department is undertaking? >> we're not in contact with them about those matters at all. if there's a criminal matter that the f.b.i. is investigating, f.b.i. -- it's not their jurisdiction, but we continue to work with the f.b.i. on criminal cases. >> okay. >> in terms of our relationship with immigration, there is none. >> thank you. >> i want to thank you very much for the exciting description you have given us about what's coming down the pipeline. i just was kind of trying to wrap my head around when the data is collected. is this day-to-day policing. is it happening at the station where someone is interviewing and reporting a crime? i wanted to see when -- at what point this data was coming in.

>> sure. program that tracks traffic stops is done at the time that the officer makes contact with the individual or individuals. in the event that the officer has to leave, they have the ability to go back and modify or complete that record. that's under 96a. as we look on the horizon for 953, because it's a web-based application and we won't have the same protocols as the state, we'll be forced to either do data entry in our cars, of which only a portion of the cars have modems, or we have to go back to the station to do the 41-field response. we'll be working with the state as best we can to identify either fixing our application or getting them to roll out that

application in the state. those questions came up in sacramento. >> is information -- is there a delay in the information from squad car versus back at the station? is there a loss of information that takes place? >> that's a legitimate question. if the data is captured, whether it's pen and paper, we still carry pen and paper. if it's in a notebook, it can be entered in. this generation of police officers are much, much more adept to texting and talking, so it's not as cumbersome as you would think. familiarity comes from reputation, right? so as we adjust to new

templates, what it looks like and the language, it will be different because the state language in terms of demographics is completely different from our current mechanism. >> thank you so much for that clarification. i was trying to picture it in the day-to-day job of policing and how dynamic it is. >> it's interesting. cable tv. >> can you give us a snapshot of where the department is on cit training? is everyone getting trained now and who is not getting trained? >> yes, absolutely. it's continuing to evolve and roll out. as of a month ago, we had 819 officers currently trained. the goal is to have everybody trained. can't take everyone off the streets and put them in the classroom. the timeline is by end of 2018 to have everybody trained, if not sooner. >> can you give us a quick

explanation of what you are doing regarding bias training, implicit as well as explicit bias that we're dealing with? >> sure. when we started to have discussions about biases and policing and our contact with communities of color, we started to work with the state, state department of justice, federal department of justice, and started to identify criteria for what that training looks like. there was a number of courses out there, whether it was implicit virus or procedural justice. we married those two courses together. we took the best parts of each and created a robust training program. we still have members continuing to go through. our first effort was to put all of management there, because we wanted to ensure that management understood what their officers are expected to do and hold them to that. that continues to evolve.

>> thank you. >> any other questions or comments from the commission? thank you so much. now it's my pleasure to ask neva walker, director of coleman advocates, to come to the podium. >> good evening. >> good evening, director. >> thank you. madam chair, commissioners, and director davis, we thank you for the opportunity to speak tonight in your interest on data collection. coleman continues to be invested in equity along with data analysis and especially impact of systematic change on individuals in the community.

i'm going to have kevin bogus, our political director speak, but before i do that, one quick thing. one of the early things that my mother taught me in elementary school, was the importance of understanding data. she told me, those that own the variables, control the story. so oftentimes, communities looking for data from departments, governments, and we get a story that sfusd or others are putting out for us. we need ourselves or independent bodies, to be able to read the variables ourselves. get the raw data ourselves. and it's only because we want to also share in the story and understanding exactly what is occurring to make sure that we're getting closer to fixing the systems that are broken, that are challenging our families. and oftentimes, that becomes a

hindrance. kevin? >> thank you, commissioners. and so i think for coleman and our work with families, data is a key, fundamental part of it and making sure that that data is something that is understood by people and used to change the outcomes that we see within the public school system. theres a lot of negative outcomes for students historically, so we want to be sure that whatever is happening is working to help solve the problems. i kind of broke my talking points into three key points around availability of data, accuracy of data, and being -- folks being able to ingest it. a lot of the data that we requested is not available because it's not broken down in ways that are meaningful and helpful to identify the communities that are most negatively impacted. a lot of times that means that we cannot actually get answers

