>> -- and can you please rise for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> clerk: commissioner mazzucco, i'd like to call roll. >> commissioner mazzucco:

please do. [roll call] >> clerk: commissioner mazzucco, you have a quorum. also with us today is bill scott, the chief of police, along with paul henderson, director of the department of police accountability. >> thank you, secretary kilshaw and well come to the june 6, 2018 police commission meeting. i have to say it's great to be back, it's great to see members of the public who comes to our meeting. it's been since may 2 that we had our last meeting, and we have a quorum. two things before we start tonight, first, i have to nce tonight before i introduce our two new commissioners, we are going to adjourn in memory of commissioner julius turman. at our last meeting on may 2, 2018, it was commissioner

turman's last meeting as the president, and for those of you that were here, he struggled through that meeting to make it through 'cause there were things that he needed to do. though of you that were here he wasn't help, and as we stood for the pledge of allegiance that night, i remember having to help him up that i get into, but he gave a very strong, "for liberty and justice for all." i know too mis sm personally. he was a great friend to many on this commission. we honored him in this last meeting of the commission, as julius turman day. we honored him on the police miss as an attorney. tonight we're going to adjourn in his memory. the best we can do to honor his memory is liberty and justice

for all, and continue to do our best as police commissioners. we also have to announce, on a good news front, we have two new commissioners. so i want to welcome commissioner cindy elias, john hamasaki, have been sworn in by the city attorney's office, have been handed binders. they'll get some cases assigned to them tonight. but what we do when we have new commissioners, we have them introduce themselves and have the memb of the public a little bit about their background. so with that i'm going to introduce commissioner cindy elias. >> hello. i am cindy elias. i am currently a labor attorney for the state of california. my goal is to enforce the labor laws in the state of california and make sure people are paid

their pawages. prior to that i was a public defender for a little over 11 years. prior to that i held several different positions. the last position i held in the public defender's office was the lead attorney which was the law enforcement civil division attorney that focused on a program that was modelled after seattle which aims atlolevel offenders in addressing drug addiction, mental health issues and getting them the services they need rather than jail. so that was my role at the public defender's office. i am very excited to be on this commission and working forward with all of you and i look forward to a prosperous future. >> thank you. i'll note that commissioner elias is also a california golden bear. >> thank you. >> commissioner hamasaki?

>> commissioner hamasaki: thank you, commissioners. it's an incredible opportunity to be sitting here before you on this body. it's especially -- an especially happy moment to join with my former colleague, when i started out as an a.b. attorney, way back when with cindy elias, who kept me in line and let me get a little bit out of line, and i expect she'll do the same on this commission. i'm a criminal defense attorney, i've been in private practice for the past ten years, representing individuals and people throughout northern california in state and federal courts. you know, through that work, i got to see a lot of the aspects of police and policing in our criminal justice system; you know, the good, the bad, and

the ugly. and you know, it's -- it really is a true honor to be here, and to be here, serving the ppl of san francisco, and, you know, that's -- that's the mandate i'm carrying forward. i'm here for the people of san francisco, and that includes all people: the police, civilians, citizens, the rich, the poor, homeless, people struggling with mental illness, drug addiction, all of the challenges and all of the issues that are faced in san francisco by all of the residents here, so it's a real honor that the board of supervisors has bestowed upon us and i plan to take that honor to do my best with it and really represent the value and see traditions of san francisco. thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much,

commissioner hamasaki. before we move into the agenda, i do need to announce that we do have an extremely large, large closed session involving litigation counsel, disciplinary matters, due to that we're going to have public speakers limited to two minutes each tonight. also with reference to line item number five, we're going to strike the last presentation regarding physical evidence and crime scene, possible discussion on that. we're going to eliminate that, that's not prepared and ready for this evening, and there'll be one closed session line item c will be taken off calendar. so without further adieu, please call line item one. >> clerk: item one, adoption of minutes, action, may 2, 2018. >> commissioners, in your packet are the minutes from our last minute on may 2, 2018. are there -- for the

commissioners that were there, any changes or corrections that you would like to make? all right. do i have a motion. >> move to approve. >> i have a second -- >> clerk: public comment before you take the vote, commissioner. >> commissioner mazzucco: any public comment before we take the minutes? hearing no comment, all in favor. next line next line [agenda item read] [agenda item read] >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioners, why your packet are the memos related to these gifts -- and for the new commissioners, we approve everything from $20 give cards to large boats from the coast guard to horses to -- to horses

