reporting identity data for the sexual orientation guidelines that are before us. >> so moved. >> is there a second? >> second. >> is there further discussion? we're prepared for the vote. all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> all those opposed? the guidelines have been adopted. thank you. >> thank you commissioners. the next item is item 13 other business and there is a public comment. >> [inaudible] >> okay. mr. goodman please. you have three minutes. >> okay. i'm a little -- president, dr. chow, honorable commissioners, director garcia i am riewk rub an goodman and have been dual diagnosed and i would like

to see some effort on part of the commission and the mental health department in trying to bring about more sensitivity on the part of some of the social workers that work in clinics so there's less of us versus them mentality. i would like to first say that the mission act which i attend i recommend the highest possible accommodation for my psychiatric social worker, nancy a baro. i have been working with her for years and she's excellent. also i recommend the highest accommodation for the director galileo and in my dealings with him he makes me feel at ease and equal to him. there's no superiority complex. also a counselor named donovan but unfortunately there are some

social workers that seem to have a us versus them mentality, and this can lead to situations that i call blaming the victim. recently i went through a manic episode and rather than looking at the symptoms, rather than the social workers consummitting dsm4 and mr. goodman is going through these symptoms which he described right here there was a tendency on part some of the social workers who i was and my personality and wanting to try to check me and blame the victim. i won't go into any specifics but i commend galileo, the director and my social worker nancy and donovan especially in tune with the clients. thank you very much.

>> thank you for your comments. commissioners any other business you wish to present? if not we will move on to the next item. >> yes. item 14 say report back from the san francisco general hospital meeting from august 26 that commissioner singer chairs. >> we had a meeting. let me summarize the salient points. we approved the council minutes and requested regulatory issues and they now have quite a good framework for updating us on the myriad of regulatory issues. we reviewed and talking about the proposed institutional master plan which we saw here and talked about the lean update. lean is the program they have a very comprehensive and cohesive team approach to making their work more efficient and the care better, and that's particularly

. >> >> important now because they're dealing with the prospect of moving the hospital next year so they have to be tighten than they have been and it goes correctly and feels like they're embracing that with unthese yasm and rises to the level of hard to fathom but it's terrific. we got a new version of the vacation report we use and we approved a new sheet for surgery and we approved the full commission approved the bylaws which the chief of medicine and his staff -- including the predecessor, put an incredible amount of time on it. mark, do we need to move on that now? >> that's coming before you october 7. >> great. we got an update on

the head of security which you all know and are interested in was one of the main things that came out of the review of the unfurniture incident at the beginning of last year -- end of the prior year i guess and we're making good progress on that and that felt good, but as part of that i would say that we have a lot better appreciation for the hiring process that the department operates under that is sort of given to it by the city, and that's something they think bears a lot more work. in any circumstance it's important to identify and hire good people quickly in the kind of competitive environment that we face in san francisco today. it is almost unconference i believe

that we -- conconscious i believe that we ask them to deal with that and in the steep competition for great people. >> >> so it's something we should in counsel with director garcia try to understand it because it will be a huge cost to us in the coming years if we don't figure out a way around it and in closed session we got a report, the credentials report and the pips report and we approved those. >> questions commissioners? if not thank you for the comprehensive report. next -- any other joint conference meetings? >> no. and i also received no public comment requests for that item. . . the next item is committee agenda setting. >> so commissioners we had gone through our planning session so based on that we're working on what might be some topics that

we could take up and how we would do that probably in some sort of format that allows for further discussion in a less formal fashion as one of our sessions, but commissioner chung today the possibility that we would vet some of the subjects first in a similar type session within our own subcommittees, so that the topics then would be already matured in order for us to look at what we might consider like many planning sessions for certain large topics, like either the ehr or the system -- the aca so while we're getting these important reports we could digest that and also look at where we're going in the future, so that's on the horizon working on the director how we're going to do that, and so i just want to report that as part of our committee agenda

setting for the future. you may have wondered where our off site meeting will be and that actually was put into the mix or first quarter of next year because the calendar was very tight and takes a little bit of logistics to locate the outside site and to set those up, so we have put that off until the first quarter of next year. commissioners have any other announcements to make regarding committee agenda setting? if not then an item on number 16 says adjournment. a motion is in order. >> so moved. >> second. >> and there is a motion and a second. all in favor say aye. >> yes. >> all opposed? this meeting is adjourned. thank you.

