ms. christine de barry is here to speak on behalf of the d.a.'s office. thank you. >> thank you all, and thank you supervisor walton for calling this hearing. i would like to direct my comments to the portion of these investigations that are relevant to our office, which is a criminal investigation. some of the questions that have been asked by supervisor brown and others may be facilitated by me explaining that the challenges we had in the current case where we took a dismissal was because there was not a clear separation between the investigation and the criminal investigation. from our point of view, it is critical improvement that needs to be made. i know the sheriff indicates some improvements they have made internally, but we continue to have to take a dismissal on a very serious case, to have concerns about the lines of separation between those two types of investigations. it sounds as if there are movement afoot to make some improvements over the administrative investigations by referring those to the department of police accountability, that is o