to police dogs to air conditioners for the police dogs, so we have to approve all of this. so these are in your packet. are there any questions or concerns? hearing none, do i have a motion? >> i have a question on the furniture. >> commissioner mazzucco: sure. >> i have a question on the furniture. maybe it's to the chief or maybe it's to -- [inaudible] >> hi. thank you for being here tonight. i was just surprised to hear that our furniture's worn out and that we use that until it literally falls apart, and that the stations are really in need of furniture for community meetings for officers themselves. i just wonder, do we have a budget line item that takes care of the furniture themselves? >> we do have a budget item that specifically addresses furniture needs. you've got to remember, these are 24 hour operations, and some of this furniture really takes a beating.

>> okay, well, i'm certainly going to approve it. i was just wondering it's just something we should stay on top of. thank thank you so much. >> thank you, officer. >> is there any extra furniture because we do -- no, i wasn't kidding. >> commissioner mazzucco: so do i have a motion? >> so moved. >> do i have a second? >> second. >> commissioner mazzucco: any comment regarding furniture for the police department? hearing none, public comment is now closed. all in favor? thank you so much. glad to get you some new furniture. left si let's call line item 8. [agenda item read] >> commissioner mazzucco: good evening, chief. >> good evening, president mazzucco and commissioners. i'm going to present tonight's

report and talk about major trends and couple of items of interest for the public. i'll start with crime trends and where we are this year. i'm very pleased toepo to the commission and the public that we are down 43% in homicides year to datae as of this week. in real numbers, we are 12 homicides where we were this time last year. we are 16 opposed to 28 this time last year, going into the summer, that's really pleasing. we still have a lot of work to do, six months left in the year -- little more than six months, but compared to where we were last year, that's very, very good news for us. our overall homicides with firearms arewn 58% from where they were this time last year, basically, 19 this time last year, and we have eight year to date. our total gun violence victims are down by 50%, and this is the number of total victims

struck by gun fire. when you look at our five year trend for homicides, we are as low as we've been since 2014 in terms of homicides year to date, so really speaks well of the -- not only that the men and women of the san francisco police department but the partnerships and collaboration with other city departments and the community, i think is all contributing factors or all contributing factors to the crime stat. as property crime, the commissioniti commission knows, we have the struggle with crime, particularly car break-ins. more good news, with hards to that we are down 26% on our car break-ins, with you is almost 3,000 fewer car break-ins than this time last year. more great news. i think that can be attributed to many things. our strategies changed last

summer, and we put a lot of things in place to contribute to this, and we believe those strategy adjustments are working. our overall property crime are down 12.4%, which is 3, -- about 3300 crimes less than this time last year. and car deaths, we are down almost 30%, so that's 600 crimes fewer than this time last year. so our crime assistant sticks are very positive at this point of the year. we'll continue to do the things we're doing and make adjustments when we need to, but really good news to report on the crime front. there were two homicides this week, one on the 200 block -- or this past week, 200 block of 14th street and ingleside -- and the ingleside district, and the other was the 1500 block of oakdale avenue in the bayview,

first one, female victim, appears there's some work to do before we identify the victim, but she appears to be in her 60's, t there's a suspect in custody and there's been charged filed by the district attorney's office. second, 26-year-oldictim,no suspect in custody, but we do have some good leads that we hope we can resolve this case pretty quickly. there was a -- major events this week. we have 41st annual haight street fair. we don't anticipate any issues. peace parks is an ongoing engagement programming and some of the parks in our city, at hearst park and playground in ingleside, we have programming on friday from 6:00 p.m. to

