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one administrative committee and one medical staff committee. and then that made it a single committee that was reviewing the quality of work and allowed for a lot more interaction and positive feedback for all party involved and turned out to be actually an effective tool for review of quality. and your committee does review. and certainly that needed to be institutionalized if anybody was going to be reviewing us in the future. commissioner sanchez has been there quite a while. do you have comments on this? and your feelings about the changes in the governing body bylaws? >> commissioner sanchez: i agree. i think there have been various details or sectors, et cetera and i think this really
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clarifies based on -- there have been some changes, some replacing central to zsft to join conference committee. we have that each more with certain occasions but the medical commission is so defined. we went through all of these things in increments so now you have really upgraded and now you have the final report for discussion if necessary. >> president chow: commissioner? >> commissioner sanchez: i would be happy to move for approval. >> president chow: i will get another comment from commissioner chung. >> commissioner chung: it's more a comment than a question. i really appreciate the addition of values and leadership in that section because it really, you know shows a reflection of an organization, and it also shows maturity of an organization to
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be able to do. that. >> thank you. >> commissioner chung: and also the values make me smile. >> thank you. >> i would like to point out before we get to the vote, that we did try to clarify within the preamble and authority -- because i've gone through several of the joint commission surveys which always required more of a verbal discussion of how the city operates. so this formalizes -- directly it comes from both the charter and the charges to our director and our health commission itself. so this is helpful. for those that need to understand the authorities. >> director garcia. >> i want to acknowledge the
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attorneys back and forth so i really want to thank imfor this and also the staff who have been diligently working on this. >> president chow: yes. thank you. further comments? commissioner sanchez was going propose a motion. >> commissioner sanchez: yes, move to approval. coma i >> president chow: is this a second to the motion? and then we will proceed to comments. >> and i note there is no public comment on this. >> president chow: no public comment. let's proceed. commissioner loyce. >> commissioner loyce: i want to say i'm appreciate active of the changes, that's very helpful because when i looked at the original i thought i'm not going to pour through all of that. >> thanks to our city attorney. >> commissioner loyce: which made it really clear and easy to understand. >> thank you on behalf of our city attorney colleague. >> president chow: so if there
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is no further comment or discussion we are prepared for the vote? all of those in favor of the revised governing body bylaws for the zuckerberg, san francisco hospital please say aye. >> aye. >> president chow: all of those opposed? the bylaws have been adopted. >> thank you, commissioner. >> president chow: thanks to all of those who have worked very hard on this. >> number 9 is an update on the assisted treatment patient program. >> good afternoon, commissioners i'm the director of assisted patient treatment and i oversee involved programs for behavioural health services.
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it's a pleasure to be here today. i was telling director garcia before the meeting i had to deal with my baby to wait until after tuesday so i would get through this. so this is my big goal. so i'm hoping i will be here tomorrow but we only an agreement until this evening, so... so it's a pleasure to taunter about the assisted patient outtreatment. it started in november 201 so this report covers 26 months of the program. as we prepared to submit our report to the state department of mental health. just to reminded you a little bit about the assistants of assisted outpatient treatment. 46 states have outtreatment la lawlaws so they vary from state to state. in some it's a response to a crisis. but including in california the goal is for it to be a prevention against future crisis. in california they passed assembly bill 241 and became a
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part of our welfare institutions code and also named by the substance abuse and meant health services administration as an evidence based practice in 2015. a recommendation of mayor lee's task force and you wily approved by the board of supervisors in july of 2014 and again implemented in july of 2015. so assisted outpatient treatment is commonly referred to as lors law in 2001. it wasn't a mandate for each county to mandate. what it allows for is outpatient treatment for individuals who have serious mental illness who have not engaged in services and on a downward spiral. what it does not allow for is forced treatment or medication but it loose the weight of the court to leverage an individual into care and ultimately the goal is to reduce negative outcomes such as hospitalization
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and inn carsiation and victimization. >> so in san francisco something very important was to a community based mobile and multi-disiplinarymen health team and abye bidin biding this idea it's a whatever it takes and wherever it takes approach. so we spend most of the time in the field working with participants wherever they feel most comfortable. an assisted outpatient treatment includes two different components. the first being a care team which is part of the department of public health and includes a director which was identified as being a psychologist with forensic experience, which is myself. a program manager which is a licensed clinical social worker which is a new member of our team who started in july 2017. as well as two team members who provide both peer and family support. we also contracted ucss, city management to provide full service partnership and icm services that are funded through the mental health services
