aspects of their training, especially report writing. so when they graduate and they go to the field training program, they're ready to address this issue. operationally, we released a bulletin, 18-185 that prioritizes access to bilingual individuals. it's a great summary of 5.20, and it summarizes in three pages everything officers to need to know. we've had language access services tracked in our report writing system. that's how we're now able to give you an accurate picture as to the 3,385 instances in which a report was written. technology wise, we have a remote interpretation services available at every district station, the airport and special victims unit. it's like face time. you go to a station, and you state what language you speak, and you click a button, and we're able to get the

interpreter and do it by video chatting. what we're really excited about this year is the pilot that we're rolling out at ingleside and in the mission districts, and that is by way of our smart phone. every member has a samsung smart phone assigned to them. the main pilot is ingleside station where every officer has an app, and they're either able to hit the app and make a phone call to an interpreter, or in the cases of hard of hearing, they could -- or our deaf community, they're able to, by way of face time, get an american sign language interpreter, and for lack of a better way to describe it, face time interaction. that's at ingleside, and as we continue throughout the year, we're going to work to continue to roll that out on officers' phones. and then, my last -- i want to end by saying that we will continue with our monthly

meeting because we make a lot of progress in meeting with the community on this particular issue. we are working with the department of emergency management to get better at getting bilingual officers to the scene. we figured out a way to traffic our response time. hopefully we'll have some data for you next year on how long it takes to get a bilingual officer to the scene. i mentioned the deaf and sign language services that we're using. we're making sure d.h.r. provides testing to the recruits in the academy so that when they graduate, they're certified. and then, the last part is to identify this year liaisons on limited english proficiency at each of the district stations

so that they can be a resource in terms of policy and technology to all of the other officers that work within their station, so that's one of our short-term goals coming up in the next couple of months, and that concludes my presentation. >> well, thank you, commander lozar and captain. one of the questions i had was does dispatch know who's available each night and each shift? do they get a list every evening or do they do a callout, who's a certified cantonne cantonese interpreter. >> i think what we're trying to do is trying to get away from dispatchers calling out and requesting available bilingual officers to respond. instead of asking, we'd rather them use the list, identify that officer, and ask them to respond, and that's the difference that we need to change in 2018. that's been a challenge, a

d.e.m. in terms of getting their employees to operate in their manner, but i think we've made a little bit of headway, but we need to continue that. because the technology's there, and they know exactly what's working. >> commissioner mazzucco: that's what we discussed last time. director henderson -- >> i just marked it because sandra is not there this week. i just wanted to thank commander lozar who's worked really closely with us over the years on this program and presentation. there were a couple of things that i wanted to point out because the notes are already in there. all of this work that was being done was the most collaborative, and by collaborative, i mean the work that the commission directly was involved, back in 2000 -- last year in making this a working group, so that made it more collaborative with many of the groups that are here and

with the audience tonight and some of the other groups in making sure that this has remained a priority. i would point out there are also continued recommendations from the agency that evolved out of this working group to be found on page three of the notes. a lot of the work that was done with language access has come not just from the complaints that have come into our office from members of the communities, but from the working groups themselves and the agencies that we're working with, the affinity organizations and the groups that are here tonight. >> well, it has been collaborative, so thank you. commissioner hamasaki. >> commissioner hamasaki: commander lozar. >> good evening. >> commissioner hamasaki: good evening. i just had a few follow up

questions. so the working group is still ongoing, and you're meeting how often? >> we meet every wetwice a mon. i think it's every second tuesday at the conference room. and the participants are not only the stakeholder groups, but also the captain and lieutenant from the special victims unit since they're working very closely with the victims and captain dangerfield and our staff at community engagement. >> commissioner hamasaki: mind if i join you? >> you're welcome, yes, of course. >> commissioner hamasaki: so i had a -- a couple calls this week. one, i -- you know, i know you from your time in district three, you know, excellent -- excellent -- you did excellent work there in addressing a lot of these concerns with the community there. i know this is something you care deeply about and have worked, you know, really hard to -- to -- to move the ball here, and i think that

everybody is grateful for that. i wanted to check in -- there were questions that were asked of me. where are we on the recertification of officers? >> so we're doing the training on eight hours once a month, and we are trying to have those classes consistent because our bilingual now, we're up to 400-plus, so we're trying to be consistent and doing that on a rotating basis. in terms of the recertification process, the testing, i'm going to defer to captain dangerfield who's been working with d.h.r. on that part of it. >> in the new m.o.u., they're allowed to retest. we haven't decided if it's going to be every year, every two years, but they'll have to

