>> the meeting called to order at 212 p.m. this is sheriff department oversight board meeting. on behalf of sheriff oversight board, we like to thank the staff at sfgovtv for providing technical assistance to broadcast and record this afternoon's meeting. yeah you may view on cable channel 26. please stand as we recite the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

>> please call the roll. >> [roll call] there are 5 members present and we have quorum. >> they think. motion to excuse members wechter and lin? >> motion to excuse. >> do i have a second? >> second. >> any objections? hearing none, unanimously approved they are excused. dan, can we go to announcements or would you like me to do them?

sorry, public comment. >> this is the regular in person monthly public meeting of the sheriff department oversight board. members will attend the meeting in person. members of the public are invited to observe the meeting in person accept for persons with disabilities requiring reasonable accommodation, only members of the public attending the meeting in person will have a opportunity to provide public comment. public comment is available in person by e-mail or postal mail. to submit public comment by e-mail, please e-mail [indiscernible] for public comment by postal mail, please mail to office of inspector general, 1 south van ness, 8 floor, san francisco california 94103. those wishes to comment in person, when public comment is called during each line item, the public is welcome to address the board up to two minutes on that line item.

there will be general comment at the end of the meeting for items not on this afternoon's agenda but within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board. comments are opportunities to speak during the public comment period are available for members of the public who are present in person by approaching the podium. you will have two minutes to provide public comment. the first--you have 30 seconds to complete public comment. the second tone will alert your two minutes are up. that is the end of announcements. >> thank you dan. please call the first agenda item? >> line item 1, in memoriam. informational item. the board recognizes and commemorates vacaville police department officer matthew bowen and watch july 11, 2024.

sonoma county correctional counselor jessica avila mune yz, end of watch august 16, 2024 and san francisco sheriff's office chief deputy kevin fisher-paulson, end of watch august 29, 2024. >> thank you. i want to say for the particular officers, other then officer ortega and chief deputy fisher-paulson, three of those law enforcement officers were killed by drunk drivers. one was off duty a correctional counselor and took the day off to pick up her 13 year old daughter from school so this is senseless and can't say enough about do not get behind the wheel if you are dripging.

do we have public comment on in memoriam? >> for members of the public who like to comment on line item 1, in memoriam, please approach the podium when it is free. >> seeing none, do we have any additional comments from my colleagues? and we send our deepest condolences to the fisher-paulson family, husband brian and his sons aiden and zane. next item, please, dan. >> calling line item 2, communications. informational item. announcements and information to share with board members and the public. >> so it has been a couple months since we last met, so what we were dpoeing going to announce last months meeting, there was a shooting that took place where deputies were shot as

they were serving an eviction notice july 3. thankfully no one was hurt. no shots were returned and this case is currently with the d a's office. just for members of the public, i know we are here to show transparency, but also correct any missed perceptions in the public, so the sheriff office does not go around evicting people and randomly taking away important staff time. eviction warrants and notices are court ordered documents and that is one of the court functions of the sheriff office to execute those notices. second of all, we also-i want to remind colleagues, if you haven't completed the mandatory implicit bias training, please let dan know. hr is keeping tabs who completed and hasn't completed.

it is a little cumbersome because we are not employees. there are multiple things we have to do to get into the city employee portal and i had to bug dan several times and it gets involved so it is little cumbersome, so attempt when you actually have extra time. next, chinatown night took place on wednesday . we were not notified about it. it was our miss, but there is also the autumn moon festival which will take place september 14. also, finally, sunday september 8, there is the annual police fire honoring our first responders and last year vice president carrion and i attended, so it is a good way to honor our first responders. if you need additional information, i can provide it for you or dan can provide it after the meeting,

but i believe a notice was included in your packet and it is at saint fucelia church, 255 17th avenue and it is public event. any public comment on xun r communications and announcements? >> members of the public who like to comment on line item 2, communication, please approach the podium when it is free. >> i did want to note regretbly this year i will not be able to attended. we will continue to celebrate my 7 year old's birthday. he has september on lock. >> happy birthday. >> next item? >> three, approval of minutes. action. approval of june 7, 2024 board meeting minutes. >> move to approve the minutes. >> second. >> public comment?

>> members of the public who like to comment on line item 3, approval of minute please approach the podium when it is free. no public comment, calling the roll on approval of minutes. [roll call] there are 5 ayes and no nays. minutes from june 7, 2024 meeting are approved. >> great. thank you. next item, please. >> calling item 4, presentation from the san francisco district attorney's office. informational item.

priscilla portillo and maria reynoso will give an overview on victim services including victim rights when serving victims of crime in san francisco. >> welcome. thank you very much for having us today. my name is priscilla por tillo the deputy chief of the victim service division at the san francisco district attorney's office. >> good afternoon, my name is maria reynoso. in our presentation we'll provide a overview of our services, please feel free to ask questions along the way or at the end of the presentation. thank you. >> is this good? can you hear me if i leave it at this level? >> yes. >> thank you. with victim service our goal is insure safety [indiscernible] navigate the criminal justice system and rebuild lives after traumatic event. consist of three units,

advocacy team, advocacy team victim adcovts that work with victims of crime. victim compensation unit which is a part of the state victim compensation board and that consist of different claim specialist who process and review applications for victim compensation, and restitution unit, which request restitution for cal vcv after they paid on victims expenses. [indiscernible] we work closely with the victim and support system to assist in explaining service as well as navigate the criminal justice system. help identify the support system. we assist navigated the criminal justice system explaining the system filing a police report. we inform of the rights as a

victim of the crime and also assist invoking their rights. one of the pillars is assisting victims applying for victim compensation. victim compensation is a state funded program assist victims of crimes with any expenses incurred due to the crime. we connect victims to community resources, allowing to identify resources in the community they feel comfortable with and can provide those resources that our office may not be able to provide whether mental health, drumming circles, after school programs for themselves and their families. another pillar is our community outreach education. we try to make contact with the community before someone is a victim of the crime so they are aware of services before traumatic event. that can look- >> for the edification of the public just to talk about marcy's rights. >> we will have a slide. this is a brief overview but will go more in depth about marcy's

rights. >> thank you. >> the community outreach education could be [indiscernible] before we presented you mentioned chinatown national night out. national night out there is different events we present at schools and have partnerships with other agencies. breakdown for advocacy unit which consist of different teams. one team is misdemeanor unit which handles uncharged cases of violent crime and charge cases like batteries, cases not felonies. the general felony unit works specifically with charge cases, robberies, attempted homicides, assaults. the advocates are working specifically with those victims. we have community and victim unit. we work with people who are either dependent or over the age of 65, immigrants. we work specifically community team in the areas of bayview, excelsior, mission, hunters point, vis

valley. communities and tenderloin. communities that don't necessarily have a trust in law enforcement and wouldn't seek our services so we try to make more contact in those communities so they are aware of services and we have specific advocates that can assist victims in that area. critical incident team work with homicide victims. they work with officer involved shootings, pedestrian fatalities and loss of life. we have domestic team who works with [indiscernible] stalking the talking is not intimate partner and unknown person the misdemeanor or general felony unit would take that. the child abuse and sex assault team works with the db. we also have a human trafficking team and juvenile advocate who are

victims. in order to better serve people in communities we collaborate with a lot of support systems and partner agencies. to protect the confidentiality before we can freely discuss the services provided we request release of information, have them sign off so we can freely speak to other agencies and be able to better serve them. we also collaborate work closely with law enforcement, depending on the crime time, whether it be [indiscernible] homicide team or any of the traffic collision unit and local presinths to insure we have the information to provide to victims. if the victim asks or give us a release of information we can provide updates to their family members or friends, who they appoint as the point of contact in their place. we also collaborate with a lot of agencies. on a weekly basis attend the street violence reduction team that

meetings consist of a lot of partner agencies from sfpd, wrap around, which is the program within sf general, adult probation and juvenile probation, the street violence intervention program, so we collaborate with the purpose of the meeting is to avoid duplication of efforts as well as streamlining service to better serve the community. one of our service is navigation of criminal justice system. when it comes to working with victim survivors of crime, we go over the process beginning to end, so the different levels you could say of the criminal process. we also discuss different terms, what the terms mean. we also speak about the different parties involved with the system so victim survivors are well aware who could be in communication with involving the charge case. we provide court support so if a victim survivor identifies that they want to

attend a hearing or if they are subpoena to testify, we can probably have a advocate with them, wait in the lounge with them and escort them to the courtroom and be with them in the room. depending on the crime type, there are certain crime types where advovoicates can sit on the stand. we offer transportation to court, so we have a partnership with yellow cab. we are also able to have or ask a d a to request investigators within the office to provide transportation if there concerns about maybe coming to court and also able to provide meal vouchers. when victim survivors come they may have to wait for the case to be called and it could-they could be there in the morning and roll to the afternoon. so we offer breakfast vouchers and also lunch vouchers as well.

and we also provide information on marcy's rights. marcy's rights are what we consider here in the state of california, victim's rights, and they are called marcy's rights because they are named after marcy nicholls a uc santa barbara student stalked and killed by her exboy friend in 1983. at this time, victim rights did not exist, so the exboyfriend was released from custody and her family ran into him and i believe a grocery store and they were taken back they would not be notified and that is because at the time we didn't have rights in place, so in 2008, marcy's rights was approved in the state of california and marcy's right allow victim survivors to participate in the criminal

process. when it comes to marcy's rights, this slide highlights all the different rights that solve under marcy's right. advocates provide the information and initial communications with victim survivors, whether the first call, whether it is in-person meeting. we are also able to mail out marcy's rights and e-mail marcy's rights or provide them in person. some examples are, making sure all parties are treating victim survivors with fairness and respect. that includes law enforcement, that includes our division and also the public defender office. one example of how we exercise marcy's rights is connecting victim survivors to law enforcement if they want follow up on a case. sometimes the case is still under investigation and we want to a update or sometimes it already reached our office and we want to see who reviewed it, who it has a certain outcomes. those are steps to support

victim survivors. another example is, if a suspect or defendant is to be released we offer to be registered or the sheriff locater so they receive a notification if they are released. we also provide support around victim impact statements so if a victim survivor wants to address the court that is something we can help providing guidelines on possible questions or also read lose on behalf of victim survivors in court. >> along with assisting victims one pillar is assisting [indiscernible] as mentioned for victim compensation it is state funded program to help victims of crime with medical care, mental health service, funeral and burial, relocation in the event there is a threat.