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administration and this includes a clinical supervisor and clinical case manager and part-time psychologist and specialist and nurse. so i'm looking at our calls to assisted outpatient treatment over calendar year 2017 as well as from the start of our program. as you can sear the program from november 2nd through december 3, 202016 and the orange are calls during the calendar year 2017. in total we have 227 calls regarding information about the program. 100 of those occurring in 2017 and we've had a total of 190 referendums made to the program. 82 of those occurred in 2017. what is also important to note is that referrals have to be made by a qualified party under the law which may include an immediate family member, treatment provider and probation officer or adult living with the individual. the bottom half of the screen also shows you the number of
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referral wes had for each month. as you can see there is a decline in the fall and winter months. this is something we have consistently seen in our program but in total the number of referrals has been consistent from year t to year. looking at the referral source, who has made referrals to the program. most of our referrals come from family members and treatment providers accounting for 09% made in 2017. will you also note there's a number of individuals who are not considered to be qualified requesting parties. 5% who made referrals to the program. in those situations we work with the caller to identify somebody else in the individual's life who is eligible to make a referral. but the treatment again is unique in that family members are able to refer to the program so it's not surprising that a large portion do come from immediate family members. in looking at the location of referral -- again this has been consistent from year to year for
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us. most of the referrals or not nature from san francisco county. there is a portion that come from out-of-state and that accounts for 77% of referrallings in 2017. all of these are family members who have called about loved ones who have traveled to san francisco. again individuals with serious mental illness that they are concerned about. i will note that we did have one case where an individual had come from india in a. independent -- indiana that we referred to them three times. at the end we were able to reconnection him back with the family and work with the transitions department to move him back to indiana where he is living with his family and also remains engaged in services. in looking at the demographics for individuals we worked with in 2017 it's fairly evenly split between male and female. in terms of the ages of individuals we work with, most of the individuals are between the ages of 18 and 45.
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what i will note is that we found that there is a slightly higher population of individuals between the ages of 18 and 25 that we worked with this last year. in terms ofe ethnicity it's a pretty diverse group and what we try to do is work with the general health system, in terms of race and ethnicity to understand what part of the population we are working with. this is low fore individuals who identify as african-american but higher that identify as asians who are working with the outpatient treatments. in terms of risk factors as with you imagine this is a very high needs population. so what we did was looked at the risk factors that an individual had over the three years leading up to their referral to assisted outpatient treatment. in total 89% of individuals had in-patient psychiatric
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hospitalization. 86 had contact with psychiatric emergency services. 61% had a history of inn cars race and 50% had a history of homelessness. part of our goal in looking at data this year, again being 26 month into the program was to lock at the larger population of all individuals we have worked with since the start of the program to get a better sense of the overall impact of assisted outpatient treatment over a period of time we looked at what we would consider negative outcome. the first being in contact with psychiatric emergency service services. as you can see it went from 81% of the total population to 52% having contact with pes. the other things we did was looked at the monthly average contact an individual has with psychiatric emergency services before they worked with us, during their time working with us and then after their work with us to see change over time. and what you see here is a decline over time with contacted
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pes and what i will note is it's a significant ditches when looking at the time before their assisted outpatient treatment and after their time with assisted outpatient treatment and they consistently reduce contact with emergency services. >> in looking at contact with psychiatric hospitalization, depend we also have decline in the percentage of individuals who have contact with psychiatric hospitalization going from 41% to 48%. what you do see is there's an increase in number of days that an individual stays with an individual unite while we are woring with them in outpatient treatment. what we attribute this to is aconsisted outpatient treatment is a monitored level of care where we are monitoring them carefully and place them on psychiatric hold as soon as they
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meetcyterria. we also gather a lot of information about these participants so are able to hold an individual's whole story and provide all of that collateral information to the hospital and as well as the courts so we can assure that the person is receiving the appropriate level of care as long as it's needed and as well as working with the hospital on an appropriate discharge plan. and then you see it really evens out after our time working with an individual. but again the number of individuals who had this contact with the hospital decreased over time so it's a smaller number of individuals who are having that average amount of time on an in-patient unit but overall a smaller percent aage of our population. in looking at our population, there is a decline in the number of individuals who have contact with the system, going from 77% to 37% of the population. again a slight increase in average number of days in our time working with individuals for similar reasons i just spoke about regarding in-patient
