I am the Youth Commission staff. We wanted to come through to show that we create change not by thinking of how good everything works for the privileged folks. We think about change in how it treats the people on the margins, undocumented folks, black and brown folks and transand gender, nonconforming folks. We cannot forget what happened with the gladiator case against the sheriff which supervisor walton called for a hearing on accountability of the Sheriffs Department about how are people currently being treated. Right now we are thinking about longstanding promises and this is the problem we need to address right here. You will have the position and power to do that. Please listen to the plans and recommendations made already. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. I am Third Generation san franciscan. I am calling for a change. This doesnt go far enough. It will send people to santa rita is wrong. People die at santa rita. The fact most Vulnerable People are at 850 and we are thinking of sending them to santa rita shows the priorities of the board and the Mayors Office specifically. The mayor is pushing forward more officers. Undemocratic in making the new da a couple weeks before election, and now with this plan that may send people to santa rethat. That is not all right. Sorry about that. Then also just as a side note from my own personal thing in the community our good present in the Mission Community was locked up. He stayed in there for a month. The reason . He couldnt pay his bail. How did he get out . The community got money out of our paychecks to get him out. It was a hard time for him to be there. Now he is with us. We know folks are in there because they had forgotten and the city looks the other way. Invest to save lives. I will call names. Mariam, tory larson, karen, kathleen, michael lion. Darian. Leaguegia julie auna. Olivia park. Miguel, clair, amber, muhammad, jackie. If your name is called please get in line and we have more cards. Apartment this point if i have not called your name and you want to speak, please come on up. Good afternoon, supervisors. I am from district five. I want to start by saying i wish my supervisor were here listening to the voices of the community. It costs 250 each day to imprison someone in the jail system and this must be reinvested in the community. I would like to read from the words of the people in the jail today and share these ideas. We need more programs not just 30day programs. We need more programs the city has. Even those are 30 days. They have programs for the youth that end at 25. Improve accessibility to programs. Some of these programs intentionally dont advertise because demand is too high. We have heard interest in investing in more programs from g incounty jail sick. We need more abuse programs, for people on the petes it is emotional. When they get out of jail it is hard. From onfrom where we need peoplo are homeless or challenged can go for oneonone time, places to go where you can be a better you. Please close 850 and reinvest in the programs for our wellbeing and our communities future. Thank you. Next spicker. Speaker. It is frustrating to be at the hearings. How can we close 850 bryant. In fact, it is unsafe for the people inside. I would like to echo the proposals to provide safety put forth for the no new sf jail including cooperative housing. I want to read from the words we have communicated with. From an analysis crime i dont want to commit a crime to have somewhere to stay not on the streets. In the closure plan they should make more housing. If we dont make it people will be homeless. People will get out of jail on the streets. We need more housing. I just want to eckto the plan needs to include property. We want them to recognize the ridiculousness of closing the jail. If you build more jails it will cost more and there will be more people. If you have no place to put people you have to come up with another day. It makes me feel good some people are trying to lock people up. It doesnt appeal to anything. I hope you are part of that people. I am the director of the health and Incentive Program and organizer with the network of over 400 Public Health workers working at the intersection of Public Health and social justice in the San Francisco bay area. Both organizations are part of the audit coalition calling for independent financial and performance audit of the sheriffs office. We joined because of the grave Health Concerns around abuses inside the jail including against pregnant people under the watch of the sheriffs office. Many of my clients told you how conditions are tantamount to torture. It is demonstrated Health Services delivered at the jail rather than in the community are ineffective to support peoples recovery and could exasperate people. Transferring people or believe new jail or jaillike facilities will not make our loved ones healthy or safe. We urge San Francisco to use Public Health solutions to serve Public Health problems. I am brine edwards with the coalition on homelessness. I was an excon. At some point i had to start using someone elses money. I spent a year as a guest of the state in prison. That was the best part of being incarcerated. The worth part of jail is the first 72 hours when we develop people out. I spent six, seven years as an organizer. There are a lot of homeless folks with there family. If you hear i am locked up wait a couple days before you call my mom. If i am in there 25 hours call my mom. I get an update on them because they have died of an overdose by using it. They are dead now. Our system does kill if you are inside or not. It is a complete race much cam. 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 re