>> please.

>> okay.

>> (inaudible).

>> miss smith, do me a favor, step outside the car. >> why you bothering me? >> we're just having a conversation. >> this is bs and i don't have to stand for this . >> either way you're going to be stepping outside the car. put your hands behind your back. miss smith, calm down. what's going on you have a no bail warrant. >> i can take care of it i promise. >> that's what we're going to do. we're going to go down to the station, i'm going to confirm the warrant. there's a few things i need to ask you. more than likely you are going to be spending some time in jail. >> do you have some family you have to take care of. >> it's none of your business what i have or don't have. >> calm down. do you have any children. >> no, it's none of your business. >> you are saying things that

make me believe you might have a child. do you? think about your child right now. >> i do have a child. >> okay where is she at? >> she's in elementary school at clarendon >> is there somebody who can come pick her up, take care of her while you're in jail? >> my mother. >> what's her name, give it to my partner there. >> remember an arrest occurs during a traffic stop often there is no sign they are a parent. when these officers arrested the driver they had no idea she had a 10-year-old child who needed to be taken care of while she was in jail. let's review how the officers determined the driver was a parent. the officers simply asked the driver she was a parent. at first the driver avoided answering officer's parent. the driver asked again

if she had kids, by asking and being persistent the officer learned about the driver's 10-year-old child. as officers we are required to make sure the children of arrested parents are safe and released to a responsible adult. if children are present, explain to the children in age-appropriate language what is happening. for example, we are going to take your mother to the police station and ask her some questions. reassure the children that they and their parent are going to be okay. if safe to do so, allow the parent to reassure the child that the parent is okay and that the child will be cared for. question and handcuff the parent out of the presence of the children whenever possible. if another parent guardian is not present at the scene, talk to the parent about who should take responsibility for their child. allow the arrestee to make arrangements for the child. for example, things like phone

calls to relatives or other responsible adults who can assume care of the child. conduct a criminal history background check on the care giver designated by the parent. contact scs at 558-2650 fcs staff will promptly screen the designated adult for child abuse history. document in the report the name, gender and age of the child or children, and the name, contact information of the designated adult and the name of the contacted fcs worker and school staff if applicable. by following department general order 7.04 procedure's, you will keep children safe and lessen the trauma of their

parent's arrest. >> captain. >> this is the intent, commissioner, is to have this training rolled out in february. february will be the topic of the month will be children of arrested parents and the process which will deliver this training is through roll call training at the district stations and all units within the police department where all the training coordinators receive a notification of the upcoming training, they receive the dvd, they receive a copy of the

department general order roll call training sign-in sheets to validate that the members have received the training, then that information is entered into our human resource system so that we can actually audit and verify that members of the department have received this and all other mandated training. for the police recruits they will receive all recruit classes currently in session will receive this prior to graduation. in addition the psa's are included in this video training in the academy and while at their assignments at the district stations or units. this also we will also have a you tube link set up for our members, we're trying to get away from dvd's and go to you tube as a alternative means for members so they can watch this video at any time with the link without having to rely on the dvd >> captain, can you explain what a roll call training is for folks who might not know what that is?

>> roll call training, every unit there is a line-up where attendance is taken, daily notes are addressed. so after roll call prior to going out into the field the training sergeant will gather the members, sit them down, explain the general order, provide the video to the members and then provide q and a at the end to determine if there's any questions or clarification that's needed and that's done throughout the day through the day watch, the swing watch and the midnight watch. and the training coordinator's responsibility is to ensure that all members receive this training so those who are on vacation on their days off, they will receive the training upon their return to work. >> i assume there's some number, i saw some project what t shirt? i see some familiar faces who have been working on this for a long time. i don't know if you want someone from