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hospitalization, largely related to advocacy and working with an individual's legal team to ensure that a legal disposition takes into account their meg health needs. what is exciting about this, after we work with an individuals, the average number of days that they spend inn cars rated is a statistics reduction from their time before woring with us. >> so again the treatment as a strong enter reducing the number of days a person spends inn cars rated. so in total what we have found is that 76% of individuals either reduce or avoid contact with psychiatric emergency services. 60% reduce or avoid their contract can psychiatric hospitalization and 79% reduce or avoid crack with the criminal justice system. moving on towards looking at court petitions. one thing i need to mention is
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our goal is to engaging with voluntary service which very have been successful with the program. and it requires that we work with an individual for 30 days before we consider filing a court petition. so it really is a last resort in terms of engaging an individual in care. so over the course of the program we have filed a total of 13 court petitions and five renew als for court petitions. i will note in the five renew als four out of five voluntarily agree to stay on with the program and work with the court. in terms of owns of the court petitions nine of those cases inned in what is called a settlement agreement where the individual agrees to participate in the court program. seven individuals were officially court ordered into services and one petition was not granted and one petition was withdrawn because we were unable to locate the individual to serve them with a petition. however in that case we were able to locate the individual and we were successful in engaging them in voluntary services and they are
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successfully connected to intense management services and permanently housed. so i'm looking at the demographics of individuals who were under a court petition during 201. again an even split between male and female individuals. in terms of the age you will see it's a slightly older population than the general population with individuals we worked with. with most individuals being between the ages of 36 and 45 and diverse in terms of race and ethnicity. also looking at risk factors for this population. again fairly consistent with what we saw with the overall population. 90% of individuals having contact with psychiatric emergency services and 80% having in-patient hospitalization and 6% having an inn cars race and 50% having a history of homelessness. so i like the overall population pause we are lucky to say this is a relatively small population where we are able to
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file a court petition. we didn't want to look at analysis but did want to look at contact with any negative outcomes we discussed. the first thing, emergency contacts that went from 90% of individuals who were court ordered to 20%. and for individuals it went from 90% to 67% and inn carsiations from 63% to 61%. so significant dough kleins over time. overall depend we have been very fo fortunate we have been able to have voluntary services and only been able to file some cases and we had six individuals we have had contact with -- and as you can imagine individuals we are working with have very significant needs and it takes a bit of time to engage somebody successfully and engage them to long-term services and we want to make sure when we are transitioning them to another
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provider they are fully engaged in services and will maintain that stability that they've had. so in total we have worked with individuals for an average of 179 days. the evaluation to the state and working with the company to provide that evaluation is to also obtain feed pak from participants and families. from participant wes do a questionnaire on a quarterly basis and the company team also does in-person interview interviews with individuals who have been under a court order. in terms of feedback from participants, 81% of participants reported feeling hopeful about their future. 82% recorded they will fell they had been treated with with respect by the aot team and for individuals who had been court passengers i wan petitions i want to share a couple of quote. >> any feeling has been positive. i fell light a better me another said i didn't want to get
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anyone. involved with the issues i wanted to work it out for myself but found there is support in the community when i needed it. and another said aot made me feel safe. again a priority is to provide support for family members and psycho education and family members reported they had a better understanding of the services available in san francisco and symptoms that their loved one may be experiencing and one family member share with us. it helped my family in a way i can't claim. i'm very grateful to this amazing program and team. >> . >> the other things the assisted outreach team, to stay in the community and not move to a higher level of care this. are of course times that individuals we are working with we feel would be better served by a higher level of care such as conservativeship. we have worked with the hospital and the office of conserver ship
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individual. but i'm happy to report that nine individuals have remained in the community and in many situations maintained permanent housing they were at rick losing and two have been placed in a locked facility. we also excited that gearing up towards the third full year of implementation which will occur in november of this year we also be providing an update on data and are required to provide a report to the board of supervisors regard any cost benefit analysis. that sour update for this year. we have made it. i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. >> president chow: commissioners there is a public comment request for this item. public comment, michael wright. and it is 3 minutes. mr. wright i have a timer so when the buzzer goes off, that means your time is up.
