we urge and support passage of these amendments to the family, violence council, ordinance, and the fbc a perfect venue for collaboration and exchange of ideas and much needed improvements, to our criminal justice system's response to not only domestic violence, but stalking and elder abuse, the council and all of its members work tirelessly to improve and develop needed policies and protocols to benefit the most vulnerable in our society, women and, children and elders affected by domestic violence and abuse, as you know the san francisco commission and the department on the status of women established the justice encourage oversight panel in response to the tragic murder of claire joyce temp anco in 2000. and since then, it is numerous subcommittees worked tirelessly for 12 years to study and address the much-needed recommendations to how our city agencies would address a response, and work to report it, and report the investigations regarding domestic violence, and in october of 2014. the final evaluation of the justice encourage oversight panel on domestic violence and policy reform