we brought experts, the aclu -- the aclu from cincinnati supports it. if you read the statement the commander read, the aclu said, here are the circumstances to use it. i think the commission has to think of the unintended consequences of not doing this. do you really want to put san francisco police officers back on the street without an option they say they need? commissioner dejesus: you know what? aclu is here. they can speak for themselves. i do appreciate. thank you for answering the question. >> first of all, the guidelines , would they permit the officers to tase someone who is fleeing? >> yes. we had the circumstances under which -- we debated that issue for three hours in houston about the fleeing issue. that is not the only circumstance under which you tase someone. the act of fleeing should not be sufficient to tase someone. >> your reviewed best practices, you came to our city. our use of dogs, officer shootings, it was a very thorough review. simple question for you. it is very clear that tasers are less than lethal and can cause death. th

i'm the police practices director at the aclu of northern california. thank you for inviting me to speak this evening. is that better? as i said, i have, with your indulgence, a two-base presentation. i have a video and a couple of minutes of commons. -- comments. sorry for the delay. i don't know if you have a way of putting it on the main screen. sound? >> can we pull the camera back? commissioner chan: if we need more time to make this work, we can have another speaker. i want to maximize our time. we will try to make it work. maybe we will have jack speak. sorry about this technical difficulty. mr. bryson, are you in the room? he is not here yet. ok. rimi from -- i will try one more. barbara. >> all right. commissioner chan: she is the founder of accountability associates. she is an independent police auditor. and stand she is part of the occ. thank you for joining us tonight. >> good evening, chair mazzucco, commissioners. thank you for inviting me to speak tonight. thank you for that introduction. that is some of what i was going to talk about. i

i totally agree with the aclu. i don't know about taser is, but $1,000 per taser, we are already talking about where the money is going to come from to send a focus group to memphis. if teasers -- tasers are adopted, they will become a stepchild of tasers because of lack of funding. they are always at the end of the line. i understand this is not the health commission, but i must say something. i am living in a kafka-esque world of mental illness. constantly having our loved ones rushed instead of individuals. just last week, we know that continued residential treatment, resources are limited. this is all we can do. with the drug dealers constant, or the family, they failed to take their medication. there is no follow-up. the police are called over and over again. they are very closely connected. >> commissioners, the evening. -- good evening. i have watched the procedures, and not one of you brought up because factor. -- the cost factor.

the aclu says that it was serious physical harm. >> it needs to be regularly regulated. they say it was not excessive. an oklahoma driver ends up on the wrong side, this is an amazing story. police thought the man was drunk or on drugs. then they taser him. it turns out the man was in severe diabetic shock. he usually resembles somebody that is intoxicated. once the police realized what is happening, they rushed him to the hospital. he should be ok, but this should be a lesson. the police should be schooled by these types of things. >> responding, getting out a gun. >> maybe the diabetic should wear something, i don't know. >> the 21-page court document -- >> we still have to defend them. >> without any provocation, they take him in the neck. jefferson county sheriff's would not speak directly to those claims. >> the findings were that there was no indication of any wrongdoing. >> their released a statement saying that their job is to protect the children. shocking children with lasers could result in serious physical and mental injury. >> a 55-year-old homeowner is a bi

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kelly evans from the aclu. although she did not endorse a request, we would like to read a short excerpt from her letter dated march 4, 2010. >we strongly believe that sfpd should begin with a trial basis. this would allow the department and commission to evaluate each deployment closely, and make decisions based on actual use of the weapon. participating officers in any pilot project should have strong positive relationships with the community and a demonstrated history of good judgment and judicious use of force. that data should be made available to the community and closely addressed. should any turning our policy changes be made? there should be imminent physical harm to the officer, a subject, or third party. it should never be used by passive resisters were there is not an imminent risk. if at any point that are authorized, they should come with stringent training and strict limitations. the should be agreed upon and established. the department concurs with these recommendations from the aclu. >> i want

we work with the the aclu and others to oppose the privacy- threatening -- >> thank you. >> i'm going to talk about item number 21. and dislikes the diverse board of supervisors represent our multi-cultural and diverse community in this city, kusf and did the same. we have 70 hours of cultural programming including 8 hours of classical music of which i was a host. i also hosted a persian show and a french chateau. i wanted to say that kusf represents the diversity of our community. there are shows for the seniors and disabled and the gay and lesbian community. we have represented local artists and i don't know of any radio station in this community that does this as well. i understand it was started as a university radio stations but this ended up one of the best radio station. i urge you to look at our programming. everything was represented. this represents our diverse community. thank you. >> when the university turned up a transmitter, it became the most high-profile participant in this disturbing trend of universities trying to place their educational licenses into the hands of p

there has been some legal developments with the aclu that may have changed the context somewhat on this issue, the impact of the disproportionate impact of layoffs on severely impacted schools. this is the next slide. it shows some of the steps we have taken since last year to provide additional flexibility to site-based budgets. we have four block grants we have loosened the purse strings on. schools have given us feedback that this is appreciated. we have done two things. we have let the schools have discretion to spend those resources on a wider variety of uses. we have committed that they can carry over unspent balances from one year to the next. this by no means solves the problems of the schools are facing. but the help incrementally. they do seem to be appreciated. the last slide is a draft budget development time line. it is very high level. there is a school planning summit for saturday. there is preliminary notification for certificate and layoffs. notices would be issued by march 15. the school budgets will be due march 24. the notification of certificate employees would take