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>> all of these programs are you talking about are very excellent but the way our friend across the street are taking care of housing, it's hard to achieve your goal. for example, pertaining to affordable housing in accordance with section 33411 of the community development law which explains that 15% of all the apartments in a brand new apartment building complex have to be for very low and low income bask people which is the same class of income people that are you helping. this information applies to mission rock. it's 1,500 apartment complexes. our friend across the street refuse to follow the seconds of this guideline. 15% of 1,500 units means that
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225 of those apartments at mission rock is supposed to be for very low and low income people. the very same people that are you helping in your programs. they are in violation of criminal law and civil law as a result. for example they claim that affordable housing 40% for low income people when the truth of the matter is the lowest income is set at 45% of the medium which is $36,000 a year. now that's only 2% of the overall 40% pie that is supposed to be affordable lower income housing. this means that 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 lower income brackets which is the class of people who you are helping are not being included in inclusion near rule ordinates for housing opportunities. it makes it more frustrating for
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people to get secure going in or out of programs. moreover within this 40% pie there's people in the low income basket requirement -- it's called price fixing. people making 121,000, 96 now thousand, 72,000 and 44,000 a year. since when does somebody making 121,000 need to be a part of a low income affordable housing in that 40% pie of the participants in mission rock? now this price fixing, what i said is criminal. where in the case of the united states versus shark corporation and federal court it was ordered that the defendant agreed to pay a sum of $585 million to settle their prosecutors for conspiring to fix prices of liquid crystal display panels. moreover, when you money laundering such as twitter, why
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demonstrate a minimum of $217 billion of tax payer money has been given to twitter and high-tech companies and they put it in the bank. >> president chow: time, mr. wright. >> okay. >> president chow: thank you very much. commissioners questions or comments in regard to the report? commissioner bernal. >> commissioner bernal: hello. first of all, best wishes. congratulations. >> thank you very much. >> commissioner bernal: i know the data is 14 months versus 12 months for the second year but it still appears as though there was sort of a decline in the number of referrals or even in the information calls and generally in a subsequent year of the implementation you see an increase in awareness of the services and other things. what do you attribute that to? >> i think that's a wonderful question and i thank you for
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asking that. we had 30 referrals in the program. and a lot of family members making referrals who were very excited about being in the program and waiting for the referral. but it has leveled off over time one thing we are make sure to continue the awareness about this program and the community and this as a resource is to do continual education for qualified requesting parties and we do find when we have one of the training spike the month after in referrals so that will be an ongoing process for the program. >> if i may, commissioners, i wonder if you could talk about this pent-up demand from families and previous to the alt, how did families get information? because this is one of the areas in terms of family involvement. >> absolutely. and we have all heard it's very difficult for family member members who have loved ones who are in need of services or they believe they are ned of services and aot is unique in that they
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are able to accept it for family members and even if it's not the criteria for the family we still provide ongoing support and we are still abiding by sharing information with family members but both of our team members who provide peer and family support are in the family program so provide psycho education and a general report and i think having somebody who will listen to you and have that opportunity to shares of in, your concerns about a loved one has really made a difference in terms of changing our dynamic of the relationship with families. >> thank you. >> president chow: commissioner sanchez. >> commissioner sanchez: that was an excellent report. it shows you can make an intervention. >> me too. it's exciting. >> commissioner sanchez: you do that as a social worker. did you notice -- it's a short period of time but has there been any major or trend toward
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any outcome that this think profession has provided to the team? >> healther is here. >> commissioner sanchez: that's not fair to say. >> it's been part f program and allowed me to step back to focus on the program and areas of improvement. one thing we talked about -- as a program we've been really successful engaging individual and as a system we haven't been as successful in engaging historically. so part what have we are trying to clean from the quantitative and qualitative data we have collected is any best practices we can use across our system. so in terms of changes, it's wonderful to have her really foe you canning on the clinical work. and she has a lot of experience on this population and has allowed me to focus on some of the systemic changes that can be impacted by this program.