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>> ladies and gentlemen the chair has called the meeting to order, could we please rise for the pledge of allegiance? >> president, i would like to call the roll, please >> yes. >> president lofhus. >> here. >> turm an. >> here. >> marshal. en route. >> and commissioner mazzuco. >> present. >> commissioner dejesus in

route. >> commissioner wong? >> present. >> and with us we have the chief of police, gregory p suhr. and commissioner melara. >> here. >> welcome to the police commission, on wednesday, september 10th, inspector please call line item number one. >>general public comment (the public is now welcome to address the commission regarding items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission. speakers shall address their remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or occ personnel. under police commission rules of order, during public comment, neither police or 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, however, from entering into any debates or discussion with speakers during public comment. please limit your comments to three (3) minutes.).

>> thank you, inspector, do we have any public comment? >> hearing none, please call line item number two. >> line item two, reports and announcements. the chief's report, and discussion and review of recent activities. >> good evening, commissioners and public and my report is going to be relatively brief tonight. and we have had unfortunately, two homicides since our last meeting. we had one on nicoles way out in the bay view, at 20 of 10 and last week, homicides actually were working that case. and very sadly, we had a second homicide just last night, at 24th and cap street. and that brings the total for the year, to 26 again, you

know, we actively worked this case, our clearances are up and we are hopeful to make these cases as well. and but again, very unfortunate and the vigil that has been held for the young student, from secret high school that has been going on since that homicide, and it will end after the services which will be on thursday. and as far as crime over all goes, crime continues to be, violent crime continues to be down as well as property crime. and shootings are also down, and so, it seems to be a bit of an irony that, you know, with the crime down, but i think that it is important that when we do suffer, fatal violence, we continue to have the conversation, because we have this vision zero with pedestrian fatality and that should be our goal with violence in san francisco. >> and a couple of things of interest, today. was the kick off for fleet week

and, fleet week is back in san francisco, after one year due to sequester and today we had a robust table tops to the recovery for planning on what we would do, days out from a seven-plus earthquake, and again, i think that a lot of people think that fleet week is just the blue angel and i don't think that they understand that the degree of emergency preparedness that goes in. today 140 agencies were represented all over the place, doing various planning exercises and so as we have done in san francisco, whatever the calamity is worldwide, and it is done as if it happened here which probably makes our plans here in san francisco as good as anywhere in the world and here in earthquake country, it is defined by what just happened, and napa and it is always a question of when, not

if. and this week, we have our, well, thursday, we have the anniversary of the 9/11 and the tragedy that occurred in new york, and we will be and there will be an event at the golden gate bridge and all members of the commission are invited and we will be kicking off a coast to coast run and also, remembering those people including first responders that were lost on thursday, and the chief and his wife will be with the fire department at the fire college at the same time, and it is just the incredible amount of fallen firefighters on that same day. and then on sunday, we have the police fire mass, again, everyone is invited and it is at saint monica, and it is, and i know that the policeman and fire really appreciate how everybody in san francisco takes a moment to remember what is probably a tragic a day as

anybody suffered in our life times. so with that, that concludes my report. >> okay, that is all, commissioners any questions for the chief? >> okay, inspector please call the next line item. >> line item, two, occ director's report, discussion, and review of recent activity and presentation of the occ statistical report and summary of cases received in august 2014 and, mediation of complaints in august 2014 and adjudication of sustained complaints in august of 2014. >> good evening, and this evening, i will have a brief summary of the recent activities and i missed the first part of the chief suhr's report, but last friday, i