10:00 p.m. sicallthe y for u commissioners, it's a community engagement. we have sfpd officered deployed at the park and really the idea is to engage with the public. we're there for safety, but we're also there for engagement, and it gives the youth in the area something positive to do. there's a lot of free programming, similwimming, hea fairs, and line dancing and that type of things are ongoing. that started last fall, and we continue it through the summer, when school gets out -- school gets out today, i think, we hope to up the program a little bit to give kids more to do in the program. it's another way to address crime without necessarily going to enforcement. when you give kids something to do, they're less likely to be out doing bad things, so that's the idea behind this. it's really, really nice to have rec and parks and the pd

and the mayor's office working together, so we hope this continues and the funding continues to support it. there is one other thing of interest that i wanted to report. leth paper today on our police unit team brain training, and basically, this -- this training was developed by strategies for youth, and we're not the only department in the country that's doing it, but the training is aimed to improve training actions between police officers and youth to give us a better understanding of how the brain develops and how particularly that transcends to behavior. and that expectation, we -- the better we understand that process, the better we can police the situation. we send 25 officers to the training, and very interactive because youth is part of the ning. it's something we just started

doing this past week, actually. really good reports on it, and the article if you have a chance, take a look at the article. it's a very good article, very positive article, so we do believe this will, again, enhance our ability to police our city in a way that the community expects us to, and we're really excited about the training. the article was actually the in the chronicle as well gl so you're having another -- >> so you're having another 25 officers trai, aswell, or the same 25. >> it is a train the trainer scenario where they will be able to train other officers, but we think it'll be a very good thing for our department. >> okay. >> andat basically is it for my chief's report today. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioner davis? dav >> so i'm sorry, what was the

name of the park that you mentioned with parks and rec? >> peace park. they meet every thursday, , safrayrday. hurts youngblood, -- hearst youngblood and potrero are the three parks that they meet at. and we hope the funding continues. >> it's been in the paper recently that there was a ssing person report and there was a woman found dead at san francisco general, and then just like yesterday or today, another body was found at san francisco general. another question i have -- since there was a missing police report, is that something that the police department investigates? i know the sheriff's investigate missing, but do we

doind of cross investigation? >> in the missing perso event, that's our jurisdiction. in one of the ones in t hospital, the one you referred to, it actually happens once the patient was admitted to the hospital for the issue she was brought there for, so once that happens, it's the jurisdiction of the hospital. if it's a custodial situation where there's an arrest, where either sfpd or the sheriff's have a hospital detail, then, it's ruled an in-custody death, , oth protocols and policies take place, but this death happened in the hospital. >> okay. so the sheriff's -- that's what i wanted to know, whose jurisdiction -- >> the first one they'll refer it to was the hospital because it wasn't the sheriff's jurisdiction, there was no sheriff custody team assigned to it. >> all right.

l rht. thanks for clearing that up. appreciate that. >> commissioner mazzucco: i just want to say chief, it's great to have you here tonight. i t it's recognition what a great decision we made for you to be one of the three finalists in your home department in los angeles, and i think that shows that we made an excellent choice in having you here because the changes you've made, the reforms you've gone through, we cannot forward to lose you, so i want to thank you. i want to congratulate the chief and his wife, virgene. his son graduated from medical school on friday, as valedictorian. and not only did he get his medical degree, he graduated with an mba. >> is that all? >> yeah, an underachiever.

i want to thank you both, for making brandon into the fine young man that he is. he'll be doing his residency in san francisco. it's good to have another young man in san francisco. please call the next item. [agenda item read] >> good evening, mr. henderson. >> good evening. >> commissioner mazzucco: how are you? >> great. a couple of things so far in our project list. we have 281 cases -- i started doing this recently just as a comparison so we know where we are contextually from last year. right now, we have -- i track

regularly the cases are past 270 days. this year, we have 26 cases past 270 days, meaning the investigations have gone on past the 270 days. last year, we had 128 cases beyond the 270 days. just to put that in context, 11 of those cases are tolled, typically, if other agencies at the time, they're not tolled, but just explaining what these reports are. i want to thank the chief and the department for training the juvenile brain program that they did. that actually was a really big deal in terms of a project that a lot of people have been working on for long time, and it has really reflected a lot of community input as well as best practices and enhancement to the training. i just didn't want to give

short shrift to it, but it's a big deal that a lot of people have been working on for a long time, and it's important that that happen for the city and the department. in the audience is chief of staff, sarah hawkins, and tamara thompson, and senior investigator steve ball in case issues come up for the department to address during the commission and/or during public comment, i have staff here to accommodate you. we are in the midst of hiring four senior investigators now. we are still down a lawyer from john alden, who was moved into another department. i would like to announce finally that we have filled our i.t. director position. that's pretty significant for this department. we've had a lot of challenges with our i.t. department in terms of focusing where we

