mccracken and sheriff mirkarimi and myself.and this is an effort that started last year, the goal is a two-year process to look for sentencing reform and looking at best practices to determine what is appropriate. and certainly pretrial detention is part of the mix. i go back to what i said earlier, i believe that pretrial custody should be based on appropriate -- and i want to underline appropriate, risk assessment tools. that will be race neutral. that will be gender neutral. that will be socially neutral. but assess risk, risk of violence, risk of not showing up for court. i believe that, that is an achievable goal. and i believe that the sentencing commission is a really good place. we have excellent resources at our disposal. we have a two-year plan. and we have basically every component of the general system and the community in this process. i hope we will come up with a pretrial releasing process. >> i want to thank all panelists for participating. and thank you all for attending. [applause] i think our public defender

mccracken and sheriff mirkarimi and myself.and this is an effort that started last year, the goal is a two-year process to look for sentencing reform and looking at best practices to determine what is

. >> sheriff mirkarimi. i . i want to add the effect that last year in 2012 we immoralized the sheriff department taking over bail. because of the stress of the court system that can no longer process the bail due to the budget hits that the court system was taking. and we took a snapshot of over 2500 transactions in 2012. that comes to $23 million. and coming through us the process is that you pay your assurity or your entire bail. going through the bailbonds industry that 10% represents $10 million. >> let me make an announcement that we will take questions from the audience. if you want to ask one, there are cards that you can signal to amy who will hand you one. we would love to hear your questions. mrs. dewitt, it's been a while since you had the podium or the mic. there has been a lot said, i am wondering when you hear this talk about eliminating money bail system. is this something that can realistically happen or were we able to achieve that, there would be a move to reinstate what your organization does

shall we start with sheriff mirkarimi or the district attorney?>> i will reiterate that the strategy that i think san francisco should seriously consider legislate a new criteria. that's what the penal code has empowered us to do. we could start right away by corralling a number of legislators and city hall to get behind this effort completely. and i suggest budgetary wise pretrial as will represents is not funded enough. frankly. and our ability to i think really discharge in a supervised capacity so there is an alternative to incarceration is something that the city should put on a higher pecking order. since it costs about $50,000 a year to incarcerate somebody. when i look at the collaborative court models. wh

ross mirkarimi, city and county of san francisco. city college and the san francisco sheriff's department and our jails deserve a robust relationship. and i was stunned that in last december we reached out to city college in partnering on a $500,000 grant that city college had declined to participate with us on. it squandered the $500,000 opportunity. and the reason why that we reached out, and we're going to continue to assert that this relationship really be memorialized and implemented is that we have the first charter high school in the united states in our jail system thanks to my predecessor, mike hennessy. we have one of the most educated jail populations, in-custody populations because of how effective it is in providing a ged, diploma, or high school certificate. but if there is no pathway beyond the high school for people who are incarcerated or formerly incarcerated, we're stuck. and considering that the san francisco sheriff's department books approximately about 35,000 or 40,000 people per year, even though our daily jai

next up i would like to call up our sheriff, sheriff ross mirkarimi. welcome. >> thank you supervisor avalos, supervisor campos, supervisor mar. it is a pleasure to join you here today. i am more than happy to answer any questions. i would like to open by acknowledging my predecessor sheriff mike hennessy and as sheriff for over three decades was bold enough to call attention to the flaws of the secure communities ice detainer system in 2011. it garnered state, national and international attention because it was was rare for a elected sheriff to highlight the discrepancies in the ice detainer system. still in 2011 the san francisco sheriff's department had detained and people were transferred to ice were in the numbers of over 600 people. because i think what the sheriff enditioned was implementing an approach that would begin to get to the direction that we are here today. when i came into office and when i was able to craft an internal policy that would seriously build upon, and we had considerably so on what was started by sheriff mike hennessy, and

i also want to recognize chief hayes white, and sheriff mirkarimi, thank you all for being here and for showing your support. i want to introduce someone i felt was really important to make sure that we connect how this is going to affect the members of our first responder department on an individual basis. and i want to introduce someone who has been a part of the sheriff's department for ten years here in san francisco formerly a cadet here in city hall, now part of the investigative services unit, has been renting in san mateo, i understand, for the last five years and is looking to purchase a home here in san francisco. and one of those first responders that we are proud to have not only working for us as a city, but someone that we want to encourage to live within our city limits. allow me to introduce to you mercy ambat. (applause) >> first of all, i want to thank everybody for being here today. my name is merci ambat. i'm so proud to be here representing my department, san francisco sheriff's department. i'm a senior deputy sheriff with the san francisco sheriff's department. i'v