attended a reception for the participants of the operation genusis trip to ghana as well as these in the entire video and it was, quite moving, and it was, you know, such a wonderful program, in that after, the screening, the team participants were able to answer questions through a q&a about what it meant to them, and to them to go to ghana, and to be in touch with the demands and the culture, and the history of their independence, and as well as the point of

departure for the slaves and what was really touching about the teams is that they were able to contrast their lives and what they considered to be their struggle here in san francisco with with the struggles of people who were very poor but did not necessarily embrace poverty as their way. but what i heard from the teams was first of all they sure wish that they could go back again and they knew that they could only go one time and secondly it taught them to appreciate what they had here, and one of the teams said, well i had trouble getting up to go to school but i am going to get up now and just to see, in the full, and i know that we saw part of the video here, and that the police commission and we see the entire video, and to see, how the officers

interacted with the students, and just how important that is. and that to me, is truly a community policing. and in its fullest degree. and we see something like that, and it, it makes you realize how far away ferguson, missouri and what has happened there from what is happening in san francisco and so i appreciate the invitation and having had the opportunity to before the film talk to some of the teens and their parents. so that is the recent activities. with regard to the august comprehensive statistical report, we will go over the numbers of complaints. that information is in your packet and i will talk about the mediation and we had 36 mediations through august 31st.

and the same number as through august 31st of last year. moving to the chief's proposed discipline on occ sustained complaints in august. and there were eight cases that were reviewed by chief suhr and seven of them were from neglect of duty and one was for discourtesy. the discipline ranged from admonishment and retraining up to suspension, and rep remanned and retraining and a particular note is one involving one of the... and (inaudible) and the officers failing to obtain the

complainant account of the incident, when the complainant received the injuries during a fight. and leaving out the complainant statement, because the complainant primary language was spanish and yet the complainant was interviewed in spanish but it did not make its way into the incident report. so in response to that, the chief is going to issue some department bulletins on report writing responsibilities. and in another incident involving an officer in pursuit of a suspect who had been involved in a hit-and-run, which caused property damage, it was mistaken identity where

the officer display his weapon to a 14-year-old at a park. and the 14-year-old was in fact there watching younger children. the 14-year-old and his father filed a complaint. and chief suhr, did not find a display of the weapon was out of policy, but he did find that the officer should have explained more carefully to the teen why what happened happened. and additionally that the officer should have issued the teen a certificate of release. so there was an admonishment in retraining in that case. and that is the conclusion of my report. >> okay, any questions for

director hicks? thank you for that report. >> you are welcome. >> i have a couple if none of my colleagues have. i saw under the discursecy that there was a written reprimand and i don't know if it is appropriate or to share with us what it is, making the inappropriate comments? >> it involved using inappropriate language. >> cursing? >> i do not recall. >> okay. >> and what i did recall was that the language was such that i was not comfortable putting it in the report and now i do not recall. but i can let you know. >> okay. >> and i just want to say, i do think that it is a sign of the system working when you identified the need to issue

the department bulletin in a good way that the two departments, i guess is one department, but occ working with the department to identify areas where there is a need for reminders, because, clearly, i think that there are a few there. and so that is great. anything else for director hicks? >> okay. and inspector call the next item? >> commissioner loftus, i should say president , loftus. >> i don't want to take credit for the department bulletin, that was something that chief suhr on his own determine%backer determined was necessary. >> only because i knew that was what the director wanted to happen. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are seeing a love fest. >> call the next item. >> two c, commission reports, xhix president's reports and commissioner's reports. >> yes, this weekend, i had the

good fortune of attending a play called the haze, it is put on by a woman who is a survivor of a rape that happened here in 2010, and it is the story of her and she come before us in this commission and it is the story of her experience, not only of being victimized by the perpetrater and waiting for the system and waiting for her kit to be tested and i know that the chief did significant work on identifying what the break downs were in 2010, before the chief was in charge. and some changes were made at the crime lab, and some policy changed were made around eliminating a backlog and moving for ward in a way that does not leave any discretion to decide which kits we text. >> and so we hope that you might be able to shed a little bit of light on th