needed to grow and bring ourselves up to speed with the rest of the city, so this is going to be a big deal for us, the candidate is now in backgrounds, and i'll let everyone know as soon as they come through, but we've got through a lot to try and get this candidate and in accepting the position. we've also made our first ever offer and accepted position to our professionally qualified bilingual candidate for our investigators. it's been a big deal, and one of the things that we've been working on is trying to bring our staff up to a bilingual quota to accommodate the communities that we've been serving, and this is the first one that we've gotten through the system. so we're excited about that. i will also say we just had another training for the use of force that all of the staff -- a lot of the staff attended in las vegas, and we are in the middle of working on our budget

with the mayor's office and with the board. i'll keep everyone updated onto that, as well. i will say in terms of our staff and their actities, samra spoke last month on street soldiers, and tamara thompson is here with us today, spoke last month at idab. wells high school, know your rights that we proposed, as well. i'm here to answer any questions. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you, director henderson. commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: the 270-day mark, how is that set and what are the consequences for going beyond that, and how does that affect the cases? >> in a nutshell. >> commissioner hamasaki: jump right in. >> in a nutshell, there are

requirements from when a case is received to how long we have to respond to an investigation and conclude and make findings. there are exceptions to the one-year rule but because we have structured and how we've evolved, we give notice to the dertnt whenever a case goes beyond the 270 day tolling time is an indication that time is starting to run out and where we are in an investigation. we've tracked them before, but one of them -- the issues that i was concerned about when i came into the department was that we had a high number of those cases that would frequently wait until the very last moment to have a resolution, oftentimes leaving very little time to make changes or modifications within the department, as well, so we've been focused in the last few months in trying to bring

that number down. in some cases, they are tolled, and the time doesn't run, for instance, if there's ongoing litigation in a civil case or the district attorney's office is taking some action. time does not toll in the same way. so does that explain it? >> commissioner hamasaki: it does -- no, i think it's helpful for the new commissioners to understand because i think the -- the timeline has been up in the news a bit lately, and people may have questions about that. has the department ever lost jurisdiction over cases? >> oh -- >> commissioner hamasaki: yes? >> maybe i should chime in. there's been the surprise of the commission. there's been numerous violations of 3304, not under director henderson, and we were shocked when these cases came forward, there were other cases, just so you know, after

the e.p.a. closes their case on us, they present it to the san francisco police department or police commission for admonishment. unfortunately they put the police department in a situation where they've had 24, 48 hours to do a follow up investigation and haveeen unable to do so, and so sometimes dispositions were offered just because they had no choice to get something off sh fell off the radar, umerous and director henderson ran through those cases when he first got in there. that's unacceptable. an attorney blowing a case that's called malpractice. i think where we are, how many last year? >> you're counting? >> i was going to say it's in your briefing on case backlog. last year, there were h405, i

think, cases. [inaudible] >> you're right. i'm reading my summaries here. it's all in the summary explaining what the backlog was. i was a trying to find a percentage, but there was a large -- a substantive percentage of the cases that were beyond the 3304 deadlines that were essentially dead cases that could not be done, and it was a practice in the past to have cases that would sunset, and we have stopped that practice -- i stopped that practice of doing that. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. and so then the final point is, do you have any concern about any of the cases on your docket right now about losing jurisdiction because of the deadline? >> not immediately, but generally, yes, but we are approaching them differently so that it's not a last-minute thing, which is why i report out now what those case right side and how many of them are still left so of those 27 -- 26

cases, 11 of them are tolled, and the remaining others, the 15 others that are there are talked about weekly to prioritize where they are, what's going to happen next, who's watching the time, how do we not have that same situation take place. >> commissioner hamasaki: great. >> that's part of why i call it out. >> commissioner hamasaki: sure. >> thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. commissioner dejesus? >> commissioner dejesus: i think i can ask the question. recently, the district attorney said he's not going to press charges in the mario woods case, and i heard there are currently complaints filed in those cases. are there ongoing investigations? >> i can tell you there are ongoing investigations. we can talk about that case specifically --

