Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

Didnt take time to turn on the light or put on gloves even, sticks her hands in my pubic area and rubs back and forth. Of course there was nothing to observe. She didnt even acknowledge my existence as a person. They are all required to tell you what they are planning to do. I could have been a mannequin. But she talked to herself. She said, i dont see anything. Because thats what she was there for she came for this examination. She couldnt see why she didnt see this thing she made up in her mind and when i suddenly shouted at her, what are you doing, she said medication. So that was the thing that set her off. And we all know what happens when there are nurses who engage in their own practices. There was one who was caught after 300 deaths many are never caught. There must be many people who become ill or die because of people like this running around. And until that nurse and the administrate administerrer at the jewish home are out of the field i will never give up on this subject. Is this something is department is aware of . I would invite you to speak with a representative from sfpd. Well follow up. Im not aware of that case, but we will follow up. Thank you. Have a good evening maam. Good evening commissioners. My name is brian with the Public Defenders Office. Dpa published its 2018 annual report last week. 275 days late. The data report was confusing. Since i have a few minutes to speak im going to highlight three points. First they report that 59 percent of sustained cases nine month internal completion goal but 293 percent improvement over the previous year. I did the math. The math suggests that just 15 percent of cases met that goal. I realize the goal was just a benchmark. Both the percentages receive a failing grade in any school. An increase sounds impressive but sounds absurd under scrutiny. They said the public filed one misconduct allegation. Of those officers 85 percent had more than one allegation. Actual numbers instead of percentages which are the more vivid story. That story is this. Nearly 600 had more than one allegation in a single year, over 200 had one nearly every other month and 55 had one almost every month. The way they present the data matters and here they present data in a way that obscures whats happening and thats imbalance. Finally, dpa claims in appendix a the chief lowered the punishment in nine cases. I went through the cases and identified how often the chief lowered the discipline from a written reprimand to no punishment. I found at least 60 instances when it happened. I dont know how this represents the number of nine. That undermining the credibility of the report. So mathematical mistakes are one thing misrepresenting the truth is another. So im looking forward to next weeks presentation. We can dive into statistics a bit more. Thank you. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . General Public Comment . Good evening ms. Brown. Yes, good evening everyone. I would like to use the overhead. Im a little tired today. As usual i always come here to talk about my son who was murdered august 14, 2006 and to this day his case is a cold case and is unsolved. And i bring these with me all the time. Thomas hannibal, paris moffet, jason thompson, anthony hunger and marcus hunger. These are the people that were there when my son was being shot. And these are the perpetrators. One of them is deceased. And i ask for the last 14 years, ive been bringing these names here. And i just didnt pull them out of a hat. They are down at 8 50 in the homicide detail on the fifth floor with these names there and my sons case. And im still asking why havent any of these names and these people been arrested. I know people are saying we need someone to come forward. But how long and when . Is there anything else you can do beside waiting for someone else to come forward . Theres a 250,000 reward. Take that money and investigate this case. I know you hired a new investigator for me. But nothing has happened. Im still in the dark. I come all the time, i bring all these other faces with me. And i stand with some of these mothers for unsolved homicides. And thats my quest is unsolved homicides. Because my sons case is not solved. And i do ask where was everybody when my son and these other victims were murdered. I bring these pictures with me all the time because i want people to see what i have to deal with for the rest of my life and what i have to remember of my son for the rest of my life. And it hurts. And it still hurts. I continue to go to every form that i think i can go to where officials are there so that my sons face and memory wouldnt be forgotten. And people that are trying to be reelected into office and they are talking about Public Safety and people being murdered every day need to stop solve these cases so that i can heal. Thank you. There is a 250,000 reward out there for information, i think leading to the arrest and conviction. 