beverly upton from the san francisco domestic violence consortium. i think we are seeing that after a year, we have new and fresh eyes looking at this and i want to thank the commission for unanimously approving this d.g.o. back on january 13th, 2021, but as you can see, there are fresh eyes and fresh leadership looking at this. i agree actually with all of you. of course, i want to see a path, but i agree with commissioner hamasaki and those who are willing to take another week and take a look at some of these suggestions. you know, i have a tremendous amount of respect for the newer head of the d.b. unit, but she's been doing this for a long time. i think it's well worth taking under consideration. we've all worked so hard. i have a list, of course, of people to thank tonight, you all know who you are, but it seems to me that there are some things and i'll just say when i hear, you know, more community participation, more resources to be called. if one of the shelters is full, perhaps we should be looking at other resources. that all seems like, yo

beverly upton from the san francisco domestic violence consortium. seeing that after a year, we have new and fresh eyes looking at this and i want to thank the commission for unanimously approving this d.g.o. back on january 13th, 2021, but as you can see, there are fresh eyes and fresh leadership looking at this. i agree actually with all of you. of course, i want to see a path, but i agree with commissioner hamasaki and those who are willing to take another week and take a look at some of these suggestions. you know, i have a tremendous amount of respect for the newer head of the d.b. unit, but she's been doing this for a long time. i think it's well worth taking under consideration. we've all worked so hard. i have a list, of course, of people to thank tonight, you all know who you are, but it seems to me that there are some things and i'll just say when i hear, you know, more community participation, more resources to be called. if one of the shelters is full, perhaps we should be looking at other resources. that all seems like, you know, good ad

beverly upton and all the crew that she works with and many others. i just wanted to personally thank them for this work. there's a lot to this policy and the manual is very comprehensive. we will have to allow time to train officers and make sure we do our best. but there were a lot of people and a lot of work that went into this and i just want to thank everybody who had a part in this. maryanne who is no longer with d.p.a. but a lot of people. too many to rattle off all the names. if i missed your name, thank you for working with us on this and, with that, i think all the changes have already been discussed, but there are a lot of changes, a lot of enhancements, a lot more direction and it is a very comprehensive manual that will only make us better. we have to train and make sure we implement this the right way and give officers the time to process all this information. it will get better. so thank you all, thank you all the commissioners. thank you to the commissioners who retired. they were involved as well. >> vice president elias: president co

i've also been working with diann roche from the san francisco police department as well as beverly upton from the domestic violence consortium. so i'm hoping everybody will be willing to adopt the amendments today. these are substantive so we would have to put them over two weeks, but it is supervisor ronen's request that we adopt the amendments today. if any committee member has any questions, i'm here and happy to answer. >> chairman: thank you. and supervisor ronen for all of her work on this with supervisor stefani. supervisor stefani, be do you want to make the motion? >> supervisor stefani: yes. and thank you for working with my staff and thank you, of course, to your boss for collaborating with us on this. so on the amendment, page one, lines 19 through 21. as the definition of abuse. abuse means intentionally or recklessly causing or attempting to cause bodily injury or placing another person in imminent serious bodily injury to himself, herself, or another. page 12 amends to read as abuse committed against an adult or a minor who's a spouse, former spouse, or person with whom th

i've also been working with diann roche from the san francisco police department as well as beverly upton from the domestic violence consortium. so i'm hoping everybody will be willing to adopt the amendments today. these are substantive so we would have to put them over two weeks, but it is supervisor ronen's request that we adopt the amendments today. if any committee member has any questions, i'm here and happy to answer. >> chairman: thank you. and supervisor ronen for all of her work on this with supervisor stefani. supervisor stefani, be do you want to make the motion? >> supervisor stefani: yes. and thank you for working with my staff and thank you, of course, to your boss for collaborating with us on this. so on the amendment, page one, lines 19 through 21. as the definition of abuse. abuse means intentionally or recklessly causing or attempting to cause bodily injury or placing another person in imminent serious bodily injury to himself, herself, or another. page 12 amends to read as abuse committed against an adult or a minor who's a spouse, former spouse, or person with whom th

i've also been working with diann roche from the san francisco police department as well as beverly uptonping everybody will be willing to adopt the amendments today. these are substantive so we would have to put them over two weeks, but it is supervisor ronen's request that we adopt the amendments today. if any committee member has any questions, i'm here and happy to answer. >> chairman: thank you. and supervisor ronen for all of her work on this with supervisor stefani. supervisor stefani, be do you want to make the motion? >> supervisor stefani: yes. and thank you for working with my staff and thank you, of course, to your boss for collaborating with us on this. so on the amendment, page one, lines 19 through 21. as the definition of abuse. abuse means intentionally or recklessly causing or attempting to cause bodily injury or placing another person in imminent serious bodily injury to himself, herself, or another. page 12 amends to read as abuse committed against an adult or a minor who's a spouse, former spouse, or person with whom the suspect has had a child or has had a dating or