>> good morning and thank you for being here. before i start i want introduce our mayor london breed, our lieutenant tom mcguire. [indiscernible] assistant of operations, lazar and president of our police officer association mccray. thank you all for being here this morning. first of all, we are here to talk about something very exciting to us and that's the introduction of ou drone program in the san francisco police department. before i go further, i like to give thanks to our mayor, london breed and our da for being here, because it is her leadership that got us here and proposition e voters passed in march. anounss sfpd successfully launched our drone program and this is all thanks to our mayor. drones have truly police department.

think of this, we have been without air support over 24 years since the early 2000 and officers have tremendous technology at their finger tips other law enforcement agencies regularly use. drones ain and lieuten want will discuss shortly. benefits include, faster response times, si tools, more precision, de-escalation, more information to formulate a plan, officer safety enin necessary police chases and integration with technology such as cameras we are putting up around the city as is truly a force multiplayer and really in light of all our staffing shortages, this could not our first phase of the drone program included the purchase of 6 drones with more on the way.assisted sfpd in numerous cases including a sexual assault suspect, automobile

burglary, 4th of july may hame able to de-escalation ccessful and peaceful resolution very quickly, much quicker then previous years, and we also arresteand wanted fugitives with help of the drone tech nalg. we have policies in place to said reasonably and responsibility with safeguards to protect the public. all the drone to increase the use of drones in the months to come to continue to drive francisco. we integrating drones with other technology such as and public safety cameras to effective and efficiently respond to crime. crime is down in lower then it has been in the past decade and with drones we think we can enhance that more. our officers are very hard to make sure that this city is the safest city in america and we will continue this trend with the

help of drones. our violent crime is ent, prairpt crime is down 35 percent, and again, i have to give thanks to our leader of our city, mayor breed for making and now, without further ado, i will introduce mayor >> thank you chief scott and thank you to our district attorney brooke jenkins, president lieutenant tracey mccray and others from the san francisco police department joining us today. this partnership didn't it happened because we worked together. it all started when last year i had a opportunity to visit of our stations in san francisco, our police stations and i had conver sations with many officers directly.time again is, we want to do our jobs, but we need more tools to do a better job for the people of san francisco, me about technology and how other jurisdictions were using this technology and how

last year in october, we got together and we made an announcement based on that feedback, proposition e was born. were add alamo square where we know is a notorious place for car break ins.talk specifically about using technology, not just drone technology, pbut surveillance technology and giving they need in reportings are cameras that can allow them to not only spend more team on the streets but effectiveof police work that as the chief has mentioned, leads to better and safer results. and i couldn't that the technology that we are finally putting out there, whether it is the flock cameras which are also known as and the surveillance technology that will also be out there on the streets of san francisco to these drones.is a game-changer and i must say that, i didn't think it would be as impactful as it has been. it has been a ga our

city. last year san francisco saw the lowest crime rate we have seen in 10 years, not including the pandemic. this ye34 percent lower then we were in 2023 and this technology has been a real game-changeer.out what this means. we are talking about people who are committing crimes in our city, who are not arrested in days but having this technology has added additional value. but despite this technology, i appreciate the fact that working really hard on the retail theft operation, the bait and with this new technology we have a tool to combat issues plaguing our city and they are seeing early results.more and more change as a result of this. but i want to be very clear, when you cross those lines here in san fr consequences. i appreciate our district attorney because she is prosecuting those cases rchlt but we haabandon values of giving people second chances,

providing a robust amount of programs that get people on working with organizations and communities in order to help people. once those lines are crossed, we have a job to do. to protect public in this city and now with these technology tools, it is a game-changeer and more importantly, there is more to come.beginning, the results are already showing very promising impacts in our department, and i am looking forward to see more as we roll out, as i said earlier, more surveillance technology, training more our officers to be certified and use drone technology and making sure that we are taking advantage of every opportunity to p of san francisco safe, so we are really excited about this and looking forward for more ank you mayor. now we'll hear from captain chris before we start, let me thank them for their leadership.

proposition e passed in march, and the speed in which we haher and actually procured a drone, it goes beyond the police department, but it is instrumental that these two gentleman along with assistant chief lazar and many others in the department, their leadership made this happen.to them, i also want to thank the other city departments, including our contract administration from the mayor's and thmany others who have really did this with speed unheard of in our city, so the urgency is the point i'm try toog make here. we have a sense of urgency to make this a safe city and do the things deserve and that sense of urgency is the reason we are here now, not even 6 months after the proposition passed. with that, i'll turn it over to captain dellgandio and lieutenant mcguire. >> thyou chief. good morning.

i'm crist, the commanding strategic investigation unit. myself along with lieutenant we'll share success stories with you. this is from july fireworks a major issue in our city. we are able for the first time to get a drone up a visual observation on the ground without putting officers in danger.otage was being streamed to us, we are able to come up with a strategic plan to get officers in place and this activity. as you will see you will see the officers move in and disrupt the fireworks being set and--chases folks out of there to create a safe environment for folks in the neighborhood. we are e -escalate the situation because we had a visual observation what was going on

from overhead. again, as you can see, the fire works stopped and the >> [indiscernible] it is very difficult [indiscernible] with this tool it [indiscernible] drone operators in there bay area an maintain the footage and we were able to coordinate resources on the ground and are able to do this in a safe effective efone it is nearly impossible [indiscernible] very successful. the next day, night, this was the

next night, saturday night and [indiscernible] stolen vehicle, stolen plates. [indiscernible] alerted us to the area and some of thout in the area with these individuals [indiscernible]situational awareness and we are able to coordinate with resources on the ground. prevent dangerous pursuit and able to get e back. they were very pleased and tried to get everything back intact and we had a success. with this tool the officers are able to be safe and efficient and successful early in the game. again, [indiscernible] >> thanand thank you. now i like to introduce to our

district attorney brooke jenkins. >> thank you chief and ank the police department and our mayor london breed for working together to make this possible. what you just saw is the wa future and sadly san francisco had been far behind the curve in having the technology that we need as a city to make sure we can curb crime. and so i just appreciate the two of them working together to make sure san francisco as a city has what it needs to crime is committed, but hopefully have a system that ultimately begins to deter future we want, fewer victims of vime in our city and this is the beginning of able to send a message that if you in our city that are illegal you will be caught. a part why i'm here is to announce that ththird video you saw resulted in a arrest, but resulted in charges filed by my office against the individuals in

the auto-burglaries. we have to look at the steps of the process, so yes we want to ence we need as a da office to file charges against the individuals to hold them accountable arrest and footage we were able to file auto-burb and two are repeat offenders. as a trial lawyer, jurors in 2024 expe to they dont just want to be told by a police officer what they saw or what their perspective is, they would prefer ability to independently evaluate the evidence in a case, and as you just saw, this is going to be key evidence that my prosecutors courtroom to not only establish for the jury that the correct person wise and convey and demonstrate to them the specific conduct that occurred and who is responsible for. that is why i have been of the use of this technology from the very beginning because as prosecutors we have to know we are

prosecuting the right person, and also that in court and this technology will be essential in allowing us to do so. again, i commend the san for not being a bureaucratic agency that took months to figure out not only how to get and to use it. thank you for being on top of things and getting right to it and helping work together and i think that's also message today, no longer do we have divided leadership in the city, we are all on the same page where we want san francisco to go and thsafer city for its residents and for its visitors and business owners and we are on our way there. >> thank you da jenkins. in closing to sum up what you heard here today,b two of the d our city for decades. as we speak today, we are 56 k-ins. about 5700 or so car break-ins this time last year, well over 13,000.

this technology is only as good as the people who are willing to use it and effectively and fairly, and all thanks logy goes to the people in front of you. the lieutenant and captain and sergeant and also the officers, because mayor said, they asked for it, they embraced and are putting to good use.all our hearts this is the game-changeer we told you it and is low we haven't seen in over a decade that we can continue to do crime and drive director crime strategy ryan in the room. ryan please raise your hand. we have to be strategic what e technology and director and his team are part of strategy to make sure we are using this effective meets your approval, the people of san francisco and also make sure we can continue to drive crime down. as i said earlier, we have a taking this

extremely serious and we believe this is a game-changeer of technology so thank you mayor, thank you here and we'll open this up for questions. tion, my understanding in had the history of san francisco are some of the risks using drones--it is obvious because some cities don't realize san francisco doesn't have can you talk about the risk of aerial support from drones [indiscernible] >> well, there are risks with any piece of e drones can crash. the technology is very advanced. some of our technology has collision avoidance technology where it impossible to crash into anything. you also we have to comply with f a a rules. there patterns we have to be concerned with, but those things thank tuesday the diligence of our team, we have doneand looked at policies and counties and

cities around us. done field trips to other the risks into account and policy reflect that. we two unit orders believe we have taken that into account. there is always risk with equipment but drones are fairly safe. not unlike , if a drone crashes it could cause injury, but you are not investing nearly as much in the equipment. you are talking about few thousand as opposed to 7 figures or more for a helicopter and i believe in helicopters, but short that what we need. >> can you give [indiscernible] deployment.e these officers staged around problematic areas in the city and that is where you are deploying these drones or how do you respond quickly? stigation of crime. prop d calls for, if we can use in pursuit, mitigating pursuit. one of the case were able to avoid a pursuit because officers were able to

strategically put the spike strips down, so unwhen couldn't. that is what it is all about. we want to prevent as much as we can crime and pursue but in the event we can't prevent them, it is effective and the bottom line is apprehend the people doing the crimes. people doing crime and at the end of the pursuit or some situations maybe during the pursuit. if it meets the specification what the that's what the proposition called for and how we have been deploying. >> [indiscern areas around those zones? >> it is driven by the investigations. as pointed out, one case you just saw started with the flock alpr alerting the stolen vehicle driving around the vehicle, the officer spotted the vehicle drone saw the vehicle and able to see committing more crime and

apprehended them. that iscan be. >> [indiscernible] this violates state law, ab41 about notification on surveillance technology? >> we don't believe we state law at all. we believe we are in compliance with state law. we submitted a ordinance to board of r june 3, the ordinance is still pending. state law and city and county ordinances, we have a year basically to and then that will be evaluated and approved, so when the next year's 481 report comes, this will be in for the previous year. we believe we are in total compliance with state law. >> for those concerned issues, to verify these drones are not surveilling passively. that is my first question. i also have a question about how long the once that video is captured and where is it stored? >> yes, servers are secure and as far as we do have a retention. if it is first amendment type of thing that is up deployment

of drowns because of crowd management and crowd control situations. unless there is crimes committ is a criminal situation like what the da spoke about, we save until the crime and case and resolved. other is it--30 days. 30 days we purge the information, unless we can tie it to a crime. >> the drones are not passively surveilling and not just launched to watch over, unless there is a [indiscernible] not just hovering drones over the city just for unknown purpose. when we deploy these drones itcriminal investigation and or some critical incident like you saw on the 4th of july with fireworks, that on was getting out of control very quickly. those type of situations we deploy. we dont just passively fly around looking f there are specific mission focused on specific crime or critical incident. >> two more questions.