retest to recertify their skills, and we haven't started that. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. you haven't started that. are there plans to begin that this year hopefully sometime soon? >> yeah. that is the plan to start it this year. we're just having conversations with the department of human resources about the logistics of handling that. the only thing we got through with our later m.o.u. indicating if an officer does not pass the recertification, they're not entitled to the compensation, but really, the goal is if they're not up to par, we need to get them back up to par, and that's what those eight-hour classes are talking about. we need to recertify, get the recruits certified, and all of that. that's where we're at. >> commissioner hamasaki: okay. and as far as the training, the training is because a number of these officers are native speakers or have learned a

second language, but there's special skills that are involved in actually interpreting for either a crime victim, a witness, or another party. >> yeah, it's a special skills. we talk about, for example, the victimology -- like, the concern about a person who's maybe monolingual speaking. they're the victim of a crime, the suspect talks them out of reporting the crime and trying to defend themselves. we talk about handling calls for service, interpretation versus translation, what's needed, department policy. we just try to get our bilingual certified officers completely up to speed as to what they need to be doing. we train them per that bulletin that i referenced, but everything's perishable. that's why we put them through that training. >> commissioner hamasaki: so where are we on the training -- the certified officers now,

where are they as far as being -- going through the eight-hour training. >> so we started our classes last year. we put a few -- [inaudible] >> so 90 so far out of the 400, and so our plan is to continue to push through 2019, to get everybody -- into 2020, perishable skills, kind of reuped on the eight-hour training and make sure everyone's current. the other thing is we really want to continue to test and get as many people certified as bilingual officers as possible. you can see we have a lot of people that are bilingual that aren't certified. so again, back to d.h.r. and working with us to make that happen. >> commissioner hamasaki: and what's the liaison or below you leading this effort? >> so we have an officer by the name of officer carr. the reason we're here before you this evening is because she's assigned to the community

engagement division, and her full-time job is to really take the spreadsheet with all the things we want to do and all our wish lists and make that happen. she teaches at the academy, the basic class. she's involved in the recertification process, she coordinates with dmpl.h.-r, bu that is her job with this, to make sure that we're moving all the d.h.r. plans forward. >> commissioner hamasaki: one of the other concerns -- was that there's some language used by populations in san francisco including hindi and toisun, in which we don't have a testing or certification in place. can you explain what's going on there? >> well, we have to meet with the department of human

resources and talk with them about this. the other thing i want to mention about d.h.r., the department of emergency management uses a public company to certify their personnel. so we have to look at options, maybe using a private vendor, continue the conversations with d.h. d.h.r., but we have to work with people and continue to certify people in toisunese. >> commissioner hamasaki: that's pretty much our chinatown community there. it's distinguishable from cantonese, to my understanding, from somebody certified in cantonnese, there's going to be -- i think there's going to be some issues with interpreting and communication.

>> yes. now -- no, that is exactly it. and we've had issues before the department of policeability over issues versus cantonese and toisunese. it's time to look at d.h.r. or the private vendor to make sure we're certifying more officers. >> commissioner hamasaki: and i heard that d.e.m., didn't they go through the private vendor for certain certifications? >> yeah. they don't use the department of human resources. they have their own private vendor through language line. they use language line to certify all their employees. so we just in the last two weeks have had the conversation about exploring that, as well. >> commissioner hamasaki: yeah, i would encourage you to do that if that ends up being a hurdle. so thank you. i know i had a lot of questions tonight, but i spent some time on the phone this week, and i did want to give the community's concerns a voice

out here. >> well, we'll see you at the meeting, and we'll have this conversation. >> commissioner hamasaki: i look forward to it. >> commissioner mazzucco: any further questions for the commander or the captain? thank you very much. and thank you to the community members who participated. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. next, we have deputy chief connolly and director john sanchez. >> good evening, deputy chief connolly. >> good evening, vice president mazzucco, members of the commission, chief scott. mike connolly from the bureau of investigations. with me is director john sanchez from the forensic services department. he's going to be reporting out semiannual reporting out of replies commission resolution 1648 and we report out semiannually. the data collection period for this report commenced on july