>> commissioner dejesus: well, not about the case specifically, i just want to know if you can tell us about that. >> yes, there is an open case that we will have our own independent analysis and report on that case. >> commissioner dejesus: okay. thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. anything further for director henderson? thank you, director henderson. it's a learning process, as you can both see. call next line [agenda item read] >> commissioner mazzucco: again, i'm glad to be back in session, we have a lot to do in closed session. during the period that we weren't meeting, actually dejesus, myself, and hirsch, we've been busy during this period of time, but it's good to be back on the calendar and dealing with our agenda.

commissioner hirsch? >> commissioner hirsch: before commissioner turman stepped off the commission, he had been working on rewriting the discipline matrix for penalties, and he had asked me a few months ago to back him up on that, and since he stepped off and passed away, i have now taken that responsibility. i'm working with commission staff on that, trying to rewrite it, and then, i will meet with the department, and i'll meet with d.p.a. to get their input, and then, eventually bring it as a commission, and it'll go into meet and confer at some point. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you for doing that. >> actually, i spoke with -- well -- >> commissioner mazzucco: director henderson? >> thank you. i spoke with commissioner turman on this issue, as well, and he mentioned that project both to the chief and myself, and the chief and i both have addressed that concern, as

well, and we would look forward, i think, so resolving that because there are inconsistencies in his department and my department that we need to be on the same page about. >> commissioner hirsch: i'm working on a new set and i'm working on a something that i'm going to distribute to you folks. >> that would be great. that would resolve a lot of conflicts at the end of these determinations. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. commissioner dejesus? >> commissioner dejesus: one of the things that are pending, there's an early intervention meeting -- i hate saying those words. it's kind of broken, and we keep coming back to it, but it's something we've had many discussions with. i believe that's open, as long as we don't have a quorum, it's open to any of the commissioners. i think -- i don't remember what time it is. >> it's from 10:00 to 1:00 on

the third floor, and it's open to the public. >> commissioner dejesus: and then, on june 4, the working group will commence and have a -- june 19, the working group will commence and have a meeting. as long as they don't have a quorum, commissioners can attend that, as well. >> clerk: that's at 1: p.m. >> commissioner dejesus: 1:00 p.m., and that's at police headquarters. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: commissioner dejesus, the working group, was that the working group that at the time president turman was working on? >> commissioner dejesus: it's a continuation of. it's the same -- i believe commissioner melara was in charge of that. i believe commissioner hirsch -- or, commissioner hing and melara were attending, and

of course commissioner turman would also attend. with he and melara absent, we need to have commissioners there. it's something i wanted to work on and try andat, but i wanted to let you know we can go as long as there's not four of us there. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. pardon me for the new guy questions, but are commissioners assigned to working groups, and how does that process take place. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioners are assigned to working groups, but you're free to go to other working groups. dr. marshall was handling the bias group, and we have nobody attending that. it's my understanding i'll be attending the next meeting of that bias group, so you need to attend that. it'll be good to have you there. let sergeant kilshaw or sergeant ware know that you're

going, and if they hit the magic number of three, they'll say you can't go. >> commissioner hirsch: could the office circulate all the meeting dates to all of us 'cause right now, we don't know. >> clerk: yes, we can do that. >> commissioner hirsch: okay. great. >> commissioner mazzucco: okay. great. call item [agenda item read] >> commissioner mazzucco: are there any announcements, sergeant kilshaw. >> clerk: our next meeting will be here at city hall, room 400, on june 13, next wednesday, and we will begin at 5:30 p.m. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. we have pretty much packed agendas for the near future, i have nothing to add. i think our new commissioners will need to start to begin to sort through their big binders, so i have nothing to add to the agenda. would you please call for public comment. >> clerk: public comment on items 3 a through 3 d?