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>> commissioner sanchez: thank you very much. i was saying in context because a lot of the hospitals discharge. we have had number of people involved and it has made a difference in terms of followup. i thought what a great opportunity and a great facility of services. >> absolutely and in general we work very closely with our city-wide team and all of us come from this place of whatever it takes and wherever it takes and that's been important for the advocacy and holding that story that doesn't always get held for the participants that we are working with. san antonio thank you. >> commissioner loyce. >> commissioner loyce: thank you very much for your report. my question is relatively simple. ooh aim family member and i want to contact you guys. how do i do that? how do i know are two go with that? >> absolutely. part of our goal is to provide education with individuals and we do a lot of work with the education committee. so if you were to call nami they
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would provide this as a resource to you but we try to make referendums as easy as possible. we certainly don't want that to be a barrier. we have a toll-free number and a website that has a referral form that could be made so individuals find news terms of googling. so we get referrals. and individuals hear about us from a lot of different ways including other family members from support groups, from treatment providers, who might recommend aot as another option. >> what do i have to do to get these services when it's about a family member. >> we gather basic information from an individual and if a family never has class roll information about the hospitalization or collateral organizes we will get that but we certainly don't expect the family to gather all the evidence we need. so we get as much as we can.
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and the other piece important for us is to also understand what an individual's strengths are. what their interests are. if there is anything that frightens them that we should be hebert of. that we should be aware of and i think we get that information from family members more so than treatment providers so i think that's really helpful and after that we do our own investigation in terms of looking into cases. >> commissioner sanchez: thank you very much. that was helpful. >> thank you. i was going to ask where do you reside under our organization chart? under what? >> a part of behavior health services. >> as a separate unit? >> under behavioural health services and in july of 2017 there was a system that was developed including forensic injustify programs and alberta just and treatment sit alberta -- justice and treatment
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sits under that. >> and report to the health director sitting in the audience. >> thank you. >> president chow: ny other questions at this point? commissioner chung did you have any comment? s. >> commissioner chung: no. >> president chow: thank you very much for this report. i think it also shows that this is now another opportunity for people to get help. and this has certainly paid off for the number of people you have taken care of.. thank you. >> thank you. >> president chow: being no furtherer comments we will go on to the next business. >> item 10 is the next business. commissioners you have the calendar in front of you. >> president chow: commissioners any questions on the calendar or any aeditions you need to -- additions you need to make? >> the next meeting will be april 3rd.
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>> it may ablong one as yo be a long one as you can see from the calendar. >> president chow: right. my other comments would be, we are looking forward to additional commissioners to help fill our seats here in the coming several weeks. and at that time, then, we will be then looking at making committee appointments and assignments so again we will be reaching out to find your interests at this point and we will take that into consideration but we will await the arrival, also of our new commissioners to make any changes at this point. there being no further business thunderstorm item we can move on to the next item, please. >> item 11 is the report back from the 2018/2019 report from
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the jcc. >> the jcc in open discussion we discussed the following items. the administration report which included substantial information regarding the gift fund and 2017/18 gift state finding and we also heard about the update on the tran formation updates on discharge planning and discussion preparation. we heard -- the major ones an update on reducing pressures and for the committee approval proceedings and policies. in closed session the committee discussed and approved the credentials report and then the committee adjourned. it was a good comprehensive meeting. and minutes of the jcc. >> president chow: thank you.
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any questions of commissioner sanchez? if not we will move on to the next item. >> item 1 is closed session. >> president chow: is there any public comment? >> no public comment for this item. >> president chow: so a motion to hold a closed session is in order. >> all of those in favor please say aye. >> president chow: all of those opposed. we shall now move into closed session. thank you. all of those who are not a part of the closed session may vacate the room. >> president chow: so we are back in open session and motion is in order whether to disclose or not disclose the comments of the closed session. a motion not to disclose. all in favor of not disclosing please say aye.