victim compensation may reimburse a victim or survivor with qualifying expenses due to the crime. it is recommended that someone files a police report in order to apply for victim compensation. victim compensation board reviews the application and determines eligibility and unfortunately property crimes are not covered by victim compensation. the person eligible to apply for victim compensation are any victims who suffered death, physical injury or threat of physical injury. some emotional injuries resulting from violent crime are also eligible. all the community does not know, in addition to the victim which is also [indiscernible] family members, anyone who resides in the home with the victim are also eligible. for example a loved one may apply for lost waging if the person

injured is no longer able to work and provide for the family. all the victims can apply for mental health if they do not have insurance. the only caveat for victim compensation, it is a payer of last resort and if there is other means those have to be used before victim compensation can assist. the next slide provides a list of what crimes are eligible for victim compensation. it has to be a violent crime. i won't read one by one. again, some of the expenses that can be covered from victim compensation are crimes [indiscernible] a person is injured and teeth are broken they can apply for dental assistance. funeral and burial including applying for the funeial and burial or transportation to the native country and also help with cost of [indiscernible] income loss, if a person is injured and no longer can work they can apply for income lost. >> i want to add regarding the

california victim compensation board, advocates can provide [indiscernible] there is benefit to reference and fact sheet and also provide the application but able to support in applying in completing the application so that could be done over the phone, video conferencing or victim survivor could come to our office or safe community space and we can fill it out together. there is also that opportunity. and, next is restitution. restitution is when the court orders a defendant to pay for losses or expenses due to a crime, and these expenses could vary. sometimes it is property lost or stolen. it could be mental health service and so on, so advocates provide information on what restitution is and provide examples what falls under restitution and can help advocate-we can

help victim survivors create a list if they have restitution request, we can also help gather documentation and make sure we submit it to the a d a, because the restitution is only eligible in charge cases and also partner with agencies like adult probation or juvenile probation department around restitution. >> the goals of the division [indiscernible] par ticipate in as many events as possible to educate and put our information out there. in the slide you see a few events we participated over the last couple months. we attend sunday streets, national night out, aging your way, merchant walks. we attended town halls and different meetings throutd the community to insure our face is out there and the community is aware of services. >> i want to add, when it comes to community engagement. we are monitoring different crime trends and based on the trends we might

launch campaigns or efforts to make community members aware of these trends. for example, earlier this year in february we saw the rise of the blessing scam and what we did is launched a campaign and partnered with other organizations to lead presentations to community members and community based organizations and we also created materials so is a blessing scam flier and additional materials around the blessing scam. lastly, we want to share common misconceptions of the victim service division. so, our division specifically does not investigate, so if there is a investigation needed, it would depend if uncharged we mostly likely direct back to law enforcement agency. most common is san francisco police department, but sometimeatize is other agencies. or if it is a charged case, we may loop in one of the investigators

within our office, depending on what it is. also, regarding statements, victim advocates cannot take new statements. that has to be through law enforcement or possibly one of our d a investigators. in terms of translation, we don't offer translation service but we are able to connect victim survivors to advocates who speak their preferred language. if that's not a possibility we can access the language line and lastly, we don't actually have counseling services within our division, so not able to provide therapy ourselves, but we are able to connect victim survivors to other resources, maybe the [indiscernible] recovery center or community based organizations. advocates provide crisis intervention, active listening, assessing needs, collaborating with victim survivors to determine next steps. i think we have one more slide and i

want to add, this is information to our office. this is where we are located and we have our lounge where we can have walk-ins so if a community member wants to walk in or call or e-mail us, when it comes to referrals we see referrals from various places. sfpd is a common organization that sends us referrals. also, community based organizations. maybe san francisco general hospital. also a self--identifying victim survivors with reach out to us and we'll assess next steps. thank you. any questions? >> thank you. i have a comment and question. vice president carrion. >> it is so lovely to see you two ladies for folks that may not know. i had a opportunity to work with these excellent advocates we have before you here making the presentation, and it is

wonderful to xoe you are leaders in the position and well deserved. i have to admit, i just gave a domestic violence action plan meeting for a family that in my own practice and it reminded me of the work the victim advocates taught me as a prosecutor. i wouldn't have learned that in law school. i would not have learned that being a attorney, so the work that you all perform is something that is so needed and sometimes lacking in a challenging environment. thank you for being here. and thank you for your work. my question is, our role here is to assist with oversight of the sheriff. what happens when victims or victim families-- if you receive any complaints or concerns that address any kind of sheriff resource or staff, what is your procedure or what's the

process for connecting someone that is using your services that brings this to your attention? >> in our experience we haven't that i'm aware had any yet. we connect to department of police accountability, but for the sheriff department, we haven't had that yet. it is great if you all can share how we should move about-- >> i will add one and don't know if this is the last year, [indiscernible] only works if the sf sheriff inmate locater works and there was a period it was down, so that impacts victim survivors because they can't register for bilink. i didn't receive concerns around that. i had to share that information and figure other ways, but that is the only thing that has come up that has come up

roontly. recently. >> we are also go toog have another presentation from the d a office on. . a lot of times with delays the victims feel justice delayed is justice denied so we'll talk about some of the delays and what we can do to mitigate and this also comes to the jails with inspector general and how we might have more regularly available arraignments on site for say cj3. the transport of those incarcerated and the defendants is less cumbersome and not necessary. >> any other comments? >> i had a couple. go ahead. >> thank you for your presentation, and i do believe every victim should have their day in court and hold their

person accountable for who was responsible. in our court system we believe that one is innocent until proven guilty, so with that understanding, how do you determine a person is a victim before the guilt or innocent is hashed out in court? >> are you referring to in the criminal process or as advocates and quhoo we work with? >> do you handle the victim after the court or before? >> it isn't required to have criminal procedure. we work with people who are victims of crimes, robbed and beaten and no one arrested. a harm party with reported reported to law enforcement and they come to our office seeking service and we deem as a victim. there are situations in which due to laj nguage barriers that maybe

in the report they may not be listed as a victim so inform how to complete a supplemental report [indiscernible] a party that identifies as a harmed party is who we work with, regardless if there was criminal proceedings or not. >> just to jump in with that, because this was my bred and butter. basically it is the police report that names who the person is a victim or not and it is sent to the d a's office where a determination is met whether to charge them or not regardless if there is a charge or if there isn't, whoever is named as a victim that has been that police report has been forwarded to the da's office will have a opportunity to access the resources so long as it is not dealing with property crime. >> i just want to add, a lot of our resources are regarding linkage to community resources, orientation of the criminal justice system.

if there a victim survivor that doesn't have a incident report, the resource may not be able to follow up with is california victim compensation board. sometimes if we see there isn't an incident report, that program since it a state report requires a incident report so that would be the only barrier if someone doesn't want to report the crime, fearful of reporting or not reported yet. >> i think also for the purpose of the community to know, the victim compensation board as you earlier said is a resource of last resort, right? because that, it also has a longer statute of limitations, so victims have a larger period of time usually to apply for those funds, but also if they get any reimbursement for their funds, those are supposed to be paid back. it is--there are some checks and balances to make sure that there is no

windfall in who is getting the very limited money. >> i have a question, just follow up for context. in order to access the services, they need to be referred by the police department? >> so, not in all cases, so there are cases where a victim is self--identifying and they may not have reported. they can still connect with our office. it may be limited what they can access. for example, they may not be able to access the california victim compensation board. it depends on it crime type but we are able to provide the information on what the process looks like. maybe now theypt to report and what it looks like possibly after that. what would it look like if it were a charge. these are steps and parties.

since this happened i am seeking mental health service, here is a list of community based organizations to get connected to or maybe they may want food resources or needs that have come up since the crime has come up and we can support and providing resources for those needs. it isn't necessarily have to come from law enforcement agency, but we get a lot of referrals from law enforcement, specifically special victim units, tciu, homicide and in communication with a lot of those units. >> i just wanted to remind the public that san francisco does have--called the language ordinance and before called the equal access to service ordinance. i also want to bring up on the slide, i may have you tweak it a bit. it says translation, so i like it to say, translation interpretation. i am respectful for the people

who are professionals so translation is written material, interpretation is the oral language. and also because of our large chinese immigrant population, i wanted to really emphasize that the chinese language is one written language. you can go between the simplified characters versus traditional characters, but it is impaurp to impaurp to say you are interpreting in chinese because people need to know spoken language. some other dialect. and also, what i learned in working with interpreters is that, the better question is not to ask what language do you understand, but rather, what language do you prefer. i know a lot of medical personnel will say, this person understands mandarin and i will tell them that if they are from southern china, [indiscernible] might be the very first

language, then cantonese for the language of commerce, and then the national language is mandarin. it is third acquired language and i always say, did you take french or spanish or german in high school and would you like to hear a medical diagnosis or something legal in one of the languages. what is your level of comprehension. i know you do the work so well in the general public to know we have the sensitivity to have nuance to outreach and sitting for 12 years with commission on status of women particularly for domestic violence survivors and victims of human trafficking, vitally important to have in-language services and then a sense of little of safety and particularly where there are children involved as well. thank you for the work you do. >> i want to say this, because i feel compelled to say this.

