now, i would like to introduce claire farley from the mayor's office. thank you. >> thank you all so much, and i appreciate the opportunity to speak with you and thank you, jeff, for inviting me to speak on this important hearing. i have notes, and i recognize that i'm speaking to the choir, so i recognize all of your alliship. if we look at every 90 minutes, a reported hate crime occurs in america, and there's, you know, thousands of ones that are unreported. across the country, trans rights are being stripped away for marginalized communities across america, so we're seeing that this larger systemic vials is really a moment where we need to look at and reflect on both the lives, the safety, and the well-being of all diverse communities, so i really think it's important that we look at how we're building those bridges. 2017 was one of the moment deadliest years for transgender people. we had over 27 transgender people murdered in the u.s. due to fatal violence, gun violence, or other violent means. across the world, over 325 murders of transgender peop

here on this item, especially cheryl davis the executor director of the human rights commission, claire farley who the mayor has just appointed -- mayor lee had 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