415575444 is the tip line. Any other Public Comment . Good evening everyone. My name is Danielle Harris. Im the director of Public Policy for San Francisco Public Defenders Office. Im here again to ask this commission to take a formal and hard look at dpas ability and commitment to fulfill their mission, which which as far as i can tell, is laid out in the charter. And it has been affirmed by the electorate over 80 percent to hold police accountable. As i told you at the last Commission Meeting the current rate of records released by dpa at that rate, it will take a quarter century for all the records to be released on just the current sworn sfpd. That in itself is unacceptable. Then we have strategic plans presented tonight which nowhere acknowledged that Holding Police accountable is the reason dpa exists. I heard discussion about refining our mission and defining our mission. It is not up to dpa to define their mission. Their mission is defined very clearly in the city charter. And it cant be in name only. The only place that i see the words Police Accountability appear in those strategic plans are in the name of the agency. That is a problem. And then we heard from him that the annual report is inaccurate, misleading, unreliable and gives itself even a failing grade. The idea that these two reports, the strategic plans leave out these essential legally required tasks like twoyear audits and 1421 while they are refining and defining their mission says it all. They need to refocus. They need to reorganize. If these things werent concerning enough, let me tell you something, what happened yesterday. As you may know, we have an open request to dpa for all 1421 records. And as individual cases arise we make specific requests. I would like to i have copies of these two letters we got yesterday for everybody. We first got a letter yesterday in a specific case stating that Sergeant Daniel silver from the dpa has no records under 1421. Much to our surprise, the same afternoon. All right im sorry your time is up. We will take the letters. Just let us have the documents and we will have them distributed. [off mic]. I dont actually, but well get them. Okay. Thank you. Next speaker. Good evening commissioners. My name is rebecca young. Im a deputy public defender for the last 17 years in the city and county of San Francisco. I cochair the Racial Justice committee. This is the first time im appearing in front of this newlyformed police commission, and im very happy to see all the new faces. Because i work very closely with Danielle Harris i would like to finish her comments which is that on the same day that we received a letter from dpa saying no record on officer silver, we also received a letter from dpa saying that officer silver has reportable records under sb1421. And the records involved an officerinvolved shooting. And so it becomes something that cries out for explanation. How is it that on the very same day dpa can send out two completely different letters on the same officer one saying absolutely no record, and the other one saying records of an officerinvolved shooting. So the first letter says there are no records that qualify under penal code section 832. 7. This requires an explanation. And i am hopeful because the commission has oversight over dpa that the commission is as concerned about this 180 response on the same officer on the same issue as the Public Defenders Office is. Having said that, i listen very carefully tonight to ms. Hawkins presentation, which was excellent, i agree with commissioner mazzucco on that. And i listened carefully to commissioner hendersons report. And i heard a couple of things which would give me some pause. And one is there is new program and not all the cases have been run through the program. And the old data has not been integrated with the new data and theres brand new attorneys there and brand new investigators. And basically we are in a huge learning curve with dpa. Thats fine. That should be understood by everybody including the Public Defenders Office. However, i want, and i would expect the commission to set a deadline and its own expectations for how the dpa responds to records under sb1421. Sb1421 is essentially an accountability by the state of california. All departments must comply. And weve met with nothing but resistance. Thank you for listening. Can i give Public Comment on the bicycle reign issue . You have eight seconds. As a resident of the bayview i am really, and as a person that needs a lot more exercise. Your time is up. All right. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . Okay. Public comment is closed. Next item please. Line item 3 adjournment action item. Is there a motion . We have no closed session i take it . Is there a motion to adjourn . So moved. Is there Public Comment on the motion to adjourn . No Public Comment. All in favor . Aye. Opposed . All right. Motion carries. We had four votes in favor. [end of meeting]. Good morning everyone. This is october 9 2019 regular meeting of the budget and finance committee. Our clerk is ms. Linda wong. I would like to thank those from s. F. Gov tv for broadcasting. Can we excuse supervisor fewer. Please make sure to silence all cellphones and electronic devices. Completed copies of any documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items will appear on the next minutes. Can you please call item number 1. Clerk lease amendment lexington lion San Francisco, lp 350 rhode island streetnorth 2,600,000 rent credit. I would like to make a motion petitioner this to be continued for one more week. Before that i will take Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item 1, seeing none that item is closed. I would like to make a motion to continue the item to october 16. Clerk item 2 is resolution retroactively authorizing the department of Public Health, Behavioral Health services to