i love that you guys have this wrap around service for victims, and families. i think it is something that i'm noticing maybe there is a existing program, i'm not sure, but what happens when the victim is a victim of a violent crime, by another civil servant, mainly the san francisco police department or sheriff department, are there services for that victim and their families? >> if the victim is a civil servant? >> yeah. >> we make outreach and it list the police officer or sheriff office. we do make outreach as well. >> okay, you are immediately notified by the police deparchlt department? >> usual ly the way we get the [indiscernible] so they list the incidents from the week or day and from there we get the reports and contact who is listed as a victim. >> got it. just so i'm super clear, there is no delay in which you are notified

by the police department? >> there could be delay. we receive the recaps, but individual law enforcement agencies could also send referrals over, so for example, the sheriff office wanted a protocol they send referrals and we take them as well. the recaps usually happen within one to two days but sometimes we get referrals from a different organization and sometimes there could be a delay. but as soon as we receive it, we do have certain procedures on entering the cases into our case management system and making outreach and also have a certain number of outreach that advocates have to make to get in contact with the victim survivor to provide services. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> just really quickly, i had a statement. thank you for the presentation. i can definitely speak first hand to

the outreach the d a office has done over the last couple years in terms of the work with community based organizations like ours. referring individuals justice involved over to receive services so i wanted to say kudos and applaud the da for that. a lot more to be done, but i think we are moving in the right direction. what i really wanted to share, i think member carrion asked a extremely important question and want to make sure we get in the record dan, it is how does the da office interact with the sheriff's office. we can use the platform to enter weave departments that traditionally probably don't speak to one another pertaining to those justice involved as we try to eradicate recidivism. i want to make sure that didn't getalist. we looked at each other and said how do we and now we have a

opportunity to say this is how we do it. no pun to montell jordan. i wanted to make sure that did want get lost. >> i think going off that comment, there is numerous ways right if you have victims or victim families tell you i am having issue with a deputy or we had a situation occur and we need assistance. online there is a process at the sheriff website for complaints. you can also file complaints. they have all the paperwork at any of the offices, but also on our website and our website has the online portal. that information would be available to them. it may be something to consider as this is a newly formed board, in the valuation of getting feedback from their clients, victims saying

if they had negative experiences with the sheriff or any that information, there is different ways i think we can collaborate to have more communication if there have been concerns, because as-you all can speak more to this then i can i'm sure, but we all know that people that are experiencing trauma have difficulty being able to manage accessing and following and implementing the available resources, so any way we can assist in making easier and finding out what concerns are when they are to the sheriff, people might not just know you are somebody they can tell and that would have a positive impact for them. >> we'll also share the information regarding how to file a complaint on the sheriff website with our division, so we have monthly meetings where we share updates and we also have team

meetings so we'll make sure they are aware that as a resource as well. >> just for my clarity, is your board only deals with people in san francisco? >> not necessarily. sometimes we have individuals who live in san francisco, but maybe the crime occurred elsewhere. for example, san mateo county, if they prefer to work with our division because they work and live in san francisco, that's something we can do, so an example like that. it is possible, it just requires more follow-ups on the advocate end to get maybe a police report from daly city police department, things like that, but we can work with individuals where the crime occurred elsewhere. >> i ask because, system impacted people in the system behind walls and gates and bars usually have limited access to people like you. say someone is from san francisco, are

there advocates from san francisco but in a state prison and being abused and victimized by staff or other residents, would they have access to victim services to report a crime and get some type of help? >> that would be challenging because we have to be notified of the victimization, and in that case i am not too sure how that would happen, so that would be a challenging situation. you have anything additional to say along those-- >> the limitation of having access to the person to communicate would also be one of the challenges or barriers. >> my final question is, in the process of the court procedures, the victim becomes the defendant and the defendant the victim, what is the process that for you guys? would you stop service to the victim because now they are considered

the perpetrator and would you offer services to the person who was accused but now seen as the victim? >> just for clarity, if there is a additional incident or after further investigation? >> after all the fact and evidence and proof comes out, if the victim becomes the pertrairt the victim nob >> we work who is the victim. there are incidents where a person comes in as the victim or survivor and there is a new incident where they are now the suspect. our protocol. , who is working with the person when deemed a victim or survivor will not work with that person when deemed a suspect to insure there is neutral services provided but we would still work with the person. in the situation you provided it is quhoo is identified as the victim we would be working with.

>> any further question or comments? do we have any public comment? >> thank you. for members of the public who like to comment on item 4, presentation from the san francisco district attorney's office, please approach the podium when it is free. there appears to be no public comment. >> thank you. i hope this is just the beginning of our collaboration. there is so much work to be done and as you know, with the commission on the status of women, the department on status of women we had the family violence council so it is multi-pronged approach we can really get to the heart of problems, but also have data collection so we can pinpoint resources and make the use of limited resources. and you're welcome any time, just let us know.

thank you. >> thanks. great presentation. >> thank you. >> even your voices are relaxing. >> it is soothing. >> have a good weekend. >> you too. great to see y'all. >> this is reunion of sorts. i wanted to recognize that our chief attorney for the department of police accountability, marshall khine is here and executive director paul henderson, another former deputy d a was here and we also have now ronnie singh as general counsel for the sheriff office, another former d a. welcome ronnie in your new elevated role. welcome back executive director henderson. >> thank you. [indiscernible] >> how many attorneys here?

we are lopsided today. next item on the agenda, please, dan. >> item 5, nomination and election of officers. informational and action item. pursuant to the sheriff's department oversight board, rules of order rule 1.3 the floor is open for nominations for the office of president and vice-president for the 2024-25 term. voting will commence immediately following nominations for each office and public comment.before we take nominations, inspector general wily would like to say a few words. >> we have two presentations. sinsh since it ask the end of president term, this term as president of the sheriff oversight board, the inspector general office would like to present you with a certificate

of appreciation for your just hours of hard work and i personally know that since i arrived as the inspector general, i received those late night phone calls, those info calls, but i say that only because it meant you were working, so we want you to know we appreciate the work you put in on behalf of the oversight board and inspector general office, so i like to present you with this certificate. [applause] >> should we do a photo? >> we have one more presentation. the other person that his term is up and we also want to express our

deep appreciation to vice president carrion, for all your work. many of you have gone with us to do the inspections of the jail and just having your voice present has been very helpful and insightful and so, we want to express our appreciation for your service on the sheriff's oversight board. >> thank you. [applause]

>> one thing missing. rabbit ears. >> you read the bill didn't pass about contacting people after hours? [laughter] >> i say that [indiscernible] >> i am a little vampire, so i will take calls all most 24/7. between me and vice president carrion who is a early bird, we cover the entire spectrum of the day. >> do we have nominations? >> nominations for office of

president? >> i nominate julie to continue as president. >> i second. >> for members of the public who like to comment on item 5, nomination of election of officers, president, please approach the podium when it is free. having no public comment, calling roll on the nomination of julie su for president. [roll call] >> i will say aye and accept and thank the members for having their trust in me to continue. >> 5 ayes and no nays.

congratulations to president su on your reelection. >> congratulations. [applause] >> i like to nominate commissioner brookter as vice president. >> second that. >> members of the public who like to comment on item 5 nomination of election of officers, vice president, please approach the podium when it is free. no public comment, calling the roll on nomination of member brookter for vice president. [roll call] there are 5 ayes and no nays.

congratulations to vice president brookter. [applause] >> i take this without any mental hesitation, reservation. it is really an honor to be able to serve the way we have and really start from nothing. all the tireless meetings. i hope passed over the tourch to continue to do the work and provide a sounding voice for those who all voiceless as we do this work. appreciate it. >> i will say that i'm glad to have someone as my right hand person here and also now vice president brookter brings a great community voice and i'm so pleased i get invited to the southeast community center to witness graduation and job training that is really a well-needed program and i hope

that we can continue to foster that program and bring it to light for people who are try toog find them selves and transitioning from previous incarceration. >> absolutely. >> public comment? >> public comment? >> any member of the public? >> thank you. i wanted to say as part of the acknowledgment for the years specifically with the leadership we had with this board has been phenomenal and at least for me and from dp a perspective and working both in partnership and collaborative with-- >> breaking things. >> i know. i get excited and start

throwing things around. in collaboration with all the work you have done. i really want to acknowledge how much has been done this year. it has been difficult and arduous year, but the missteps that i think we had from the initial year where we didn't have the spin down that would have saved and changed exactly how work got done with the sheriff board but nav dpaited that with limited budget. the work here has been phenomenal and i want to thank all you and particularly the leadership we had from the past year. the professionalism with this board has done, the engagement with outside communities. many of you have come in to work with outside groups that are interested in oversight and learning from the leadership you have shown has been phenomenal and i just wanted to

thank you again. i know we are shifting leadership, not changing leadership, just shifting it, but i expect great things from all the work that you guys have done. having terry here, the inspector general wiley here as part of the celebration is meaningful as well, so i wanted to thank you on behalf of the citizens of san francisco, but also thank you for everyone else that is learning from the work you guys are doing and putting this together and being responsive, which i think is really necessary for civilian oversight. thank you all. continued success and thank you again for your leadership over the last year. i don't like to do names when i'm talking: >> i just have to say, we can't thank the department of police accountability and your leadership and

marshall khines work. just for the tremendous support in the transition and not having a budget having to call the budget people advocating. making the transition much smoother for our inspector general. we knew coming in it would be difficult, but not having a budget was even more difficult, but to get the real estate and the equipment and then marshall and his brainiac ways to morph a system that would be accessible for the sheriff office and filing complaints and hopefully we'll have real-time reports and this is out to the executive. we still need a budget. we are doing really important work, so i hope that we can find a way where we can actually get some resources and some staffing. >> i'm optimistic how well the

process worked specifically in the past year in term ozf the things we have been able to accomplish. even with the limited budget that we had or the-not limited budget, now it is shared budget to get this work done. that commitment is ongoing, and the appreciation is ongoing and that's just what i wanted to speak to, so thank you all of you for your work and overcoming these challenges. also honesty, it isn't a small thing, the ways in which you have professionalized this practice. it is meaningful and think will continue to bear fruit, regardless of the circumstances but optimistic what the future looks like at least for civilian oversight based oen the work you all have done and continue to do. >> thank you. >> thank you guys. >> it is also i would like to note that i see myself still as a leader

regardless the title i have and you will get my opinion and my perspective and my expertise. i currently serve as the vice chair of the california-president of the california larasa lawyer association and [indiscernible] law revision commission and discussed potentially becoming the chair in that commission and i value and honor this work and i know that having somebody like brookter and vp will be the best thing we have since you bring so much from day to day practice as well as a police commissioner. i have been asked from folks, you are not a prosecutor, why do you do this job? i am like, because i believe in community and i believe in having the voice that i bring to the table as a queer latina as a prosecutor

and survivors as a different forms of crime, and as somebody that really cares deeply about the people that do the work day in and day out and take it home with them and the people that try to recover and live their best life and heal from trauma, because we can all talk about healing for trauma and what that looks like is very different for so many people and it is unfortunate that our criminal justice system continually failed victims and victim families in particular. i continue to be awe and complete respect of those that show up and do the work and awe and respect of victims and families and people working diligently to rehabilitate them sevl said and put themselves in community forward, so i'll still be here. >> i'm glad you raise the issue because it isn't a small thing to have-- >> i'm also a single mom and

