Cable channel 26. Please stand to recite the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Would you please call the roll . [roll call] we have a quorum. Would you please call the first agenda item . Line item 1, general Public Comment. The public is welcome to address the board that do not appear on the agenda. Comments are opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available for members of the public who are present in person by approaching the podium, or those joining remotely by calling the number shown across your screen, 4156550001 and entering access code 25973005252. When Public Comment is announced for the line item or general comment, follow the prompts will be added to the queue. When you hear the moderator say good afternoon caller, you have two minutes, this is your opportunity to comment. You have two minutes for your comments. Once your 2 minutes ended you will be moved out of the queue and back into listening unless you decide to disconnect. Members of the public may stay on the meeting and listen for another line item to be called and pressing star 3 to be added to the queue. Good afternoon. September 1, it is great. Starts with a the sheriffmost people know me here from the board of supervisors. Ive been speaking a lot. I think it is necessary. The second time i address you guys. I dont know if you remember me with my french accent. My name is jerry. I came to tell you that the sheriff has a specific role to play to protect the governments officials. The problem is, you have to make sure the government is [indiscernible] 1 minute 6, it goes very fast. No matter what, because it is plain to see there is a problem here. We have division. It isnt going to work. The goalthe reason for beingeverything is happiness. You cant achieve your happiness, your reason for being without beauty, that is everything that goes against such as ugliness. It isnt going to make you happy. Nobody. [indiscernible] is not serving the people. One thing, nobody wants war. Nobody. Do you . How come the government in San Francisco doesnt say anything to at least try to have peace . For example [indiscernible] second thing, last thing, i told the mayor, mayor i told you twice, in order to try to solve the problem you push to promote all the city the concept of responsibility and critical thinking. How come we dont [indiscernible] how come . Please, pay attention, sheriff. [indiscernible] we see what happens with the supervisors. Keep speaking for everybodys happiness. Have a great day. Thank you. Thank you. We have one caller on the line. Good afternoon caller, you have two minutes. Hello. My name is Michael Petrelis. I spell my surname so there are accurate minutes on this meeting. I filed a complaint in april with the Sheriff Department against officer andrew martinez, because i believe he had harassed me before the meeting started and he chilled my First Amendment rights. I video taped his interaction with me, this lieutenant martinez. I filed a written complaint with internal affairs at the Sheriffs Department and then after about four weeks of never hearing from anyone at the department to ask me any questions about my complaint, i received an email from Deputy Kevin Mcconnell telling me that they have conducted an internal investigation, again, without asking me a single question, and they absolved their colleague of any wrongdoing. I mention this because it is one more reason why we need this commission to get its act together. Hire the Inspector General. Start investigating citizen complaints. We have waited years an unconscionable number of years for this commission to address the abuses of the sheriff and the deputy. We cannot wait much longer for you guys to hire someone and get that person up and running as the Inspector General. Basically, what we will eventinally need in San Francisco is a Law Enforcement commission, instead of one commission for Police Department and one for Sheriff Department, we need a single Law Enforcement commission. Thank you for listening. Thank you caller. No other callers. Calling line item 2. Adoption of minutes, action item. Review and aprov the minutes from Sheriff DepartmentOversight Board regular meeting held july 7, 2023 and special meeting held july 27, 2023. I move to approve. Second. For members of the public who like to comment for line item 2, if you are present please line up at the podium. Those remotely call the General Number and use the access code appearing on the screen and follow prompts to be added to the queue. We have one caller on the line. Good afternoon caller, you have two minutes. Hello. This is Michael Petrelis again, and i want to address the draft Meeting Minutes from thursday july 27. I see here that there was no general Public Comment and then you went into closed session, and again there was no Public Comment about go nothing into closed session. Im very concerned about the lack of Public Engagement and Public Comment about this meeting. And then, you went into closed session and it says here, discussion in closed session will not be disclosed. This terrible lack of transparency has to be addressed. Speaking as a person frustrated and trying to get some investigation, some independent investigation at the Sheriffs Department, to see that your commission met in july behind closed doors. This was about the Inspector General and there is no public that was there, no Public Comment recorded, and what was discussed will not be disclosed. Boy, this is a reason why so many of us are distrustful of any government oversight of Law Enforcement, because we just do not see transparency and it is crucial that there be transparency about what you are doing on this commission in closed session, because we have no idea when we will get the Inspector General. Please, tell us what happened at that meeting on july 27. Thank you. Thank you caller. There are no other callers and no other Public Comment. Calling line item 3, nomination and election of officerwait, sorry, we didnt vote. On the motion to adopt the minutes [roll call] the motion passes. The minutes from the regular meet ing held july 7 and regular meeting and special meeting held july 27 are adopted. Now calling line item 3. Nomination and election of officer. Discussion and action item. Nomination and election of officers to serve the Sheriffs DepartmentOversight Board from october 2023 through september 2024. Pursuant to Sheriffs DepartmentOversight Board rules of order rule 1. 