>> commissioner mazzucco: any public comment on items 3 a through 3 d? hearing none, public comment is now closed. call the next line item. [agenda item read] >> good evening, director. how are you? >> good evening, commissioners, vice president mazzucco, memb s of the commission, chief, director, members of the command staff. i'm kathrin mcguire and chief financial officer of the police department. this evening, i'm asking you to all approve the shift of salary savings into a worker's compensation interdepartmental services budget line. this is a supplemental appropriation, but it doesn't actually add money to our overall budget, it's just a

shift among sort of cost centers. and in fact the savings realized in salaries for this amount is as a result of the individuals wre on worker's compensation and the actual worker's -- and they sose sala are paid out of the worker's compensation and the salary shortfall budget hitch hirsch the translation is when officers are off of -- on disability and they're injured, they're paid out of a separate pot, and the money that we've paid them gets paid -- >> or never gets returned. >> commissioner hirsch: quite a large number this year. >> that's correct. 6.2 million. we've had a number of costly injuries this year. >> commissioner dejesus: i have a question. the 6.2 million, we have to

cover that? >> it will be paid through the end of the fiscal year. so currently, worker's compensation makes the payments, and they bill through each quarter. so they've billed through quarter three, and then, quarter four, they'll make the final billings, and we need the money in the account by then. >> commissioner mazzucco: any further questions for the director? do i have a motion? >> commissioner dejesus: wait, i do have one more question. so you said this year, we've had a lot of serious injuries. is that compared to last year or -- >> so i can speak to the expenses side. i do know that last year, we had about $16.7 million in worker's compensation costs in the interdepartmental services work order, and then this year, we're projected to have about 20 to 21 million, so yes, compared to last year, it's been a bit more expensive. >> i can add some more detail

to see that without disclosing any hipaa information, we've had some officer involved situations, offered run over, shot, that we didn't have the year before, and then, we've also had some significant illnesses that are presumptive illnesses, so it's not been a goodyear because of that. >> commissioner dejesus: thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you, director mcguire, do i have a motion? >> motion. >> commissioner mazzucco: do i have a second? second. >> commissioner mazzucco: any public comment on moving that into the general fund? hearing no comment, public comment is closed. all in favor? thank you. call the next line item. [agenda item read] >> commissioner ucco: thank you. here a presentation?

>> chief connolly? >> is that operational yet? i thought 3.1 wasn't operational yet. >> i'll strain. >> commissioner mazzucco: good evening, chief connell. >> good evening, president ms., members of the commission, and chief scott. i am here to give very brief presentation on department bulletin 18-033. department order 031 which is our written directives methodology, that is how we write and distribute all our written policies, procedures and manuals, requires that any bulletin that modifies or demands a general order be brought before the commission prior to being implemented. department general 3.01 is in the process of meeting and confer right now, so we are under the process of the old

3.01. so essentially, the department bulletin 18.03 actually just adds a couple of items to the old one. sly therenly four criteria that has changed, and there a 13-year-old general order, 5.09, so over time, things have changed, and this is to change them until we codify the actual order. one is the time a charge actuallyoccurs, and there is determination if the individual has to be hospitalized, and if ther is charges going to be brought on that individual by the district attorney. in order for that to happen, members who bring that custody to the hospital have determined that that person's going to be booked in, we have to author a letter to the sheriff's

department through our department of investigations division saying the name of the individual, what the charges are, and that we are, in fact, going to file with the district attorney. that's the rite real estate. the sheriff's department actually established it, so this is just for our members to adhere to that policy. the third aspect of this bulletin, it says if an individual is not going to be charged, the district attorney aelected not to charge, or they're not going to file immediately, how do we notify the sheriff to initiate what they call an out take process? so that's essentially citing the individual for a court date or potentially an interview at a future date, and that's a discussion between the district attorney and the individual investigator about that custodial situation or if that individual is going to be out of custody. and then, finally, what is generating most of this is because the new hospital facility does not have a secure

detention facility within it. so this -- any time we have a custodial situat, we have to assign field personnel to guard that hospital stay, so this is a process if thatermietation needso be made, there's continued medical treatment, nd the sheriff's department has all the criteria ahead of them or before them, they can then take custodial watch of that custody. >> commissioner mazzucco: okay. thank you. maybe explain, what is booking in absentia. >> booking take place in the county jail. any other booking outside the jail would potentially be a hospital environment, and that's really the only other environment we would talk about. so if you're absent from the actual process or the actual site facility, in absentia booking via medical condition.

