. >> supervisor sheehy: and then next, i'd like to introduce christine dubarry from the district attorney's office, d.a.'s office. >> i'm technically challenged, so i'll do my best here. thank you, supervisor ronen, supervisor sheehy, supervisor fewer. i'm here on behalf of d. d.a. gascon. in our office, we have an individual within our general felonies unit that's dedicated to hate crimes cases, and that person, unfortunately, rotates at our rotations through the office rotate. i invited brook jenkins to be here with me today, but she's actually picking a jury on a hate crime case, so she was unable to join us. but the d.a., this is an issue he's taking very seriously, as his predecessors, and we have taken the time to try to amplify it in the office to make sure that all the communities in san francisco know that our office is here to protect them when they are a victim of any crime, particularly when they are a victim of social location. there is a question earlier how we define a hate crime, and in our presentation we have the penal code 422.55, which describes to you what are the param

just appointed senior advisor on transit issue, and district attorney gascon's chief of staff, christine dubarry. >> good morning, supervisors. thank you for...thank you for the opportunity, thank you, supervisor sheehy for calling for this hearing. it's -- one of the things that we've been discussing a lot is the idea of underreporting, right? so the other thing that really concerns us is this idea that people aren't aware that they can make a report or they're afraid to, and so this -- for us, one of the big things will be after it's all said and done, the idea, and hopefully, the possibility to think about the outreach and awareness campaigns that we can do and know your rights. so i'll just quickly go through some things. i'm not going to take up much of your time because i do adjust want to say again, the report we have is from 2015, and one of the things we should also think about is data collection and analysis and how we can be intentional about funding that, and again, the idea that we know that a lot of people don't feel comfortable coming forward. that report was something that people