have my own law firm. >> it isn't a small thing to have participation and leadership that looks like this board, specifically with the complicated subjective decisions we deal with every day when we are talking about our justice system and our incarceration systems to have voices that are most impacted by those processes be in a leadership role like this board taking participation is something that is not lost on the rest of the state and rest of the country that your voices are being heard in a way that this board is constructed means something. i hope you all have as much pride as i do in the work that is ongoing by playing a leadership role and i know titles that leadership shifts and changes, among you all throughout the process, but it isn't a small

thing and just know that your voices and your work is being heard and seen and i think it is making a difference. thank you. >> may we all move forward together? i'm really pleased the impact we are making on the state as well as nationally and so, don't want to be political, but i think we may have a bigger national voice hopefully crossing my fingers. >> being seen. absolutely being seen and i expect positive things from the work you guys are doing. >> thank you. are we still on public comment? >> i just want to make a couple comments. congratulations president su. i have known president su many many years in different capacity, professional and personal and i'm very very excited to have a larger

role with the sheriff oversight board now in my position as chief counsel. i also want to briefly acknowledge everyone sitting up there and just for a moment just take a look at each other and realize what a reflection of san francisco this really is. as a native san franciscan, born and raised, child of immigrant parents, looking at this board is exactly what positions of leadership should look like. without that diversity, without that basic environmental historical cultural knowledge, you cant move the needle forward,b and i have to say, you have made several amazing decisions this year in the thoughtful processes you are putting in place in the sheriff's department. one of the most brilliant was finding the new inspector general terry

wiley. i have been working with terry since day one, as assistants chief and now chief counsel. we now brought on kelly collin interviewed by inspector general wiley as a young lawyer and went to city attorney. i have to say, two things, one i want to acknowledge jana clark an amazing ally to me in the sheriff department and also for the sheriff oversight board, but also to the work of dpa, marshall khine, paul henderson have done mammoth things with very little resources, and it's no mystery there is a great amount of respect for both of them as former colleagues, but it is very very clear to see the importance of transparency, the importance of collaboration, the importance of acknowledging things that are wrong and

being willing to fix it. i used to joke when i was a prosecutor when i worked for my former employer, and we would talk about police misconduct and he used to say, the person who is hardest on a cop? a person who knows a gold standard cop and so those who don't know, i am married to a lieutenant in the department and a gold standard lieutenant at that, and i have to tell you, there is nothing that is more important to me as chief now of the sheriff department, but to make this the best sheriff department that we have in the nation. i expect a lot of hard work. i expect a lot of questions. i expect a lot of asking for results. i welcome those challenges, and i am really really excited to see this continued board do the good work, but to new vice president brookter, i'm excited to work with you more

and i know will still voice her position and again, president su, congratulations. well deserved and i'm very excited to work with you in a more deeper and more impactful role. >> thank you. so, on to the next agenda item. >> 6, inspector general report. informational item. inspector general terry wiley will report on the monthly activities of the office of the inspector general, along with 2024 q2, which includes holding the first oig town hall meeting, preparing and presenting the fy 2024-2025 oig budget to the board of supervisors, visiting the sfso jail facilities, examining the jail conditions and challenges to visitation, and participating in events to promote the office of the inspector general.

>> thank you everyone. just as a follow up to the comments that have been made, i can tell you that the support that the inspector general's office has received from dpa and specifically executive director paul henderson and marshall khine, i don't know where we would be without the support that i received from those two in particular, and it is very much appreciated. getting an opportunity to work with ronnie singh has just--you everywhere i look it is great people that i'm working with, and everybody is all moving in the same direction, so it has been a real great experience.

my report. the monthly report i will provide is summary of activities for the past three months, june, july and august, because the board did not meet or convene in july and august. it will be a little longer then my typical report. it has been a very busy period for us. as you know, as you are aware we have not received funding and approval to hire staff, carrying out the charter functions of the inspector general's office, such as investigating complaints and conducting audits. despite this, we have been focusing efforts on areas where we can make the most impactful improvements to those effected by jail conditions, including the inmates, their families, the sheriff staff working in the jails, and based on the feedback from

numerous stakeholders. additionally, i have been actively promoting our office through events and public engagement to garner support to advoicate for resources and demonstrate our value to the community. lastly, the first 6 months in office have involved extensive collaboration with the mayor's budget office, the dpa finance plan who i really want to note, nicole armstrong and shareese for their just tremendous help with the budget process and in preparing all our submissions and presentations for this year's budget. so, first i want to talk about jail conditions. one of the core responsibilities of the inspector general office is to monitor the san francisco sheriff's

office operations, including the provision of services to incarcerated individuals through audits and investigations, and to insure compliance with applicable laws and policies and that starts with really understanding the jail conditions and dynamics effecting those conditions. the recent extended lockdown in the jail--when we dpot up and running there was surge of exteneded lockdowns we had to get to the bottom of what was causing the lockdowns. may 14 at a special board of supervisors hearing, i reported my preliminary findings and recommendations related to the lockdowns. our work exploring root causes and finding sustainable solutions to avoid

future exteneded lockdowns continues. over the past few months, we visited county jail 1, county jail 2. june 26, in san francisco and i visited county jail 3 in san bruno on two occasions, april 23 and july 26 and i want to thank president su, vice president carrion, board members brookter and--for joining these visits and chief ju, chief adams,b captain quant co and collins and staff for facilitating the visits and i do want to say that when you take on the job of inspector general and doing oversight of the sheriff department, and

having 30 years experience in the criminal justice system, you wonder, what kind of -how are we received by the agency that we are seeking to conduct oversight of, and i have to say that i have been a combination of pleasantly surprised, but also very impressed with the san francisco sheriff's department leadership in terms of their willingness to be openly transparent, really at every contact we had with the sheriff department up to this point. in these visits, we had a opportunity to talk with staff and inmates to learn about general problems, and to let them know that we exist to support

them and give inmates the ability to initiate individual complaints. on the most recent trip to cj3, captain quant co, providing me and members of our staff and board members with access to talk to the entire population in the cj3 annex. the annex is comprised of a spacious open door style pod. each pod can accommodate about 60 inmates and there are approximately 6 pods in cj3. each with its own connected door to a courtyard. currently only 2 pods are in service housing inmates. these inmates in both pods appeared very well groomed, and in good health, i was-the one thing i did not expect as

the inspector general was to go visit inmates in the county jail and towards the end of our visit receive applause from the inmates. and the applause was that they were very happy we were there. we gave the impression we were there to look after their wellbeing and i think the applause came from appreciation of the inspector general and i was very very surprised to receive the applause from the inmates. as i said, we saw inmates very well groomed, but i think that they also had typical complaints. one is food. i don't know if i have been to a jail

where they loved the food, and san francisco jail was no different. but, the other thing i have to say about the sheriff's department, when we received complaints from inmates, for example, there was some complaint about the bedding that they were sleeping on, because the sheriff's department washing machine broke down, which made it difficult to do the regular washing of the bedding. the same day we were there, the washing machine had just been repaired, and once they complained about the bedding, typical of what we have seen so far from the sheriff department, captain quantico requested all the bedding in

the pod be collected and washed and those are the kind of things that as the inspector general as we are trying to make sure that the inmates and everyone that touches the system is walking away from the system feeling that their interests have been looked after, that was a prime example of some of the things we have seen up to this point and that i'm talking about in terms of their willingness to respond. now, some of the other things we found in terms of the conditions that we are keeping an eye on, like i said, even though they are complaining about the quality of the food, we are planning to go to the jail and sit down and have a meal, and see what they are talking about. and look whether or not that is

a area where the food quality can be improved if necessary. there is also complaints about some of the drinking, the quality of the drinking water, and i think they are attempting to address some of the technical difficulties with the water system and i think those have since been corrected and we have not heard many more complaints. really those were the major complaints that we received when we were there. as i told the inmates, i listened to the complaints, but what i'm looking at is inmates that appear to be properly looked after and i think with the applause we received, i think that that kind of supported some of our conclusions.

captain quantico also explained that because the pod that we visited was predominantly hispanic or latinx, and so we had questions, why is this pod predominantly latinx, part of it was they were predominantly spanish speaking for one, but also, because and the reason they were in this open pod--open area was because they were there for low level offenses. many were there for low level offenses so they were being housed in a less restrictive housing environment. i was actually happy to hear that. that that was the reason. they had lower classifications.

as i said, we have seen county jail 1, county jail, and county jail 3, and by far the inmates in county jail 3 in the open area that we visited they were the happiest inmates in terms of their current arrangement and so, they all expressed that they all preferred the dorm style setting that the annex supported and were much happier there then in the individual cells. now, some of the problems inmates reported as i say, they have been addressed by captain quantico, who again i think he is just doing a really good job with cj3.

we continue to see improvements to most of the serious problems that we were seeing earlier in the year. now, what are these complaints though really rooted in is one of the questions we looked at. like, what is the root of a lot of--we visited all the jails but what is the root of the complaint? what we found that many of the complaints were rooted in staffing shortages of the sheriff's department. from community meetings and reports from both staff and inmates, it is clear to the inspector general's office that the most pressing complaints and issues related to jail conditions are rooted in staffing shortages. this is a problem that has been growing over the past few years, but is particularly acute now, and really all most reaching a breaking point

that we found. sworn vacancies and when i say sworn vacancies, these are officers who are sworn sheriff deputies. vacancies increased--they were around 100 vacancy in 2020, and today in 2024 they are about 200 vacancies. the staffing shortage has been exacerbated by the rapid increase in the jail population over the past 2 years, and the complexity of the new population in that we are seeing a lot more inmates that are have mental health challenges. they are-they are drug addictions, particularly, the problems that are caused with inmates addicted to fentanyl, and the mixture of these types of inmates coming into

custody made it much more complex in terms of the types of inmates that the jail is having to manage and the combination of having a more complex number of inmates to manage combined with staffing shortages is just a mixture that it is really unsustainable if there isn't some -there is a lot of pressure to address the staff shortages, and the current situation is not really sustain able if you want to continue to have a jail where we dont see a lot of violence and a lot of complaints from the inmates. now, as i said in terms of the

sheriff's department, i feel doing a good job of trying to respond to these challenges. captain quantico and management of the jails redirecting staff to priority operations. has really helped keep important services operational, because when shutdowns and when we had a lot of rapid shutdowns, the inmates also lose access to services that are typically provided. what we found with captain quantico was able to work out is okay, even though we have to have a shutdown, which priority services to inmates can we keep up and running? what we found is that, they have been able to maintain some of the

