my name is cheryl thornton, and i'm a long-term employee for the san francisco health department, and i agree with the findings of professor gould. we talked about the e.e.o., but we haven't talked about the workplace investigations that go on that aren't race-based complaints. and often when these investigations go on, they don't check with the witnesses, there's no follow up, and i found that to be true also with the e.e.o. process. when people file complaints, they don't do a thorough investigation. a lot of people get discriminated on appraisals, and then, there is no electronic employee records -- i mean, electronic employee files where all the information is stored so that it's transparent. and lastly, i want to say that we need change now because the long that -- the document that carol and [indiscernible] brought up today, in the department of public health, we have a code of conduct, and the employees sign it every year when there's a performance appraisal. yet, no manager is ever held accountable when there's a violation, so just creating a new document for people to sign is

my name is cheryl thornton, and i'm a long-term employee for the san francisco health department, and i agree with the findings of professor gould. we talked about the e.e.o., but we haven't talked about the workplace investigations that go on that aren't race-based complaints. and often when these investigations go on, they don't check with the witnesses, there's no follow up, and i found that to be true also with the

my name is cheryl thornton, and i'm a long-term employee for the san francisco health department, and i agree with the findings of professor gould. we talked about the e.e.o., but we haven't talked about the workplace investigations that go on that aren't race-based complaints. and often when these investigations go on, they don't check with the witnesses, there's no follow up, and i found that to be true also with the e.e.o. process. when people file complaints, they don't do a thorough investigation. a lot of people get discriminated on appraisals, and then, there is no electronic employee records -- i mean, electronic employee files where all the information is stored so that it's transparent. and lastly, i want to say that we need change now because the long that -- the document that carol and [indiscernible] brought up today, in the department of public health, we have a code of conduct, and the employees sign it every year when there's a performance appraisal. yet, no manager is ever held accountable when there's a violation, so just creating a new document for people to sign is

my name is cheryl thornton, and i'm a long-term employee for the san francisco health department, and i agree with the findings of professor gould. we talked about the e.e.o., but we haven't talked about the workplace investigations that go on that aren't race-based complaints. and often when these investigations go on, they don't check with the witnesses, there's no follow up, and i found that to be true also with the e.e.o. process. when people file complaints, they don't do a thorough investigation. a lot of people get discriminated on appraisals, and then, there is no electronic employee records -- i mean, electronic employee files where all the information is stored so that it's transparent. and lastly, i want to say that we need change now because the long that -- the document that carol and [indiscernible] brought up today, in the department of public health, we have a code of conduct, and the employees sign it every year when there's a performance appraisal. yet, no manager is ever held accountable when there's a violation, so just creating a new document for people to sign is