to some of the most pertinent questions. there was a situation that we were in a meeting and wanted to know the population of special education students that were of african-american ethnicity or race. and we were not able to get that information, even though we know it's one of the larger groups and most impacted in that. we've had a lot of issues around accuracy. we've requested data countless times before they had a good, computerized system and gave us 800 documents to sort and sift through to discuss whether it's disproportionate suspensions towards african-americans, and there was. we till have struggles knowing if it's accurate and how do we

balance that and have a culture of trust and how we're bringing in the input of families and people being served by the system to see if they're experiences really matches what's reported in the data. i know the school system talked about the school climate survey they have. one of the disadvantages is that the students most negatively impacted are least likely to take that survey and most engaged and frustrated with the district are not the ones filling out the survey. lastly, accessibility. for us to get access to fundamental data and understand what is going on with students, we have to do a public information request to request that data. when we did it last year, it took us over three months to get that data from the district -- six months to get that data from the district and we had to pay over $600 for that data.

so that's not readily accessible for families. a lot of stuff we want to know is the intersection between the different services and departments that serve families and a lot of data is not shared together collectively. so the school district doesn't know it. the department of public health doesn't know what's happening. so we're not able to get accurate information about the number of students arrested because that doesn't live in the school district. it's with the police department. for us, we feel that families need this cross section of information and matching people's experiences and there's not a bunch of barriers for folks to get the information. whatever we can do to push for equity and metrics around that and standards to hold city departments, the school district, and all the actors in the city.

we're really concerned about charter schools and the lack of sharing. they have a very foundational role as an educational institution, but they don't even meet the requirements that are enough for the school district to point out. so to figure out how it takes to go beyond city departments and everything that affects the lives of the families in the city of san francisco. thank you. >> so it seems like if we had something like ramsey county has, open access to data required to be collected, that would be of great use. >> and having that collected across different fields and areas and comparable to make a useful analysis to deal with the inequity and institutional

racism that we have here in san francisco. >> and the other thing that i would add, who is holding the folks accountable and where is the oversight? we work more closely with sfusd, but you can say this about any of the departments -- there is limitations to what is shared. for us, we have a resolution around suspensions along with a police mou that is clear about how police should be conducting themselves as well as suspensions for our students. even though they know what data should be collected and reported out every year, it's a cat-and-mouse chase, and that's why we end up having to use a public request document because we're not getting the bare minimum oftentimes in a timely fashion. >> you just shared with us tonight some of the things that

would be helpful for the community and dealing with the issues that our children face. and so, of course, you know that we always want to know if you have specific suggestions about things that you share them constantly and make sure that we're hearing what you're saying. >> thank you. >> commissioner ellington has a question. >> real quick. how's it going? >> commissioner. >> haven't seen you in a while. >> i would just -- and i know we'll go through a series of these meetings and talk more deeply about data, but i would like to invite coleman back to give a full presentation on some of the innovative measures you are using and what you are doing with the data and specifically speaking about the data that's not available. it's a shame that it takes three months to get -- six, that's

right, data and then you have to pay $600 for it on top of that. a lot of this stuff, i'm sure, through casual stories and the work that you do, you know what's going on. how do you take the data and prioritize it into what you then advocate for? >> i think for us in a lot of ways, it's matching the story that we see in the data and trying to uncover what isn't there and matching it from the stories from our members, parents, students in the school that are having real-life experiences that are not always captured in the data. for us, a big part of it is, we're doing surveys and focus groups at school sites and trying to gather as much of that information. another part for us that's foundational is, how are we educating as a school community about what data exists and what

it means and what it doesn't mean. so we can have a real serious conversation about what needs to happen at the school from an informed position. sfusd's graduation is close to 90%, high 80s. if you look at really particular populations like latino and african-americans, it's closer to 60% to 70%, which tells a different story about what's going on. and we understand why the school district would want to lift their successes, but for us, we need to shine a light on what is not successful, so we can address them and not from a standpoint of, we have experts that we'll bring in to fix our problems how will we embed the community in crafting the solutions and using a feedback process to make sure that we're moving forward and solving things versus spinning our wheels. >> thank you so much. >> thanks.