priority services despite lockdowns, so maintain these service levels requires an over-reliance-one of the problems we also saw was that, trying to maintain these services requires over-reliance on overtime, which takes a huge mental and physical toll on the staff and to the city and county of san francisco. as we reported on several different occasions, the over-reliance on overtime and impact it has on the staff and the cost to the city and county of san francisco is not really sustainable over a long period of time. now i can report the sheriff office recently added 13 new deputies and has 15 trainees in the academy expected to be sworn into service soon, so the sheriff it apartment has

responded by really increasing their efforts to streamline and speed up background investigations with a new system called guardian. the hiring of prop f retirees to conduct the background investigations, so when we first made our first visit to the jail, the sheriff department hai think three individual s doing all of the backgrounds of the trainees, and that number has since with addition of prop f, retirees they are up around 8 individuals that are doing the backgrounds and we have seen a large increase in the number of trainees that have made it through background investigations and are now in the academy. additionally, they are ramping up recruitment efforts with

colleges and the military. we will continue to be committed to regularly visiting the jails to monitor their operations and get feedback from the inmates and staff, so we will continue to report out on what the jail conditions are, what are some of the problems we are seeing and what are some of the solutions. i think it is important that we not only be an agency that identifies problems, we also want to be part of providing solutions to the sheriff department and i have to say that, a lot of the recommendations that we made to the sheriff's department, they have been acted on. we also toured the san francisco sheriff operation at zuckerberg general hospital on august 22, i want to thank board member brookter for

attendeding the visit with us. because we wanted to get a better idea what is going on at zuckerberg of the sheriff operation and first i have to say, i was extremely impressed with the quality of the leadership from the sheriff's department at zuckerberg. they were extremely knowledgeable about the issues they face, and they are very challenged by using more invasion in order to meet those challenges, because what we found was that first of all, the sheriff department provides security for zuckerberg general hospital by contract. they also have-there is also private security provided by allied universal that adds our gives support to

them in terms of the security at the hospital, but the security guards are unarmed and so any time there is a serious situation, the sheriff department is required to deal with those situations. and the visit was prompted by feedback from the community and complaints from the nurses union earlier this year about frequent assaults at the hospital. but, i want to thank chief ju, deputy chief mcconnell and captain crow for arrange the visit. we got to see the sheriff department command center, many different posts around the hospital and it is a huge campus. the ward where in-custody patients are housed and treated and psychiatric

emergency service section. what we found in terms of the challenges were the same challenges we found at the jails, the same challenges we found anywhere the sheriff department has jurisdiction is that there are staffing shortages. as i say, zuckerberg is a sprawling campus with a very diverse array of people from all walks of life working and visiting daily around the clock, and so the challenges there to the sheriff's department are tremendous. we also saw how those staffing challenges are impacting the staff stationed at the hospital to the point where every morning the command staff must evaluate how many deputies are available to make difficult decisions for covering some posts but not

others. often they are not able to cover all of the posts that they are contracted to cover because of staffing shortages and so they have to make strategic decisions as to what is the best way to utilize the staff they have available, and that's why i started off saying, what i found from the deputy--the supervisors at zuckerberg, i was impressed with again, their knowledge, their ability to determine what is the best way with the personnel that they have to manage the safety of zuckerberg general hospital. but, again, i would say they need more

personnel at zuckerberg to properly do the job. so, we are also over the past three months been involved in a lot of events and activities to promote the new office of inspector general. it is important that establishing a new agency that we garner community support for the agency, and i have been taking every opportunity to raise awareness about the office of the inspector general informing the public in both local and national levels about our work and advocating our resources and advocating for resources and support. i want to thank all the members of this board for your efforts to elevate the profile of the department and draw attention to our needs. there have been countless public events that president soo attended,

and basically promoting the office of inspector general and the need for community support and president soo, we really appreciate your active participation out there publicly. i also developed capable connections with other leaders in the field. allowing to exchange ideas and collaborate and advocating for necessary oversight. i recently went to new york city for a one week conference and because we are san francisco, i get daily e-mails from other inspector generals around the country, and the typical e-mail. terry, what are you doing in san francisco? i mean, on many different levels, and so it dpoes goes to show that

san francisco is known for its invasion, it is known for being a leader and so there is a lot of people around the country who want to know what we are doing and how we are handling situations, because one thing you do find out is that, staffing shortages with law enforcement agencies is a phenomenon across the country and so we are not unique in the sheriff's department having to meets staffing challenges. we also on june 11, we hosted our first inspector general town hall. again, i want to thank president soo, for attending the town hall. i think board member brookter--pardon me? >> brookter. >> i was going to let it slide,

terry. [laughter] >> [indiscernible] >> we call him dj. >> that's what i normally do, but i'm being very official right now. but, we- >> or vice president now. [laughter] >> but, i really appreciate the every event that we have done publicly. we had some member of the oversight board in attendance supporting us, and we really appreciate it. on july 17, i also attended the national bar association's national convention and i lead a panel discussion of many prominent

panelists from many different--we had civil rights attorneys, district attorney, gunet county in atlanta georgia, and a number of other different folks from different aspects of the criminal justice system and i represented san francisco and i was the only inspector general and we had a very very important discussion on law enforcement and oversight of law enforcement, and again, in part of the-once we opened the-once we finished our presentation and opened it up for questions, then all the questions seem to come to me. what are you doing in san francisco? but, it also let the country know that

we exist and we are here, and that was a big part of why i do those events. on august 6, we also participated in national night out events. notably we were in the tenderloin at decker park and western addition at the ella hutch center where we participated and we'll continue to do those types of activities to let the folks of san francisco know that we are here. i want to announce september 13, we are having another town hall in the mission district. it will be the mission district town hall meeting where we are going to be focusing on the latinx community, and informing them about our presence and establishing a close relationship with

the latinx community and also want to express special thanks to joanna hernandez helping us secure the meeting space, promoting the eexcellent and just being a tireless advocate on behalf of inmates. this will also give us a better opportunity to know the latinx community and their needs. all most done, folks. >> can i request that be sent invite for that event be sent to all board members? i don't think we have it on calendar now? >> i will. and we also prepared invitations in english and spanish. >> that could be sent to all the board members that would be great. >> i will. >> and then jana, could you coordinate with dan so we actually notice it in case we have a quorum? i think it is important that the board members are more emersed in the community, so don't want to

limit the number of board members who can attend. >> so, i do have to say that two weeks ago i attended the-a conference sponsored by the association of inspector generals in which i received my official certification as a inspector general. it is a 40 hour course where you have to -you have to have a certain knowledge of auditing, inspecting, oversight of law enforcement, all of the different disciplines that are required of a inspector general. you have to have a certain proficiency and when i say a certain

proficiency, i have to take a very hard test and i passed. [laughter] i wanted to show everyone-- >> alright! >> my official professional certification as a certified inspector general. very proud of this. >> certified. [applause] >> when he told me he completed the course and thought he downloaded a certificate. i was like, what is that. [laughter] >> very impressive. >> the budget. i want to end with talking about the budget. since starting this role, i have been working with the mayor's budget office and the dta finance team and budget legislative analyst to develop a reasonable budget for this next fiscal year that the mayor and board

of supervisors may approve. on june 14, we presented our budget needs for the 2024-2025 fiscal year to the board of supervisor budget and appropriation committee. i understand the public is anxious for us to get this office fully operational. we are too. however, in light of the tremendous budget deficits that san francisco is facing, budget cuts are expected. were expected and full funding we felt at that point was unrealistic, so strategically what we did was, we presented a sort of piece-meal budget where we were requesting that the mayor give us partial funding for this fiscal year, and then continue to build on the agency till we get to the point

where we are in a better fiscal times and we could be a fully funded agency. that was not the response we got from the mayor's budget office, and that we were not funded at all, and so--the only-the reason we have been able to accomplish everything i talked about has really been in part of the tremendous support that we received from executive director paul henderson and department of police accountability, because without their support, we would not be where we are. the person that-if there is a-if you have to give somebody most valuable player at the end of every sports year,

they award the person the most valuable player, the most valuable player for the inspector general today is marshall khine. can you join me in giving him a hand? [applause] so, for the public, when you are a inspector general you do need somebody that you can turn left or turn to the right, and they are there to give you the kind of support that often times makes you look good. marshall is one of those kind of guys that i can always rely on him for his honest opinion on things. if i give him an assignment, it comes back and marshall is expecting me to say-to come with a lot of red marks on it, and i am like, this looks great! i will have to say that so it looks

great, because he does a very very good job, so i have to highlight his work. so, as a brand new agency, we understand that we will probably grow incrementally, and we'll just keep plugging along. when we get to the next fiscal year, we'll be there to again, make our argument that this should be a fully funded agency and we play a very important role in the oversight of the sheriff's department, and we'll keep plugging along. thank you. >> thank you. i do really want to echo what terry said about marshall. helping coordinate the visits and also,

investigator [indiscernible] coming along with us and taking notes and sometimes marshall takes notes so we as board members don't have to and can really observe and listen and the beauty of having the notes too is that they can bring it the attention of the sheriff's office to ask on things that need to be corrected and sometimes the small corrections make big impact. i was also impressed with the number of deputies who are fluent in spanish. when we were at one of the dorm pods in the annex at cj3, there were some-not english proficient and so the deputy was able to provide interpretive service. we also had i think deputy lei has been there 25 years and the incarcerated in that pod gave him applause. where else in a particular jail are you going to hear applause to the deputy? then there is a petite woman and dont remember her last name, sandy

in what is known as the psychiatric ward. i didn't know what to expect when i went there and i was pleasantly surprised everyone was very engaged. i didn't know if they would be medicated and they were all applauded sandy because any time they had a need sandy was responsive. the difficult part is the physical conditions because we have aging infrastructure, so the annex actually when i heard it was a horrible place, i was pleasantly surprised. it isn't ideal, but then when you look at cj1 and 2 in the city, i don't know if you know measure to build a new jail and so people voted against it thinking there will be more people incarcerated when i viewed it as better conditions for those incarcerated and working conditions for the deputies. you notice the difference with

the round facilities that makes it easier for the deputies to do their work and allows more freedom for the incarcerated to move about and to socialize and so, we have gotten away from the linear jail. that really makes a big difference. one thing i did want to just really highlight is, from a safety perspective at cj1 and cj2 and vice president carrion was with us, a lot of those cells actually need meal ports to make it safer for the deputies and so even just getting some of the doors replaced is very arduous and so, chief deputy adams just tries to make things work and it is pretty amazing and then, to get a paint job, to just get paint so she has been frugal getting