enter into a multiyear organized Delivery System Intergovernmental Agreement for Substance Use Disorder Services with the state department of health care services, in the amount of 171,714,918 for the term of july 1, 2019, through june 30, 2022. Thank you. I have been working on this contract for about 27 years. Please continue. The first thing i want to point out is that the contract is retroactive. The source of the retroactivity was we first received the agreement for our perusal on october 20. There are changes in the funding since the Crime Prevention Public Safety act of 2011. It involves them work through centers of medicare and medicaid services. Our services get back and forth before signed so its not unusual that theyre slow. Okay. Having said that not guilty 1922 all of the amendments to this will be retroactive to july 1st. So theyll all be retroactive contracts. Anyway, this contract is practically the same as it was last year. The big changes came two years before. Its really a pretty straightforward contract. Basically what it is is the rules and regulations and procedures for bill ging if one successfully follows those rules, you get paid whatever your legitimate costs were. So its delightfully straightforward. Okay. Colleagues any comments or questions . Good morning. The board is being asked to approve a Grant Agreement from the state department of Healthcare Services for Substance Use Disorder Services. This is 171,000,000 grant. The city would be reimbursed by the state. The amount in each year is shown on table 1 of 57. 2 million. I think you probably know historically in each year of the grant is the state budget changes. They do come back for an amendment so the second and thirdyear amount could potentially change from the amount in this agreement. We recommend approval. Thank you very much. Any members of the public like to comment . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. This is moved to the board with a positive recommendation. Madam clerk, can you please call item number 3. Clerk resolution retroactively authorizing the office of the treasurer Tax Collector to accept and expend a grant in the amount of 962,892 from the California Student Aid Commission every Kid Counts College Savings Program for the office of Financial Empowerment kindergarten to College Program for conducting outreach to families and provide incentives for families to contribute to College Savings accounts for the period of may 1, 2019, through june 30, 2021. Again eric mankey with the office of the treasure and Tax Collector. Im here to seek an approval for our office to spend 926,000 for the California Student Aid Commission. This funding will go to support the kindergarten to College Program. Just as a way of background, this was started in 2011 based on research that shows kids with College Savings for up to seven times more likely to attend college if they have a College Savings account. Since 2011 kindergarten to college has automatically opened more than 42,000 accounts for students when they begin kindergarten. Including we just opened 11,000 new accounts this year. The city and county provides 50 as an initial deposit into that account and we use private funds to incentivize families to further save. The incentives work. Since the inception of kindergarten to college, families have saved 4. 6 million into those accounts. If you include the city funding we have a total of 7 million in those accounts. What this grant will do is allow us to continue to do outreach and continue those incentives. As you see, we are seeking retroactive approval. This is because being a state grant we didnt receive the information and the grant approval from the state until the end of may as the budget was closing. So we decided to hold off since we couldnt get it in our budget submission for 2019 and 2020. Thank you very much. Lets open up for Public Comment. Any members of the public like to comment on item 3 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, any comments or questions . Seeing none we will move in to the board without objection. Clerk item 4 resolution retroactively authorizing the department of Public Health to accept and expend a grant in the total amount of 2,300,400 from the California Department of state hospitals to participate in a program, entitled pretrial Felony Mental Health diversion, for the threeyear budget period of september 15, 2019, through september 14, 2022. Thank you very much. Good morning supervisors. As is also stated we are requesting the ability to accept and spend a threeyear grant from september 14 2022 from the department of state hospitals that would Fund Services for those who qualify for Mental Health diversion. This is a Pretrial Diversion Program for those competent to stand trial on felony charges who also have a Mental Illness. This grant would fund intensive Case Management services as well as funding for stabilization rooms and a Behavioural Health clinician that would work in the jails to support evaluation for the courts to admit people into the program as well as expeditiously making refers into treatment. Of course im happy to answer any questions that you may have. Seeing no comments or questions there is no b. L. A. Report on this. Are there any members of the public that would like to comment on item 4, seeing none Public Comment is closed. I would like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Taken wi