>> this -- so we've reached the conclusion of our scheduled speakers, but we do have several people from city government here in san francisco and oakland that i want to bring up for public comment first, so we get them on the record. i'd like to invite deana rocha, advisor to the mayor. we didn't get you on the agenda, but i'm so glad that you are here. >> thank you, commissioners. i just want to say, thank you, it's an honor to stand before you. many of you do so much amazing work and thank you for leading the charge about trying to create better data collection in our city. i want to quickly give you a context. mayor ed lee had a direction and

vision. and i want to emphasize that our criminal justice forum, which is our public safety departments, chief and deputies have come together after the department of justice recommendations on a quarterly basis. one of the areas brought forth is that we have to look at best practices and adapt two major categories when it came to data collection. one, a separation of where we look at justice information to highlight the latino community and be able to understand through our justice department, all of our justice departments, how latinos are being impacted by a criminal justice system. equally so, there's middle eastern and north africans that we want to see more intimately as well and desegregate from the white category, so we understand all people of color and how they're impacted by the justice

system. in conversations with mayor lee and director davis, the agreement is that we come and start hearing how exactly you would recommend to move forward. we want to absolutely take this charge very seriously, one, because our late mayor wanted to see that we are looking at all ethnicities and how we can capture data and get better at trying to understand how we deal with the issues of disparity, coming up with even investment and programs and how we look at the data across the board in our justice system when it comes to incarceration and arrest and coming back to our communities. with that, i wanted to make sure that that was highlighted. i want to thank you, all, many of you have worked with our late mayor and current mayor endorsing these efforts and we want to understand the recommendations that you have here tonight and ongoing.

>> thank you. >> next, i would lining to ask darlene flynn, oakland's department of race and equity, if she's still in the room. great. thank you for with being us tonight and staying with us to the end. >> no problem. i'm used to long public meetings. 5 -- i want to commend you for having this forum and taking the approach and looking at data and equity. there's a complex issue and making it work well for your residents in san francisco will require more change work. this is what i do, as the director of race and equity in the city of oakland, is how do we use data and other mechanisms to bring about structural and institutional change? because it just happened, i want to underscore everything that the leadership from coleman said

as being absolutely central to making data work for equity. it's really important who is telling the story and that the story being told by the data or that we might understand by looking at the graphs and so on is ground truth with community reality and experience. it's a huge disconnect in government, even where we've collected really good data. and people will share with you from the health department and from -- i'm amazed at how much amazing work is being done by public defenders here and people using data well. and disrupting structures perpetuating racial inequity. we can use data to design or identify who needs more

services. health departments use data to target resources and think about how to do a better job at helping the community be more healthy. the shift that's coming in public health and in other areas is to look at -- let's look at what are the causes of those racial disparities in health outcomes and how can we look at what structures need to be changed in order to not make people sick and then we have to make them well, right? that's called moving upstream. we've got to bring the community into the conversation. we're trying to go deeper. to go deeper, we cannot just rely on numbers on a piece of paper. we have to think about community differently, with the expertise that is brought to the table. it was interesting to me about the coleman folks that i don't

know or anything about their program, it only took that short statement for me to know that they're on the right track. they're saying to you what needs to be understood. this is a huge shift for government. what you are undertaking is a commitment to institutional and structural change. and that means we have to be all hands on deck and that means community. we won't get it right if we don't bring the community in. this is a huge anchor to do the type of work i'm launching. i've only been there for a year, but i've done this work before in seattle, washington. it's to think about community's role and expertise when we're trying to solve the problems. and people closer to the impacts are closer to the selections. so while well have expertise, myself included, in doing various kinds of work and

