Wwe are the best city. We have to to be saying that. If we can find four ways to disrupt laundry we can find an alternative to locking them up. Dont report them up in the first place. Thank you. I am a Community Member and with no new jails sf. I wanted to say that every day you prolong the closure is a time to communicate the words from people in the jails as well as making sure that everyone is heard. Person and said i need water fountains. It would give me hope to keep going. Hydration is big. I need ways to keep healthy, water and food to stay healthy. Plant fruit trees instead of wasting money it would be nice to have aquarium to give me someplace. Shelter beds are needed. It costs money to have people in jail. A said put more stationary places to take somehow weres. Some paceis i am at 1600 dollars. Someone stole it at the bus stop. I hope you take the time tolis sin to what they shade. There are Amazing Community volunteering on the ground doing the work. We can no longer wait. Next speaker. I am Spencer Hudson resident of district 8. I am here to ask the board of supervisors to close the unsafe jail with no new jail like construction and oppose use of outofcounty facilities. I am not allowed. I am dismayed of the comments when he claims to hear more about Public Safety on the streets. He has never confined what it is. In his district a voleter is usually white. A voter is usually white. He represents not just white voters, to people who cannot afford a home or foot or mental care. He needs to learn to acknowledge not only his consit sents, the voices he should bovis senning to. When he says he is hearing more concerns about Public Safety . Whose Public Safety . Not the white wealthy own owners. The victim of violence on the streets are homeless. They are by our police with increased peeps. I wish my supervisor would learn these things and act accordingly. Thank you. Next speaker. I am christine weigh a member of the San Francisco chapter of showing up for racial justice. San francisco supporting shutting down the 850. This is very, very much. 56 of people in jail are black, 40 are homeless, 30 prosecutor in need of health care. That is not to mention shoe gets de taped people babyingible housed, poor, disabled, transed and quiche are arrested by police. By dragging our feet we are ignoring the most vulnerable havent been quicked this is unacceptable. As someone who is thinking about building a family in San Francisco, i want to address this idea of public last. Trust. Have the resources and opportunities to heal and flourish and be age to be abo participate. It is the wellbeing of the city. I would like to ask you to take action toward this progressive vision we like to popup and to be accountable to all constituents including the marginalized and those who are in the family. Next speaker. Supervisors and to my boss, i stand today to represent San Francisco pretrial diversion. I could go over what is said. I have a story. I want to let everyone know we know a case management, we are on the ground with all people that no one wants to do good. Our numbers speak for themselves. In the middle of this uncertainty. We are still moving forward and expanding. I am the supervisor to the road to recovery program. Have we not only moved from when he get out of jail now it is in custody. We are ready to pink on any responsibility given to us. We are ready and willing to provide support and care and stand at the forefront of justice. We will stand in the gap between the Justice System. It is good to see you, brother. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. I am bryan cox with the Public Centers office in the Public Policy unit. We should look to reduce the population at 850 bryant. The working group for the replacement project made two recommendations the board can scan now. Clearing warrantsveycuses the time a individual may be up to five days. This requires little time and can save crucial resources. Second they will allow declines to pros kite the indicate folks would serve resources. First the period should opportunity the project. Bolstering the pretrial would curtail the jail population without adding unnecessary risk. People code section 825 entitleds the defendant to see the judge. This is when they do not file charges by releasing folks. We should demand enforcement of the Law Enforcement that individuals do not go to jail in the first place. In april 348 referrals were made. Half are white. These are ways to reduce the population of 850. We can implement right now. To say it cannot be done is not accurate. I encourage the board to exercise that will. Thank you. I am john lindsey. We are active members of the audit new new jails on callition. To reiterate a that santa claria is not an option. They have a culture of cruelty which is really turning the stomach when you hear the stories. Dont do it. Second, you have all of the evidence. As the speaker said you have all of the alternatives for cancervation at 850 bryant. Sometimes when jails are built they get filled. That is what is likely to happen. Everywhere in calwhen new jails get built, they get filled. Sty you have a hammer. It looks like a nail. I am certain that concerns would be dresses by options that come up in that jail is closed dome and next year. Campuses are education sites. Jails are places where they put people. The use of that language is covering up the fact a new jail is not legitimate. Thank you, next speaker. I am the president of the Deputy Sheriffs. I represent the deputy shares. I want to bring up a couple issues. Thanthank you for your time and thank the professionals that spoke on the to be. No new jail couldallation i was at a similar hearing a year ago. Make honing continue on issues. What i realize is this layer he. There seemed to be more of an organized o havent. In the last couple days there are postings for people to come here and passionately about a topic they are terned with. What came to mean. Comwe hired a Research Firm and they polled the registered voters on two topics. Contracting ought Jail Services. You should have them this if you find the majority of the voters supported a new facility. They opposed the contracting out of Jail Services to another ja jail. Quick question. Can you continue . Super visor walton after Public Comment is closed. A representative of Law Enforcement. You suggest after Public Comment w we might bring him bak in. You get two minutes. They have one further detail. I am a volunteer with critical resistance. It has been 24 years since the 1996 announcement that 850 bryant was seismically unsafe. It has been unsafe since opening, that is 24 years of added mass incarceration, locking up more people. 