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good morning and welcome to the community and assessment services center. today's event focuses on our efforts specific to the firearm compliance and safety initiative. this initiative is a collaborative efficient toen sure the -- effort to ensure the removal of guns from our communities. the adult probation department plays a critical role in the process as outlined in new responsibilities defined in proposition 63. the safety for all act. these new responsibilities coupled with the sheriffs department work in recovering a firearm from restrained persons is at the very core of the work we do to promote public safety. many thanks to those individuals who have joined us this morning and their continued support to
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keep our communities safe from gun violence. specifically, mayor mark farrell, supervisor stefani, supervisor sheehy, chief freeno representing sheriff hennessey. chief bill scott from the san francisco police department. beverly upton and the domestic violence consortium. it is truly my distinct privilege to introduce mayor mark farrell, a long time advocate for gun control and safety. as district 2 supervisor, mr. farrell introduced anti-gun ordinance to 2015 which was subsequently approved by the board of supervisors. this gun control package was intended to fill gaps that existed in federal, state and local oversight of firearm
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dealers and ammunition sales. this included requiring the video taping of all gun and ammunition sales within san francisco and required the regular storage and electronic transmission of ammunition sales data to the san francisco police department. as district 2 supervisor, mr. farrell introduced a safe gun storage and trigger lock law apooreded by -- approved by the board of supervisors in 2016. this mandated that all be kept in a locked container or be disabled by a trigger lock. as district 2 supervisor, mr. farrell announced his intention to introduce a gun restriction law after the krissy field rally in 2017. as you recall, an alt-right group, requested a permit to hold a rally. there was a city-wide response to prevent the rally from
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becoming violent against the anti-immigrant national rhetoric. ultimately, the group withdrew from holding the rally, citing safety concerns for their own members. as you can see, our mayor of san francisco has been a true advocate of gun safety and gun control. please join me in welcoming mayor mark farrell. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, chief fletcher. i want to thank you for your hard work. i want to thank the police department, chief, thank you for being here, the sheriffs department and supervisor stefani and sheehy, who have been leaders and beverly upton and doctor. it's an honor to be here. recent events across the country unfortunately have brought gun reform and control questions back to the forefront. we did not learn from columbine
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and sandy hook and we're faced with another mass shooting in one of our schools in the parkland shooting in florida just a couple of weeks ago. as congress continues to stick its head in the sand on the issue, it is up to state and local governments to counteract and to do everything we can locally to protect the sanctity of life for our residents. i was honored last week to join the walkout with the school along with supervisor sheehy, which is in district 8. with the high school students there. at 10:00 a.m. i know schools across the country and right across the entire san francisco were participating in the walkouts. very proud of our students and local leaders here in san francisco for all of the efforts they did in terms of walking out and demonstrating their own first amendment rights, but also the voice of the next generation. this is a fight that doesn't end today or tomorrow.
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this is going to be the next generation of americans that will carry this issue forward and make a difference in the country. so inspiring to be there at the high school last week, watching students in israel walk out of their classrooms, watching students in iceland walking out, in solidarity with the youth of the united states of america. we are not alone in this fight. for once, last week, instead of fighting against d.c. which we do constantly in san francisco, we were fighting with generations of young children across the entire globe. it was incredibly inspirational. unfortunately, the nra continues however to dominate politics in washington d.c. and as chief fletcher kindly mentioned, as a supervisor, thanks to the leadership and producing of my legislative aid, now supervisor catherine stefani, we worked on a number of gun control laws in san
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francisco during my time. chief among them, a law that then forced the last gun store in san francisco to leave our city limits and to shut down. as i was trending on twitter with the nra because of all the hatred they were spewing toward us in san francisco, toward me personally as a legislator, we told people in the community in san francisco, we would rather see a preschool or grocery store, as opposed to a gun store. that's what we need more of in san francisco. very proud to have seen that go through. and then to see lieutenant-governor newsom and his efforts with prop 63. huge credit to lieutenant-governor for his efforts and bold leadership on so many issues here a san francisco and across the state. specifically around gun control. chief among the parts of prop 63 and what we're here today to