institutions, we'll not get it right without resenter and placing expertise and holding community expertise differently, so when they say, this is what we need, that's what we need and we can then look at the whys about why we're not doing it that way. and that will tell us a lot about what needs to change in our institutions, because we've not been responding to that for a long, long time now, not just san francisco or oakland, but we collectively as government. it's our challenge to recalibrate and change the paradigm. data is a big part of it, but there's a reason we don't have realti realtime, flexible data. it's challenging to us. and the other thing, result-based accountability. and that is that we don't just collect data for data sake, but for the end in mind.

if you think about it that way, that's why that organization is looking for certain kinds of data. they know the end they're trying to get. they have a clear picture of what equity would look like in public schools in san francisco and they know the data they need to be able to diagnose why we don't have that. diagnosis determines treatment and we need data, we need information. it's working at the problem differently. it's the paradigm is flipped on its head. we don't just look at the data and say, we have a terrible problem here. let's throw a program at it. so it changes completely how we do problem-solving. so it's an important concept. i encourage you to get familiar with that. and, by the way, result-based accountability does not require that we have perfect data today.

it requires that we start to think differently about why we need data, how we use data and what data we'll ask for and build that data out, rather than relying on the old ways we've done it that don't get us where we want to get. so that's probably what i have to contribute. you have a lot of information including some of that. final and last, and i know that cheryl -- if i can address you by your first name -- is thinking about this and working on it. one of the difficulties that we have is our ability to hold data as information and to create a climate that's nonpunitive, while we're working with that data. that's a huge cultural shift, as you all know. part of the reason that elected officials and others run away from data is because they're used to working in a punitive environment. we have to build up an environment where we can tolerate it and looking at it in

meaningful ways. it's not a short-term proposition, but it's an important part of the equation if we want it to stick, want it to work. any questions, i would be happy -- >> i think director davis has some comments. >> i wanted to recognize that as we talk about the changing landscape, not just in san francisco, but the bay area, darlene has been a great partner for what that looks like regionally and what happens when people go there. we know we have a lot of people that still consider san francisco home but don't necessarily live here and what does that look like for us to have a regional approach? and with regards to her last comment, i want to recognize that that was a conversation that james bell and i had had specifically around if law enforcement does its job well and numbers go down in terms of crime or with the need for

public defenders, if they improve outcomes, then they could get less money. so we have to be aware how we consider the impact of data and how it's nonpunitive in the minds of people. >> and what we reward and don't reap ward. it's important. there's a lot of shifts in there that need to happen. >> and for the city to understand that because we move closer to the goals, it doesn't mean that resources should be able away from the departments that are doing the right thing. >> and there are so many things that the departments could be doing with the resources if they weren't doing the same old things. >> exactly. >> so it would be truly beneficial to the city and county. its about reprioritizing that money. there is never enough money for community policing. if we were not doing minor equipment stops, what can we do with that? if we were spending those

resources building relationships and doing community policing, but it takes resources. so we might have to take those from someplace else. police departments are not going out of business. i think we'd like to see them do business differently. >> thank you. so looking forward to this collaboration. >> i'm honored to be here. thank you. >> thank you for being here. we have a card, speaker card, for public comment from tracy garza, who is a member of the human rights commission lgbt ac, advisory committee. >> thank you very much. like you said, i'm a member of the lgbt ac and disability rights advocate. i would like to bring to the attention of the commissioners and people here on data and

equity one of the important parts that has been very much not mentioned during the meeting today that affects lgbt. and specifically when it comes to autism-spectrum disorders, which according to scientific studies affect 10% of homeless people and 10% to 20% of transgender people compared to 1% of the general population, so you can see why in san francisco, there would be disproportionately high number of people affected by this. and one of the things that this condition entails is a certain life expectancy and drastic life outcomes, between 12 and 30 fewer years than the general population and it has to do with the way that society treats people and there's a high level

