Committee meeting. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. Im joined by committee, temporary member dean preston. And we shall be joined by supervisor ahsha safai shortly. Our clerk is victor young, and i would like to thank matthew ignored sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes. Public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda. When your item of interest comes up and Public Comment is called, please line up to speak. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in writing either the following ways. Email them to myself. The rules Committee Clerk at victor. You and g at sfgovtv. Org if you submit Public Comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the file. You may also send your written comment via us mail to our office at one. Doctor Carlton B Goodlett place, room 244, San Francisco, california 94102. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of may 21st, 2024, unless otherwise stated. That completes my initial announcements. Thank you and i would like to make a motion to excuse supervisor Sherman Walton from this meeting. Yes, on the motion to excuse, vice chair walton, supervisor Preston Preston, i supervisor safai safai chair. Ronan i ronan i the motion passes without objection. Motion passes. Thank you. Mr. Clerk. Can you please call item number one . Yes. Item number one. Item number one is the ordinance amending the administrative code to amend the Language Access ordinance. To clarify departments responsibility to provide Language Access services to members of the public, and to clarify the role of the office of Civic Engagement and immigrant affairs. Thank you so much. And on behalf of a supervisor, walton, i would like to introduce two amendments to this ordinance. The first is on page 11, lines 20 through 24, a adding the language upon request in lep person may request written materials that provide Vital Information to the public about the Departments Services or programs into a language not captured by the required languages. However, the Public Utilities commission and the Tax Collector shall make Resources Available for lep persons to understand their property tax and utility bills and then additionally on page 24, lines 23 through 24, a revising the top 20 languages to the ones with the highest access needs. So the language that wed be adding to the ordinance is the know your rights brochure shall be translated and made available in at least the top 20 most spoken languages in San Francisco that are most spoken and have the highest rate of Language Access needs. So if i can make a motion to amend, and i will wait to vote on that motion until we hear Public Comment, yes. Oh, and i question or comment from supervisor preston. Please add me as a cosponsor on this. Thank you. Thank you. Are we prepared for Public Comment now . Yes, please. Yes. Members of the public who wish to speak on this item should line up to speak at this time. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes. There will be a soft chime when you have 30s left and a louder chime when your time has expired. Are there any members of the public who would like to make Public Comment at this time . There does not appear to be any Public Commenters on this matter. Public comment has been is has is closed. Now, if you can take a roll call, vote on that motion. Yes. On that motion to amend. Supervisor Preston Preston, i supervisor safai safai chair. Ronen i ronen i. That motion passes without objection. The motion passes unanimously. And if i can now because there are fiscal implications to this ordinance, i need to refer this item to the budget and finance committee. Yes. On the motion to refer the matter to the budget. And is the budget and finance or budget and appropriation budget and appropriations budget and appropriations committee, as amended, on that motion, supervisor Preston Preston, i supervisor safai safai. I chair ronen i ronen i that motion passes without objection. Motion passes. Thank you. Can you please read item number two . Yes. Item number two is an ordinance amending the administrative and business and tax regulation code to change the frequency of the Housing Needs overview for seniors and people with disabilities. And the Housing Needs assessment and production pipeline report for seniors and people with disabilities. And update all reference to the department of disability and aging Services Consistent with the charter, and make other nonmaterial corrections. Thank you so much. And susie smith is here. From hsa h. S. A to report. Thank you. Good morning. Supervisor ronen, yes. So the Housing Needs overview report provides a snapshot of existing Affordable Housing units occupied by seniors and adults with disabilities, as well as the production pipeline designated for these populations and the Housing Needs assessment and production pipeline report provides an analysis of senior and disability Housing Needs. The department proposes publishing the aging and disability affordable Housing Needs assessment report every eight years instead of every three years, and publishing the aging and disability housing affordable affordable Housing Needs report every other year instead of every year. And were proposing this change for a few reasons, the first is that the proposed eight year cycle for the Needs Assessment would align more closely with the housing element, which, of course, is the citys premier prominent housing roadmap to meet unmet needs. This way, the research and findings on senior and disability Housing Needs can better inform and support macds formal housing plans. So thats one important reason. Another reason is that Housing Needs and the supply of units simply dont change significantly from year to year. What we see from the data on senior occupancy and unit accessibility is that theres little year to year change in, because Affordable Housing units simply dont turn over that quickly. The existing three year Needs Assessment report is also too frequent to develop insights about community Housing Needs. And importantly, as we make policy changes and implement the recommendations to these reports, we need a frequency that we can actually see the effect of those policy changes. And when were doing it every other, every other, every year and every three years, we just simply cant see the impact of our policy choices, finally, these are very labor intensive. It takes about a year to produce these reports, full time staff person from h. S. A is assigned to it. We also have a consultant because we have a very engaged Community Process to find out from the community, not just the data that were seeing, but whats the impact in the lived experience of people with disabilities and older adults and so we have a consultancy of about 170,000 that that we also go into this. So for all of these reasons, we think it makes more sense to have a longer cadence between both of these reports and have more details and have escalator here. That is the expert behind these reports. If you have questions or concerns. Thank you so much. Is there any questions . No, i just i completely understand the reasoning behind this and it makes a lot of sense to me, we want these reports to be meaningful and we want them to take the appropriate amount of staff time and resources to create and actually show us something that we can act upon. So i, i think this legislation makes a lot of sense. Im happy to support it. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks so much, mr. Clerk, can we please open this item up for Public Comment . Yes. Members of the public wish to speak on this item should line up to speak at this time. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes. Are there any members of the public who would like to make Public Comment on this matter . There does not appear to be any additional speakers. Public comment is now closed. I would like to make a motion to send this item to the full board with positive recommendation. On that motion, supervisor Preston Preston i supervisor safai safii i chair. Ronen i ronen i that motion passes without objection. Without objection, the motion passes. Thank you. Can you please read item number three . Yes. Item number three is ordinance approving Surveillance Technology policy for Human Services agency use of call Recording Technology. And i believe susie smith. Yes. Hello. Welcome back. Still here. Its going to present on this item as well. So h. S. A operates telephonic Service Centers to help clients access our supports and services. And this our use of Telephonic Services skyrocketed during the pandemic. We had regulatory relief from the state that allowed us to do a lot more digitally. Telephonically importantly, using telephonic signatures so that when people apply for benefits, they did not have to come in. And for a lot of these processes, were still allowed to do like telephonic signatures in particular, and it makes it a much smoother process. So, what we seek here is authorization under section 19 b2a to use call Recording Technology at our call centers to record and store audio phone calls. These recordings will be used to ensure equitable and Consistent Service delivery to all of our services across our various programs, and will also be used to deliver services more efficiently and by enabling telephonic signatures. As i mentioned, this is common practice. You know, whenever we are in call centers as customers , we hear, you know, this will often be recorded for Quality Control issues. We want to operate like the private sector. We want to be efficient. We want to make sure that we can do our own Quality Control. And having this Technology Enables us to do so, on march 23rd, 2023 and on june 15th, 2023, coates, the committee on Information Technology and its privacy and surveillance Advisory Board conducted two public hearings on this matter at which they considered this policy and the impact for hsas use of call Recording Technology, and developed a Surveillance Technology policy for hsas use of call Recording Technology. On june 15th, 2023, coit voted to recommend that the board of supervisors approve our use of this technology. So that is why im here today. Happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Any questions . Colleagues seeing none. No questions. Thank you. Thank you. Can we please open this item up for Public Comment . Yes. Members of the public wish to speak on this item should line up to speak at this time. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes. There will be a soft chime when you have 30s left and allow to chime when your time has expired. Is there anyone who would like to make Public Comment on item number three . There does not appear to be any Public Comment on item three. Public comment is now closed. I would like to make a motion to send this item to the full board with positive recommendation. Yes, on that motion, supervisor Preston Preston i supervisor safai safai i chair ronen, i ronen i the motion passes without objection. Motion passes. Thank you. Thanks so much, mr. Clerk, can you please read item number four . Yes. Item number four is a hearing on Artificial Intelligence and local elections and requesting the department of elections and Ethics Commission to report. And im going to turn it over to supervisor preston, who called for this hearing. Thank you. Thank you, chair ronen. And thank you for, calendaring this and looking forward to the to the presentations. I want to give a bit of, of context for why we called the hearing, before we get started, but the hearing, as you mentioned, is on Artificial Intelligence in local elections. And since we introduced this hearing, my office has had extensive conversations with department of elections, with Ethics Commission, with ai experts and advocates, and i think were all i hope were all aware that with the growth of Artificial Intelligence and growing concerns about its role in elections, that this is a good time for us to be asking whether San Francisco law adequately address guesses potentially false and misleading ai generated ad election material, whether the city needs to adopt new policies and protocols to address ais role, all in San Francisco elections, and whether Enforcement Mechanisms are sufficient to ensure that ai is not used to spread misinformation regarding elections in our city. I, im sure we all agree we need to do Everything Possible to ensure the integrity, transparency and security of our elections. And i should say that as as i think the presentations will make clear, this is not a conversation solely happening in in city halls across the country. This is a conversation happening at the federal level, at the state level. But its also one that its important that we have here. We are already seeing how, ai is being used to generate images and videos in political ads nationally and in cities around the country, creating new avenues for misleading content and without adequate guardrails, technologies making it increasingly difficult for the public to accurately identify fraudulent video and audio material. During the hearing today, well hear from the department of elections, and the Ethics Commission regarding the citys current protocols in responding to ai in our elections, and well discuss proposals to prevent the use of fraudulent ai generated content in campaign ads to the greatest extent allowable under under the law. This hearing comes on the heels of some pretty outrageous misuses of Ai Technology around the country to generate false and misleading content that this includes robocalls with ai generated voices happening in major elections, including the use of deepfake videos of president joe biden, supposedly calling for a us military draft in in something he has not called for, but was artificially created and misleading in new hampshire, there were videos of the president saying that the date of the election had changed, misleading voters, and threatening to compromise the integrity of those elections and Voter Participation, locally, we havent seen as much. Well talk about that. Fortunately to date, i will say i will note that just in the last week, a video circulated widely on social media using an ai generated voice of president former president barack obama claiming to endorse someone for San FranciscoDistrict Attorney, mr. Obama has made no such endorsements in our local District Attorney race. But, you know, the public viewing that video, video circulating on social media would not know that. So across the country, were seeing an increase in political ads released this year already with ai generated images with text to voice converters to depict candidates negatively. And so disinformation in elections. So i think that fortunately its been limited to date in San Francisco, and we want to keep it that way, and so hopefully this this helps us get there. I will say that a recent ap poll found that nearly 6 in 10 adults in in this country are worried about Artificial Intelligence tools increasing the spread of false and misleading information in the 2024 elections