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talk about and announce, is the ability for local law enforcement personnel, for our sheriff's department to confiscate for guns. we want less guns. we will never pander to the nra here in san francisco. guns do not belong on our streets in san francisco. and i am proud to be here today along with chief fletcher because since prop 63 was enaced on january 1 of this year, our adult probation department has done heroic efforts and their case load has skyrocketed through the roof in the ability to confiscate firearms from homes here in san francisco. firearms we do not want to appear on our streets. we do not want them in the hands of san francisco residents. because of the work they've been
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doing, and because of what we are seeing into the future, today we're announcing that we're funding in this upcoming budget, close to $1 million of new funding for the probation department alone to make sure they have the staffing they need. 500 will be hired, so they have the staffing they need. because these people are going to be working full-time to get the guns off the streets of san francisco, i cannot think of a better priority for the budget. i want to thank everyone for being here today. i want to thank chief fletcher for her leadership on this issue. this is something that everyone behind me supports. this is something the entire san francisco supports and as mayor of san francisco, this is something i will never forget and we will always prioritize in our city government. thank you, everybody. [applause] >> thank you, mayor farrell. it is a tremendous amount of
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dedication and support you have committed to this effort. and we thank you very much and on behalf of the residents of san francisco, i know each of them feels safer with having you committed to such an effort. thank you. it is now my pleasure to introduce supervisor catherine stefani, supervisor is ardent advocate for gun control. supervisor stefani is familiar with district 2 and all of their concerns as she worked as an aide to both micayla, and now mayor farrell for nine years when they each serveds the district 2 supervisor. in february 2018, supervisor
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stefani. join me in welcoming supervisor stefani. >> thank you. first i want to thank mayor farrell for committing to the funding to make sure we comply with proposition 63 passed in 2016. a clear mandate from california voters that they wanted to keep weapons out of the hands of felons. and to make sure that after they're convicted, their weapons are actually confiscated. it is not by sent that this -- accident that this proposition passed. as a gun violence activist for two decades, i have seen support for commonsense gun support continue to grow as we're inundated with devastating stories and gruesome scenes of gun violence every day in this country. more than 90 americans are shot and killed and hundreds more
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injured every single day in america. our gun homicide rate is 25 times higher than that of other developed nations making this a uniquely american crisis. i also want to mention in light of the fact that we're celebrating women's history month, the board of supervisors today, that gun violence disproportionately affects women who are 16 times more likely to be shot and killed in america than peer nations. 50 women are shot to death in a month by current or former partner. 4.4 million american women have been threatened with guns and guns are weapon of choice in domestic violence murders. women are the victims of mass shootings. as a mother and i know i speak
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for millions of other mothers, we are tired of sending our children to school to participate in lockdown drills, preparing for mass shootings and wondering if you're children's school could be next. there was a school shooting today at a high school in maryland. one is dead. one is in critical condition. a woman. and another has serious injuries. it is time to stop this madness and i praise the students who walked out last week. i went into the crowd and told them, thank you, you are the next generation. you're going to help us solve this. i was so moved last week by their activism. i know they're going to be the force that helps change and turn the tide on this horrible epidemic in our country. proposition 63 will make california the first state in the nation to require all prohibited criminal offenders to provide proof that they sold or transferred their firearms after
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their conviction. i want to really thank lieutenant-governor newsom for everything he did to make sure the proposition passed. i would also like to thank chief fletcher for doing everything you can, beginning january 1, to make sure your team and san francisco is following the law and removing illegal guns from dangerous individuals. i also want to thank the efforts of the department of the status of women and our family council led by beverly upton, for their important work. and chief scott with the chair, we cannot do this work without all our partners. i am so proud to join the mayor today and the colleagues up here in supporting additional funding to make sure that san francisco is removing guns from violent offenders and following the letter of the law. thank you. [applause]
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>> thank you, supervisor stefani. we're pleased to have with us today, supervisor jeff shery. he was appointed by mayor lee in 2017 and serveses as the chair of the public safety and neighborhood services committee. 20 years ago, mr. sheehy helped create and defend san francisco's historic equal benefits ordinance. making san francisco the first city in the country to require employers with city contracts to offer equal benefits to the domestic partners of their employees. supervisor sheehy recently declared support for the march 20, 2018, march for our lives, where commonsense gun reform and commended the students in san francisco and around the nation for leading a movement to demand commonsense gun laws and school safety measures. please help me welcome supervisor sheehy to the podium.
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[applause] >> thank you, chief. you know, the movement by the kids has really been inspiring. my 13-year-old daughter at her middle school, public middle school here, her whole class, whole school participated. to see this next generation take the baton and show leadership in fighting against the scourge of guns is something that i am so proud to see. what i also find very interesting is having watched the kids from florida, they're insistent on not being coopted by politicians like myself and insistent on driving the movement themselves for the nation. i'm particularly focussed on this day, on the issue of domestic violence. i actually -- i think maybe worked in 850 brian. i worked for the district
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attorney as a victim advocate for victims of domestic violence. i think in almost no other setting is it more important to get weapons out of hands of the people who are committing the crimes. i know from my experience that the vulnerability of women, the intense fight to escape the power and control of the men who are abusing them, is a huge challenge. and the irrationality that surrounds the perpetrators, they're focus on maintaining power and control, even to the point of killing their victims, killing the family of their victims. i think -- it's one of the most dangerous situations i believe for a police officer to be put into, walking into a domestic violence situation. it disproportionate number of murders happen to victims of domestic violence.
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and so i really want to salute the effort to get the funding to make sure that no guns remain in the hands of people who commit domestic violence. so again, i want to thank the city for the initiative. thank you, mayor, for your leadership and it's an honor to be here. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much for your support supervisor sheehy. it is my pleasure to introduce beverly upton. she serves as the executive director of san francisco's domestic violence consortium. a 7-member panel of domestic violence organizations and their supporters committed to the effective delivery of services and public policy. ms. upton has actively supported individuals who have lost loved ones to domestic violence. through court hearings, and regularly attending community events to promote domestic
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violence awareness. ms. upton and the department on the status of women have worked with the sheriff's department and the probation department to identify those crossovers to collaborate to keep the guns off our streets. please join me in welcoming beverly upton. [applause] >> thank you, chief, thank you, mayor farrell, thank you to the doctor for her leadership and everybody who is with us today. i am also proud to be one of the tri-chairs of san francisco's family violence council and it shows that domestic violence threats with weapons are up 50% in san francisco. we have to stop this trend and this will help us. this weekend alone, the thousand oaks mall shooting started with a domestic violence incident. the parkland shooter was set off
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by relationship that ended poorly. who knows what got the young man that shot today at his high school in delaware? but as supervisor sheehy reminds us, domestic violence is at the kernel of so many of these dangerous mass shootings and taking entire families out around the country. this weekend in brooklyn, a family was shot and killed. four members of a family. including a one-year-old. there have been 15 calls of domestic violence to this household. the gun was still in the home. the prerp traitor of the domestic -- perpetrator of the domestic violence took out four of his family members. we have taken every effort in
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all of our careers to make sure this doesn't happen here in san francisco. we need to take the guns out of the hands. perhaps getting the gun out of the house in brooklyn would have saved lives. it's a first step, we have more work to do. we hope to see other programs this year, but it is a first step. it's a first step toward safety and healing and as chief karen said, safety for all. we're hopeful. i'm hopeful and i hope you're hopeful, too. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you, beverly, you are a champion for victim rights throughout the city and beyond and we appreciate your efforts. as stated over and over today, proposition 63 is a historic and
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unprecedented step forward for gun safety in california. this really is an effort to bring agencies together to ensure the safety of the residents of this jurisdiction. and we are certainly proud to be part of that. since the implementation of this mandate, the adult probation department has received 63 referrals for investigation. we see all kinds of people come through the department and people referred and it is critically important to work together to identify where individuals have legal weapons and illegal weapons in their possession that are going to result in crimes and death. we support and applaud the support that we have from our board of supervisors and from our criminal justice agencies. each of them has been a viable partner in making this proposition a reality in terms of how we can implement and save lives.
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the adult probation department is pleased to partner in this process of removing guns from prohibited persons. we look forward to the collaboration with the sheriff department, police department, board and mayor farrell in making this a reality. we thank you for attending today to support the city's efforts in this initiative. we certainly at the close of this press conference will be open to questions. so again, thank you so much for being here and supporting the effort. and we look forward to the collaboration in the future. thank you. [applause]
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>> ok, i'm going to hop around like this, it is cold in here. that's dirt. this is a ground breaking. there is a big banner and if you've been involved in the project, you know that the banner has been up for a long time. it says the future of the neighborhood starts here. at long, long, long, long, long last, the
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