3. Nominations for the office of president . I nominate julie soo. Second. Are there any other nominations . Do we take Public Comment before voting, dan . For each office separately . For members of the public who like to comment for line item 3 on the office of the president , if you are present please line up at the podium, otherwise, those watching remotely call the General Number and use the access code appearing on your screen and follow the prompts to be added to the queue. There are appears to be no callers. We will take the vote for line item 3, office of the president. Afuhaamango is aye. Member brookter is aye. Vice president carrion is aye. Nguyen is aye. Member palmer is not here yet. Member soois aye. President wechter is no. By majority vote, member soo has been elected president for the next term commencing october 7, 2023. Congratulations. Congratulations. Open the floor for nominations of Vice President. I like to nominate Vice President carrion. Second that. Any other nominations for the office of Vice President . Hearing none for members of the public who like to comment on line item 3 for the office of Vice President , if you are present line up at the podium, otherwise those remotely call the number on the screen and follow the prompts to be added to the queue. There is no callers. We will now take the vote for line item 3, office of the Vice President. Member afuhaamango, aye. Member brookter, aye. Vice president carrion, aye. Member nguyen, aye. Member soo, aye. President weckter, no. By majority vote, member Vice President carrion has been reelected to the office of Vice President. Your term recommences october 7, 2023. Congratulations Vice President carrion. Thank you. Calling line item 4, recruitment and Inspector General discussion and possible action item. Dhr will appear to give a update on the ig recruitment. Good afternoon members, president weckter, Vice President carrion. Department of Human Resources sent out the questionnaires to qualified candidates and received the responses thatnded the 25. The responses have been forwarded to the board and i believe well discuss that further in closed session later in this meeting. Thank you. Received. Can we ask you in this session to put on the record how many applications were received and how many we have to consider . Not in open session, no. Okay. Great. For members of the public who like to comment for line item 4, if you are present line up at the podium otherwise call the General Number and use the access code on the screen and follow prompts to be added to the queue. One caller online. Good afternoon caller, you have two minutes. Hello. This is Michael Petrelis again and im greatly disappointed that there is not a substantive discussion taking place right now before you go into closed session about hiring the Inspector General. The fact that we cant learn how many have applied for the job or how many have submitted answers to the questionnaires is really harming the public trust in what you are doing, or what i should say, what you are not doing, and that is not giving us transparency. It is really not just the lack of transparency, it is the extreme lack of urgency. We are in september of 2023 and this commission is still dragging its feet on getting us an Inspector General. I need to repeat that at some point San Francisco needs to merge the Police Commission with the oversight body of the Sheriffs Department and lets also look at oversight regarding the district attorneys office. We need a comprehensive single Law Enforcement commission where we the people go to a body with power and voice our complaints, where we list our complaints against the various Law Enforcement agencies at the local level in San Francisco and how crime is not coming down and the trust in Law Enforcement is also declining. Please tell us what the heck is going on with the Inspector Generals search. Thank you. Thank you caller. I like to mention that the commission and hr, dhr is required to follow several different employment laws, which protect the personal information of some of these inspectors, potential Inspector Generals and applicant, and we have been abiding by that and therefore we use the closed session to insure that information that should not is illegal for us disclose is not disclosed. And just to add further context to that, we have been since beginning of this year as we were going through this process, dhr, been transparent about the timeline it takes for the interview process and just gathering information. We are going by standard timeline. No other Public Comment. Calling line item 5, Public Comment on closed session. Public comment on all matters pertaining to item 6, below, closed session. For members of the public who like to comment pertaining to line item 6, closed session, if you are present please line up at the podium, otherwise call the General Number and use the access code on the screen and follow the prompts to be added to the queue. Good afternoon caller, you have two minutes. Because you all set a calendar for yourselves this year that you are following that calendar. It is unacceptable that we the people are still waiting for not just transparency, but urgency where is your sense of urgency on getting more Public Engagement at your meetings and also the urgency that is needed regarding hiring this Inspector General . How much longer must we wait . It is now the 9th month of this year and we have no idea even what the number of applicants is. You all are hiding behind the bureaucratees of personnel laws. I do not believe that youre going to violate those laws if you tell us three or 30 people applied for this position. Really, the lack of transparency here is harming Community Accountability and Law Enforcement and now you are about to go into closed session about this and we are going to have to wait who knows how long you will be in closed session. We have to wait until you come out of closed session to make Public Comment on the other items on your agenda. You really should have put this item for the closed session at the very end so that we could hear the report that follows this item and also be allowed to make general Public Comment on that. So, please show some urgency here. Thank you. Thank you caller. If it were up to me we would disclose the number about the number of candidates, but i cant compel dhr to provide that information. We have to abide by the laws as interpreted by our deputy City Attorney, so my personal feelings do not trump the rules they are following. There are no other callers. Line item 6, closed session on Public Employee appointment hiring sf admin code 67. 10b discussion and possible action. Inspector general, possession established by sf charter section 4. 137 to head the office of the Inspector General. At this time we ask members of the public to vacate the chambers so we can have our calling line item 7, vote to disclose discussion on closed session. Action item. Vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion on item 6, closed session, San Francisco administrative code section 67. 12a. Can you please read off the motion of commissioner soo . I see, okay. So we dont have to we are not disclosing in closed session, accept that the board came to a consensus as to the interpretation as to Law Enforcement agency under the charter. And that is that is Law Enforcement agencies consist of Police Agencies and Sheriff Departments. Just a note for the public edification, we are continuing ongoing recruitment process so we will be conducting that further next month. Is there a motion not to disclose closed session . So move. Second . Second. Alright. Members of the public who like to comment on line item 7, if present line up at the podium or otherwise call the General Number and use the access code on the screen and follow the prompts. Good afternoon. I have a quick question. Has there been consideration setting up maybe a committee on the hiring of the Inspector General so it continue to go onbecause you all meet once a month. Maybe the committee could meet every two weeks in order to speed the process. I heard another gentleman call in and i know we want to get this resolved so we can start moving ahead, so that was my question. Thank you. We do have a process in which commissioner soovoted to be our president starting october, shes the liaison directly workingweekly with dhr to make sure that we are on track of the timeline and that the appropriate information is being sent to commissioners. The commissioners to avoidmake sure we do everything correctly, we dont discuss