that done. i encourage all the members when inspector general wiley has a visit for members to go on visits, because it really is a learning experience and then also how the incarcerated are housed, because if there are particular people who should not be housed together, it is like a moving puzzle. we have been at cj2 before and i expected to see the women on the top floor again, but they had to change around the population based oen the needs. >> they do a very very good job. i know i spoke about ronnie singh briefly, but what i do want the board to know that with my comments about when we started as inspector general what to expect, what i have seen from ronnie singh as the legal representative of the sheriff's department, what you want from

somebody in that role is somebody who understands that knun none of these agencies are perfect, but you want someone who wants the organization to be at a gold standard, because then when you bring suggested changes that make the organization a better organization, you will get the kind of open response that typically receive from ronnie in the times i have been here. i am very happy she ended up receiving or being named the head of the sheriff's department legal department. >> i have a question. we touched budget is primary issue and concern. have you developed or contemplating developing a systemmatic way of

documenting any potential failures or stressors or challenges that have been caused because of the staff shortage? the reason--obviously in context, i think we have done incredibly well with what we had to the point though that, --i think the board worked very hard i think there is a lot of volunteer work and i think there was a lot of folks, whether they were staff at the pda or whether it was dan or what not, going above and beyond, right? and, we also don't want to brurn out the people we have. we also dont want to [indiscernible] and labor rules, and we also want to be able to really think about who is the

lack of funding hurting? what are the concrete ways you can see that? obviously that is internal conversation what the systematic approach would be but interested your thoughts. if you are taking steps and if you haven't that is something i like to request. >> so, one thing that we feel is very important is that, we are inspector general office can make a huge difference in terms of a city and county's ultimate outcome, we can prevent lawsuits, and it is preventing litigation is where the city and county can save millions of dollars. when we see inspections and

investigation that there are situations that are rising, that if we dont get on top of, could result in a incident, and could end up in the city and county can end up in litigation. we are looking at things like that where we can show that by the importance of the role of inspector general is one way. we are also looking at--quite honesty vise president carrion, we have looked more to focus what we can do to improve the sheriff's department with the little resources that we have. for example, right now we are --i have marshall working on a just doing a pay

comparison between the sheriff's department and all of the surrounding sheriff's departments in terms of--at the end of the day, one reason that people want to come to work for you is if you are paying well, and so we are doing a study to show that where the sheriff's office is in that pay scale and why there are other counties that are ahead of the curve in terms of hiring and why san francisco may be not having as much success. i think there are studies that we are looking at things like that. in terms of what we can do to improve the funding of the sheriff's department by the city and by the board of supervisors and the mayor, i

thought we made a very very heavy push for funding, and so i am hoping that as we enter into the next fiscal cycle that, they are going to be more open to providing funding. some of the early preliminary indications is they are. we are getting early signal s things will be better. i dont know if that answers your question? >> it partially does. i think what i understand, correct if i'm wrong, you have a process where you are having some analysis that you are studying different ways to be able to mitigate the cost of the city,

but my main concern is, i see the importance of the role. and we have that. the commission is created, we have the inspector general, but now with having a under-resourced institution, we have these missions and these goals and statutory deadlines that they be getting done because somebody is working 80 hours , right? that is marshall. or whoever the inspectors-if you is a inspector with too many cases they are not able to look at it with precision and detail these kinds of cases requires and as someone who lead the investigations and gone through hundreds if not thousands of hours of detailed body worn camera of 35 personnel in person, and that

kind of thoroughness that these cases need, and i know dpa is doing an amazing job and i know we will continue producing the best work possible, but the fath fath fact we have no funding will have practical day to day consequences and what i'm highlighting to you is that, in addition to the larger kind of policy and general population investigation that you are doing already with your survey and you can quantify, qualify, right, the lawsuits or what the range has been statistically of lawsuits, but what does it actually look for the up operation of the office and that might be something that could be brainstormed. in the future i would like to

hear something of what--this is how now we had some time we are really seeing these impacts on how i'm able to operate this. >> i can tell you this, initially when we dpot got up and running, what we saw actually was a drop in the number of complaints, and we didn't know if it was because now the ig is here, so people are operating a little differently because the number of complaints dropped, but i would say recently, we have seen an uptick in the number of complaints. if the increase we have seen recently continues, then we are going to be subject to suffering the same problems that the sheriff department is suffering. they don't have enough personnel to meet the increase in the number of inmates coming into custody.

the result is, they got staff that are working overtime and they are having to pay expensive overtime costs and that long-term isn't sustainable. without greater funding, you could see the ig office headed in the same direction. without proper funding and more cases and not having enough personnel to deal with the number of cases that it will not be sustainable. we will be more then up for putting forth the effort in laying that out for the board of supervisors and the mayor. >> i was going to say, moving forward the way i see potential reports and member has been great at making the reports look really good, i am

looking at some of the reports we did while i was oen the commission on the status of women with a family violence council. the first couple were very raw and we got more data, but we were able to have a matrix in terms of issues that needed to be addressed immediate, some maybe longer term, but the imp pact when you think about overall, right now we are focused on the working conditions, the jails and everything. if we look in terms of the human impact and don't want to sound we are so grand, but if we have movement where we have services and we have lower recidivism. these are human lives that if they are able to become meaningful productive people we should be able to have those services. i know the sheriff-- >> they are meaningful productive people. >> just saying that every time

we turn around it is like, oh my god, [indiscernible] i am thankful for the dedicated members who even during covid would push hard to have some of those in-person services and some have not been brought back fully. i'm talking what we see in long-term and ideal situation and now with the governor we san quintan will be more a rehabilitative setting. that's what i see. i will not be in the position forever and i don't know how i got so busy together but i pulled many all nighter in the office. as i get older it is harder to recover and balancing my job and this board and my other commitments. i just have to say, it is such a joy working with marshall and terry and paul. i was just commenting to a former commissioner on another board that it

is just amazing and doesn't feel like work. they are working really hard, but it is nice to feel we are making a impact. think where we started. >> absolutely. >> as we were drafting a ig job description and hr was great to work with. >> here is a blank page. >> yeah. we still are creating and so as i have you all here, i want you to think, this is like the beginning of the school year again. as we put together what we want to do for an entire year, i like to do that again to make sure we hit particular benchmarks. right now we are getting to a point where we can actually discuss policy and use of force is always a big thing and i am so grateful i get to work with ronnie singh in talking about particular policies with the sheriff's office and i know there was a recent over haul, so it is good to know that we have someone who crafts

policy so well and if we have different input we can put that in there, but i know that so people in the leadership are very responsive and then just one more point before i forget. i think it has been moved to next month. it was september last year, but the faith in blue that held at cj3 where members of the community go out. you can also work on the simulator. those who have never been in a simulated situation. it is really important i think for us to get as trained as much as possible so we understand as we want to make recommendations for policy that we understand the perspective of the peep people in the field doing the work. >> i will add, when we first started, the sheriff's department was doing--having shutdowns, but there were no continuation of services.

it was just everything was shut down, and then once we came in and started evaluating the reason behind the shutdowns and the impact that shutdowns had on the inmates, fast forward to today, they are still having shutdowns, but they found a way to continue the primary services to the inmates in terms of inmates taking classes. and inmates now continuing even though they are on lockdown, having some of the major services they are able to continue those. another example was when they were having the lockdowns it was impacting visitations of the families. now, if they have a lockdown, they now continue the visitations. we have seen--i'm not going to stay

that these responses by the sheriff's department is exclusively because of the ig, but i do think our presence has helped facilitate some of those changes that are--because as i say, the sheriff department is responsive to our suggestions. >> i think the february meeting we had where the community started coming with joanna hernandez and some of the people who had the non profits, i think that was a important step to really have word of mouth that we are responsive and want more community input. >> yes. >> i was tracking all these changes no matter how miner because i think sometimes when we have so much work to do, which i think we have so much work to do and diverse body of work to do, the small changes i think are one thing we show progress and show how to be effective working with other

people and are easy to forget. >> we try to present a lot that in our news letters. >> yes. >> we cover a lot of the changes and things going on. >> just going to say, i want to make sure i didn't lose my train of thought i think i'm hearing. especially around the budget. not just to show the things we are doing really well, but what are we not able to do because we dont have the budget to do it? that is what i'm hearing is that good balance. like marshall is phenomenal and if we had two more marshalls, these are things we are not able to take care of because we dont have two more marshalls. i think able to track and not add more work, but just being able to share especially pertaining how the legislation is written we are not able to do these things because we dont have

a full team. we are able to do this and unable to do this. that is what i was hearing in terms of what i think my colleague was sharing and just wanted to make sure i was hearing correctly. and also just two seconds. just want to chime in. just in terms of what we are able to see at the hospital, zuckerberg. that was extremely eye ope. ening. the lack of daepties are only able to cover 13 on any given day. when you talk about logistics around contingency plan, deputies are taking time off and those retiring and call in sick that day. just the maneuvering of what they do around campus was phenomenal to sit down and digest and take in. i want to share, the biggest question i asked and you are right because marshall and brent are taking arduous notes.

i was happy and said do folks here feel safe? do the people in the community feel safe? do the folks receiving service feel safe and folks that work at zuckerberg fell safe and the deputy said yes when we are here especially the workers at the hospital given and surrounding area walking folks to their cars. sometimes late at night. they talked about how they interact with sfpd when folks are dropped off by folks at the police department. it is technology. these guys are using a mifi inside the hospital. community based organization we provide young people with mifi to use at home and we have a world class sheriff's department that is having to use a mifi- >> what is a mifi? >> how folks connect to the internet. it is small device that only allows so many devices to attach to it.

instead of having a router and connectivity to the internet so connectivity to the internet--very spot. >> [multiple speakers] >> going to be hard to find a radio shack. >> just wanted to chime in on those two things. >> i was going to ask you and i want to turn it over to you too. if we could have some kind of matrix so we are actually keeping tabs and also, i like to be able to have our board vote on formal recommendations that you have summarized for us as well, because i don't want it to be haphazard and i know you had a interim recommendation that brings to when we discuss the 2024q2 report for the board. as you made recommendations

during your presentation, later on when sheriff miyamoto made comments, so it is like redeploy people or taking people off of patrol say, the tenderloin, but it is not necessarily that easy because some are designated for emergency services so not meant to be in the custody division and need to be out there anyway as part of emergency services. it is generally 6 people. that also goes to employment satisfaction because some of the deputies want different experiences and want to be--and some want to rotate. that's another big consideration. i just my vision and i think the rest of the board shares, when we look at oversight, it isn't just for those incarcerated and families, but also the working conditions of deputies and their wellbeing.