24 years of deaths. Generations of families separated. It is frustrating to come to the meetings every six months or so where there is Clear Community voice and demand that nails and prisoning are not safe. There is a reason why we a jail in the first place to have Clear Solutions to implement. When you are touched by the prison system, they dont tell you trauma is a chronic ilbless. They treat the wounded within cancervation. How is a incarceration. How is the person to heal behind the cage . We have been here too many times to leave without concerning being hard, without demands meted and closure of 850 bryant. Thank you. Next speaker. I am a lifetime resident of district eight and registered voter along with many of the people that have spoken today. Just responding to what people said about Public Safety and echoing what they said. Locking up people before being convicted did not make me safe at all. The arrest of helpless folks in the city is public endangerment. Who are you trying to keep safe . One thing is that it is unsafe. We have said it many times, close it now. Listen to those who know how to keep the community safe. There are people keeping communities safe for longer than i have been alive. They are doing this work every day in our city. Collabberate with them. Once again, close the jail by july 2020, no new jails and no transfers to other counties. Next speaker. Jackie, dsa. Democratic at this time socialists rose that jail secures the violence arrest and forced labor. The cities answer has been to throw people to jail. Nothing symbolizes this failed polethan 850 jail. We have an his tor lick to recognize the dignity of the communities had their Mental Health needs. You heard over 40 are homeless. It is fueled by the increased imnallization tears an part communities. Use the millions and invest in supportive treatments out punishment clinics and increased case managers. Create supervised release programs to allow defendants to wait for trial outside of jail. Close the jail. Thank you next speaker. Hello. I am the fifth generation from San Francisco. I work in supervisor for people in the jail iche. We have heard from not quite the right people. The first time i was arrested in march 2018. I have been arrested three times in june 20178. I am homeless and stick up for the rights of the homeless folks. One jail is in jail because of a history. What am i doing now . Arrested for riding a bike on the sidewalk. Cops wanted a job and the labels happen. Another person sass my little brother and big sister are in jail. It feels suffocating. If they build the new jail they will bring more people in. I want to mention i learned i have a cousin locked up for a month on 1,000 bail, and he suffered from bipolar disorder and struggling where depression and performed tsd. I can only imagine how difficult it would be to struggle. I dont think there is need for more studies or report when we have the knowledge from the people we have heard today. Any other members of the public to speak . Public comment is closed. Can you continue with the results of the poll and tell us who was polled and where . I believe it is all in the information i provided you. It breaks do you know how it was done per district. Gender, ethnicity, age, how it was done and who did it and the fairness of it. Great. Supervisor haney. Thank you, Committee Members for having this hearing. Thank you to sheriff he to the r staying the entire time and to everybody here and gave comment and who is fighting here for so many different hearings. I thank you for being here. There are a cup tell take aways i have. This conversane ever session is not over. We agree the Facility Needs closed. I believe it needs closed immediately. It should have been closed before. You know, the fact we had an announcement yesterday from the mayor saying it would be closed in 2021 is a delay from what was said earlier. The city administrator said it should be closed this year. I am concerned about the lack of a plan. I was hoping we would get more details what is going to happen now. What are the immediate stones i . My fear is that the result is trying to back us into something we should not be doing. The sheriff herself said it would be horrible to send people to alameda county. Why are we acting as that is a viable option. If we havent done any planning to close in the right way. The only optionsh isala mead do cat. That would be the worst we are headed towards. Whatever the work that has been done and th the things we have n doing. Folks on pretrial. There is a lot to do if we, i think, commit to getting this done by reducing the population, looking at alternatives. Here in San Francisco. I do not support sending folks to another county or building a new jail. I support a plan to move forward and close this facility as soon as possible. In a smart way and way to build on the work done to think about alternatives. Lastly, i appreciate the point earlier to bring public saves in this. We have talked about the people in there who are working there who are incarsservated there. If you are spending time in there and not getting any sort of Effective Services and therapy and rehabilitation that is not