breed. the clerk today is linda wong and the committee would also like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovtv, jennifer lowe and jesse larson, who record each of our meetings d