>> yes. >> i just wanted to add. i came to the cj3 visit. >> that is the big pod. the dorm. >> it was a [unable to hear speaker] [microphone not on] >> yes. yes. >> the second thing i wanted to note pause i'm very hot on this is, lockdown that occur. the reason being, i think it is important that there is some maybe like tracking that we have, because

i think that i understand when yfs talking to captain adams, she was like, there are different levels of shutdown. it isn't the shutdown of the 2000's. >> yes. >> [unaudible to hear speaker] >> okay. >> the reason being, because i think it is just to help paint a picture of the broader context when unfortunate incidents like the sheriff --assault. >> the assault on sheriff, yeah. and that's a good suggestion, because when i started back in january, the lockdowns were like everything was locked down, and there was no

continuation of services. everything was locked down. then once we started going in and again, i'm not attributing it to the ig being there and this may be something the sheriff department did on their own, but once we started going in and inspecting and seeing the impact in talking to the inmates and hearing the impact the shutdowns were having on them, i think that they have since found a way that now everything is not being locked down. they are able to keep some services going and visitations going and those may be different levels of--that is why i say your suggestion is a good one. >> ypt to note, i understand the sheriff staff shortages. they are trying to do what they

can. i understand that-- >> yeah. >> i want to make sure-- >> right. >> there is history that. the other thing i wanted to know--i actually forgot it. >> maybe we could have chief adams have a monthly report or something on the levels and i don't want to add extra work, but hopefully we can automate so much of this stuff. again, it is just horrible that if the it system isn't running that a deputy on patrol can't run a license plate or drivers license and so, the this is another thing. one thing is i want to talk to the new city county it chief, because we shouldn't have separate systems and i know executive director henderson you are at the police commission meetings. we should be able to buy-in and have a share and should have a shared

system. we shouldn't have separate systems and now that a lot more of the deputies are on patrol as well, sometimes we need to share information anyway and we know from the justice panel how things slip through the cracks back in the day with things where women get murdered because the communication wasn't there because it was siloed. i like to see--that saves money and we can have a budget to have investigators and staff and not miss statutory deadlines. >> yes. i just have a few things to say of course. thank you for your report. i'm in contact with people inside the jail quite often. we do need a new jail with sunlight. it has already been ordered through the courts that sunlight is very important

to human beings. if you can imagine being in jail, 5, 10, 15 years, i know people in there at least 10 years and not in the sun. these are melinated people. can't speak for all people but i know melinated people need the sun because the sun is a energizer for your melanin. asking san francisco to create a new jail with architecture that allows sunlight to be obtained by the residents is essential. that's not up for debate or a political stance or not a touch on crime or weak on crime philosophy, that is human right to have sunlight. there is no where in the law anyone should be punished by throughing in a cave and deprived of human necessity. that isn't what you are convicted of and held for until we decide whether you need sunlight or not so that should be a priority for the sheriff

and mayor london breed if she is reelected or whatever mayor elected coming up. sunlight for human beings. lockdowns are lock downs with you are locked down. let's get that understood. if you have never spent time in your bathroom and given hot meal once in two sack lunches to eat and that is all you do for a week, you don't know what a lock down is anyway. for the people not locked down and say there are different type of lock down. people who are locked down, lock down is lock down. whether for covid or somebody did something or somebody got hurt. it is lock down and human beings are not designed to be on lock down. that should be a human rights violation. there are other first world countries around this world who don't put people on lock down as we do in the united states and specifically in california in most cdcr. we won't go there, but we have

already seen what that is. the food revolution is justice for people. we are already knowing that on corner stores in the tl and other deprived food deserts they are serving poison out of the store that you get--[indiscernible] red dyes. when you go into jail and forced to eat what they give you and no nutritious value and melinated people what they are serving is anti-health that is a prpt. you cant represent in court when you starve of nutritious value or type of value deemed necessary for your type of body. there are all different people who have different types, it isn't just because i'm lactose intolerant or glucose thing. there is food certain bodies need in order to be healthy and thriving and functioning to represent yourself in court to save your life. that is a human right. last but not least, deputies

and the construction and function of the jail system in general, i had a opportunity to read law enforce ment the history hof law enforcement in america while in jail and surprisingly what the system we have is a system designed to be better then the stock hold system like put in wooden blocks and be humilinated so decided we need the old system where you get to talk to god and that rehabilitate you. we see that doesn't work. we need social justice, architectural scientist who understand what a good system in holding a person until he or she is brought or have their day in court and justice is [indiscernible] that is not behind bars. there are people who can

control and need extra security, but in general, people don't have to be locked up to be held for court like again, 5, 10, 15 years in that type of situation. it isn'tue main. it is system based off-i won't go into detail, but based off a mindset that is incorrect. inhuman, unhealthy and scientifically wrong. just wrong. in all of our redesigning of all these things, we really need to look at everything and even deputies they have a job to do and they have done a good job. i hear reports things are getting better and so on so forth, but free staff, people who have a community investment to make sure our community members inside are getting the adequate resources and services to make sure that they are developing and when they get out like julie said, are

productive citizens following in the system of community, right? we can hire free staff. you don't have to have a gun to help people or escort from point a to b. last but not least, some of the qualifications on becoming a deputy we have to look at and reevaluate are they necessary as for example, being disqualified if you smoke weed. we is as legal as alcohol is. alcohol doesn't show up in your blood if tested because you have a faster way getting out of your system but you shouldn't come to work high or drunk or any type of mental incapacity. even anger and having problems or take it out on people there. reevaluateing what creates allows to qualify for a deputy and really advertising and marketing to the communities that are patrolling our

neighborhoods and super vising our jails so people who want tomake a difference in the system are inputed and those who are old school and are there to take out some type of childhood trauma or weed it out so we can have this type of hiring. there would be more people who-i wanted to be a sheriff as a kid, but bob marly told me didn't shoot the deputy, but he shot the sheriff. as i bring this to a close, we have to take a better look how we are treating people who are being held and some are innocent until proven guilty, are held as they wait for their day in courts or days and months and years in court. that's all. >> that is a lot of food for thought. thank you member palmer.

do we have public comment? >> for members of the public who like to comment onite in 6, please approach the podium. >> good afternoon. congratulations to you two. my name is joshua, cochair for [indiscernible] latino task force. looking forward meeting with you soon. just one thing i didn't hear was the recent death at cj2. i was a case manager. [difficulty hearing speaker] i think wanted a update to if there is not, i understand it is early. when there is what would be accessible where and yeah, so i think that is good [indiscernible] also secondly, if you don't have the proper funding,

is that going to intervene with this investigation or going forward? >> yes, so, naturally this is something that just happened and we are not able to publicly comment on the current situation, and--but what i can say is that, what happened will be thoroughly and is thorough investigated and then we'll have the appropriate comments at the appropriate time. as of this time, we can't say anything publicly. >> also thank you very much for getting back to me very fast yesterday when i reached out. i really appreciate that. just additional [indiscernible] thanks again for bringing that up. remember that all these folks are presumed innocent until proven guilty. as somebody who is a service

provider in the jail, i see the effects of being [indiscernible] lack of vitamin d, a lot of folks depressed and it is hard to rehab [indiscernible] okay, thank you very much. >> thank you for being here. >> that is josh and we do know him inside and he is doing a good job bringing his energy and his insight and his love for his community and service. i appreciate you, bro. >> in fact, josh as soon as i saw your name i got that to you to let you know--we can't say anything now, but i appreciated you reaching out. >> [indiscernible] >> we also really appreciate members of the community and particularly for your work to bring things to our attention, because we need eyes and ears from the community and feedback, so thank you for being here.

does anyone have general public comment, because we can actually move that item up. we have a couple more reports, but we can take it now. josh, if you have anything else to say? then we'll-- we do have time. marshall, i know you worked hard on the reports and they are really good reports so love to hear your reports. >> item 7, department of police accountability report. informational item. marshall khine chief attorney will present on sheriff investigation for 2024 q2 by the department of police accountability. mr. khine. >> good afternoon board members. hope you had a restful summer and congratulations on reelection president

soo, and president elect brookter and again, thank you for all of your work and input and insightful suggestions outgoing vice president carrion. echoing appreciation for how committed and engaged this board is seeing you at all these events nights and weekends. really appreciate how committed you all are to this work. i have 15 minutes. i will try to accomplish it in 10 minutes. this very exciting data report for q2. this will cover april, may and june of 2024. we'll move through in 3 sections. first, stats, we'll go over trends, these are small numbers. again for the benefit of the public who may not tuned in before, the department of police accountability currently provides investigative services

for complaints against sheriff deputies and very limited classes of misconduct allegations. this is through a operating agreement that exist between the department of police accountability and the sheriff office and we are continuing this work while the inspector general is working on getting the funding to hire the investigators to take over the work. but, just so the public is clear, this does not represent the universe of work the office of inspector general will later talk on. only a small subset. the remaining complaints are being investigated by the internal affairs unit within the sheriff's office. we'll go over highlights on the ways the department of police accountability has been supporting the office of inspector general in quarter 2, and up coming and ongoing projects. for the cases opened and closed

in quarter 2, we see a larger trend for increasing trends of cases from quarter 1 to quarter 2, and as you can see from the chart, the cases have increased year over year over the past 3 years. fortunately now dp a has three years worth of data. for cases closed, again, from previous years we are closing more cases with 15 cases closed in quarter 2, consistent with the 15 cases we closed in quarter 1, but significantly larger number of cases closed then in previous years. i think it's accumulated expertise with staff now in handling these type of investigations. i wanted to acknowledge the hard work of senior investigators brent who has really helmed the investigative efforts and oversaw a number of investigators that have performed the sheriff

investigations over the past 4 to 5 years. since the department of police accountability contracted or agreed to take over the limited classes of sheriff investigations. our case pending is not really a very informative chart because this fluctuates week to week and day to day. we have seen a surge in the cases the inspector general referred to and taken in about a dozen cases and an additional tragic death investigation. the case load has significantly increased these past couple weeks. throughout this particular quarter, i think we covered around 20, 25 cases. we are struggling to manage the