the way we keep all of us safe and make sure we invest in a community where there we can live here safely. I do feel like we need more details and a real plan we havent seen yet. My commitment is to engage with the sheriff and the mayor and our cog league esand to hear the you are been genese incarcerate. Thank you. Do the members of the committee have anything to add . Supervisor haney, is it your desire to continue this or have this heard and filed . I woe like to continue it. Continue to the call of the chair. I move we continue to the call of the chair. Take that without objection. Mr. Clerk. Any other items before us today . No further business. We are adjourned. Thank you. All right, everyone, were going to reconvene. Im going to ask folks to quiet down, sit down. Weve been joined by supervisor haney. And i believe we have already called item three, correct . We have not . We have. Im happy to do it again. No. Once is enough. But since we do have a number of few folks who entered the chamber, perhaps you can say how we work. Please dont stand in the chamber. We should have enough seats for everyone. Please also respect the board rule, 3. 1, prohibition against applause or any other kind of vocal interruption of the meaning today, and any displaying of any signage you have brought in here. And please no eating and drinking here. But can indicate their approval of things said or disapproval of things that have been said, but we ex ask that folks not boo or cheer because this is going to be a long hearing, and we would like to move it along. So with that, supervisor aan ne,haney, this is your item. Thank you, chair mandelman and Committee Members. I appreciate you all for having this hearing here and for your patience. Im going to provide some opening comments and then we have a number of presenters, and i want to thank them for being here. And ill announce them after my comments. We are holding this hearing, which i called, along with my colleagues president yee, supervisors ronan browning, for a very simple reason we have to close the jail at 850 bryant. It is far past the time for a time and plan to do so. The building has been marked for demolition since 1996, other than 20 years ago. The city administrator called for the jail to be closed by the end of this year, 2019. Despite this, no active plan exists to close the jail. No one believes that this building is safe. I met with the key city officials on this issue, all of whom have spoken out publicly. The sheriff, the city administrators office, superior court judges and now the mayor, and they all agree this building is siseismicly unfit. Everyone who works there will be moved out of the building. The only group we dont have a plan for are the people incarcerated there, and the people who work directly with them. This is unacceptable, it is shameful, and it needs to change. Everyone is in agreement that the jail should close and it will close as soon as possible. One city official actually told me that the building is so obviously unsafe and widely understood to be so, that our own department of Building Inspections could soon red tag it and close it themselves at any moment. A few months ago, i spent the morning at county jail number four, the jail on the seve seventh floor of 850 bryant. I toured the jail with my staff and the sheriff, and the jail is built in a linear style, forcing those incarcerate thered thereo spend most of their day in old, crowded concrete walls. Most jails house individuals in pods with recreational space. Is however, at 850 bryant, they are largely incarcerated thrin their cells for most of the day. People with severe Mental Illness has very little ongoing care, and are not in an environment fit for treatment. Over 90 of people there have actually not been convicted of any crime yet. They are awaiting trial. Many have been awaiting their day in court for months, or even years, and languish there because they cannot afford to pay bail or because of a lack of space in other facilities. Continuing to house people in that facility is also an issue of Public Safety. People housed there need and deserve individualized treatment and rehabilitation, not concrete cell blocks. We are not safer as a community when individuals spend time in this jail without any support or treatment, and then released back on the streets. The jail system also represents the grave racial and economic disparities of our criminal Justice System. 45 of those held are africanamerican. Almost 40 are unhoused. Over 30 are in need of Mental Health care. 25 are under 25, and over 90 are being held pretrial. These statistics should shock our moral conscience. San francisco can and must act to reduce criminalization, divert people from jail, and have more affective approaches to pretrial and diversion. Those on the seventh floor do not supervise themselves. Sheriffs deputies and other employees, including doctors, nurses, and counsellors, and keeping this open is also a violation of workers rights and endangers the safety of staff who work there. Those trapped on the seventh floor in the concrete cells do not get to go home, for the folks who live there, but this is also an incredible danger to the people who work there as well. A recent news article in 2017 alerted the public to the fact that the building would likely crumble in a major earthquake. Just yesterday was an anniversary of one of our earthquakes, and 850 bryant treatmen street is not prepared and we need to act. In 2015, supervisors rejected new jail construction. Since that time, there have been more than 10 hearings here, alternatives to jailing, Mental Health courts behavioral services, along with countless meetings of working groups and associated committees. The clock has been ticking on this unsafe facility for a long time, and now is the time to act. Yesterday mayor breed announced a delayed closure of the jail at 850 bryant that would potentially keep people imprisoned