his attorneys of the northern california aclu gave him the opportunity to challenge the right to an expanded his understanding. despite the ruling of the supreme court in 1943, -- refused to give up and 40 years later, when he was approached to open his case, he was still determined to write a great wrong. the case talons the wartime internment of persons. also paxon is, that the which the government -- he remains on the pages of our legal and political history. there is a constant caution that in times of four or declared military necessity, our institutions must be vigilant in protecting guarantees. it stands at a caution that the shield of military necessity and national security was not be used to protect the government. pinky. and -- thank you. >> i am speaking on behalf of the -- resolution. there is material provided through the schools. i understand that this is pointed cost a little money and i know the chapter will do what it can to raise those funds to raise those educational kids like we have in the past. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am here to be here in support of the -- res

i can tell you right now i was appalled by the video shown by the aclu attorney with the miss uses and abuses of tasers. you heard from john burris that we have a very, very low record of police misconduct in comparison to major cities. but i am also equally appalled and upset as i sit here and we review officer-involved shootings and see individuals where officers had to take their life. you know deep in your heart if there was a taser, that person would be alive today. that is a video that runs in my mind after each of these shootings. that is important. even dr. sang -- he was a great witness, although he was honest about his numbers. we are left with very little of an option here. it is either a farm or another device. we know police use firearms. we owe it to officers and the public to give them another option. we heard from a lot of lawyers. when is the last time one of those lawyers has ever made an arrest? when is the last time a lawyer has been on the street and had to fight for somebody? when is the one -- when is the last time lawyers had to worry about going home to their c

so i don't know if i've gone over but a lot of times when we work with our attorney partners or the aclu, they always call us if they have exals of course human rights abuses. i think to myself, well, that says a lot about our program but also a lot about the community we're in, that families are in constant crisis, whether for deportation, i just had a family deported for taking a nail at home depot. or family crisis. a lot of folks are part of the restaurant or hotel industry and that's been in crisis and we see it when people are unemployed and disemployed and underemployed and it affects the family. so thank you for the recognition. we're going to continue the work. [speaking spanish] >> [speaking spanish] >> [speaking spanish] >> thank you. it has been about building relationships with people. i really what folks in this room to a college that whether i am here are not, all these women are leaders in their own right. they know so much about what is happening at the street level and they care so much. i hope they continue to have the same level of respect and equality. thank you. >>

our last speaker will be alan gi hopper, director of police practice at the aclu of northern california. >> i'll give you my brief comments. >> perhaps we can do is as we get into public, we can work on fixing the audio. then you will get a chance to do that. >> 14 year-old kyle martinez looks normal until you see this. >> it is really painful. >> 18 staples and six stitches pieced her head back together after she was tasered. doctors told her family that one of the prongs went through kylie's skull and hit her brain. it happened last thursday, as her mother argued with her about pictures of herself on. the police department came and when they got there, kylie bolted for this park. >> i did not mean for my child to be injured. >> the police officer claims she tried to walk away, but he told her to stop. when he pulled out the taser, she ran out of fear. >> you do not go and take a 14- year-old child. >> the officer said he told her to stop warning and -- stop running and warned her about the taser. police say they >> the last moments captured by bystanders. she could not go into the bag

our last speaker will be alan gi hopper, director of police practice at the aclu of northern california. >> i'll give you my brief comments. >> perhaps we can do is as we get into public, we can work on fixing the audio. then you will get a chance to do that. >> 14 year-old kyle martinez looks normal until you see this. >> it is really painful. >> 18 staples and six stitches pieced her head back together after she was tasered. doctors told her family that one of the prongs went through kylie's skull and hit her brain. it happened last thursday, as her mother arguedwi

do what the aclu suggested. medical experts, representation from the school board, and representatives from the community must work with you on protocol and tactical options for less than lethal force situations. this group must look at all options, not just tasers. consensus is possible. but consensus building will seriously take time. correct me if i'm wrong, but you said last night you did not want the department to issue recommendations until after cit was implemented. is that right? if that is so, i agree. you need to give this process time to do its work properly. thanks. [applause] president mazzucco: next speaker? >> i obviously want you to vote no on tasers. if you're still in this room, two minutes is not a lot of time, but it has been given to you and you should take it. the public comment has been almost entirely that we do not want tasers. these are people who of and set a -- have been staying all night to make their comment. if you want any semblance of representation of the public, of communities

six years later, in 2011, we brought over 150 people to philadelphia, including the aclu and representatives from police departments across the country, canadians, british. we looked at the evidence. we said, "where are we today?" we were asked by the department of justice to do a study. that is here. it looked at what is the impact that ced's are having an departments that use them and do not use them. if you will allow me, i am going to review the findings. this is from the national department of justice study, independent of the manufacturer. perf compared the experience is over seven years of law enforcement agencies that use conductive energy devices with agencies that do not use ced's, reviewing thousands of incidents. the study was supported by the national institute of justice research arm of the u.s. department of justice. the study showed that use of ced's is associated with a 70% reduction in the chances of an officer being injured, compared to agencies that do not use them. the odds of a suspect being injured are reduced by more than 40%. all in all, we found considerably strong

aclu has filed a complaint against the maryland department of corrections after officer robert collinswas forced to log in to his private facebook during an interview. >> you can't invade people's privacy. trample upon their rights just because you want to. it's illegal. >> his interviewer read his post but everything his family and friends had shared as well. collins said he had nothing to hide but that's not the point. >> persistence paid off. for the first woman to pitch batting practice at major league spring training in arizona. justine seigle klaev land indians jersey but the a's first team gave her a break. she's a massachusetts baseball coach studying for her doctorate in sport and exercise psychology. she wrote to all the major league teams and did not get a response. so she traveled to the winter meetings in florida to make her pitch in person. oakland was the first to say yes and get the ball rolling. justine will pitch to the athletic on wednesday. isn't that cool. >> yes. pretty unusual stuff. >> it is. she's been playing baseball since she was 5 years old and one of the p