case load, but as it is right now, i think it is still manageable, but hopefully we won't see a continuation of surge and the trend will level out. this is a representation of the case findings for 2024 in quarter 2, we actually did not find any sustained allocations out of the 50 allegations the vast majority were exonerated. we are continuing to utilize the finding of insufficient efforts or not sustained infrequenly isn't a finding that is preferred for the simple reason, it is really a finding that doesn't offer findings. being able to either sustain or exonerate or some cases make a

unfounded find ing determination is far preferable because that means our investigation lead us to a much more conclusive and positive result then simply relying on insufficient evidence. i also want to take a moment to explain the term, referrals because referral is used in a number different ways within it department. could be a case referred from another agency for investigation. ahn timeatize is from the sheriff office when the case comes into the sheriff office as complaint the internal affairs unit will evaluate whether or not that falls within the class [indiscernible] letter of agreement and make the referral to the dpa. evaluated through intake, conduct preliminary investigation. sometimes the cases come from the public. if a case comes from the public and determined not to fall within the scope of our jurisdiction, we'll

refer to the appropriate agency for investigation. in many occasions, we will need to initiate an investigation in order to make determination as to whether or not that case is one that we have the jurisdiction and authority to investigate, and sometimes after considerable amount of time and effort, we would have opened the case, identified the type of allegations and referred back to the appropriate department or prefer to the appropriate department because we don't have the jurisdiction to investigate that type of allegation. the next slide is i understand very difficult to see from a distance, but it provides a much more granular breakdown of the type of allocations from the q2 closures. you all have copies of the report. if there is any questions that arise from this particular slide, please feel

free to reach out. the only real take away is that the vast majority of misconduct allegation s continues to be unnecessary or excessive force constituting 29 out of the 50 allegations. demographics for case closures in q2. self-reported from the populations that cases that were closed. 15 cases closed in q2. 13 of them provided identifying information, 2 anonymous. only two provided age information, which is why we only have two sections identified as one in the [indiscernible] 51-60 group. what we do see here in terms of the racial breakdown is, in quarter 2 versus quarter 1, significant increase

in the proportion represented as hispanic or latinx which is consistent with the trends. we have been hearing about increase in the hispanic latinx population so now comprising a larger proportion of the complainant demographic then we have seen in the past and of the identified genders 67 percent are male. some additional information about the complaint sources from the cases closed in q2, from q1 to q2, we have seen a significant increase in the number of cases that have come in online, which is something we definitely want to see and want to see more of. q1 we saw 50 percent of the complainants made complaints by phone and 50 referrals from other

agencies, primarily the sheriff office. in quarter 2, from the case closures, now that again these case closures are all delayed, statistic because it can take generally 6 to 9 months or longer in order to close a case, so there is a delay when we implement a system when we start seeing the stats reported in the case closures for that particular quarter. we went online with the complainant system fairly roontly and now seeing 33 percent reporting online. the digital reporting system as you know and i described are preferable for data purposes. it allows to define the data required to be put in the system to file a complaint. it allows to create dropdowns so we are able to remove subjectivity how the data is tabulated t. takes the time out of having to defifer difficult

to read handwriting and more efficient because it eliminates the need to enter data multiple times. this is a new slide we didn't have the q1 report so that we are little more up to date on how the information is flowing in on the new complaint from quarter 2. here, unlike in the case closures we are seeing the locations where the cases are coming in or originating prom is far more varied in different locations now we are seeing some locations we haven't seen complaints from before where the sheriff provides security at poke street. we had a small representation from city hall from 70 oak grove and san francisco general hospital. we also have a breakdown of the

new complaint allegations of the type of allegations. nothing large enough for anything to rely on statistically, but for your information. i will move through the q2 highlights pretty quickly. in terms of support for office of new inspector general. q1, we had announced the launch of the new system. i can update this board that we successfully migrated the historical data from the sheriff investigation into the new case management system. we implementing the new system into the investigative workflows. a lot of the data that is reported in this report was harvested from the new case management system. and inspector general

referenced our finance team played a large role in supporting the office of inspector general in the budget process and budget presentation. we also recently used in the last quarter the platform of the california civilian oversight alliance conference to elevate the profile of the new inspector general having him headline a panel about oversight and the importance of racial equity and inclusion in oversight. it was a very distinguished panel with [indiscernible] berkeley office of director of police accountability. lastly, ongoing future projects. we are still working on a cloud based file system that will offer a lot more flexibility in the way that we

manage our cases. we are going to implement-we recently implemented that oen the dpa cases for sfpd investigations and once we worked out any issue with that, we will try to implement that for the sheriff cases, which will allow the investigators the flexibility of accessing their case files anywhere they need to out in the field in remote work without need for vpn. the electronic complaints in setting up jail kiosk and putting in jail tablet, the inspector general may have mentioned before that that project is on hold. we don't want to open the flood gates for complation until we have the staff to accommodate the investigations but that is in discussion with the sheriff office and certainly seems feasible. we are also working with the

sheriff office in a major recommendation on updating their use of force tracking systems, and the use of force laws, which are all tabulated from paper documents siloed in different locations within the jails. centralizing electronic system will hopefully improve our ability to have insight into the prevalence of use of force within the jail because we have found and reported back to the sheriff office many occasions where we have inadequate or erroneous use of force documentation in the use of force laws. we are also working with the sheriff office in trying to create and eventually launch standardized guidelines to create a more transparency and consistent system for the sheriff to implement discipline while of course the individuals that receive discipline are going to

be afforded the con[indiscernible] the guidelines allow the public to see for any particular--the range of disciplines that the sheriff would likely impose. of course, sheriff maintains full discretion, but having a set of guidelines will hopefully achieve a better level of consistency, as well as inform the members of the department what to expect for variety of different improper conduct and misconduct. the dashboard that referenced before has moved significantly forward. we are hoping to move away from static reports. where you just see data on a piece of paper or in a presentation like this and being able to move all that data into a dynamic system where you

are able to filter out the information that you need close to in real time. it will be data that we'll try to update on a weekly basis. dpa will move first with the sfpd data and we expect that to move forward quickly and i'm hopeful bay the end of the calendar year we are able to do it with the sf data. and then last but not least, we are still continuing to work on the project that was suggested by board member carrion. the work hours and complaint correlation study. we have been in contact with the data analyst from the sheriff office as a suggestion of sheriff miyamoto. lucas jennings is a fantastic data analyst. we went through the data collected the past 2 years and there is still a lot more work we need to do.

we collect the data relating to overtime and deputies complained about, we need to be able to create a baseline that's of the hours that all the deputies that worked did not receive a complaint about so we are able to draw some comparative analysis as to the frequency where long shifts potentially is related to higher frequency of complaints, but we will not know that until we go through a fairly cumbersome data collection process and as has been referenced before, the time sheets and overtime sheets are managed by paper, so also will be a lot of work to tabulate. we are working on faiguring what the asks will be and then requesting those resources from the sheriff

office. that in a nutshell. >> great. can i add something to the work hours? i think i like to know years of experience. it is a little more difficult, especially with newer trainees. we come from a generation now where people are oen the electronic devices and can't necessarily read body language and assess particular situations before they escalate, so i think it might be helpful for training purposes to know your experience. >> i will make a note. that is a excellent suggestion we heard from the sheriff staff that the new generation of deputies coming in often times have far less experience because many while on-boarded during the covid period were working in a lockdown facility, which is very different then a facility where they have to interact with the inmates on a much more regular basis. they look at initial experience of much more open jail setting, so i think that

is a point very well taken. >> any questions or comments by my colleagues? excellent report. thank you. >> thank you. >> we have more complaints and particularly the excessive force complaints? >> okay. >> something for us to look forward to. >> i also want to say-i really appreciate the evolution of the reports visually. i think this is really accessible and pretty clear-cut to the point i can look at it and anticipate what you were going to say and that's exactly what we want for people that are not able to come to these meetings kwr still want the information so i want to acknowledge that. >> thank you. >> this is just for future. [unable to hear speaker] next quarterly report. >> would you like us to have questions q & a? >> yeah. >> the next meeting?

if you want to bring-- - >> i will ask my questions quickly. slide 5 and 6, what are the reason frz the cases being exonerated? >> sorry? >> the slide 5 exonerated. >> yes. >> the majority is misconduct. >> yes. we reach a point we are able to determine based on the evident that it was the actions taken by the person who is accused of misconduct, the actions were within policy lawful and justified. the vast majority are use of force incidents and the body worn camera we are able to gather footage is increasing as well as our ability to utilize the surveillance camera footage. gives a lot more insight what

occurred. often times the allegations the force was unnecessary and we are able to see what preceded and how it was precipitated and how the deputies handle them sevl and the level of force they utilize. we will go from what preceded the incidents on the video from witness accounts all the way through to medical records to see exactly what the effects that use of force were in order to arrive at a exonerated. if we are unable to determine if the use of force was justified and that is rare occasion, that's when you end up with a not sustained or insufficient evidence. >> i'm just seeing the same carryover trend from the quarterly reports that misconduct tends to be the highest, and it gets exonerated.

the likelihood of anything happening from clients reporting is sounding very slim to none, so i just wanted to kind of highlight that. >> yeah. certainly i think use of force is historically the most common allegation against the deputy. that falls under the misconduct category, and use of force at least on whether of not use of force was justified, lawful and within policy, those cases often times do get justified and exonerated. there are occasions where use of force is unnecessary and that would be sustained allegation or use of force was excessive where it exceeded what was required in order to accomplish a lawful or legitimate purpose and those are sustained. >> anything further?

>> madam president, we will have to continue lines 8 and 9. >> yes, thank you dan. >> calling line item 10, general public comment. the public is welcome to address the board up to 2 minutes on items that do not appear on the agenda but within the subject matter jurisdiction of the oversight board. board members are not required to respond to questions by the public but may provide a brief response. if you like to comment approach the podium. uhave you have up to 2 minutes to give comment. there appears to be no public comment. anything else? >> no. i think we are ready for adjournment. >> did you do public comment on this item? >> yes, sorry, public comment on the presentation by marshall khine.

>> public comment on line item 7, department of police accountability report. please approach the podium when it is free. there is no public comment. any other announcements? >> i think we are good. i will see people at the church on sunday if you are available. >> calling line item 11. adjourn:action item. all in favor? >> aye. >> any nays? meeting adjourned at 501 p.m. thank you. [meeting adjourned]

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