1, 2018 and concluded on december 31, 2018. the number of central assault evidence kits collected during this period was 162. there were 12 late submissions to the crime lab, and again, the resolution calls for the kits to be submitted within five days. the reason for these late notifications -- excuse me -- to the crime lab were primarily due to outside jurisdictions and federal holidays, so we had outside jurisdictions submitting evidence outside of chain of command, but that didn't impact the testing period. the number of sexual assault evidence kits processed by the lab was all of them, and they were within 120 days. the average turnaround time for the kits was 45 days. it was a significant improvement over when this resolution was drafted. there were 55 kits that resulted in foreign matter --

in other words, a different profile from the victim, and of the 55 profiles developed, they were submitted to codis, which is the national database that the offenders are loaded into. the number -- again, qualifying for d.n.a. was 55. of the foreign d.n.a. samples submitted, 19 were entered into codis, and again, these documents are in your packet. there were 19 profiles that were identified through codis. there were 79 profiles that were not developed. of the number of s.a.e. cases collected, the number of survivor cases made were 103, and an additional 44 survivors declined to be notified or refused notification. of the total number of sexual

assault kits collected, the number of outside agencies was 12 as i mentioned in the first part of this report, and the number of sexual assaulted collected and the attempts notifications were three. so out of all the notifications, there were three attempts with negative notification. there was no situation where there was no notification made. the case status of the total sexual assault kits collected, the current dispositions are inactive cases, 81, cleared cases either by arrest or other means is 33, and there are currently 48 cases at that actively remain open. the number of cases sent to the district attorney for charging and/or prosecution was 16. of those charged of the 16, 12 were charged, four were discharged, and we don't have a conviction rate by the district attorney. and i'll open this for questions for myself or director sanchez. >> commissioner mazzucco: just for the members of the public, this all started when there was

concerns by commissioner -- former commissioner jim hammer, a former prosecutor, when we learned that there was so many of these kits that were not being tested. and this commission, and the chief at the time, we've taken the lead. actually, we are the national model, if i'm not mistaken, for putting together the timing and the efficiency of testing these kits because of concerns from the community. in fact we weren't testing kits when we knew kwho the known person was in the assault. now, we test those any way. and thanks to public health -- help, who was involved in that, too. we moved forward, and our police department, i'm so proud to say from the day that was brought up by commissioner hammer to now, we were the national model, and i think the community can feel very safe in hiring more people to work in the crime lab to test the d.n.a., which is not cheap, but it's the best thing we do have

done. i think we've doubled the number of testing in the lab of the d.n.a. i think the drar commentirecto it's a timely process. i'm quite proud. obviously, the numbers in these report are excellent. i want to say that the number of cases submitted to the d.a.s office are great. for the commissioners that haven't been there -- commissioner dejesus and i have been here, this is something that the department and i can be very proud of because this supports the community and the vulnerable victim, to thank you. commissioner taylor? >> commissioner taylor: hi. i've got a couple of questions. so 162 samples collected and

sent to the crime lab. only 55 filed into the codis. tell me what the gap is. >> the gap is there's not biological material that could not be identified. >> only. so only 40 -- okay. got it. and then, what does inactive mean? >> inactive means exhausted all investigative leads until new material comes in. >> and that's different from open because open means there are still investigative leads being pursued. >> and of the 40, the district attorney charged 16? >> yes. >> commissioner taylor: and were the rest declined? >> i don't have their filing rate, but we can attempt to find that. >> commissioner taylor: okay. that -- that would be interesting.

do we -- so -- so -- just to follow up. so of the 162 total, 16 were actually ultimately charged by the d.a.s office. >> correct. >> commissioner taylor: and it looks like for a lot of those, there -- there was no d.n.a. profile that we could ascertain, there were no -- >> correct. >> commissioner taylor: all right. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. commissioner dejesus? >> commissioner dejesus: hi. so i'm looking -- i've got a real basic question. looking at the disposition codes, they list variations of one, six, and 13. what does that mean? >> it's the uniform crime reporting index. six would be arrest, 13 is an exceptional clearage, and i don't recall what one is. >> commissioner hamasaki: what

is an exceptional clearance. >> exceptional clearance, usually we would associate that with more of a homicide where the homicide suspect was -- he also was -- chief? >> so exceptional clearance would be where a case is cleared when the suspect has been identified, and something beyond police control prevents an arrest and prosecution. perhaps the suspect is dead. you can clear that case by other, exceptional clearance. there are cases where everything is exhausted, the district attorney declines to file the case, but we've identified the suspect. so those per the standards set by the f.b.i. are considered exceptional clearances. >> commissioner hamasaki: i apologize. you actually mentioned that in your report. that was the individual that jumped out of the window. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioner taylor? >> commissioner dejesus: no,

i'm still asking. >> commissioner mazzucco: okay. >> commissioner dejesus: so i'm looking at page one, and this may be an exceptional clearance, but the third from the bottom up, it's 18-0866, and in looking there, it says, the d.n.a. profile, yes. codis hit yes, arrest, no. then, there's no code, so i don't know what that means, and then, it says victim was notified, and it says said. so if you have d.n.a., and you have a codis hit, no arrest, i'm just wondering what happened to that case. >> that's still an open case. i don't have details on that case, and i'd be precluded from discussing that case, but it's still open. >> commissioner dejesus: no, that's what i want to know. if it's no arrest, it's still open. >> i can't remember. >> commissioner dejesus: and just, i want to go back to the

second page, notification and outcomes. you talk about providing the notification to the survivors. 103, does that include -- that victim bills of right, that allows them to get copies of the police report. is that the one we've been discussing the last few years? >> that is correct. >> commissioner dejesus: since we know there's been a problem, has your group ever helped the victims get copies of their police report, i mean, in terms of follow up, have you ever helped them? >> commissioner, that's an ongoing discussion. our inspectors work with the advocates and the victims to get them whatever services they need, so generally speaking, i wasn't prepared to report out on that aspect, but i can get that information. >> commissioner dejesus: okay. yeah. i'm just curious because that's come up the last couple of times you've been here, and i'm just wondering -- >> commissioner mazzucco: okay.

commissioner taylor, you were still -- >> commissioner taylor: yeah. i just want to commend you for processing these cases in a timely fashion. i know we have problems processing them in a timely manner in other places in the country. 162 only leading to -- >> 12. >> commissioner taylor: no, no, 162 evidence kits leading to 12 charges, and i just think about the victims out there that have, you know, no resolution. is there any way next time you come before us that you can report on what the d.a.'s office did, if we can get that information, what cases were declined and the declined number.

>> yes, i can get that. the turnaround time is pretty quick. that's due to the staffing and policies and materials that were implemented by director sanchez and his management team. it is the intend of staff and lab personnel to decrease the turnaround time, so i hope to report out the next time, next reporting period, that we've reduced to 45 days and continue to report on testing. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. >> if i can, deputy chief connolly, i want to go back to commissioner hamasaki's question. last year, the commission directed that the department work per a resolution put back and forth by the board of supervisors, that we put together a task force, and part

of that is we have a carr in place that will -- [inaudible] >> this company has a lot of experience. they've worked with a lot of different police departments, large and small, so i think it'll help us greatly in terms of answering our questions as well as some of the questions that the commission has raised about staffing. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. call the next line item. >> clerk: item 2-b, d.p.a. director's report. report on different d.p.a. activities and announcements.

>> commissioner mazzucco: good evening, director henderson. >> good evening. i just have a brief report. the main focus was the language access, stuff that i've already talked about. i will say in terms of the stats, this year, we're at 21 cases that have come in so far this year. at this time last year, we were at 14, and i've previously at other meetings about the continued spike that we're having and complaints that are coming in to the office. so far this year, we've closed 13 cases, and we have 288 cases pending. we've mediated one case this year, and we still have five cases past the 270-day date,

which is still not the 3304 date, which these cases will presumably be resolved between now and then. there are a number of issues that were raised from the last commission that i've answered in the memo to the commissioners from issues last week, including the body worn camera question about how many -- the number of cases that were involved addressing the subject matter that we discussed last week as well as the -- more details on the m.o.u. and the school district. i will say that we've been working collaboratively with various agencies. those conversations will continue, and i will continue

to keep this board apprised of those ongoing conversations that result in decisions related to that. present in the audience with me today are my chief of staff, sarah hawkins, senior investigator susan gray in case there are issues that come up tonight, and also present is one of the new lawyers on my legal staff, janelle caywood, who is here. >> commissioner mazzucco: where is janelle? welcome, janelle. thank you. >> it continues to be a hot ticket, police commission. >> fight them off to get here. i learned during the meeting today, i want to thank the d.p.a. they make their staff available when officers come in for interview. they actually make their staff available when officers are working late at night. i know that's not easy for your staff, and i want to thank you for doing that.

that's very noteworthy. commissioner hirsch? >> commissioner hirsch: i just have a quick question for you, director. >> yes. >> commissioner hirsch: once the case hits 270 days, what is your protocol? >> the protocol is every week, a report is prepared for me, so every week that i come here, i have a report of all the cases that go beyond the 270-day limit. i send a letter to the chief so he gets them, as well, with notification of them. internally, specifically, i want to know about each and every one of those cases so i understand what the problem is. it's a red flag for me to get involved in the case if there's something i can do. most of these cases, as i've talked about before, 17 of the 23 cases are tolled, meaning that they're ongoing or related legal suspensions that toll the time -- or the time is not being tolled. for instance, if the city

attorney's office has a case, the district attorney's office has a case or something like that. the five other cases that we have could be -- are suspended for a variety of other reasons. i will say just in the ones that are pending currently this week relate to investigations or interviews that need to happen with officers who are either on leave of absence or extended vacation so it just hasn't been scheduled, and that's delaying the case. i know two, if not three of them were cases that were -- that we need to take legal action in order to get the documents in order to complete the investigation. for instance, if there's some juvenile records that are related to a case, we proactively have to petition the court to try and get some of those records, so these are all the various reasons. one of the cases of the five -- just, for instance, for this

week, is an investigator's assignment that left his position very quickly for personal reasons, and that caseload had to be taken over, so those are the kind of reasons. >> commissioner hirsch: you're comfortable that you have process in place that will make sure these cases don't fall off the table in a year? >> absolutely now. now, i am, absolutely. and that's exactly why i started talking about the 270-day cases. it used to not be a big part of the weekly updates, but now that i'm having the reports made, and every week that report gets refreshed to me of every single case that reaches the 270-day mark as to why that case is not closed or every investigation that i personally review, this is in contrast to the reports that i gave last month where i talked about having the new investigators

reduce the amount of time being spent on each case and close the window or shorten the window in terms of how long each investigation is talking to close -- taking to close out the case. that's when i wanted to start highlighting them and looking at them on an individual case, on a case-by-case nature. >> commissioner hirsch: okay. thank you. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you. commissioner hamasaki? >> commissioner hamasaki: i just wanted to commend director henderson in making a fine hire in miss janelle caywood. i've known miss caywood since back before i was a lawyer, and we both live in north beach. since i've become a lawyer, she's been known for years as one of the sharpest minds down at the hall and an exceptional person of character and wisdom, and so i wanted to welcome her, and i think you made a great

hire here. >> she's been great. i just wanted to say we did a little fast this week, and nobody else wants to do it with me. >> commissioner hamasaki: and she didn't even tell me she had applied or gone through until she started. >> she was on our list for a while. >> commissioner mazzucco: well, thank you very much. anything further for director henderson? hearing none, please call the next line item. >> clerk: item 2-c, commission reports. commission reports will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements. commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future commission meeting. commission president's report, commissioner's report. an update on d.g.o. 1.06, up date of working meeting held on january 9, 2019. >> commissioner mazzucco: it's been a busy week. myself and commissioner ally as

met with members of the command staff, members of the d.p.a. and their command staff, many, many deputy attorneys at the public safety building, and start the process of what protocols need to be put in place to discuss, you know, what it's going to do in terms of workload for the d.p.a. and the commission and the police department, and discuss -- get legal advice on what the parameters are. i want to thank commissioner elias, it was a very lengthy and interesting meeting. also today there was a meeting on d.g.o. 3.09, myself, members of the department, and d.p.a. reviewed 3.09, and i think we reached a resolution just by being in the same room at the same time. that's just a bit about what i've been involved in this

week. commissioner hamasaki. >> commissioner hamasaki: i think i've been talking a lot tonight. i think it's what happens when i miss a meeting. i'll be sure not to do that again. this week, i had the pleasure with commissioner taylor and commissioner brookter to attend a community meeting that was called by the family of the victim of the really, really, just brutal and senseless and sad attack on the grandmother, an 88-year-old woman. and it was a -- i was to say it was a really -- it was a really inspiring night. captain hart was there for the whole time, and he spoke. a number of members -- the head of the p.o.a. was there. but the family, they really took -- took a -- a really beautiful approach to -- to a

horrible situation and focused on the healing and bringing the community together on an issue that could have become divisive and led to bad feelings in the community. i was honored to attend, and i was grateful and the family was grateful to have the other commissioners there, as well. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. commissioner dejesus? >> commissioner dejesus: so -- so i also have something to report. i went to building 606, we hired a contractor to go out and do some radiation testing. give me a moment, i'll find my notes. i did go to that meeting, so -- here we go. so some of the questions that we had asked, you know, whether they're using the right equipment, how they're going to do the testing.

we talked about the urine test and the things like that. so this guy named bob hirsch was there. he was a certified health physicist, and he came to take measurements. he was going to be there all day yesterday, and he was going to be there today. he met with the personnel and other staff of the department of public health. a lot of people were there. he says it was an interactive process. he brought two different types of survey equipment, one involved in nuclear injuries that reads gam aradiation, and

the second meter -- gamma radiation, and the second he brought measured surface contamination that could lead to internal exposure. so one of the things we talked -- they talked about is where should he start testing. he suggested testing in the crawl spaces, the subterranean areas. he also -- there were suggestions he do the parameter, the play area, the lay down, the ingress, the egress, the locker room area, you know, the vehicles, the tires and things like that. and some people there, they take walks on their break, and so he suggested they can take one of those pieces of equipment with him for walks. so this -- i think this is the first time we're testing for radiation there, but i can't be sure, and this is hired by the department, so this is, like, our consultant.

the downside is down the street is a building owned by the navy, and it's where they did animal testing with isotoeps. -- isotopes. and then to the left, adjacent to the road, is parcel d where the dump was, the fire was, that i assume they buried the animals with the isotopes that they did the experiments on. as you see in today's paper, the navy is suing tetratech because now, there's all this allegation of fraudulent testing for the soil and more importantly, the navy's claiming that it goes all the way through top management, so now it's bringing, calling into question all the top soil, and who's going to pay for it, and our little building's sitting in the middle. and the first thing i noticed,

from 1996, when we first went there, there was no pavement, there was -- yeah, it wasn't paved, there was dirt roads. this was all this -- and this was right when the navy hands it off. it was a superfund site. and now, those roads are paved, so it's a little bit -- it's a little bit different. we are surrounded by areas. but it's a little bit different, although i think when they were doing -- when i hear from my people, when they were doing the excavation of the soil, they were putting it on that paved ground that our people had ingress and egress to. so what i'm going to suggest when we come to reports is we really need to look at the three things that we have out there -- three things we need to make sure that we have safe spaces for, and it's the evidence building. i understand within 90 days, you can have space available. there's a facilities storage locker. the evoc, where are they going

to do their training at, and then, i understand the $8 million shortfall, and they continue to move when they're going to do construction. from 19-20, now it's at 20-21. i'll bring that up on what we suggest for an agenda item. but any way, so i think the guy's competent. he's going to do it. i can't remember when he said the report is going to be done, i don't know how long it's going to take. i'm just concerned that it's so limited, it may not meet all of our needs, but there's some -- there'll be some reports. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you for doing that, commissioner dejesus. anything further? >> commissioner dejesus: oh, one last thing. i also want to talk about i asked him about the urine tests, and he said that's for people that ingested the material, and he said he didn't think there were any of that. i talked about the isometer, and he said nothing so far would require having that

isometer, things like that, so that's it. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you very much. please call line item 2-d, commission announcements. >> clerk: we need the update on the working group. >> commissioner mazzucco: oh, who's doing that. commissioner taylor? commissioner taylor? >> commissioner taylor: so commissioner hamasaki took part in the committee on 3.06. it was a good meeting. we got a lot of good, important work done, and we got some forms of agreement i think with everyone in the room. there were things we were able to agree on, and action items that i think the department will be moving forward on, and all of those things were heartening. there's a lot of good work left to be done, and so i think that everyone in the working group

was motivated and positive about getting things done quickly given how important these things are for our victims. so we're going to be meeting in the next couple of weeks -- i forgot when it was. >> clerk: 28th, 9:00 a.m. at the public safety building. >> commissioner taylor: yeah, and hopefully, we can hammer through the remaining items and get this work done quickly so that victim survivors will be able to access what they need quickly. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you for doing that. >> commissioner hamasaki: can i follow up briefly? you know, when the sexual assault and domestic violence groups appeared here, i think we were pretty shocked. i know i was, and i spoke a little bit out of frustration that night. i just want to say, i attended the meeting, and i -- you know, i really saw good faith efforts by everybody there, and i'd

been a hbit harsh on the department, but i think there was things that had been happening off our radar in the past in getting to this space, so i really do want to commend everybody on coming there with a good attitude and working hard, and i'm excited, the work we're doing. i think we're going to do some -- have a really good outcome here. >> commissioner taylor: yeah. it's clear that the stakeholders were really interested in the outcome of this, so it was a really good experience in any opinion. >> clerk: the next item, item 2-d, reports to the commission. commission announcements and scheduling of commission items identified for consideration at future commission meetings, action. >> commissioner mazzucco: any commission announcements. >> clerk: the commission will be dark for the next two wednesdays, and then our next meeting will be february 6, 2019, in this building in room

400, at 6 pm m. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioner dejesus? >> commissioner dejesus: well, there's a couple of things. i want to say this right. hold on. let me pull it up. okay. so if the chief can do a report regarding the timeline and the budget shortfall for the new building and for the moves of evidence room at 77 brannan, and rhode island, and evoc, and what the problem is, because with some kind of understanding of what needs to be done. i think there's today in the paper, there's a $418 million windfall to the city. maybe we can try to lobby to get the money that we need to get the building started and

get the evidence out of there, and get the funding started for evoc. we know how much it's going to cost, kind of a road map of what we need to do to start moving it, you know, if it's a resolution or however we need to proceed, so it's something i would ask. >> am. we' -- yes ma'am, we're prepared to do all of that. >> commissioner dejesus: trying to help you. >> thank you. >> commissioner dejesus: the second thing, i'm glad you brought up senate bill 1421, and after you brought that up, i have a lot of questions, so i'm wondering how we schedule a full meeting to have a conference with the city attorney and try and get a better understanding of the law itself? >> i think what's happening is it's still a work in progress. it'll be a closed work session -- no. >> just a reminder, the work session has to fall within the

designated areas of the brown act and this is not one of them. if you have any specific questions, please reach out to me, and i'm happy to get those questions answered. >> commissioner dejesus: okay. i'm just wondering if all of us have questions, but okay. [inaudible] >> please send all your questions to me, and i will make sure that they get answered. >> commissioner mazzucco: okay. great. commissioner taylor? >> commissioner taylor: well, maybe it would be helpful -- there are -- there are -- there are a couple of commissioners that are already steeped in this issue. i'm not one of them, so perhaps it would be helpful to calendar this to have a discussion to see -- [inaudible] >> so just a reminder, the advice from the city attorney's office would not be in public because there would be no attorney-client privilege.

if you send a question by e-mail, we could propose a memo. >> commissioner taylor: i don't think it's anything that needs a memo, i just think i need clarification on some concepts in my brain de. >> -- and i think that commissioner mazzucco and i will be attending something next week, and we can report back to the other commissioners on what the progress is, but it's still any time making. >> commissioner dejesus: yeah, but i think we're talking apples and oranges, you're talking about training, and i'm talking about a confidential memo. >> i would like that and legal advice. >> okay. >> commissioner dejesus: and i know i brought it up last week, and everyone was upset with me, but i do want to calendar the sunshine ordinance task force, you know, just so we can discuss it, whatever we're

going to do with it, we're going to do with it. if we're going to ignore it, we're going to ignore it. but it's a serious allegation of us violating the brown act. any way, so i would like to calendar that. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioner hamasaki. >> commissioner hamasaki: we have to let the public know what we're doing. and that's what -- as soon as you're done with your process, we'll be able to somehow report out so people understand. >> commissioner mazzucco: yes. >> and what we're doing now is twofold because we have to take the law and put it into practice. it's not just developing procedures how we're going to obey the new law, but it's

procedures. >> commissioner hamasaki: the second issue is -- i -- i -- i think -- you know, i've already had this discussion -- the request to have the sunshine ordinance task force matter discussed. and you know, i was also contacted by the advocates on this i don't have any -- any interest in revisiting any of the votes that were done in the past, but i do think that as a commission, another city body has made a finding against us. i think we should address that, say either yes, we'll do better, or no, we disagree, however it may be, but you know, in the interests of the underlying sunshine, i don't have a problem discussing it.

i -- i -- and i think we should. >> commissioner mazzucco: okay. anything further? public comment. >> clerk: we have public comment on items 2-a through d. >> good evening, commissioners. thank you for this chance to speak. my name is diane atejada, and i am a survivor director of san francisco women against rape. tonight, i'm here to offer our agency's most sincere appreciation for being included in the working group on information of general order 3.16 which ensures access to police reports within five days. we thank you for this opportunity to contribute to the working group, and i also want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the hard work

sfpd has done to enhance its response to sexual assault survivors, including the unit order to ensure special unit victim investigators follow up monthly to ensure the status of their cases. being part of the community group and agency departments has been tremendously meaningful. it is our hope our experience providing sexual assault advocacy will serve to enhance the l.e.p. group and the working group on general order 3.16. we're proud to be working with you on the community's coordinated response to sexual violence. thank you so much for this opportunity. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you so much and thank you so much for everything you do, more importantly. thank you.

miss upton? >> good evening and happy new year, commissioners. beverly upton, san francisco domestic violence consoretium. the work the language access group just gets more important every day as we know. anybody that watches the news knows that it's dire. we have the right people at the table. i think commander lozar, captain troy dangerfield -- of course zamira keeps us moving in the right direction, having the women at far, the sf domestic violence committee, just so committed to meeting once a month and committed to bringing new ideas at the table but also ideas that we've been

trying to move forward and the goals that the work group have had are coming to -- coming to fruition, and they are. some of the things i think, just the support for bilingual staff, and i know i've talked to the chief and he's heard me before, i really want to raise the status of the bilingual officers. that life saving skill is so important. we would love to see their status raised in the community, more about their successes, domest domestic violence work, trafficking work. so we would love to just see them really raised up in the community. we really also are just enjoying working with the new langl language liaison, p.j. carr. she's awesome.

so you know, this work is slow, but it is moving in the right direction, and the community is counting on us because having that bilingual understanding, certification, and those cultural, you know, knowing the cultural issues in the -- san francisco's so diverse community is so important for victims to come forward. it's also a public safety issue which we really try to get across to people. if your neighbor is afraid to call police, it's your public safety issue. so i just want to thank you for your work. we're so proud to be a part of the deaf and hard of hearing group, and many others. thank you so much. we're headed in the right direction. >> commissioner mazzucco: thank you some. thank you very much, miss upton. any other public comment? hearing none, public comment's

now closed. please call the next line item. >> clerk: item three, discussion and possible action to adopt revised department general order 3.01, written communication system, or take other action, if necessary. discussion and action. >> i think we have gotten our way through 3.01. we've revised it. the cal d.o.j. has reviewed it. i think they had some input. we rerevised it. it includes a matrix where we're laying out a five-year plan largely organized by the department in -- in groupings that make sense because they're related, and we've got our work cut out for us every year.

we've got, i don't know, 125 or so d.g.o.s, and we've broken them up into groups. we have to cover those within the next five years, and we're on our way. so with that, i would hope we can have a motion and pass this and get this -- >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioner dejesus? >> commissioner dejesus: i'd like to officer a friendly amendment. i think it's great work, but the very last page, 3.01.13, a format and approval and routing of the memorandum of understanding and other agency agreements, right now, the way is reads, the understanding shall be routed to the chain of command, the bureau that's affected and the city attorney at the kwigs of the chief of police or designee. we, time and time again have many times brought in front of us the m.o.u. for the f.b.i. that's one that's really important to this body. we have altered it.

matter of fact when the chief got here, we called it off. the m.o.u. with the d.o.a. to review the new o.i.s., it was something that we had to keep asking to come in front of us, and now we're working on the m.o.u. for the school district which is really important to this commission. so i would do it -- where it says at the direction of the chief of police or designee, i would put, comma, and presented to the police commission for approval. i think that's something important and i would ask for approval. >> commissioner mazzucco: commissioner hirsch? >> commissioner hirsch: i have no objection. >> commissioner mazzucco: chief? >> commissioner, would that be every m.o.u., because we have quite a few m.o.u.s, and some of them are probably a lot higher on the commission's radar than others. some of them are just routine, so what i would ask for in terms of discussion -- because the worry is that some of