with sheriff mirkarimi taking the time to support an african-american woman and other clients participating in sheriff's programs what a wonderful place san francisco could be. thank you. >> okay. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. my name is milla [inaudible]. i'm the executive director and immigration attorney at legal services. i am standing here with marie vincent [inaudible], a community member and client of ours. marie is a immigration attorney with us. [inaudible], ultimately [inaudible] who is the new one and nina graiber who is a volunteer attorney. we are a nonprofit organization here in san francisco and represent immigrants through legal empower mentd and policy advocacy. we are here today to enthusiastically support this ordinance. the way it is written, clean, straightforward, and does not leave anyone out of receiving due process, and we're especially concerned about individuals impacted as a result of being over charged with crimes including serious crimes and felonies that they did not commit. her story is a classic example and she will speak solely. she is the single

. >> let me ask our law enforcement officials, mirkarimi and george gascÓn, do you agree with professorsimon? could we have a system that didn't like to the likelihood of reoffense or what the charge is or looked whether or not someone is coming back to court.

. >> let me ask our law enforcement officials, mirkarimi and george gascÓn, do you agree with professorsimon? could we have a system that didn't like to the likelihood of reoffense or what the charge is or looked whether or not someone is coming back to court. >> go ahead. >> yes, i was referencing earlier there has to be stakeholders all the page. and for the sheriff department to reclassify and allow someone to be released, pretrialed, supervi supervised and that's high majority of the time. but if there was criteria charged and not just based on discretion of the sheriff or the district attorney. but the criteria to reconfigure and acknowledge so it's a part of law in the city and county of san francisco. that to me affirms our commitment to what this experiment would look like. to make a product of the discretionary act by those elected. so goes with that experiment the tentativeness of what this commitment would actually be. why is why -- which is why i would like to see what the mayor's office and board of supervisors to look at those forms of discipline and what they look like to

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i have worked with the other supervisors to provide -- other supervisors supervisor mirkarimi and mayor lee. this allows us to make an investment in public education, but also a long-term investment in public transportation, because as young people from an early age to use the system, the public transportation system, they are going to be committed to public transportation for years to come. >> do you feel additional issues that are facing your district -- that there are additional issues that are facing your district that are unique to your district that you have not mentioned? supervisor campos: there are issues that come up, whether you're talking about the mission, bernal heights, portola. one of the issues we have worked on in bernal heights is the issue of protecting a mural around the public library, which is an issue that raise a lot of other things. it led to a larger discussion in terms of who we are as a community. some people wanted to preserve the mural. others wanted to get rid of the mural. and we believe in a dialogue. so we brought together in mediation everyone so we c

(applause) >> thank you, sheriff mirkarimi. >>> hi, my name is [speaker not understood] wallace, i'm an esl teacher at the [speaker not understood] city college three blocks away at eddy street. malia cohen, thank you for sponsoring this. i was one of the teachers that came to speak with you in your office in march and we really, really appreciate the unanimous resolution that the board of supervisors passed in support of ccsf. i was a student at city college in the '80s. i did my student teaching there as a masters student at s.f. state. i'll be working with two students from the masters program in the tsaw program at sf state. so, that's important. they are really fearful of what could happen in the next year with the special trustee because we feel like civic center campus might be vulnerable to being closed and i would really like to advocate that we need to keep the vic i can center campus open. i was speaking with edgar torres who is the chair of latino studies department and he noted that as the mission becomes more gentrified, a lot of immigrants are moving to the tenderloin

the draconian program in addition to grass-roots organizations represented today and to sheriff mirkarimi and carrying on the tradition and show solidity with these communities and for due process and equal protection rights. for the asian and pacific islander rights we will hear from professor bill hing and others showing that asian and pacific islander communities, especially chinese community recess fearful of the police at times and make the communities less safe but with ordinances like the due process one being put forward today it will make the communities safer and ensuring that due process and equal protection is respected for these communities. i also want to say on a national level besides the grass-roots organizations and chinese for affirmative action and groups like the asian pacific womens' forum, and the justice center at the national level. also advancing asian center for advancing justice, south asian americans leading together or salt, the japanese american citizen's league which has often raised parallels with the racial filing with this program with the internment of