>> commissioner mazzucco: and there's as times what they call hospital arraignments, if they can't come to the jail, we've had what they call hospital arraignments. i understand it's a drain on our manpower, and we have people at the hospital that we have to have officers guard 24-7, i'm wondering, why doesn't the sheriff's department do that, and can we reach some sort of agreement because i'm understanding we're losing personnel from district stations, we have e-mail accounts where i see they're constantly looking for officers to go sit at the jail with a patient. they're not really serious charges, but the patient and the subject is in custody for not necessarily major charges, but they're sick and they have to be there, why do we need to sit on them, why not the sheriff's? t been long-standing discussion between the police department and the sheriff's. chief, if you want to speak to that? >> yes, sir.

commissioner, i have had many conversations with officer hennessey about that. she hasue budgetary help in that area. as of now, she hasn't received that, but in the meantime, some of the protocols that we hope to iron out are particularly once a person has been rebooked, and they're still in the -- in the hospital or in -- we'd like for -- hopefully we can work out an agreement for the sheriff's to take over. prior to booking or the case being filed by the prosecutors, tiply we have to have a detail -- typically, we have to have a detail on that, sfpd, and there are times we've had to stay on that even after the person got out. with the shortages that she had juo kee the jails covered, it's been a struggle for her and her deputies, so we're

trying work that outside. thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioner hirsch? >> commissioner hirsch: yeah, chief, i was just wondering, does that reflect the actual practice that we're doing right now, does it change anything we're doing right now? >> no, it just provides guidance for the station personnel. the only true change is the authoring of the letter. that's only a recent practice in the last year, 1.5 years, where we have to obtain that letter. >> commissioner hirsch: so we're just being asked to approve something that actually reflects thepractice. >> once this bulletin is approved, that will become the practice hirsch hirsch are we doing something that will affect the practice, that's my -- >> commissioner hirsch: are we doing something that will affect the practice, that's my question. >> this bulletin captures that process hirs process. >> commissioner hirsch: thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco:

commissioner hamasaki. >> commissioner hamasaki: one quick question, and i'm not quite sure if i'm understanding this right. on page two of two, understand the section releasing suspects from custody once they're booked in absentia -- it's been a long few days, is there a process that states that the district attorney's office or the investigator will contact the officers on the hospital watch and notify them that the district attorney's office has declined to refile charges? and i'm not seeing in here something as far as notifying the subject of the same information. >> notifying the custody? >> commissioner hamasaki: yeah. >> well, that would be the next process. once they make that notification -- the district attorney's declined to prosecute, then there will be a process by which that individual is released per-849 of the penal code. >> okay. so that's not in this

amendment. >> correct, it is not. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. >> i don't have an answer to that because this is the first time it's ever been addressed. it's a process that occurs naturally. if we're going to let someone go, we're going to tell them we're going to let them go, but it's nt captured in this document. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. well, it just seems like it would be helpful, when we're spelling out the procedure to have the notification go to the subject that has been taken into custody, as well, although it may occur naturally. >> correct, but there's also times where that individual is released from custodial care but they remain under medical care, so it's just a matter of advising the individual that the district attorney has declined to prosecute at this time. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. so they -- the individual -- even though it doesn't state in here, the individuals will be advised that the district attorney has declined to file

at this time. >> yes. >> commissioner hamasaki: thank you. >> by law, the officer has to issue an 849(b) certificate. >> commissioner hamasaki: right, and i guess that's where the confusion arose with me because they said officers are not to release the subject 849(b). so i'm not sure if that was -- [inaudible] >> commissioner mazzucco: commission commissioner elias? >> commissioner elias: i guess my question is with the investigator assigned to the case, because there are cases where there is no investigator is assigned. >> the investigation is not from the district attorney's office, the investigator is from the police department. >> commissioner elias: okay. and there's someone there? >> it would be an assistant district attorney to make that determination to either file or refile charges, and then, that would be conveyed to the investigator and then

subsequently to the hospital watch. >> so the district attorney would know who the investigator at the police department is who then would be able to notify the individual who's in custody? >> that's correct. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you, chief connolly. do i have a motion? >> so moved. >> commissioner mazzucco: do i have a second? >> second. >> commissioner mazzucco: any comment regarding the booking in absentia regarding ddo 509? hearing none, public comment is closed. all in favor? next line item. [agenda item read]

>> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. any general public comment? come forward. good evening. how are you? [inaudible] >> commissioner mazzucco: good. >> i'm happy to see that the statute of limitations will not apply to discipline of the officers in the 2015 racist text message scandal, but as i've raised repeatedly at the bias task force, i'm unclear on whether the officers in the second racist text message scandal, the one that broke in march 2017, have they been disciplined? [inaudible] >> i know you can't answer the question, but i just wish that at some point, you could share that with us. also, as i've raised before,

what is the status of implementation of the grand jury report on fatal officer involved shootings that came out in june of 2016? that -- the grand jury said that you should have concurrent investigations of officer involved shootings with the sfpd, district attorney, e.p.a., and a citizen member of the public present for the concurrent investigation and not have the sequential investigation that causes the whole process to take so long, so my question is, has this been implemented? did that occur in the officer involved shootings? and as we have raised before, we know state law limits your ability to disclose disciplinary matters, but we've heard that lapd discloses as much disciplinary information

that they can under the law, and we encourage you to adopt those practices. this will increase transparency, it will increase our confidence in your system, and i think it will increase accountability. thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. next speaker. good evening. welcome back. >> hi. gilbert brinstein just speaking on behalf of myself. so i just got out of the sunshine task force meeting before this and was just at a big election celebration last night. so i'm happy to let you know if you somehow haven't heard the news that proposition h did not go through. san francisco said 60%, approximately, to 40% that they do not want this taser policy. at the meeting for the new commissioners, welcome, by the

way, who were not there last november , the public was overwhelmingly against san francisco having tasers, and the sunshine task force has just found that that meeting was held improperly with respect to the brown act, and so with a relatively new police commission coming in, i'd like you all to revisit this decision as was provided time for by commissioner hirsch at the meeting last year and consider not giving san francisco police department tasers, instead, allowing that money to be used for services that will actually benefit the public rather than shock them. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you, mr. bernstein. any other public comment? hearing no comment, please call the next line [agenda item read] >> commissioner mazzucco:

members of the public, we're going to go into closed session to handle some litigation matters, personnel matters, and other matters. any public comment? hearing none, next line item. [agenda item read] >> commissioner mazzucco: do i have a motion? >> yes, so moved. >> clerk: commissioner, we're back on the record, and you still have a quorum. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. please read the next line item.

[agenda item read] >> motion to not disclose. >> do i have a second? second. >> all in favor. and please call the next line item [agenda item read] >> commissioner mazzucco: and commissioners, as i stated earlier, i move to adjourn in honor o our former president, julius turm who passed earlier in may, may 13, 2018, at 52 years of age. julius started his career in law in private practice. he was an assistant united states attorney in the district of new jersey has worked for several firms as an employment litigator in san francisco. as we learned as his memorial he was a mentor for many people in the lgbtq community, african american community. he mentored many lawyers, and many law firms. he served on many commissions,

and he was on this commission. he was an incredible human, and so i move to end this meeting in his honor, and i hope to send this to his family back in michigan, and do i have a second? >> second. >> commissioner mazzucco: all in favor? >> commissioner hirsch: and i thank you for doing that. >> commissioner mazzucco: we're adjourned. >> so first, i want to say good afternoon and thank you for

joining me as i submit our balance to your budget to the board of supervisors here in city hall. i want to start today by bei acknowledging all of the hard work that went into this. i want to thampg the members of the board of supervisors, i want to thank the departments that are here today and their staffs for all their hard work and the months of preparation that are here today. there are a few people that i want to call out. first, ben rosenfield. i also want to thank and acknowledge harvey rose. it has been a pleasure with the board of supervisors to working with him. and lastly, and i want to say most importantly, i want to thank my entire budget team.

they're all sitting over here, and to keller kirkpatrick, our acting budget director, can we give her a round of plauz? [applause] >> and i want to acknowledge my chief of staff, jason elliott, jason, thank you for everything. [applause] >> so before i dive into the specifics of the budget, i do want to acknowledge where we have been over the past seven months. i think we all remember where we were when we heard about mayor lee's passing and the shock that i felt. no one could have possibly anticipated that our mayor would have been taken from us in december, taken from the city that he loved. we all have endured a lot since that fateful night. many of us have cried, many of us have mourned, but we have come together as a city. we have definitely had our disagreements and debates over the past seven