what's in the closed session at the end, but since this is an issue of confidentiality covered by hippa, i don't believe you would be able to even disclose it even if you wanted to. it makes that vote rather moot. it's fine not having a quorum. you go and have your discussion and postpone any action item. >> we can go into closed session because we have to vote on that? >> it's not required to go into closed session unless it's in your rules. >> it is in our rules, right? >> it isn't an administrative vote. arguably you can still go into closed session. >> we have a quorum right now. >> i think we might be able to get through rest very quickly. >> i think we'll leave these other items after. they are just discussion items. >> since you have a quorum you can now vote to go into closed session. >> we can go into closed session and discuss the other items later. this is what we plan to do. we have anna peels and plan to go into closed session. we'll lose our quorum for about 15 minutes. >> i move that we convene in closed session to hear any and allah peels with the understanding that we c

everything that was discussed in closed session would be covered under the confidentiality provision of hippa so there wouldn't have been an ability to disclose even if you wanted to. i just wanted to make sure that was clear. the vote the moot due to that confidentiality issue. >> thank you. i also want to acknowledge our new attorney for this meeting. she is not eric rap port. lauren, thank you for being here today. that's it. if there is no objection, this meeting is adjourned. >> thank you. >> >> [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >>

everything that was discussed in closed session would be covered under the confidentiality provision of hippa so there wouldn't have been an ability to disclose even if you wanted to. i just wanted to make sure that was clear. the vote the moot due to that confidentiality issue. >> thank you. i also want to acknowledge our new attorney for this meeting. she is not eric rap port. lauren, thank you for being here today. that's it. if there is no objection, this meeting is adjourned. >> thank you. >> >> [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> >> good morning, everyone this is the tuesday, february 11, 2014, meeting of san francisco transportation authority plans & programs committee. my name is supervisor mar >> item role. supervisor campos. supervisor kim. supervisor mar present and supervisor yee present we have compound >> i'd like to call the citizens advisory report. >> we're joined by your chair john avalos and mr. flanagan. >> good morning. my name is a joseph flanagan i'm the cac vice chair. those are the two items on the agenda that we took action on januarys meeting. the first item is item 3

everything that was discussed in closed session would be covered under the confidentiality provision of hippa so there wouldn't have been an ability to disclose even if you wanted to. i just wanted to make sure that was clear. the vote the moot due to that confidentiality issue. >> thank you. i also want to acknowledge our new attorney for this meeting. she is not eric rap port. lauren, thank you for being here today. that's it. if there is no objection, this meeting is adjourned. >> thank you. >> >> [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> i'd like to introduce our mayor ed lee. >> thank you, thank you all (clapping) wow. what a crowded room as it should be. i want to thank our work supervisors and our treasurer we get to swear in later today and department headings heads and the members of our assessor offices and members of the community past and present members of our board as well. as also, of course, carmen and thank you for the parents of carmen chiu being here and husband and sister thank you for being here as well, and aunt. this is, of course, a month meningitis occasion i've known carmen

everything that was discussed in closed session would be covered under the confidentiality provision of hippa so there wouldn't have been an ability to disclose even if you wanted to. i just wanted to make sure that was clear. the vote the moot due to that confidentiality issue. >> thank you. i also want to acknowledge our new attorney for this meeting. she is not eric rap port. lauren, thank you for being here today. that's it. if there is no objection, this meeting is adjourned. >> thank you. >> >> [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> >>> welcome to our rules committee meeting for thursday, february 20, 2014. i am supervisor norman yee and i will be chairing this meeting. i'm joined by supervisor campos and katie tang. the committee would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv jennifer low and ross. who record the meetings and make the transcripts available online. madam clerk, are there any announcements. >> please submit speaker cards to the clerk. items will be on the march agenda unless otherwise stated. >> >>supervisor norman yee: madam clerk please call item no. 1. city clerk: item 1: 13

everything that was discussed in closed session would be covered under the confidentiality provision of hippa so there wouldn't have been an ability to disclose even if you wanted to. i just wanted to make sure that was clear. the vote the moot due to that confidentiality issue. >> thank you. i also want to acknowledge our new attorney for this meeting. she is not eric rap port. lauren, thank you for being here today. that's it. if there is no objection, this meeting is adjourned. >> thank you. >> >> [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> okay good afternoon, everyone. thank you very much for coming happy new year i'm ed reiskin i'm the director of transportation and happy to kickoff the new year. san francisco has been a dynamic city during the break i was reading the history of muni how things have changed and required the city to view. we're in a lot of change including in our transportation system a lot of change is good but it needs to be managed and it's safe and a consistent with the transit first policy. we're here to talk about that. we've got a lot of great partners partners if commercia

. >> reporter: under affordability and accountability act or hippa companies that administrate healthlaims can see your information but there are limits. only h.r. are allowed to see your details, and there must be a fire wall to keep the rest of the firm like your boss from seeing your personal information. if health information claim is shared outside of the fire wall, data that identifies individual employees must be deleted. >> it's very challenging to implement. >> companies are not supposed to use your personal medical information for job related purposes such as firing you. but if you're determined to keep your personal health information private you better have deep pockets. >> we can demand that the healthcare provider not send any information about us on to the health planner or the insurer or the employer, but the trick is you have to pay in full at the time of treatment. >> al jazeera, new york. >> under the affordable healthcare act it's perfectly legal for employers to tell employees to take part of the healthcare plan especially parts that include quit smoking. they can

everything that was discussed in closed session would be covered under the confidentiality provision of hippa so there wouldn't have been an ability to disclose even if you wanted to. i just wanted to make sure that was clear. the vote the moot due to that confidentiality issue. >> thank you. i also want to acknowledge our new attorney for this meeting. she is not eric rap port. lauren, thank you for being here today. that's it. if there is no objection, this meeting is adjourned. >> thank you. >> >> [ meeting is adjourned ] >> >> >> >>> >> >> >> february 6, 2014, >> >> >> good afternoon, welcome to our rules committees meeting for thursday february 6, 2014. i'm supervisor yee and i will be chairing this meeting. to my left is supervisor campos and katie tang who will join us. lisa miller is our clerk. and we would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, jessie larson and joshua alexander and record eefrp of our meetings and make the transcripts available online. are there any announcements? >> yes. please turn off electronic devices. if you wish to speak, please fill out a card. >> >>supervi

. >> under the hippa companies that administer health claims can see your information, but there are limits. only a handful of trained staff such as hr are allowed to see your details and must keep a fire wall from people like your boss from seeing your personal information. if information is shared outside of the fire wall, data that could identify individual employees, it must be deleted. companies are not supposed to use your personal medical information for job related purposes such as firing you. but if you're determined to keep your personal health information private you better have deep box. >> where we can demand that the healthcare provider not send any information about us on to the health planner or the insurer or the employer, but the trick is you have to pay in full at the time of treatment. >> reporter: patricia, al jazeera, new york. >> neither rain nor snow nor sleet is supposed to stop the mail, but what about your morning paper. one paper boy in iowa let's little slow him down. he has one heck of a work ethic. >> the oldest paperboy in america said he's still doing

theft or financial fraud including the grant of each brightly act of the financial institutions and hippa. we've also empowered the ftc to address the data breaches to section five under which they settled 50 data security cases. federathe federal government ist the only layer of protection. the handful of state law mandates security for the data of the citizens in the private sector has developed extensive standards to the pci security council at the preachers, identity theft, financial fraud continue protecting virtually every sector from the federal government to the merchants, banks and universities and hospitals. we must consider whether the current multilayered approach to the data security state industry self-regulation can be more ineffective or whetheeffective o approach the issue differently. in short the title of today's hearing is an appropriate question to ask can the data breaches be prevented. this is the right venue to discuss with the businesses can reasonably do to protect the data equally important we need to find ways to minimize or eliminate the ability of criminals t

hard to feel empathetic and even the wall street courage -- they pointed out he may have violated hippap by bringing out this information. back in august, he actually fired one of his employees, a creative director in front of people sitting there. he was in the middle of a conference call. it was just sort of coming out of nowhere. people are wondering how can he keep his job? the bottom line is looking good right now for aol. >> stocks up 15%, revenues up 13%, 14%. and they want to cut costs. it's a important reminder. these are the rules of business. >> thank you very much. an important reminder, the mother involved in all of this who spoke out about the fact that her baby was one of the distressed babies by the ceo. that's tonight at 7:00 eastern. >> let's take a look what's in the morning papers. computer experts say attacks against target and other retailers may be the tip of the iceberg. according to the fbi, nearly two doz companies have been attacked in cases similar to the target bring. officials -- a the wall veet with nearly half of all states declining to expand medicate. 4