of discrimination in society, sadly even in places like san francisco that otherwise has a progressive record. i would like to bring this to the attention of everybody today. you cannot address a problem if you don't know what the problem looks like. so for your attention, thank you very much. >> thank you. director davis? >> i just wanted to recognize tracy. as we were talking about data collection, tracy wanted to be sure that we're aware to consider learning differences and other pieces. so we're working with tracy and the group she works with and we'll have it at a future meeting. >> thank you. it's 8:04 p.m. one of our commissioners has to leave right now and so that will -- that means we're going to

lose our quorum. before we do that, i'm going to recognize commissioner chan. >> i wanted to thank tracy for her comment and under this umbrella of the idea of disability, that's around important equity data point to think about and to make have a forum dedicated to that as well, because it impacts work force development and behavioral outcomes in schools, special education, whether or not people have interfaces with the justice system and that i would like that explored more in depth as well and i wanted to really thank you, again, for bringing the point up to us as well. >> any other comments before we lose our quorum? thank you so much to all the speakers tonight and everyone who came out to hear and to participate. this is the first -- this is the

second, actually, of our meetings dedicated to data collection, but it's the first one where we've had a number of substantive speakers, but won't be the last. we'll be inviting all the people that spoke tonight and others to come for more in-depth presentations and discussions and the commission itself along with the agency together will be working on our recommendations and things that will be asked of us and that we'll be asking of the city. very much looking forward to that conversation, particularly with hope sf and the issue of reparations for people who have been moved out of san francisco explicitally and purposely as well as those who have been moved out in more structurally invisible ways and how we as a city can work on an equity

solution to allowing and helping people to come back to the city who have been displaced. so looking forward to that work very much. it's 8:04 p.m. and we're losing our quorum, so i'm going to adjourn the meeting. this meet agassi journaled. -- this meet agassi journaled. adjourned. issue. >> homeless in san francisco is a challenging issue that effects owner in the city in many different was as of the 2014

homeless census over 64 homeless in individual in the city to try to address the issue we've got a program for chronic homeless welcome to the navigation center. >> this pilot project is for people living on the street what makes it different the navigation center is able to accommodate homeless encampments lowell u allowing people to keep their pets and bring their personal bloonlz. >> the full realization that people don't want to be homeless not refuse services but from the services don't meet them and not relevant they're not going to be

successful if you look at the budget losses we've got a community sacrifice important people to get food and laundry we're standing next to the bathrooms it is designed to be a dynamic and brief residential experience where right of on this site city staff to connect you to homeless places to return to family dine is up for medi-cal and all those things that are complicated for people. >> the other exciting thing city agencies come on site and provided the services for folks this is existed to see when the goal of streamlining a a whole processes of getting people on go gentle assistance into housing as much as possible. >> way totally different you can come and agree as please and get laundry services and showers

any time of the day and night it's twenty-four hours a day whatever and twhefr it's not like any other she recalls. >> they come and help people for what it is they're required the issues they need and reach out and do what we can to say okay how can we accommodate you to get you set up and straight never in my mind imagined a program like this this place it different and a a lot a lot that better it works. >> the navigation is center is a collaboration of partnerships too city departments one is the homeless outreach team managed by the san francisco distributing i look forward to the navigation center we'll have our agents go out and help and say don't go

anymore over and over send our dayshift out they've meet the population and hang out and hang in the encampment and transport people and be with them and make immediate impacts with me and my staff. >> bringing our wloongz whatever you go presents a problem this place their help with the storage i don't have to worry about it staying here you know you're getting things done they need to get things down done to get off the street avenue of the hope alsoness is gone. >> they help you if you're hungry go eat if e you need to go places go. >> they're 4th district it awe

