so san francisco juries, this doesn't count people who plead guilty or entered other [stkpao-upbgsz/] verdicts. in 2011, 46%, and in 2012, 54%. you look at the number of hung juries and guilty verdicts, in 2011, only two guilty verdicts -- what does that mean? again i would argue that it means that the district attorney needs to do a better job of screening which case goes to trial. in most counties, the conviction rate is like 90%, 95%, santa clara county it's something like 98%. in san francisco the reason why we're -- i think we're expending resource where's we don't need to, because we're trying cases that don't need to be tried. these are cases where san francisco juris have heard all the evidence and have said not guilty. again, i think that if these cases were reviewed more carefully, in terms of what the provability is and i think the problem says that the district attorney says we're insisting on a jury trial and not to play tit for tat, because i don't think we're here for that, but the district attorney's office has been much more aggressive on going to trial in cases it ca

san francisco? and again, it depends on who you are prosecuting. if you are prosecuting -- if you are going to say every one of these people who san francisco juries found not guilty, 90% of the time in 2009, 32% of the time in 2010, 46% of the time in 2011 and 2012, 54, was completely wrong. they must have slept through the trial. then i guess you can make that conclusion. but the reality is that if you are getting these kinds of results, you should seriously question the outcomes. one of the biggest changes that we now have a new presiding judge in department 17, where all the cases go through and in the one month he has been there managed to settle 30-40% more misdemeanor cases than his predecessor. so we're expecting a reduction because of that. thank you. >> thank you very much. any other questions? >> let me just try to be really brief. i know as supervisors farrell and avalos mentioned this is a precursor to more budget discussion on staffing. i wanted to say to our district attorney mr. gascon, a appreciate the emotion of the audio that you started with and for the greatest work that has been done and the one thing left out is the staffing

we are here today and i am here today to present this certificate of honor to the san francisco civil grand jury association. and, so, i have a certificate here that i'd like to present and thank you all so much for the work that you've been doing and the contributions to the city. you know, people don't say it enough, but the work that you do actually does matter and the work that you do, people pay attention to. it creates changes that ripple all throughout our local government. so, i thank you all for your work and i look forward to working with you in the future. thank you. (applause) >> thank you. and then [speaker not understood] representing state senator mark leno. >> good morning, everyone. and i'm here, as keith said, on behalf of state senator leno. and i just want to say how proud i am to be here because, you know, most of us seek ways to make government better. usually, you know, we have something that we don't like about our government, our local government. we want to change things. we have a disagreement. but you're here and you're actually doing something about it. you're taking

san francisco. san francisco for court instructs the jury technology is a one-stop shop. >>> the other thing that becomes very special is [inaudible] there is nowhere else go from here. . (applause) let me conclude with a little bit of sports and that is to say that, we are just about in spring training, world champions san francisco. also we are putting a bid together for super bowl 50, or 51 whichever one they will take, i'm be happy with that, yes, you know, we have got world baseball series coming in in march, in the at&t park, we have america's cup 55 days of sailing coming in the summer charles schwab cup in october and now, we are getting ready potentially to have more international sporting ebbs that really come to compliment what we do not just in san francisco but for the whole bay area and i want to suggest to you that we have an opportunity to do that through the one s f program that we created to sustain all of the theater we are doing to make sure we do it right with your help. and i'll say to you're to you and i think i have said this in some other circles, knowing when we were at the five

san francisco. san francisco for court instructs the jury technology is a one-stop shop. >>> the other thing that

and please, on your way out, take advantage of some of the literature, the san francisco gazette from your past jury is available. and other brochures and information about the california grand jurors association and the works we do. our support doesn't stop with just the preliminary training for grand juries, but provide resource he throughout the year on the website. the information is there in the packets. thanks again for being here. >> thank you, too. (applause) >> i do want to just acknowledge ken malley. you mentioned, bill mentioned everything he did. he did mention that he picked me up and drove me -- called me 10 times and make sure -- [laughter] >> so, i did want to express my appreciation. (applause) >> thank you. i. >> (roll call). item two approval of minutes for this meeting >> so moved. >> all in favor? >> i. >> item 3 comment on executive session? >> any - >> we're reconvening in open session. >> all in favor? >> i move to disclose the commission unanimously moved the agenda 4a 1 a and not disclosed anything else discussed. >> all in favor? >> item 6 pledge of allegiance. and to the