project what to say something briefly about their participation in the video. or we're just going to see your smiling faces that's great too. >> i think it's important for them to come up here and speak. this video couldn't have been made without the assistance of occ and project 1. >> occ, please, sam or marian >> good evening, sam romarian who want to speak. we're so thrilled to be able to present it we're so thrilled about the collaboration. that's the one part i really want to underscore. it's a time when there's so much hatred and division in this world and this project was collaboration from the get-go. the writing of it, the filming of it, it was so wonderful. sfcip, that's

children of incarcerated parents. i want to underscore one particular part. the writing, the filming, getting actors, it's the police department, it's the police chief saying sure, i'll do the introduction, it's the video, tom dean he is a youth, i asked him if he even has a license, he's a videographer, he's incredible, he's young and amazing. then project what said can we meet with officers and really talk about what are the nuts and bolts of 7.04? we really want to hear what their experience is and we want to talk to them about what our experience has been. so of course i asked the department would you spend time? sergeant kilshar put together some officers and project what sat down they had some questions and at the end of that meeting there were a few things that were so clear, i'm going to let the project what folks talk about it, but one thing that had to do with this meeting, officers said it's so easy when

we go into someone's home we can look and see are there kids here or are there things that we know are parents. but what's the tough times we're out on the street, we have no idea that the person we have arrested is actually a parent. and because officers said that and because project what said, oh, my gosh, that's gotta be in this video, we refilmed the video, we did a scenario where there's a car, there's a arrestee, you don't know she's a parent. we used to have a car seat in the back but again it's because project what was so smart and officers were so smart and said, yeah, this is what we want to make sure we never forget to do. so we refilmed it to do what we really think will be an effective training video. there's lots of young people here who want to talk about other parts of the movie as well. thank you. >> thank you, samera >> good evening, it's good to see you all again. my name is

zoe wilmott and i'm the project manager for project what. although when my mother was arrested i didn't have to witness it which i'm grateful for, i work with so many youths like cheyenne and mike who have witnessed their parent's arrest. i'm so grateful that the city of san francisco and the police commission are taking the necessary steps to make sure children in this city are safe when their parents are arrested and well cared for. samera spoke briefly about the collaboration but we're so grateful for the help of sergeant killshah for putting together this focus group we have been able to do. our children have been involved in this year-long research project on children of incarcerated parents we were told, oh, you are never going to get a focus group with the officers and ironically it was one of the

easiest ones. it's really exciting to see dgo 7.04 in action. officers really want to make this happen. they said we want to think about the children but as you all know when an officer is making an arrest there's so many things to think about, right? children are an important thing to think about and we all agree about that and one of the things that came directly out of that conversation is they want the tools to make dgo 7.04 automatic for them. after this training video is released is to add that question on the intake form or on the incident report that asks is the person being arrested a parent because the officers directly said we follow every protocol that we have to but we have too many things to consider at any given point in time and if you make me check a box then i'll do it every time. and what we want to see is that dgo 7.04 happens

every time. so we urge you to consider that and would like to be part of these conversations in the future and are so grateful for your participation and say thank you. >> that lady in the yellow jacket back there is in charge of the boxes on the police report. >> i will go talk to the lady in the yellow jacket in the box. there's people from project what in addition to children of incarcerated parents, is now the time for them to come up related to this video? >> it depends, is it part of the chief's presentation or should we do that at public comment? >> how many are there? >> can you just raise your hand if you are here to speak about this video? >> i think it's part of my presentation. >> i think it is too. >> public comment? thank you so much. >> right now, just kidding. >> go talk to the lady in the yellow coat. >> hi, good evening. my name is leila soto, i'm 15 years

old, i go to jefferson high school and i'm a project what advocate. i want to thank the police commission and the department for what you have done over the years. my father was incarcerated 12 years ago after my 4th birthday and i haven't seen him since. i was in silence for half my life and my life has never been the same so i'm thankful to be part of this police commission hearing and for all your support. we have worked with sfpd and the san francisco police commission and the office of citizen complaints over the past several years through sf cip over dgo 7.04. because of this collaboration officers were sent to us to participate as part of our larger research project on the needs of children of incarcerated in san francisco. we are grateful for this collaboration and we have won a great deal.