auto. >> it was funded through a unanimous donation and of may 2015 an additional $3 million to help to continue the program beyond 18 months. >> you see people coming out they're ready to being so the future homes you know how variable the navigation center is my message for the constituents yes something can be done do break chronic homelessness it is being done. >> this is a community that sets an example but i how to pick an area that was funky they've seen we're trying to do is help their neighbors they've seen getting sicker and more frail and broken down on the streets and welcomed us that's a powerful statement people are exist and president in they're becoming to see the

movement for folks and people on the streets are only survival modes where is there next meal and their itch more carefree. >> the staff here is interpretation the first day i have a appointment and everything was made all you do is go through them this makes a huge difference. >> to get settled in a helping hand, to get on my feet, take care of the issues i have and get out of bed and help. >> even though the navigation center has been up in march 2014 the program is creating successful outreach for it's

clients. >> a month ago they came to me and asked me to go into a new program i moved into here and now 3 months later i have my own place it is mine i lock my door don't worry about my stuff it feels human again hello, welcome to public works tv. i'm jordan. >> i'm phillip. >> i'm carl. >> i'm jennifer.

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a scenic road for people who drive. public works takes great pride in caring for this area. katy tang who represents the sunset district wanted to make the boulevard more inviting and installed outdoor exercise equipment. her goal, encourage the community to explore sunset boulevard and engage in healthy activities. as a resident of the outer sunset, the equipment allows me an easy opportunity to exercise outdoors and it really fun. as a runner, i have always appreciated san francisco's nature and happy to have the advantage of working out even while waiting at spotlights, using the outdoor fitness equipment. come try it out for yourself. >> hey, didn't see you there, don't mind me, i'm at my favorite spot, lilac alley. i think of a city that is deeply

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city of san francisco. we were pleased with the package of services for linkedin and now encouraging our employees who have a residence in san francisco to sign on as well. >> clean power sf buys its power from renewable plants that feed the energy directly into the grid. >> there's a commitment to sustainability throughout the entire organization and this clean power opportunity reflects that. >> one of the wind farms we use is the shilo wind farm and that is large enough to be able to provide energy for up to 200,000 homes. >> our mission is sustainability, even though our bikes are minimal energy use, it still matters where the energy comes from and part of our mission in sustainability is how we run everything -- run our

business. having the lights come on with clean energy is very important. >> the sunset reservoir has solar panels that take up about four city blocks covering the reservoir and the solar power generates energy for city resources and clean power sf for residents participating in the program. >> it was easy to sign up for the program, i went online to cleanpowersf.org and i started getting pieces in the mail letting me know i was going to be switched over and it just happened. when i pay my bill, i still go to pg and e and i don't see any difference between now and a year ago. >> sign up online, just have your account number ready and it takes about two minutes and there's nothing to install. no lines are getting connected to your home. all the power goes through the

existed power grid. >> we haven't had any problems with the switch over to clean power. >> it's super easy to sign up. our book keeper signed up online, it took about 15 minutes. nothing changed but now we have cleaner energy. >> we see clean power sf as a key strategy to meet renewable energy goal, we have a goal of 50% renewable energy by 2020. currently we have enrolled about 86,000 customers across the city. about 20% of what we hope to serve in the future and in the next two years we'll offer service to all san francisco electricity customers. >> an easy way to align your environmental responsibilities and goals around climate change and it's so easy that it's hard to not want to do it and it doesn't really add anything to the bill. >> joining clean power sf is one of the easiest ways to fight

climate change, receiving cleaner energy at low and stable rates, you're helping to support a not for profit that helps influence the energy grid and produce more production. >> i would encourage any business to seriously convert to the clean sf service. it's good for environment, business and the community. >> you can sign up online our call and the great thing is, you'll have the peace of mind that you're doing your part in your household to help the environment. ♪ ♪

[gavel] >> welcome, everyone, to our land use committee meeting of february 12, 2018, monday. i am katie tang, chair of this committee, and we're joined by supervisor safai and supervisor aaron peskin is filling in today. we're joined by supervisor catherine stefani. any announcements? >> yes. please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices.