dave jensen is the supervising investigator with the whistleblower program. it's a branch of the office that mark delarosa oversees, and commissioners may know that the enforcement division coordinates pretty closely with the whistleblower program on complaints that entails overlapping jurisdiction or we coordinate in instances where it may -- it may be important for us to evaluate whether the ethics commission should contemplate imposing remedies where the whistle blower program's investigation has identified liability of one kind or another. as i mentioned, dave jensen is with us, the supervising investigator from the whistle blowing program. he will have mark delarosa with him, as well as senior investigator dave munoz. dave has conducted investigations since 1996, first with the city attorney's office and now with the whistleblower. he received a master's in public affairs from the l.b.j. school at the university of texas, so i'll hand it off to dave to present their annual report. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. thank you for the opportunity to pre

dave jensen is the supervising investigator with the whistleblower program. it's a branch of the office that mark delarosa oversees, and commissioners may know that the enforcement division coordinates pretty closely with the whistleblower program on complaints that entails overlapping jurisdiction or we coordinate in instances where it may -- it may be important for us to evaluate whether the ethics commission should contemplate imposing remedies where the whistle blower program's investigation has identified liability of one kind or another. as i mentioned, dave jensen is with us, the supervising investigator from the whistle blowing program. he will have mark delarosa with him, as well as senior investigator dave munoz. dave has conducted investigations since 1996, first with the city attorney's office and now with the whistleblower. he received a master's in public affairs from the l.b.j. school at the university of texas, so i'll hand it off to dave to present their annual report. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. thank you for the opportunity to pre

dave jensen is the supervising investigator with the whistleblower program. it's a branch of the office that mark delarosa oversees, and commissioners may know that the enforcement division coordinates pretty closely with the whistleblower program on complaints that entails overlapping jurisdiction or we coordinate in instances where it may -- it may be important for us to evaluate whether the ethics commission should contemplate imposing remedies where the whistle blower program's investigation has identified liability of one kind or another. as i mentioned, dave jensen is with us, the supervising investigator from the whistle blowing program. he will have mark delarosa with him, as well as senior investigator dave munoz. dave has conducted investigations since 1996, first with the city attorney's office and now with the whistleblower. he received a master's in public affairs from the l.b.j. school at the university of texas, so i'll hand it off to dave to present their annual report. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. thank you for the opportunity to pre

without further adieu, i'll turn it over to dave jensen. >> great. thank you, mark. googoodgood morning, commission. i want to echo mark's thanks to chair mchugh and member mills, who we last met with on the 7th of december. we value your partnership with us very much. right. we'll start with the first slide today. this is just a little bit of background for some of you who may or may not be more familiar with the whistleblower program. the authority for the program investigations is derived from both state and city audits. california government code section 03087. main a whistleblower program regarding it allegations of fraud or waste by local government employees. san francisco campaign and government code article 4 directs the controller to administer the program and investigate whistleblower complaints, which we refer to as reports. san francisco charter appendix f. that the controller deems necessary to complete the inquiries and reviews by appendix f. it makes confidential our preliminary reports, drafts, studies, audits, investigation with very few exceptions