additionally we are grateful for the opportunity to be involved in the training video, as we feel youth voices on this issue should continue to be prioritized. we would also love to continue to have discussions with this department and to see how training is going. we'd like to involve the advanced officer training. thank you, have a good evening. >> thank you. >> good evening, my name is jana corn, i am 15 years old, i currently attend lowell high school and i am a project youth advocate. i am also a child of formerly incarcerated parents. we want to thank the police commission and department for working closely with us the past few years and especially want to thank you all for supporting dgo 7.04. the training video is an amazing way for police officers to learn how to deal with youth, especially when arresting their parents and to reinforce this we would like for police

reports to have a box that requires all officers to record if the arrestee is a parent who takes care of a child who is under the age of 18. this will be an effective way to make sure that dgo 7.04 is happening the way it is intended so that all children and all youth are safe and protected. thank you so much for listening to us. >> you guys are on message. i'm seeing a common theme here. >> my name's ariella, i'm 16, i'm home schooled and i'm a project what advocate. we want to thank the police commission department for prioritizing children of incarcerated parents for many years and for voting in dgo 7.04 last year.

this training video is great and can be put in the department's web site and used to -- which larry went over -- and i wish this was around because my father was incarcerated. i never knew why and -- sorry --. >> you're doing great. >> for me to visit him. >> thank you so much for coming tonight. >> good evening. my name is sofia, i am vice chair of the san francisco youth commission and i'm a member of the yuelgt justice committee. i came to speak to you last year when you established dgo 7.04 and i thanked you that night for your commitment to improving

youth-police relations and i'd like to thank you for your commitment to youth and cip however this past september dcyf expanded their services to include children up to 18 to 20 years old with the knowledge that many of them are still dependent be on their parent or guardian. myself would like to see it changed in the language of the legislation to include 18-year-olds or 19-year-olds that are still dependent on a parent. myself, i'm 18, i still live with my parents and i'm very dependent on them so that's just something i would like to put before you. however, again, i would just like to thank you again and samera for this amazing video and again your continued commitment. it is really inspiring and a real positive change. thank you. >> thank you.

>> good evening, police commission, my name is alexander berliner and i am a member on the youth commission, i represent district 9 and i am also the chair of the youth justice committee. and tonight i would like -- so in front of you is a document, the document that will be in front of you is a resolution of commendation that was passed by the full youth commission at our january 6 meeting. and, yeah, so we just want to commend you on this work and i think it's really important that the video had testimony from youth who experienced this because it's really important that we have real life examples from people in the community to show other officers how to deal with this. and i really like the part with the teddy bear, i wish

that was real. >> that is real. we have teddy bears in police cars so with the little one, there were no little ones in the video, so what officers do is we -- to do a good good -bye for the little ones, we have the care bear project that was founded by a 12-year-old, she had better bears than we did. we have those, too. the point is sometimes parents are upset so they don't want to do it, but the officers are to allow the chance to leave the bear with the little one and say, hey, reassure them just go with them for a while and i'll be back and if the parents are too upset to do it then the officers leave the bear with the little one and/or whoever the adult is caring for the little one so we have a good good-bye. >> i like that. i'm sure that's going to leave a really good impression on the youth

when they get older. >> i apologize that it took so long to get to this. if any of you want a bear as a consolation for past -- it's the least we can do. i'm sorry that you went through what you went through but at least we have this now. so it will be right going forward. and i like that samera called it a movie. >> high quality video. worthy of that title. >> i would love to see this video posted online and because of, like, certain privacy stuff just make sure that it's put on public if it's uploaded on you tube because i think it's really important that this video is shared with everybody so that we can set an example for other local communities as well as throughout the whole country. i think the san francisco police department has made some really productive changes looking at police around the country and so i think that it's important that