and please, on your way out, take advantage of some of the literature, the san francisco gazette from your past jury is available. and other brochures and information about the california grand jurors association and the works we do. our support doesn't stop with just the preliminary training for grand juries, but provide resource he throughout the year on the website. the information is there in the packets. thanks again for being here. >> thank you, too. (applause) >> i do want to just acknowledge ken malley. you mentioned, bill mentioned everything he did. he did mention that he picked me up and drove me -- called me 10 times and make sure -- [laughter] >> so, i did want to express my appreciation. (applause) >> thank you. test, test, test, test, test, test >> good afternoon and welcome to the personnel committee of the committee i'm john. joined to my left by commissioner cohen and to my right mar. i'd like to thank our staff sworn testimony for their work. madam clerk do you have any announcements to share and approve the minutes of the next item >> okay colleagues any comments? why don't we go

and please, on your way out, take advantage of some of the literature, the san francisco gazette from your past jury is available. and other brochures and information about the california grand jurors association and the works we do. our support doesn't stop with just the preliminary training for grand juries, but provide resource he throughout the year on the website. the information is there in the packets. thanks again for being here. >> thank you, too. (applause) >> i do want to just acknowledge ken malley. you mentioned, bill mentioned everything he did. he did mention that he picked me up and drove me -- called me 10 times and make sure -- [laughter] >> so, i did want to express my appreciation. (applause) >> thank you. please silence any mobile devices that may sound off during the proceedings. and if you wish to speak on an agendized item, please fill out a speaker card and do state your name for the record. i'd like to take roll. commission president fong? >> here. >> commission vice president wu is anticipate today arrive late. commissioner antonini? >> present. >> commissioner borden? >>

a mistrial for a former technician accused of stealing drugs from the san francisco police drug lab. today the judge said the jury reached an impasse. attorneys will return to court february 15 to discuss the next steps in the case. >>> nasa flew a special mission today but instead of heading into space they kept things close to earth. ktvu's david stevenson is live in san francisco with a look at why they are taking a the skies in the bay area. david? >> reporter: that's right. you might have seen it around lunchtime today. flying low on a mission to measure pollution. >> reporter: this bomber is waging war against bay area pollution. nasea researchers and air quality management district partnered on the project, flying a thousand feet to look at winter air pollution. >> trying to stay down low today. never know before we go out where the top is. >> reporter: sincers mounted inside -- censors mounted inside measure the levels. >> like having smokers in a restaurant. smoke builds up. that is what we are experiencing. >> the plume of the dirty air. the goal is to create maps tracking pollutants in areas where the

san francisco. the judges were appointed by three different democratic presidents. bonds was convicts of giving misleading testimony before a federal grand jury. >> when niners lost the super bowl, san francisco police chief lost a bet to an old friend so that means he has to do this, the ray lewis squirrel dance, what lewis does before every ravens home game and made the bet with former oakland. police chief and current baltimore chief of police. >> we made a friendly bet he had to kaepernick or i had to do the ray rue business, i will do my pose that i did the ray lewis dance and send it to tony and well close the books on last season. >> but the pictures will live forever. he says he will have to find a ravens hat to put on because he is not buying one. >> well, the baltimore police chief better practice cammer -- kaepernicking for next season. >> what hispanics are saying about obama's immigration reform. sir i'm gonna have to ask you to power down your little word game. i think your friends will understand. oh no, it's actually my geico app...see? ...i just uh paid my bill. did you really? from the plane? yeah, i can manage my policy, ge

but as our civil grand jury in june pointed out, our i-t in san francisco is still in need of a culture shock. and this is where all of us come in today. we have 200 data sets that have already been put out there, but by and large the data sets put out by city government are data sets that i think show us in a very positive way. from my perspective, it's important for us to keep on pushing data sets that allow us to deal with the sometimes imperfections in city government. to figure it out, where it is we need to take risks, we are we can be more entrepreneurial, where we can be more transparent and frank little more accountable to all of you as the residents and as our customers here in city government. and this is why i am proud tomorrow to help move forward legislation that my staff has been working closely with jay nath and mayor leon that will real i do three things. first of all, it will create a chief data officer because we need one person who is responsible and accountable for moving forward our open data agenda. secondly, we're going to require every department in the city to