[indiscernible] recent complaints that surfacing about the new will be helpful for sure. we don't have the benefit or did not have the benefit of having a foot pursuit when you are trying to set up a perimeter. that is a game changer. i use that word but it is true, because what happenat type of support, you are much quicker to go into apprehension mode. you try to chase the person have the luxury of aerial support you can slow things down, you can set up the perimeter and these drones are terms of doing that. the operators know what they are looking for, we get the perimeter set, d effect ive and it is big deal. we believe it enhances our policy. >> how much is this program overall cost the city? >> i had that right now. think we are-- let's see--

>> we'll get that for you. >> yeah. yeah, so total cost so far has been and that--in our budget this year, thanks to the board and mayor we plan to pu go up as we purchase drones. >> last thing from the drone conversation, there is claims made that regards to-all the encampments being cleared right now that there has been people arrested or jailed.at or is there uptick of arrests or anything like that? >> is this a drone question or sera ? let me just say this, even though it is not a drone question, our

officers have been instructed to support the law. now the supreme court made their decision we put out department notice what we we can enforce, which is the law, so the officers have been we want a clean safe city and that's a part of it. >> thanks for coming out. grand opening of 921 howard street. this beautiful building right

up here. this is 18 hundred percent affordable housing. happens to be the tallest affordable housi our tallest building in our portfolio and it is a modern sleek building and really appreciate everyone who was involved the people who live here. we will celebrate this accomplishment today, but we can't do and the collaboration from some of our partners here. this includes curtis from curtis development [applause] the mayor office. swinerten construction. [applause] techs. cal hsa and many others. we hold a ribbon cuten ceremony when the building is fully occupied. that means today we have 203 ving in this wonderful building right here. they are close public

transportation, shopping, restaurants, and cultural institutions like museums and yerba the heart of what we are here to celebrate. at this time, i want to invite my co lamont and sharmain kurting to come up and talk about the story how we got to this building and what is special about 921 howard. [applause] >> thank you so much roxanne. i'm so pleased to be starmaig many may xoe, i worked at tndc a long time and started leading the housing development department and this development has been germinating for a long time, and sharmain was my partner in navigating our way forward to ace today and i'm so grateful she is our codeveloper on this project. so, little about the story how

as many know, soma had a lot of market rate development and are a lot of deeply affordable development, but little to moderate income development, and the time we were conceiving this development there was a lot of call for more moderate income housing speaks to tndc and kurting development perseverance and commitment providing affordable housing as a br income levels. this unique we serve folks with extremely low income and moderate ca rnincome housing finance agency. it is also located across the street from the 5m development and benefits from all of tho outdoor amenities. contributing to a balanced community. we are so grateful to the mayor's office of hocommunity development for steadfast support over the years as we pursued upzoning through the central soma plan escigrateful to the planning department, including steve wartime now moved on and doing great things at had state legislature. through the central soma plan, the department helped us to

substantially upzone this property. it was zoned to support 175 8 story building and today we are delivering 203 homes in the first phase and the second phase on the side of the howard is scheduled to be developed with another 230 homes. 921 howard is also one of the cost effective affordable housing development s in san francisco. it has a cost effective design, architects and developed total development cost 10 percent then typical affordable housing and this despite the fact it took 10 years rthow we were able to minimize that acquisition carrying cost is fortunate a philanthropic tech support moderate income housing in soma and he chose to invest through us and through the san francisco housing accelerator fugrateful to many lenders that helped along the way, including the housing accelerator find and the very state supported transit oriented affordable

housing program. grateful to construction and perm lender to baof america who made the bigest loan taken out and tax cut to cal hsa to support the middle income component and grateful to the mayor office of housing community development. with that, i like to introduce sharmain. [applause] >> thank you katie. facts, which are really good and important facts, especially around the middle income part of this project, which i'm i will go more philosophical. it has been an honor and privilege to work with tndc the st we won't say exactly how many years and to partner with them on the development of this amazing project. partgrateful and to don falk who trusted me to lead the charge when d of the tunnel because we had a lot of ups and downs and setbacks, but we persevered.

lord knows we persthese days, we been through it. it was worth it to get to this celebrate key mile stones throughout the journey starting with ground breaking where we do the soil and topping off ceremony to write the name on the steel beams the top beam and openingism each is opportunity to recognize the small army of people and it is. if you are not in the business it folks involved. getting a building built. including all the construction workers. hundreds, if not over it is just a lot of work. i especially love the grand opening because this is what it is all about. this is work, because there are right now over 200 households living here. folks who may struggled to find affordable housing in san in in san francisco over the years, and now they are in a safe place where they have stable affordable housing purpitutety because that how is

the city structures the project. each building feels like a miracle, it really d is just-the feeling of getting a building built, whether you are building with own hands like en folks or us behind desks and on calls it an amazing feeling of accomplishment to make something where there was nothing. i think housing and affordable housing and sufficient supply of of the fundamental issues of our time, and so we did a lot more miracles like 921 ar i just want to shout outs to say names because i worked in the trenches with these folks.department, without them we wouldn't have [indiscernible] the swinerton team, sarah, samantha, mike, shawn and lovely boss lori who will speak in a

minute, jaxson anon the tndc side. perry architects, dirk is here, steve is on vacation.and highly recommend them and they had a great team of engineers and consultants who worked to make this happen. our construction isn't here today. bruce and amy are here. they helped so much with permitting with. and last but not least, people who are not here, our financial consultants housing partnership [indiscernible] they are behind the scenes and unsung heroes of the work of building affordable housing in 'll turn it over to supervisor matt dorsey. [applause] >> thank you so much. it is a represent district 6. this is a neighborhood where the housing we are building is really something that int what san francisco will look a lot like in the years to come and now we have a housing element where we are on the

hook and we made a commitment we will produce 82 thousand units of housing over the next housing element cycle, and this is an example of the kind need. it is an honor torupt represent a district 21 century urbanism could be. there is a lot to thank and dont want to get in the list and there is one person i thank, mayor london breed to the leadership she is bringing to housing in the city. two years ago i joined the elected in the november election but there was a early election of 1 rviewing people who would be her appointee. i had a lot of opinions what i wanted to do involving police staffing and recovery from drug addiction and issues and was a housing nerd and london breed was putting me through pacing where i stand on this and what--this is mebody who

really sweats the details on housing and cares about it because she knows what a big difference it can make. in the life i always love to come to these with ground breakers and different kinds of things. for those who have been with me at ways complain if i don't get a hard hat and shovel and vet. i'm a gay supervisor so i want the constructionear. in terms of the thing we are here to celebrate, i was a great point made. today we are is more then 200 families who lives are improved because of what we are doing. this is probably the most important thing we can celeb we have accomplishing and let's keep doing it. thank you to mayor london breed for her leadership and continued leadership. this and a lot has to do with the financing and for that i'm happy to introduce from cal hfa the recent winner of the [indiscernible] sacramento business journal--i look on google and find a obscure thing to

say, so please welcome, irwin tam. >> wow, that is-thank you so much. i guess i do appear on google. [laughter] ed to be here. i am excited to have taken the s on the subway and walked two blocks to get here and stopped for a ffee and that goes to show how important housing is and how important affordable housing is that is being developed closer to public enit we have here. as supervisor said, i'm irwin tam, director of financing.we heard about the facts. we heard about the philosophy. i guess i can talk about the numbers.that. but first of all, cal is the state affordal housing lender and of tina hall and [indiscernible] cal hfa is delivering housing for low and moderate income californians state wide by

working together. when of the organizations we work office of housing and community development. not only on this project, but also work in conjunction with apple and the the bond recycling program and to date delivered additional $250 million tax se exwould go unused, accept for this partnership. we are really proud that relationship with the mayor's office of housing this project wasfunded through our mixed income program and again, to date, we have delivered er 320million of subsidy funds across the state which resulted in all most 10 thousand units for low lirnand this is a prime example of the inclusive community we are trying to cfor again, low and moderate income californians. we would again like to thank the mayor office, tndc, bankthe state treasurer office for this financing scr i like to turn it

over now lori dunn. i didn't google you before hand. [applause] [laughter] >> good morning. lori dunn the vice president division manager for this has been an amazing journey. we feel fortunate to deliver over 200 n fr un we are a community builder and we really appreciate the opportunity to not only construct a beautiful also be giving back to the community. we know how important this project is to tndc, and to consider ourselves very lucky to have been a partner. we see this project as a very successful tndc, curtis development, perry architects and all our subcontractor trade partners. again, thank you for the opportunity. cited to be able to deliver this beautiful project. [applause]

>> hi, everyone. liz from bank of america so honored to be no matter how chilly it can feel the sun always comes out for these amazing opportunities. great city of san francisco in 1904 and our purpose is to help make financial lives better. wree do building of inclusive communities and creating economic opportunity for livable neighborhoods just as we are seeing here today with this last year our community development banking group invested $7.85 billion across th housununed and economic opportunity. these funds created over 13 thousand units and homes for families, seniors veterans formally homeless and those with special needs. lf bank of america is proud be a public private partnership with tndc, curtis development mayor san offi francisco and

cal hfa. i will thank all the same people we are thanking today.office, cal, tndc kurting development and bank of america teammates, many of whom were able to [applause] >> it sounds we are still waiting for the r luckily, i have been planning to talk to you about very important state and local measures that we like you to support. [laughter] as we all know, it is critically important to couple both local investment and investment for affordable housing like 921 howards. while we have a state representative here, thank you irwin are to the state, the legislature for putting prop 5 on the ballot. prop 5 for those who don't know and hopefully learning more up to november 5 will be lowering the voter like

affordable housing and infrastructure likeblichools, health libraries and public transit. the state has been doing its part to make it much easier for localities to support affordable housing so please do your part and vote for prop 5 on november 5.previous state enabling legislation that allowed for the creation of regional financing authorities like the bay area ho the 9 county bay area, really set the stage for another important measure you will see on the ballot in november known as regional measure 4 and also known by people in our as the bofa bond, the bay area housing finance agency. this bond will raise $20 billion, billion dollars, 2.4 for the city and county so please we need voters throughout the whole region to vote for this measure, and we need all of you to

please do your pa to your friends, family and networks and are to participate in which ever way you can to support the passage e measure. it is critically important to our ability and city of san francisco as a whole to fund the pipeline it has and nefordable housing throughout our community. that's what i got. [laughter] [apank you. we are grateful you are all here. we hope the mayor has her opportunity to thank you all and you have the opportunity her and we thank you. again, i will--roxanne to send you into the-- five minutes? oh, okay! that's what we hear. the pole toss is coming. this be my--matt and i were talking what he learned and his experiences to position him to be ready to t know if you want to

share your story, matt? [laughter] i'm just practicing, killing time. matt was sharing if it is okay, that he spent some time as city attorney spokesperson and had the fun job addressing the public about the cases the city were i can appreciate it. it is a hard job to be a supervisor. not everyone is always happy with you all the time and you have to e you know, all those constituencies. and i am now public speaking more then learning how to roll with the moment. i will say one other thing and appreciate-tndc is celebrating one of the biggest fund razors of had year. we have two big events. this is called the pool toss.ld september 26. it is an iconic san francisco event. it is real ea fun. it is at l a lovely institution in the tenderloin

you should support. it has a great cocktail bar and friends there when they come to down and been a supporter hosting this event. r ne hbor. we are developed 555 larkin. 108 homes serving families in the tenderloin and they have been a great neighbor and partner through the planning and design and then execution that building. we had the privilege opening that building and the pool toss, we have a web page and you can donate. i think we are up to and so rebecca foster who leads the housing accelerator fund and i mentioned her was this project is one of our tossees. yes!sorships are available. [laughter] yes, there is actually a lot of food from local businesses.is actually doinated to us i believe and we have a fun cocktail

bar, but just drink one or two. you can check out our website. tickets are available now. perfecto! do you think she wants to hear my bofa spiel? 'll deliver it as she walks in. redo over? great idea. roxanne will do that. >> a lot of us officials i want to recognize some of our staff that are back here in the back. raise your hands if you work at this building and we appreciate each and every one of you guys. yes, thank you. [applause] yo after it is built and we have the ribbon cutting you make the building success-foot successful so thank you for coming. jackson is here too? thank you.

yes. i think the mayor's here now. i'll stop. echo what roxanne said, the development team can build a beautiful building what matters in the lives of the people that live in it isce every day with property management and services and pleased to introduce to you, mayor london breed. >> alright. i made it. better late then i got to say, when i am able to come to events like this, whether it's ground breacuttings what people don't always see is all the hard work that goes into making something like this possible. all the various zations to put the financing together. the hard work that goes into making sure neighborhood preference is project like this we are very intentional about outreach to insure families struggling the most haa beautiful place like

this. it is really very rewarding to walk through these doors, especially after being at mean the ground breaking on the site and lori from swinerton was thh other folks. supervisor, i don't think you were there yet. we were mising you though. we were there breaking the ground and significance of what this will mean for families and really trying to open up the pipeline for ust a little bit above the low income status, but like middle income and tawe too much to qualify for affordable housing. to have this project go up to ami is truly incredible and really exciting, and this is one of the biggest projects i think we ever built thanks to the voters for passing all most a billion dollars in bonds, we wereuse $39 million

dollars and state and other resources. the other person always at me with these various openings and ground baking is liz from bank of americaism thank you so much. [applause] for your continuous support. but i am also very excited about welcoming and having someone an african american led and owed business, a woman in particular, sharmain curtis from curtis development because happen with projects like this. it is so meaningful and thank katie and tndc and so many who helped put the pieces of the make this project not only success, but a inspiration for the people we are trying to serve. it is amazing building, a beautiful neighborhood and what we are doing with downtown, bringing more people and sure that there are amenities and support and are there is housing security. that's what this project is

about. that's why i'm so happy adding more housing to our portfolio. we need more and more and more, and now with ly sb423, which will make everything that is following whatever the rules are as of right, so we can get more housing but this state regional bond, what is it called now? bofa. what number is it? four. that is going to deliver even more money, so we can do more projects like this faster. we have a nitingof line for these resources and can you imagine with over 50 thousand units already approved in san francisco 50 thousand housing units in the san francisco pipeline what that would do fwr housing the city! it would be a game changeer and that is what we are doing with new housing policies and gettiand making magic like this project happen so happy and grateful to be here. thank you to all involved and congratulatio have a opportunity for a safe

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definitely knew i wanted to be a small business owner here lovely in my community. to thank the staff at sfgovtv for providing technical assistance to broadcast and record this afternoon's meeting afternoon's broat . yo cable channel 26. let's please stand and recite the pledge of allegiance. i pled the united states of america. and he with liberty. and. dan, please call the roll present. mango is present. member. proctor. present proctor is present. vice running late. member. nguyen. president. wynn is present. member. palmer. present. palmer

is present sue. present. president. sue is present. member. wecter present. victor is present. there are six members present, and we have i j to make a couple of announcements, if the members of the public and some of our members have not yet seen the supervisor shamann walton called for a hearing on the sheriff's office, i think it really brought to light theand i hope people will take a view of that. and there was a good community showing as well. so i want to thank, supervisor walton for calling that heari cate member brooker. again, another great graduation and another cohort for the hunters point family and young community developers, inc, their environmental technician and job readiness training, tha great chat with, one of the graduates who was a dad of four and his youngest six year old was reading relyell,. and so i think you should be really proud . and the new center is really beautiful. the sou. and i'm reminded that, the bayview

center was where kamala harris had her first headquarters when she. now, vice president. so it really just takes the community. so thank you very much for all you do. member. thanks for coming out, with have any additional announcements? yes madam president, this is the regular in-person monthly public meeting of the sheriff's department oversight b department oversight board will attend this meeting in person. members of the public are invited to observe the meeting in person, except requiring a reasonable, reasonable accommodation. only members of the public attending the meeting in person will have an opportunity te . public comment is available in person, by email or by postal mail. to submit public comment by email please gov. org for public comment by postal mail, please mail it to the office of the inspector general, one south van ne california 94 103. for those wishing to make public comment in person when public comment is called the public is welcome to address the board for up to

two minutes on that line item. there will be general comment at theat domeetg not appear on this afternoon's agenda, but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the sheriff's department oversight board comments or opportunity public comment period are available for members of the public who are present in person by approaching the podium when it is free public comment. the first tone will alert you that you have 30s to complete your public comment. the second tone will two minutes are up. that is the end of announcements. thank you. please call the first agenda item. dan calling line item action item. approval of the may third, 2024 board meeting minutes a motion to approve the minutes from may 3rd. thank you. a second? second? a motion second that. could you do a roll

call? vote, please, do public comment first. oh, i'm sorry for members of the public who would like to make public comment on linenutes.leproach the podium when it is free. there is no public comment calling the role minutes member mango i mango is i member bruckner i bruckner is i member nguyen i win is i member palmer i palmer is i members president su. since i was not present at the meeting, i'm voting. i'll vote no. wechter is no. there are five ayes and one no. the minutes from the may third, 2024 meeting are approved. thank you. dan the next item. agenda. agenda. please colleen. line item two. inspector general report informational item. inspector general terry wiley will give a monthly reportnspector general. thank you for joining us at the dais. yes. it's great being up here. kind of a floppy mic, well, good

afternoon, everyone. so i will start off bydiussing what has been the biggest news regarding the sheriff's department. and, and we're talking through late april, that period in which there were ten deputies assaulted andçb!óne civilian, an employee, assaulted at, at the jail in san bruno ordered two jail lockdowns the first being from april 12th through april being from april 28th through may 1st and that was to investigate the cluster of assaultsover the past two months, i've been gathering input from numerous sources, about the recent jail lockdowns cause and contributing factors to the lockdowns, but also the impact of the lockdowns, and with the lockdown, the impact the lockdowns have had on inmates

families of the inmates, the jail staff and on, his the attorney client communications and visitation, and then we looked at ways to address, the underlying problems to avoid the lockdowns of the whole facility. and lockdowns and mitigate the collateral impacts of the lockdowns, as a result of all of this, onoard of supervisors called a meeting in which they asked for, the inspector generalefender, chief angela chan, and, oh, the deputy sheriff's association to present on this issue. and basically give our perspectives of the assaultsall, situation. one board member, mike nguyen, was also present. and provided his thoughts during public entire, three hour event was on, sfgate su indicated, it's

probably a worthwhile, view of kind of where we are with the situation with the sheriff's department. it ended up being a three hour, hearing, what the inspector general provided were the following. first, we looked at and we let the board of supervisors know the complaints that we have been hearing, and one, of course, the co a, and the profound effects they were having on the daily routine of the inmates specifically their ability to shower for, yoknene, spend time outside the cell and just get some fresh air and sunlight, there was a reduction of programing opportunities, limited, limited access to commissary and service providers and really preventing them from visiting family and loved ones, it interfered in many cases with

their ability, and caused, and this was really the big one. the biggest complaint waso had nothing to do with the assaults. and yet they were suffering they felt like they were being punished for something that they did not do and had had nothing to d so we looked at well, what is what is some of the under what are somerlying reasons that are causing, well we understand what are causing the initial lockdowns, but what is causing the length of the lockdowns and understaffing was one of the big reasons for the extended lockdowns. currently, the sheriff's departmentancies for sworn personnel, and that number may fluctuate from week operations in are the custody operations division is at about 78. staffing so they're at 386 deputies out of 494, so

there are approximately 108 deputies shorteicu operations, when ken lamba of the deputy sheriff's association snapshot of the staffing levels over the past six years. andtment was and this was pre-covid, the sheriff's department was down only 48 deputies. and so they were 766 deputies, 2020, they were down 76 deputies. in 2021, they were down 109 deputies. and between 2021 and 2024, they currently today we're at that 175, what we also concluded they need to fill those positions. but what is created the situation that'y crea, and it's mandatory overtime of the deputies, and we

found that the deputies working an average of 28 hours overtime time per week. the mandatory overtime and long hours overtime tax fatigues and stresses the staff causing morale problems and mood disorders lead to chronic health and mental problems so that the overtime is very taxing on the staff and the costly to the city and county of san francisco. so decreasing staff over the years has exacerbated, has been exacerbated the jail population in, probably the over the last two years, we haveeen an increase from about 800 inmates to about 1200. today and we also see continuing to rise, now the increase in the jail population has led to of course overcrowding in. and required thenew jail annex to address

the overcrowding, it stressed it stretches staff, to cover more areas, the additional jail annex areas, well, additional jail annex areas are ava open them up, if they keep moving at the pace they're moving in terms of the increase in the jail population, an it decreases the quality of life of both the deputies and the inmates. so the causes, ahat we heard of the lockdowns in april, were due to increase assaults on on deputies , the sheriff locks the jail down following thess first, the incident and investigate whether the incidents are isolated or or determining whether pervasive problem. is it something that's a more organized assault on the deputies, the sherifd to deploy staff. well, generally, what happens when you have an assault at, because they're already understaffed. they have redeployment of staff so that

they can conduct the investigation and that, in the end, results in the shutdown of the redeployment, and collective bargaining agreements require or specify a minimum staffing level in, in and shifts. and so the sheriff has to meet thosehe result. and as a result, he has to redeploy meet those requirements, now the sheriff's department also onboarded nearly 300 new deputies years, many of those deputies started during during the covid lockdowns and do not have aot of experience with in open setting of inmates and that is has been a little bit of a new deputies just don't have as much experience, dealin, the or the deputies that were hired pre-covid big change in th the inmates, primarily due to

bail reform bail reform, the concentrated inmate population in san bruno, coming out of the pandemic result of bail reform tends to be those have that have, that are in there because of more serious and violent offenses, whereas the individuals that are there level offenses that in the past may have been housed at santa at at san bruno are now they're staying about seven days. and so the result is th are there for more serious and a more difficult, population in, to manage. and, and asesult, they pose, a more serious consequences to hing gets out of hand. and, as a result, we also saw, that because there are so a ramp up in the city o offenders and, and, well, really drug offenders, what you find in the, the population has changed

in that you see more are detoxing or mentally unstable, because of that increase in, in the ramp up outside and the arrest of those poses in that now you're dealing with the population, as, there are more individuals who have mental health. and the personnel and the jail is really not the best equippedind of population, there's also funding issues with behavioral health in that behavioral heal is not able to provide 2 those individuals who are detoxing or having mental health is, problematic . so what are the recommendations that we discussed? well we recommended to, one would be thet of staff. you know, i know that there are quiter of deputies that the sheriff has redeployed to assist with, the

drug enforcement and the issues going and that has taken individuals, out . but by being on the str they're not performing. those are non-core functionss, of deputy sheriffs, the core functions of deputy sheriffs are , to and manage the jail. and so reduce the reliance on mandatory overtimerecommendation is to redeploys, back to the jails and not for an extendedt to give the sheriff an opportunity to increase the staffing levels the other is to increase the investment by thty into recruitment efforts of the deputy sheriffs, for example, currently, the san francisco sheriff's office has one dedicated empl, while, the san francisco p has 12, individuals who are exclusively dedicated to recruitment. the deputy

sheriff's association associ also recommended, some salaryy having new deputies to step one also they could consider coordinating their efforts with the police department and do a national recruitment effort, help, we saw another probl to speed up the hiring process.iff's department has an insufficient number of staff, investigators to process. so currently they have nine full time and two part time background investigatorse were occasions where those background investigators were redeplo understaffing at the jail. so thos, so the work that they should have been doingthat had to stop so that they, for the understaffing with the jail. and so we recommendedhat they consider outsourcing their background, giving handing over the

department, to the department of human resources, s of human resources, or consider outsourcingckground investigations. so, for example, san mateo sheriff's six full time deputy sheriffs doing backgrounds and then they have 15 individuals that they've outsourced doing their backgrounds. and so that's another the hiring process day, they need an increased budget to add indivi recruitment team, we also looked at their operation in terms of, the programing that occurs inside of the jail they're also needs to be, the pretrial division services diversion services as, to add more case managers to the diversion services, of course jail behavioral health because of the change in the population with the inmates there e, staffing of behavioral health to deal with, you know those individuals that arel health

issues, but also reentry and, finally, to upgrade the, to support the ability to better monitor theails with less manpower. assessment to the board of continue to meet with community based organizations. we met with the san francisco jail justice coalition with them once a quarter because they're very involved with th, met with them at and, we also found that they a to provide assistance with the assessment of, of real time what's going on with the inmates we attended their meeting and, and got s them, we also met with sonny schwartz and eileen hurst, sonny sonny schwartz wasogram director jail under sheriff's mike hennessy and vicki administration's. and eileen hurst was, upper management person in the sheriff's department during

era, they were absolutely in terms of . and, sonny schwartz was, was just had all kinds on the programing that was going on. so we were able togood look at what the programing looked like to what it looks like today. and eileen hurst was, able to provide just such an in-depth history lyrical perspective of the sheriff's department. so those two will continue to resources, that, you know as we deal with, with and face problems that we have, they're great resources to go to and kind of how these issues were dealt wi also participated in the california civilian oversight alliance conference that was hosted by the department of police accountability here in san francisco great conference. i was one of the panelists, along with the president, anthony fennell and the berkeley hansel aguilar. and we focused on and about racial

equity in importance of racial equity and police oversight.ught was very valuable. program that we participate in that day. and i president sue and board member palmer, who both attended and engaged in the discussion with everyone about these issues really, really a valuable, program to parti in. and then i'll end b. early on may 28th, we had a death, while the inmate was constructively in the sheriff's department's custody, the care of doctors in zuckerberg general hospital. so he, and, he had somedical conditions, and i can't publicly that investigation, but we're continuing to foll investigation. and i would note that within 20 minutes of his passing, we sheriff's department of this incident, which bodes well for, th of communication going

on between the inspector general. thank you have any questions or comments from members member. okay. thank you really i really appreciate the context. it was a very land of all the things that are going on, a few. you spoke about the lockdowns. did they mention how long lockdowns is and how often it occurs? yeah was well it's really incident. you know, if there's the lockdown and so there's no specific time, although we did hear that there were daily. or 11. yeah, 11 a.m, but i wasn't we weren't able to confirm that there's a daily that real call a lockdown. and we consider a lockdown to byour cell. you can't even groom and shower. you're in now, we did find that six day lockdown. and so which programing,

you know? and so, we're we're still trying to figure out why that was so long and, and, and april 28th through may 1st was a four day lockdown. and but i will say this, that th were serious assaults and by the sheriff and, but we're still figuring out why so long. okay. i mean, i'm going from your team or the sheriff's department for i want to know in context of how you mentioned, that there is a diff short term clients, long term clients being that a finding that there were probably more serious cases. i do remember an angela chan from her that she mentioned that a lot of these cases are like, are the backlog of court cases that does contribute it. so part of it is, you know with slowed and these cases

were not we're really what we're seeing today is thatecause of bail reform, individuals that would be kept in custody are now being released. and so is the majority of the individuals that we've custody are there for the more serious and violent offenses to know. okay and th this before and i agree that t is a huge issue for everyone is and i just wanted to mention that i think that in peril, i am of the belief that we also need to parallel client population down. and whether it that has less serious crimes or like, minors to kind of help them to get because i think it attributes the overcrowding issue. you spoke about the understaffing issue, the backlog of cases. if client population down, it's going to help everyone. right. and i also know, i know you mentioned the the shortage when you work i don't know if that number is coming from you

or from the she to? like you mentioned, 20 and 19, 48, staffing, 2020 grew to 7621 to 2024 175. what's the benchmark? well first of al numbers were provided to the board of supervisors by the deputy sheriff's association. and us to be consistent with what we also did not have the month of the year by breakdown like they, they had. but we're we're seeing this pretty consistent in the number of sheriff's department is down and it's, and it's attrib to a combination of things. it's attributed to for retirement, and but there's also individuals who are choosingight because of the, a lifestyle. i don't know if lifestyle is that, you know, it's a stressful environment. totally. and then wants to work overtime if they're stressed out., i understand i guess i'm trying to understand like what is it like,

is it comparing to 20 1020 like i that's what. well we're not we're not really comparing it to anything really pre-covid like okay pre-covid, when you look at those years like 2007, 2008, they but you get to 2019 and you started seeing that the, the number of people that were leaving number of new hires. and and from 2019, each continues to grow. now, it's a ph all departments across the country are suffering. so you go to any police department around the country and hard time filling the vacant the vacanciesdepartment is no different than over the country, which is why so many departments are investing in the recruitmentt that was offering, new hires, 50,000, $50,000 bonus just to take the job the

same t san francisco. i mean, they're really struggling trying to find candidates. yeah i don't know if that answers your question butn, i i guess i remember with the that about the like a lot of the like almost half the be retired out. yes. and this is going to become a bigger the severity of this impacts the jail population as well. yeah. i mea bigger investment in the recruitment. and one full time deputy is that that that's a you know, you need more people recruiting. thank you. any . i have a few m constitutes an assault that requires a lockdown? well i mean i think that when assaults a deputy and t, needs assistance. that's an assault. now i know that theerence in which they had photos ofts of some of

the assaults and one one assault, example, the inmate knocked the deputy fell flat down on the cement and had softball type not on the back of his head serious assault in another in another deputy, the him, through his uniform and broke the skin through the uniform. so it was a very serious bite, i mean thosef what we would consider a serious assault. to minimize assaulting, law enforcement personnel, because that's a serious situation, and i didn't want the public to think that what they seewhere people are getting shanked and killed. so i and fiction, and so if these are the, the nature of assaults where they're bit or pushed down again, i'm not minimizing the assault, but that clear cut investigation. this person pushed this guy down, or this by this person, so that wou that's what

we're tryingv6 bottom of. okay that, i think that that is that why does the jail have to six days? and why? well, that that is that's that's a questionso far in your reports, we haven't heard of any or choked out or, like, directly was in danger, not that we're aware of. no. okay assailants, are they? are is there any evidence that shows that they may be a part of street organizations, we don't have that specific in terms of the specific individual assault. and on the individuals that committed the assaults tha that's, that's still part of an can i just quickly jump in there? on talking about the details,

because it's s. right? so there's certain questions. i don't thinkctor general can answer because it's especially if it's personal information aboutnted to know i just want that for all of us. right. and that's why characterize what things are because people outside of what we do for in our personal lives. may their thoughts m is in there getting killed and we just want to make su want that action to be tak prosecute that, another question is the units because in are certain categories of people that are housed tog people who are sex offenders are who are murderers are very violent or house together. and then that are housed together to, for their own safety any of the assaults tha how are they treated and are they put on as a, as a i don't or just safety, but are they suffering the, the conseque one other individual has done well that, that that was one of the major complaints by inmates right. because they called me they

called me to complain ab to just put on record for those who have at, hey, we're not doing anything. why are we being put on lockdown there was a report that there was a protest in front of cj reported that the jail went relayed by someone who was a resident in the reason why it was on lockdown. so was protesting citizens, that there complaints be heard? and what was th? yeah, i, i have no information that the jail was ever locked down because of a protest and i have just two more questions a while, but just like to offer for the reduction of the. because, yes, i too, am a part of the san francisco jail justice coalition. and one of the things that we suggested, especially for probation and parole matters filled up with people being violated and juststigated are long-term, where they be sent back to, maybe asking the city totional housing facilities our

county resources, since it isation, parole at least is a state fa, maybe we can create secure, transitional housing facilities where those matters can take place there. and as far as staffing. i think that staffing have said and based on the word on the popularity of being in law enforcement, especially duringocial justice movements that have been taking place, have giving law enfo in general, that could be pretty much you know, a upon, so i think it is necessary that all of us, including this board, make to promote w in law enforcement. the changes that that people concerns are being answered and not just falling on deaf ears or just, the people who had marched many years, especially after george floyd and so on and so forth, that results moving forward with our law enforcement. and that way, i think would garner more desire to

become law enforcement and to to help with that popularity. well, you know add this one little piece, those last lines that you said, there's also two things we found. we also found that the inspector general's offi reported assaults, by deputies dropped by at least 50. so we're seeing fewer reports of complaints deputies. and what we also found the sheriff's department has long way in terms of using de-escalation type approaches in managing the jail so those were all very, very positivesthat we saw. so, me the last meeting, you had mentioned that you, understood that there was a very positive culture change withstody services and that's consistent with a out where someone in custody is going to be transferred to

facility, he was happy about that. only because of the underlying population now more serious mental illness. as well as drug and drug issues. so i think that that's very attributable to, sort of the community kind of policing community have been put in place, so i i also think that recruitment is for all of us to do this is a beautiful to maintain a beautiful city. and that means that all of us makes it positive. that's why we are all volunteers to help, you know, make th city, if others don't have questions, i'll jump in. okay. member wechter yes, i have a number of questions about this and some other things. okay. first of all, thank you a comprehensive review of this complex issue. i really appreciate the fact that you and sonny schwartz to get a historical perspective, because having lived michael hennessey years, which saw dramatic improvements make it one of the most progressive in t appreciate the fact that you talked with them to get that important historical pe you mentioned that

you rec that's currently assigned to patrol duties. how many deputies potentially could be shifted on a, let's say an some of this mandatory overtime? how many of those could be shifted to the jail? we're trying to figure out because th for redeployment, but there's not 130 being deployed at any one time. and the sheriff is also taking them from four different divisions and but the, the core mission of the sheriff's department is the mana we feel that if there is any redeployment tha. so do you have on any given day, how many deput assigned to patrol? could instead be at the jail helping to relieve this drastic reliance on overtime? those those were some of the questions the board of supervisors meeting that, we have requested, the sheriff provide us with those with that information and has that not yet. okay mentioned us speeding

up the hiring process. and i heard much heard mr. lambda talk about potentially outsourcing background investigations. is there a sense of how long a background investigation the sheriff's department has versus this? as san mateo county does, and whatould be for each, each applicant. yeah. i the outsourcing would be no more expensivalary of a of a of a deputy i don't think there would they would the additional funding, so that they can either hire the background background investigation or outsource the investigations but for example, san mateo sheriff is outsourcing it because. and in order to fill those manpower issues, you've got to get the backgrounds candidates. and right now, i think that department's hiring process is lacking because you can go find the candidates all day l they've got to go through the

backgrounds and those agencies as fast as possible get their candidates through the backgrounds. they can somebody else can hire them, becaus san francisco's in competitive. okay. and then could you give us an update on f your budget request? the mayor recently released her budget. well, we'll be presentation on june 14th to the board of supervisors. okay. can you brief us on what the status is basically cut the, inspector gene and basically did not provide us with a budget. okay. is looking at the , from the mayor's budget. it shows they 1.15 positions. is that correct? yes, but that's not that's not completelyhere was awere submitted and they put my position and dance positions in the wrong places.

and so the numbers came outbut at the end of the day, when you look at where supposed to be, their funding the ig and dan lang's position for next year. so'm correct, is only funding two position yours and dan's. yes. no investigators, no attorneys no auditors. is that correct? correct. then how would you be ablel your charter mandated mission, so i'm not clear there be one investigator in yourn the mayor not provide thet be provided? well, i'm. i'm get into the politics of it because as the inspector general, tasked with building an agency that can conductr oversight of the sheriff's department and charter, requires, that we be allowed one 100 deputies we anticipated that this was going to be a

tough budget year. so we, we submitted a budget that, strategically, would allowcity and county to phase in our agency. so for all the investigators all at once, we asked for, funding for i believe it was three investigators and, and really i think our total budget came out to 2.5 million, that get us some administrative support investigators and a one attorney. and that get off the ground. and was your request for the attorney 81, 81 assistant chief attorney? yes and normally an assistant chief attorneys, supervisors, an entire division. the public defender's office has, i think them, each of them supervising a division. yeah but what given what you know, this is an agency that's just ground. you're, basically setting really existing what that with that particular lawyer does, that's

an that's in an in existing agency. we're trying to build an agency. okay as someone who worked on the campaign to establish oversight shocked and outraged tha positions of investigators, auditors and that's essential. the voters very clearly stated they wanted an office of inspector general to do independent systemic evaluations, audits they did not want the department of police accountability to do it. this has not been more in the public press , because it seems to be saying we're going to ignore now. now, i do support your your the hiring of staff. i do not support the hiring of an 8181 assistant chief attorney. going beyond just the inspector general's report right now. so to focus. i think i think i think this is very critical. this iof his office over the next year. and we've been and we have been speaking with supervisors. soe to, you know continue that, i would encourage you to also contact the supervisors and the mayor's office. i intend to and asy strongly. i think i wanted to correct you that you said that the

department of police accountability to also handle this. i just public there is a letter of agreement, and that particularin on whether or not the department of police accountability should job. so i don't want to disparage the have been doing a good job. they've won awardsh for their auditing as well, right now general's office should be doing is not onl what's with the sheriff's office. so it also the sheriff's office when the inspector general can't take on and review particular complaints with independent investigators. correct? the inspector general would investigate all complaints right is investigating a certain classification of complaints. certain number the charter said oigbut you're making but you're making a commentary on dpa, which is amendment. so i don't want to inject particular or make it appear that we're disparaging the department of police acr's current budget seems to intend to fund dpa to do the duties of the inspector general, rather than funding the inspec right now the mayor has asked to share two investigators. right now

there are investigators that currently handle complaints. so that is the status of it. now, we're hoping that office of inspector general should be independent and we already knew that there would be a period long period of transition 1 to 2 ye i mean, ideally it would have been one year if it were the kind of staffing at, but it starting a brand new agency and a never expected it to be in in a short shrift thatally get the whole agency and independent investigatorsn time because we don't want to mithe complaints and we don't want to miss statutory deadlines. well not funding for the next fiscal year won't even allow them to start the hiring process. long in other agencies that have been newly established and community can testify to that, but not giving you anybody doesn't the process of recruitment, which i very necessary. and essentially saying even be operational investigating complaints for over a year there's no possibility whatsoever. so i'm very by this budget. and i think we should think everyone who supported creation of sheriff's oversight

should boutraged by this. i did one of said that you made a trip to washington dc, i about that? yes, so they had a where you are giv to meet with your local, legislators and, and my the whole purpose of the to go back and, make a connectionlocal legislators. so, for example of the information of miss pelosi's legislative director and, barbara lee's legislative director, congressman eric in san francisco, is, a good friend. and so it was an opportunity to speak with, but really, the main purpose was to go out and about, any gran that might be available to office, and things of that nature. and so it was it was

very, very good trip also connecting with surprise is we thought capitol and, and then a day before the meeti told we were starting off at the white house. and so we met with, a lot of the white house staff and, so, i mean, i i, it was a great trip. who sponsored that sponsored the day on the is, because i'm a member of the national bar association, they and, set up the meetings with all of the legislators. and so we were able to go into the back halls of congress and meet with a lot of congressional not have been nicer. did did the nati it, no, because i was going on behalf of san francisco. so san francisco okay. and was it focused on civilian oversight the was to go and talk. you know, i'm, i'm stage of trying to get an agency off the ground

and in terms of i'm looking at grant funding. i'm l funding. and clearly, that's going to be important to get an agency off the ground. from a background and, with the district attorney's office offices operate by not only government funding, but grant fundg ano i went back there funding programs are available for agencies like the inspector general and who else from san franciscoo one. oh, okay. okay might want to check in with folks at nicole who have gotten a department of justice to do a study regarding oversight. and they may be able to give some information about grants that are available.rks best when it works cohesively and works to knowledge there. and there's a very in washington, dc with personnel who who have worked for the federal government, who probably could contribute to i sit down with anthony fennel, the prewe had a long discussion about, grant funding and, possible opportunities for

to seek grant it is about personal relationships. i think, vice president carrion can also attest it's really the unity bars a the different bar associations that have really ships with our electeds at the so it really is important for you to be present and make the best. and i really appreciate the fact of the box and that you're seeking a very broad rangeneficial for us in so many ways. i also am also bothered, disturbed disappointed to haven't gotten the funding that we need to do this import right, but you know what? our ancestors have foug fight through this too, right, and we will get to the place get. so i appreciate all of the work that you and the team is doing. and in essence, not it's not tha you're kind of being underfunded because now you're taking a position that you currently have. right? because it's only going to be for you to you currently have threee. so instead of giving you money, you've actually been taken. it's you. so that that to

me is what is moncerning because i think it's a pre, and as a past prose 15 years and being in all these different leadership the work that it takes to do this kind of detailed analysis and learn from the mistakes and the strengths of not a two person job. no, it simply isn't a very complex a lot of resources. the safety of the people who come here, the people who live here, the people that families and, you know their their being adequately . like, i mean, this this this is the people's decision, and here we are. here we are after all of the work that is done to in a deficit is incredibly problemati all community, to go to that board because this is if you want to be safe, if you want inmates andated

with respect, then in each of us needs to show up and each of us needs to be able unacceptable. but this is also, you know, a holistic question as well. we've talked for years and years or the board of suked years and years about forensic auditing. and it's not just words, come speak at the last meeting of what entails an o. and we see a lot of waste in the city, wh know, i'm going to ask y the detox situations. the budget should not be coming out directly from the sheriff's office. and the jails are not necessarlace to have those services. and of staff and the management. so but i'm going to to see if he has president karen. and then down the line, just a comment. thank you for alle you're really busy out there and i am showingple meetings going to washington and it's, it's admirable. so thank you for that. and thank you member. when for going through extra training certificate. so i mean to demonstrate that there is a movement and career the sheriff's

office, i think will help overall in the recr you, vice president karen. nothing further. thank you.i definitely echo my colleagues. thank that you've done, you know, thus far. and, you know, thisg. we got a long ways to go. i think one of the things think that would be helpful for all board members. and i also is if we could work on some sort of a template through in terms of information that we get from the ig i think it's a it could be a when we're ripping off questions that you're not prepared to necessarily be i also think it would help us in formulating i to be shared with members of the public. that's coming from from the ig, because i more of the statistics and highlights around how we've already been able the shortage and under resources that we currentl about how, you know, we have to contin doing with the limited resources, with the limited manpower.at we're able to do. we can do more should be charter has called for us to do more. so i'm in total agreean i did just want to state for the record, i was a little weary when iut how changing up about as an employer, for the sake

of hiring people deputies and the right people because that also cank that we're doing. if we're really just looking to have bodieshe department could actually cause more detriment and more trauma what it is that we're trying to do. so i to put those two things out there and also apologize for all the sniffling. but there, it's one of those days for me. just aof the department that's in the mayor's budget book? was that th i don't know exactly what you're, 298 of the mayor's budget. i don't have me. i have to look at that to. but i'll look at you if you could let me know. i'm curious where that because some of the text okay. yeah, i'll let you know, so i guess, we had been talking about templates one of my favorite words. and soo not call the inspector general a night or even ten at night, and we've had lots of conversations. on templates and also for the sheriff's office so that reporting. and this also gives an indication particularly here today about the kinds of technology up more staff time

to call and we want to be consistent so people particular reports, so i wanted to just drill down a little bit oneform. and just for the record, i rtment of insurance bail is a form of insurance. so iregulated industry. just want to make clear,onds act, the department of insurance regulates bail agents. isn't a whole lot of bail now. so the businesses kind of folding. but as a consequence, the bad part is there are these fly by night nonprofits, acting as bail ag. so i just wanted to put , taking money and not actually bailing arson out. so that's disturbing. so ilittle bit more clarification on that, because with bail reform yo that the people who would have been previously held are being released, but with the more serious crimes, but then wouldn't that have caused of a higher jail population. well, so i'm saying is that cause a higher jail

a population that was easier to it's, even though there are, lower numbers than in the past significant increase in san francisco because of the putting more police on the street and making but thosehe past the, the, the types of individuals t were a more manageable group of folks, and what i mean by that is somebody who committed a burglary, for example bail reform, might still be in custody. with bail reform, a out and the only ones that are being left in the ones that are committing the robberies, the carjackings thelonies. we still would have had those that population and it been in there. but it, it it makes for a different populatio they're the majority that are in there. yeah.ng that if, if there were

the, the lesse crimes that were committed by certain , that it would have evened out the population i don't know we're saying is that now, now you have i think you have to really look, the article that the one inmate wrote individual who's been in and out of custody forco and he wrote an article in which he said t, it's a much more difficult place to do time in becausetypes of individuals that are in there now, in general population, you have detoxing, who have mental health issues, and although they have a wing that deals with those individuals issues, you s in the mental health issue, but they have some inst, some mental instability, and they're being housed in. and so it makes more difficult place to do time in, which is w the gentleman, i believe his name that he would rather go

to state prison stay in the san francisco, county jail. and a lot of it has to do with the configuration of the population that's think it was sort of a balance, a risk analysis for him because he does enjoy the more positivedeputies. so as he's moving he's expecting of how the deputies will be treating new facility, so the other thing in terms of budget, maybe we can get a little bit more creative have or has a shortage of the healthties, and some of that is unused, that should go tos office as well as the sheriff's, so let's do a hunting and line by line. i'm all game. i' for it wherever we can get some funding, and also advocate for zero based budgeting becauserks is the bigger the more money you h you appear to be. but it's either use it or l very lean

and mean maybe mucho be churning all this information out. and then i've agenda where we're actually getting additional training as members because we don't even have a budget for our anticipated that we want. we had 20 hours compressed from the get go all really benefit from the training. and not to disparage the not required to go through any training, which is a little bit sho i know member brucknember of the police commission, but i think it makes a big difference and we and we when we are checking in with the union and are trying to understand their position because our oversight population and the affected families, but also the well-being, th well-being of our deputies and the working conditions just point out to the public, wes from training, and we kind of take it for granted the sheriff's deputies int, they don't have weapons. so their best tool is actually their voice. how to de-escalate. unless you you know, any kind escalate. and so one of the benefits of being in patrol in the tenderloin, that makes a difference is that

they're able to talk to the individuals people have been incarcerated before. so they're ki they might not have a relationship with a police officer. they'd rather talk to a sheriff. and sometimeshat can avoid, a more serious issuef someone is compliant. so i just wantedke it clear to the public, people are thinking, well, why are these deputies bein why can't they defend themselves? and they reallythe absolute last resort, but they do not have weapons with them wh and in fact, any of the deputies who are visiting the jails their weapons before they enter the jails. so and we look forward to i th going to have more regular visits among the members. i know was a little bit difficult to calendar year. so i'd like to do that more, and then, so and then also member palmer, i'd like to make sure that we hear justice coalition on, and i really appreciate the families also to talk about the effects of the lockdowns, i the visits to see what kind of info of time, notifications if there was a lockdown a visit interrupted. so i think

the notices have gone out more we're also looking at possible text messages. we unyou know, two two hour drive away. so it's a it's, you know, disappointing to say the least. as and then they get a lockdown message. so thank you so with that i'm going to open it to public comment. thank you, madam president. and for the record, carrion is present and arrived after the call. the roll weard for members of the public who would like to make the two, inspector general, report. please approach the podium when it is free comment agenda item. calling line item office presentation informational item pa lerm, chief financial officer for the san francisco sherifpresent on sfsu budget and priorities. thank you for being here, and welcome. good afterno inspector general wiley, president sue, vice president karen the public. my name is patrick police. our sheriff's office. today, i will be how much? how the difference

more money. the most pleasant changes. meetings start at 2:00 here police, today i will b presenting our information technology needs. i want to p begin by saying that theeriff's office. we're still a very heavy, heavily paper based organization, one example of that is ourime sheets, we don't have any electronicat interfaces with the city's payroll. we do itaper. and that does cause some inefficiencies. but at the same time, it is a way of doing business at the expense of additional staffi'm going to present today d to gain some operational efficiencies. and help us alleviate some of the, atduce some of the staffing shortfalls that we have by increasing the the work that we're able to do. so

some of the information technology priority projects that we have our list is the new jail management systemgo, and we're beginning in phase two, the second item is hiring professional staff to replace that we've transferred out to other units. the next one have is replacing our aging networking infrastructure and hardware, next in line is also the funding for a national incident based reporting ms. system, record management last category is the expansion on the use of i want to start out with our jms project, the jail management system. we started years ago, and we've so far we've completed phase one. phase one our business processes and docume. it's, simulating the functional requirements of the test environment and then also defining the phase two. and there's four components of that, t

analysis requirements, all of the data migration of shifting from the old system into the new system analysis to work with all the other subsystems city. and also within our department, and then also the and training plan, since we're going into a new system a very different process than what deputies are used to. an so a lot of that having a successful implementation requires adequate training. and is that we did have some delays because the jms was acquired by a new company and it took almost a year to finalize an agreement that i am happy to say that that has expect phase two of this project to commence in the fall of 2024. in this next slide, what what it's shown here isome of the workflows that, and the p of the success on phase two will . and, what's important to note herethat as we progress through each period there's more

tasks that are being worked on simultaneously, and a lot ofccess will require not just coordination of all the different, but it also requires some additional staff support new jail management system we have to our day to day is just work in addition to what we're. so with the new jms, it does require additional resources and some of which i'll get into in the later slidess slide represents the our timeline for jms project.nal it professional staff in o a successful jms implementation implementation, but also to have successful implementations on some of thether it projects that we want to have funding for. and we alessfully implement. so some background on the informati technology support services unit. it'se for all of the information technology and technicalffice. some of the

functional needs includes co standards for criminal and custody records, maintaining all the maintaining our physical networking infrastructure, support our electronic, mobile, mobile devices, and also providing help desk support for end users. curren of professional and sworn staff. i will after i've joined the sheriff's office, i'vethree deputies and sergeants be transferredut of the it's unit, and they've to custody division throughout that time, i haven't hired any additional staff. and what that means is now there's a gap, capacity gap on able to provide, with the implementation of the jms and with reduced staffing. and it's that has had operational impacts to the sheriff's office an it unit shut down in been in at the police depart emergency managementit pretty regularly

that at the sheriff's it's unit has to shut down, because. and when that happens if you're a user and you need your password reset or issues, you just have to wait. which which is glaring to we're not department. weaving an it unit sometimes days at a time, and a lot of that isrolled. or the cause of that is really because of staffing, both in terms of not having enoughn terms of not having enough deputies. and, we've had to rely upon deputies to f staff positions. that has the potential to be civilianized. but at the same time, we don't have to enable that. and what we've seen is that because of the significant shortage in sworn staffing, that we have no choice but to transfer out unitsur operations

from some of units, especially our it unit.hings that we also need support on is our networking infrastructure. the a hybrid work environment, and som some of this requires adequate infrastructure transition to a new jms or when we adopt a nibrs compliant ms. infrastructure upgrades in order to help us utilize somelities and the existing system that we have has the end of the product life cycle, and the vendor no longer provides support. so we of failure and some of the down if the system goes down, it will require a significant support effort from both our it staff in order the system up and running, but it will also have an impact onsystem goes down for a extended period of time. and want to reemphasize that we are , facilitysion to any of our

supportive functions does have very significant impacts in the can do business. and we did see that. we did have first hand experience with that not with our department of emergency management, when they open up their system went down, unfortunately. and they did have backup plans with you know, the old fashione. but it did have a it did have an impact ons. and that is something that we want to avoid. i did speak to page. i did speak about our networking infrastructure upgrades, and the next topic i want to speak about is several years ago, the fbi, t national incident based reporting this is for uniform crime reporting. in the past, uniform crime reportingas based on means is any type of what the data that gets captured

is only the most severe offense is recorded, as part of the data set for each incident. so incident that involves multiple offenses, you don't picture. all you really get is if there was, let's sa incident involving a homicide with additional assaults, robberies, etc, you really only get that mosturred for that inciden the transition to the cyber standard , what it allows departments to provide is it associates the it gets rid of the old hierarchy model it collects additional mea takes place, what form it takes, the char of victims and perpetrators and also all the offense, information that's associated one of the benefits of, not it not just having nibrs compliant benefits for the ms. is also avoiding double systems. we don't we want to be

information from one system to the next, to whichsome of our operational, systems just because of lack of interoperability. one last topic that is our body worn camera program. in 2017, the sheriff's office startedo outfit deputies with body worn cameras. we the program and at this point we have contract authority to deploy 340 cameras. however, we lack sufficient funding to deploy all 341 of the benefits for body worn cameras it helps support accountability and was a study funded. they conducted a randomized trial and randomized trial study at the los angeles metro police department and what they that officers at las vegas metro police, those who wore body worn cameras, had fewer use, fewer complaints against their officers and

able to see reduced costs of force complaints. and so one ofbenefits that we want to see is having all of our deputies outfitted with body worn camerasve our safety for our members, but accountability and transparency of the department. we are looking at, some other opportunities for funding just in our budget requests. there is arogram from the department of justice, the office of co policing services. they have a body is one grant opportunity that we're exploring, and we intend for, it does require a 50%. and that's something that we're tr for. but it is a funding opportunitylva lot of our information technology priorities. i to have touch back on the budget discussion and how it relates to what we submitted at, and what some of. i do

i first want to discuss of our budgetary pressures. we'vences occasionsperienced significant staffing shortages not just one, but also on our professional staff i can say that during the last couple of years, we've in the cost of doing businesses, business. rather, we've seen increases ined the jail population. and we've also seen, a significant pressure deficit because of increased useattributed to not just, the number of deputies that were understaffed by, butrom, retirements. it's also from incident that occurs not budgeted for, but it'ss. so the one that inspector general inspector general wiley had reported out deputies, that would be onenstance of

costs not budgeted for. when we experience a, a lockdown at the jails that also requires staffing. and the way that we're able to do that isovertime. we do lack, a signonly way that we can supplement staffing at this through the use of mandatory overtime, backfill the technology projects t i've, that i've identified in this presentation the funding, the funding requests and opportunities that we've looked at. the first one is committee on information technology the city has an annual process where each department submits unfortunately, the exceed what's available, with with the current submission we di our jms project, we were able to receive

$1.5 million in allocated funding through the courthis point, we doe, some of what we're able to do in that project. we are exploring other funding opportunities, not just from grants, but with working with the mayor's office, and the board of lot of the technology projects some of which, as in the other slides with the body worn camera project and with some of the other to, someies, either from the at the fed level or at the local we do recognize that we are at the city is in a downturn and the it's limited. and we do want that. and i thank you for your time. if there than happy to answer them. thank you, do i have any ? welc working team with little resources, member . which model body worn camera is the. is the sheriff's office currently using?cific model, but i

do know that it's, the body worn or axon is the vendor, i shoul how old they are? they are a couple of years old, i know that one of one of the grantlooking at, the cops office grant, it does allow for the expansion of the body worn camera project. andlow for, replacement of the things that we're looking to apply for, it is, at least in terms of the body grant from the, from the feds, they do these new programs or expansion of programs, hirereplacing existing hardware. but g, given the program thatnow, we are looking for both opportunities, both the because we do want to have body deputies, and we also want to replace the existing have. and you mentioned the cops program grantocal match, but what would be the amount of that? and is there current budget allocation for that? so no, it does depend upon whe we're we

apply, for cameras that we have deplo expand the program to the , sworn staff that we have in terms of program, the grant will allow up funding per camera, so for the i have to double chec amount or whether it's just the fed portion but is a limit at the very least it wo $1,000 local match or if the 2000 represents, then the total local match in that instance wo a scalable project. so if, for instance, if we were to apply match would just be we were to expand it for the whole staff, let's say it's 7 more than three times that am are still in the early phase of developing the grant application, and some of those numbers still have to be use axon axons, i believe

so. and do yo that for the, cctv camera footage within the jails, that i don't have any information that axon that that axon is closed circuit tv. do you know anything about of the cctv cameras, how old they are, how thend how long it's retained? i don't have any information on that. i,, for the security systems at the jail that is another project that we're we were hopingnding for. that is a significantly higher a it isn't considered just an information technolo project. it flows more in line with capital project, because of all the physical camerasing, etc. that does, and it's not jus the cameras, but also the, access to the , with that type of project, it does require for all

terms of what the curre i'd have to i'd have to get find that information and get back to you on that. i belo you, i do know that axon is not the vendor for cctv completely separate and different. they only do the bwc through evidence.com. thank the nih study and that it showed fewer it provide any information on what i don't recall, bu, it was two it was either 2017 or 2018. i can send you a you'd like. yes and he also mentioned use of force complaints that that include, payouts and civil suits. from what i remember of the study, what it compared wass a use against an officer, the investigative time to see whether there were merits omplaint, that it was significantly less for those who were body worn cameras versus savings the potential savings from that study,, i

don't know whether or not it was whether there was any information on attacks on on of or deputies in that study or it's not something thatcan recall. okay. thank you very much. thank you. member nguyen, just just to add yeah, i do agree that when it could be very problematic. when inmat updated in the system. so by, deputy waiting to do that, it could go way past their their timeme. and also when the deputy is tryingmebody out for a ticket, they have to log into the system for re for the ticket. and if the system goes down, thlematic as well. and then they have to do dispatch. and it's very problematic to get whereas if they were to get it on their quicker, a lot more simple. so, we definitely do need more funding for that think you had also mentioned at one time, and this was a pilot programys kind of an avalanche, like what takes priority. there was a pilot program for more efficient report writing by the deputies, but that just a pilot. right now we're going on a very old reports on pdf format

and several pdfs and the pdf actually crashes , because the way the system is designed. so so, you know, like maybe we could, update to where, we can st the additional funding the problems one of the areas for the report writing a the ms. system. solice department right now, they're currently implementing their ms. and w we are intending to, their it staff and also the vendor ofat they will implement it does include a report writing and at least conceptually, if we're able to adopt the same system that that gain some efficiencies on not having to do double entries data that they would enter would populate, into carry and also into the jms system and that are at least, have some

staff savings because there's less time for people to, vice president carry on. just a comment. when you said that, as somebody who names in an environment where you would jus to be able to do your job, that sounds absolutely absurr the work that you're doing. it's unfortunate to hear this report because it seems very dire. it tive, of in terms of writing in paper and all of those things, so you have your work cut out for it, but it looks like you're you'renspector general wiley's word, so thank you're doing. and i appreciate the th. member brichter know, i think there just seems to betent theme here of resources and the reports know, enjoyed hearing from member nguyen, though as outside the box. i mean, being in a city like sanompanies that are global, for them to alsotially chip in and help us with our systems so that we can you know, continue to

maintain and run our city much better, thank oh, actually, let me go to member palmer first. no. member. well, thank you for being here it just emphasizes what it chief first came i guess, you know i think the crucial part is really the testing period because asthings that might be aging out or the venu know left and, and not offering support, youmputer systems are talking to each other because otherwise it's like band-aidefinitely do not want a situation like the san francisco unified schoold millions on you know, a payroll system that just flopped one after spending millions and millions, i guess the other is there a possibility of recruiting, civilian? it staff from, say, city hall? i mean, we within city hall that could actually bridgeo in terms of it is a the although it's dependent upon the department of technology tech department on tech what their

rkload availability is on how many workers the. but i think for us, one of it it's somewhat a short term sol when in in order to support term health of the department, you wantve a stable workforce, right? if and we're relying upon the vendor or we're, those aren't our employees. and so once the or once they're unavailable, they get transferred, etc. either we don't know how tow to support. and so having, full time department employees helps ensure the longevity of us as a department, being able to support the also one of the, one of the barriers that we face is part lack of funding to help support some have used prop fs, retirees as some of the stopgap solutions, they have recent retirees who've come backe

at least some relief, but they're limited to 960 hours in each year, and i believe we have two, two of those prop f's helpingeds. and it again, i think somewhat of a just a stop gap soluti preferably we would want somebody that we can hire, because they're going to be the ones that are able to support is up and running, but you're relying upon a vendor or you're relying upon, even another city departmentneeds can also change and also the same as our department so with our staff, we can deploy thifically need them you know, and we're constantly having to wear different hats, we're able to do that more effectively because we can deploy them specifically to where we who might be available or what they might just be contracted to do. i agree with you. i mean, this is also the stability of

the workforce,also lends to succession planning too. if you don't have the p employees who you know are, say five years out from retin't have the opportunity to transfer skills to the newer hires with our system for the iag, marshal, and saving us lotsing the salesforce, dashboard, that was for the department of police accountability and sort of making some tailoring. and now it's usable for the ig, but it wo just had one system and the data was right jue if we could have a report, and by the wa on a template, although you know, the report that chief jue particular data that we needed,wanted to just make it more official and consistent. but to be abutton or do some data searches and have a report spill calling different units and pullin think in the long run we'll save money so it's really incumbent on all the residents oout funding priorities. i know eachlso, they have town halls talking about budget priorities, but sheriff's office is

always left out. it may be because, you'll have some perspective on this. the police department and having come from the police department, they seem to get a lot when we were looking at reports for domestic violence, human trafficking, it was was implemented. and then there was justice the sheriff's office was still left with paper. and so that's as a board, we consistently push for more the it systems. so, seeing none. let me ask for members of the public whoake public comment on line item three san francisco sheri it is free we have no public comment. thank you.se calling line item for rescheduling july regular meeting disc and possible action discussion and possible action on whether to july regular meeting. so colleagues, when w from the get go, we decided we wanted to keep, and july 5th falls on the friday right after july 4th. and so we thought it solicit

input to make sure that we had a meeting, and again, i'm going to remindme because we're talking about budget and resources. so i think that, if consistently and even if we don't take a summer break, that we can get some morth the sheriff's office and the office of inspector general. so but just wanted to check to see if people were still availabley 5th or they wanted to re calendar for the week after me is what is it that we wo be doing in july 5th that could not liken? like what what do you think is some of the pressing agenda that would need to be, so if we go back to the calendar thatapproved, so july is really all the different reports, and then, although this would be official meeting, we, i think three of us and i was thinking about you, vice as member mango to do a jail visit county jail to withramping up towards the fall months where we're going community engagement. so that's typically in, august. september would be national night out

we're going to have faith in blue, where we actually do training as well as presentations atthree. so i just thought it was important to meet. a and any kind of updates on the budget, i thought it was just important to be here. the month that we would take off if we took off would be august. but i'must looking at july now whether or not we want to meet july 5th or th people stay in town anyway, so it doesn't difference. i'm going to stay in town, but like, you a break but i, i'm open to okay. i'll be out of town july 5th. okay. and yeah. i'm okay. i'm good with 12th. okay to the 12th, then? okay. i definitely won't be able to there's anything i can do to help with the budget priorities. i about both the fifth and the 12th either. yeah. okay. okay. and 12th. i'll be out. july 5th to july then i will definitely be out for the4th weekend, so you'd rather have the 12th if we were. are you okay for the 12th? vice versa. okay. jason or i probably

will not be av on the fifth. and the okay, so. so, i to take a break, then we would not. it would be typicallye a break in august and we do it in july. yeah. and that will give additional time for the sheriff's office to do their report for us. i think so. i think so, so, member kerry vice president kerry, would you? yeah sure. i move for us to, cancel the july 2024 meeting, due all of the members for quorum. and do we a second, any public comments for members of the public who would like to make public comment on line item for rescheduling? july podium when it is free. it appears there's no public comment one. so can i just ask for clarification it to july 12th, is that right? correct there. there are members who are also unavailablejust wanted to make sure

that was clear. and we have a me . oh, okay. so i'll call the roll on the july 5th meeting. member. bruckner is i vice on is i member win i win isember palmer i palmer is i president su i su is i member wechter i vector seven eyes and no nose. the motion passes and is approved.. the next agenda item please future agenda items discussion and possible action item. does anyone want me to just kind of talk about the calendar items that we have up? so in, july we're going to have the rephe reports in august. in august we weretopic of prosecutors and victim services. i think that's all the more worthwhile now that the mayor has actually increased particularly on sexual assaults were, finally hoping to delveing at our use of forceill also check in with ronnie singh, general

counsel for the sheriff's office , october, we're getting back to more reports, and i kept it be if members had som topics, but otherwise we could actually revisit somethe topics that we looked at earlier in the year for follow up. what's important is you know, oftentimes we bring in topics ave a follow up. and so i'm also hoping that indicate if there's particular issues that they wouldfollow up. sounds like a g. i'd like to see a presentation. and this had been scheduled year and a half ago and was postponed on judgments aff's department for perhaps the past five years. that's been compiling and reporting on, and i think it would be u for us to know that. okay, i will check with chief jewo goes hand in hand. also with the board audit and oversight, becausehen we're sitting there asking for just a fraction. well you know, of what we want as a budget. and then there's

settlements overall with the city. so that so that's also budgeting. so i think we talked about the giving us anonymized data about the total things other than motor vehicle accidents wechter, would you fill out the form and submit it to dan formally submit it to okay. also, since we're going to have to of the inspector general probably by january, i think it would bea sense of the best practices for the c hear from amrik singh, the inspector general foructs oversight of the california prison system. who's very knowledgeable and i think could provide some very useful information on how to look at that, how to start setting up great. any other. okay. do we have for members of the line item five future agenda items. please approa[fxi is free. yeah. sorry. there's, appears to be no public chair, i apologize i am going to be making atem, but

i'll wait until public comment. the time. yes okay. so i okay, th for you all to meeting a discussion, under discussion and possible a requesting the tear gas incident that happened at the san bruno jail, i'm from san bruno little bit further. more on under public comment. okay. and ion. so that's why we didn't comment on it so that's noted. so dan, next agenda item please. colleen line ic comment. at this time, the public is welcome to address the boar on items that do not appear on this afternoon's agenda, but areon of the sheriff's department oversight board. during public comment, ne nor any board members are required to respond to questions by public but may provide a brief response ifld like to make public comment, approach the podium when it is free. as a minutes to give public comment. thank you. good afternoon everyone. thank you so much. so my name is jennifer

for san bruno park elementary school district. and this incident this is why i'm request to have this. so when i do, do know that there the investigations have not concluded yet. ind that. but when it is, i am requesting that th, i just want to share with you a little bit more information about what's going community. i do know that there is that there has been a already a joint letter to the sheriff, the tear gas, exercise activities in ou. we do know that regarding i don't know, in the media in the newspaper, i 30 children and there is more than what's in the media, with the families and affected by by the exposure of the tear gas in our community. and so we have sent a exactly somewhat estimated amount of the families that were impacted and affected by the exposure. and we will

be we requesting also to have the sheriff's, department be better neighbors with bruno. so thank you for the time . happy friday today. thank so much for all your work. afternoon everyone. good afternoon. a little nervous, but no, don't be is jesus rios, i work with the latino task force, along with other or to peace, moves, and a couple others. but i just wanted to share a couple thoughts, and thank you for the presentation. that was was a great presentation, but, i go insails as part of my role right now. we do programing inside the jails, to talk about the budget cuts. you know our c cuts, from different organizations different parts. and, i was going to talk about that, butup, in cx two for mental health month last month. we did it on june 3rd, and i'm just people, you know, they still are people, even though they're inmates, you about a lot of stuff like that. so i just want y'all to not and the community, the community work, you know being released to the

community, wehink it takes the sheriff's police department community, all o and to try to find a better solution, smile on those people's faces you know, makes my day just for 45 minutes to an hour sitting you know, making game plans of when they ge important but i just want to say thank you for that presentationou guys brought the. yes, we invi busy, man. busy man. i met you at latino task force. yes, sir. yes, sir. got you, got missed that. mr. wiley's in the washington but he's also i i just want more people from our community showed up because it's not the la we had a good showing in february so you're always welcome. and your concerns and we definitelyenhance the nonprofit organizations. they are great partners in what we doularly pre reentry and supportive services for reentry and well noted about language access and the programs because people who know me know i've worked on language access

first ordinance here in the city . so i truly believetter language access in our jails. and the programs, so and also, you know, explaining things to families of incarcerated members so they understand well. definitely. and the annex how y'all spoke earlier, i was just filled with, people from honduras, mostly central america and a two part of that mental health day. we were able to feed, basically a pre-made foo eat that, so they got bit of home. so thank you all. i just appreciate y'all having being here. and thank don't be a stranger. i will let everybody know that onee. we'd had again, we'd had a community scheduled that glide last year. is that think we should just make sure that we're done tal we, like, start talking over them, okay. yeah. and mr. wileylso had some comment to say before, yeah. i just wanted to let everybody know was at the latino task force, offices last week, and i think we met while i was task force, as is, is providing

programing to the inmates annex, so i just wanted to they're not being compensatedey're providing programing. and i think it's verber rector yeah, my question. we had a public, comm. is that, being rescheduled? if there'sis kind of the community wants and the board need, but it appears that really hard for the community meetings, a lot of community members now say that in city hall. so we can check back. dan do you w to check back with glide and see if they'd like us to community members like a part population? is it like an interest group or. be. it would be, pretty much the people who serve glide in the . and we remember we were doing i think she's asking, like, all guess my question, to be clear, is who are the committeefeel safer in city hall, well, when we were doing even with the latino task force, they said

to me that guys are, you know having meetings all over the cityuld just rather have it at city hall and it could be possibly, youion lines and city hall might be more central. i see. so i leave it out. i'm not wedded to anything. i just want tre accessible to the public, and we meet them where they feel a believer in field trips. i also, youisit more areas and especially like even the nonprofitices. i mean, it was great to be at the southi hadn't been to the new one. and i'm like wow. and you know cafe there as well. so so i'm you know i'm open to suggestionsan, i'm of the mindset that we should be going ounity come here to city hall and taking time off, like, you on fridays 2 to 5. not. i mean, i know we had our town halls. it's a little tricky because we have our town halls that we try district, and we didn't have like the greatest attendance. just meet where the impacted communities are already doing their meetings. so latino task force is already meeting on a wednesday every month, we with you. i think

if they're having a particular meeting church, and then we go there and after services or something we're there to share information was was canceled because we didn't have a quorum. but i did anyone showed up. and they had over 40 people who had signed up there is a desire for us to go to that community andng hours, when it's easier for people to come to aanted to add, i think we should be prioritizing the impacted not all districts. we don't have to be re the most, i wonder if this is a i'm not surhe sheriff or the inspector general, but can we get kind of a map who has the information information of where? what are the of the family members and population that have been previously incarcerated? so part of that is also, i think, on that the crimes happened to. so so, parallels.

so we can southeast corridor, tenderloin, i think it might be helpful just to get that informa we can just identify concretely, okay. these prioritize these because they're a higher number of so inspecto to pull that information together? and also particular maybe community groups who invite us and be part of their meetings, something tha what? i will gladly do, reached out to supervisor walton's office, and tracy gallardo provided me with a list of all of the community district. and so i've invitedn hall next tuesday here at the, and i reached out and spoke to people and everybody,would be a great to have it here at city h and one of the, so we're having a town hall here on the 11th so so, jana, let me call on you. there were two meetings, so there's going to be a budget meeting hall. so,

opinion from you be problematic to have a quorum there because i. be at both the budget hearing as well as the town hall here at city hall. and i was just going to say that we do need a a list of people in san francisco who are dealing other community organiza so, i even suggested i still am, but i did suggest doing the there should be a reentry, office with the mayor. that's such an important part of our community. here in the city, and not to have an office of reentry makes sure that those those of going a whimsical decision by a officer should have some lines of protection to prevent them and abuse of authority etc, etc. so i on beginning that would be just getting contact

having touching basis with th palmer also call on you with the jail justice coalition and the member organizations. if you can call on them to ask for suggestions on what you. but in the meant reentry council because i actually like them to make a the judge justice coalition did want to see hours, because these hours are bad for them to come toybe we can create a town hall wheree are there and we can show up with them as well add one suggestion? in mostprobation controls a lot of the reentry m. so it might not be a bad idea to have thend present to the board. like, you doing with the reentry money ? and i just wanted the mayor's office to come and present to us? we can again. we can ask. yes, yes. if they come, that's a different story in july, but we could do it in august. also, you know people

are out and about and it's summerc÷ take every opportunity to beg for money short of putting out a tin cup, so i would call upon it's, yof our jobs as well to say that we can't do oue any resources from day one. we have made that veryen at his acceptanceovided i have the adequate resources. sok, you know, we've done work in the past few months since you've been here than some people would take to do. so commendable. and really want to take the chance to kind. he's on a well-deserved vacation, but support, oh my god. and one final note i did attend member bruckner, you're always so busy running an organizationloyees but that california coalition oversight, california civilian. civilian oversight alliance. yes, it was great because it was talking about shared resources, opinions and from different organizations. so not just in the bay area,y the bay area. there's a lot of sharing. and eve with statistics,

i know there's still disparitiesack and brown communities but we are measuringlation of san francisco, and it is not just measured. it against the population of san francisco, because we are regional.our nine bay area counties. so i'd like to see a just even our nine bay area counties, how we're worki a really good relationship. and in we have a sanno representative here too. and i think we do enjoy a relat sheriff's office. so anything else? yes. so, i guess i can and we do have a photographer to go. oh, he had to go. he'll be back. he's not. i finished, we finished early. i was afraiduld go over time. and so that's why a little bit later officially calling seven. adjournment action item. all those in favor? aye any nays? at 4:24 p.m. thank you, dan, for your proactivene

h continued as we moved through the department. fro luciano stepped into the san francisco police academy he rother. he had an uncanny ability to make e family, often lightened the mood with his humor and infec. someone who could bring us all why we do this job. being a police officer was for luciano. it was his lifelong dream. ortega, a retired motorcycle

of current sfpd lieutenant, tell fond stories of how luciano grewmmersed in law enforcement. as a child he would visit police stations, units particularly the four boys and the horses. annual police and fire games as a spectator and supporter of, soaking in the pride and camaraderie start that this was where h. as he got older luciano transitioned from watching in them. he played with the sfpd basebal passion and energy to the field that he brought to his work. team, another outlet where his competitive spirit and shined, whether on the field or on the streets of san with dedication and a deep sense of. luciano served at southern parkssion stations and the community engagement division, serving with a extended beyond the badge. he embodied the sanlice department's motto safety with respect every single day while walking the beat in the mission, he the community offering water bottles to the homeless, taking time to talk to people, and making sure that everyone felt ortega could frequently

be found at 16th and miss patrol throughout the district, embracing the vibrant cultures that make up his final district. for him, it w about truly caring for the people that he served.a way of bringing joy to uncommon to see him strumming his ukulele smiles to the faces of those passing by alongside his partner, officer reuben rhodes. while in the car and sometimes on citizens. his presence in the community was, and he had a gift for making people feele, even in the most difficult of times. a value which is undoubtedly bestowed upon him by, which, as you see behind me in his c to those of us that worked alongside him, luciano wasn't just colleague, he was family. he treated all of us with kindness, hu that we were all in this together. lifted us up and challenged us to be better when we needed it the most. on behalf our deepest gratitude towards the san francisco police department, the poa mayor, london breed, and you all ur kindness and support have been a

light during incredibly difficult time. luciano may no longer be with will forever be a part of this department. this his memory lives on siblings, and his four amazing nieces, which you see behind me today and his dedicatio his love for thisl of us. rest in peace. officer luciano ortega, star number 2449. to thank you for giving a great, synopsis of how special and and what he really meant to the force and thank you for that description. you did a great job. to hisusly extend my condolences, thoughts and prayers, but i also want to thank you with us and allowing him to do do, which is serve the city. and he did amazing way. i am very for your loss. i also want to send condolences to his extended family, his colleagues, who obviously also feeloid, but thank

you for being here. thank y this opportunity to celebrate him. andif you'd like to speak or say anything, you don't haveif you want to, you're more than welcome. before i turn it over toy colleagues.ers, thank you so much for having us here, it's b lost lou. and a l him, as i know, some of you probably haves( it gets harder as the days go and as people seem to somewhat forget, when daily lives. so it means a lot to come to honor my brother one more time, on behalf of thewe really wanted to take time to thank people that meant everything t and the poa specifically and mike. petula. alo done everything for us and we're so grateful to have them in our corner, i was speak on lou's as an officer, as an

much about him as an officer because i did can at least impart a little bit experiences, one thing about lou was he was huge on helping people, and one of the things that we om people, both colleagues and people in the public we've never met before. we've heard at least over he's helped people and so he would sometimes torn from the job because he would had a just a took this job extremely seriously and he took the privile francisco seriously all the way to the very end the person i couldn't have asked for was the most amazing younger brother. so much so that he most amazing man. more than just an just a phenomenal person. and he was to my daughters. i always, when people about lou, i have now dropped three c's. he was all about cynthia. he was about cow

hats. and he was about comic book movies and those were the things that he was into, partially because of me man that he actually blossomed to become. thank y again for honoring lou and honoring our here, we appreciate all the love and support. for sharing him with us this this evening. chief oh. i'm sorry. please, n please. please, please please, please, i just wanted to say thank you so much to everyone from the dep po chief, all of you. you have shown my family and i so much support and love this devastating loss. thank you for honoring my husband. he loved andnity with so much pride and dev up next to luciano, he had a passion those that he came contact with. no matter how small or how big he showed everyone love. he preached and he l nothing to be nice. in fact, those were the same words our first date. them every day.

from complimenting a stranger on what they going out of his way to make someone. and i just want to say to everyone in the department have a very challenging task of people on their very worst days. and during those, just please remember the words that he livedit cost nothing to be nice. thank you guys. my condolences. one of the things you said, which is really important to highlig a police officer is so stressful, and the fact that you how to handle that stress, people were human and it's hard to turn that off can then be present with your family andngs that you do when you get home, which most people aren't able to do. so the fact that you explained that he was able to do that and dohumor and grace and just kindness, i think speaks volumes to the person thank you again for sharing him with us, both throughout his and again tonight, chief.

than elias, i just want to say thank family. the grace and the lo that you all project and promote and. it's, it'sion of who lou was and who we knew him as. from everybody that i've talked to everybody nobody has anything but kind wo lou. and i think that's a reflection of the family and theove and what you all are and who you are is what he band as an officer. and as you can respect of all the members here, including some of his classmates who his partners, he was he was loved. and i just want to thank you for letting us come into your family department and to his partners and deeply, deeply sorry for loss. so thank you. commissioner benedicer, for that presentation. and thank you to the family for. obviously, as all my colleagues want to share my condolences. that

i've heard from talking to members of the it really was such a model member of the communitypossible way. and hearing that, that it cost nothing to be good reminder. and it seems like that everywhere that officer ortega little bit of light with him. and i think that the time our time is done is to leaving our world a little brighter than we found it being a little bit ofs like that's what officer ortega was able to do. and that's evidenced in the amaz the turnout tonight. i remember i was able to fortunate enough to be able to attend the memorial service that was just a day or two after his passage and that w days. and the number of people that were there and the overflowing there. really was a great example of the impact community. he could have done so many incredible th chose to serve, and he chose to serve the public to live tha of service in his family and continue bringing that forward. i think whenever one of my favorite parts of being on the the next generation of officers, talking to younger officers, going to a the people that choose to be officers. now challenging and different era do so because they are wholly committed to serving and

trying to make theirthat officer ortega did and that that present in our community forever, you know, my for the family and for the friends. here is the, that a time will come where the thought of them wil your face before it brings a tear to your eye and it's not going to be today, but each day you'll be closer come. so my condolences and thank youwonderful stories. madam president, to officer ortega's family