Happy new year good night, everyone. trumpet please stand by for the San FranciscoSheriffs DepartmentOversight Board swearing in ceremony of december 20, 2023. Im julie soo president of the sheriff Department Oversight board. Today is historic day. Last week the giants signed jung hu lee. Today San Francisco city hall signs a cal football and track and field star from the south bay. Im joined by colleagues, Vice President carrion and member brookter to officially announcing the appointment of our inaugural Inspector General, mr. Terry willie. [applause] after a Year Long National search, terry was the best fit. He had a distinguished legal career in Alameda County spanning three decades. He experienced with criminal Justice System and he celebrated history of working on reforms. His Public Services working with Diverse Communities is impressive. Before i have Vice President carrion speak to the recruitment process, some acknowledgments of appreciation are in order. Thank you to sheriff Paul Miyamoto and chief for coordinating the training for our board as mandated under the San Francisco charter. Thank you to the department of Human Resources for their guidance. Ben ritchie, paul green, shawn sureburn i director carol isen. Thank you to department of Police Accountability for infrastructure and budget analysis support from director Paul Henderson, chief kine, operator officer Nicole Armstrong and legal assistant and active secretary, dan leung. Especially today, thank you to city hall facilities rohen lane and sequoia condon and staff at sfgovtv. Now to the recruiting process with Vice President carrion. Good morning everyone. Thank you all for being here. It is so exciting. It was a long journey to get here and we are excited to share with all of you what our recruitment process was. We did a lot of work in a year and 3 months so what im going to do is highlight of things that happened to get us to this point. Now, we have three regular meetings in 2022 and 10 regular meetings in 2023. Now, we also went out into the community four different places to hear the words of our people. To hear san franciscans tell us what they wanted in the qualifications. What were the issues that they felt were important to them and they wanted to see in our Inspector General. Those were in 4 different locations rchlt the bayview opera house, hamilton recreation center, Crocker Amazon club house and Mission Arts Center in addition in september of this year, two commissioners went to the jails and talked to currently incarcerated people to find out what were the jail conditions that they wanted our ig to address and more importantly the qualifications that they think should be part of a ig. Now, we got a lot of support. This has been a San Francisco project, but it is also been a local state and national project, because we have key leaders from all over talking to us about the best practices for hiring and recruiting an ig. For example, we had folks from los angeles county, bart, madison wisconsin, berkeley, from oakland and from the la sheriff and bart independent Police Auditor and previous Berkeley Police commissioner. They all gave us the information to make such a critical decision. Now, there is a couple key motions. One which was to create a task force to work specifically with the department and health resourcesHuman Resources and to create a job draft description. So, we met that same month in january. The minute we got going, the minute we started working. The following month it was very exciting to be able to have our amazing president at that time commissioner soo be elected to be and be voted on to be the liaison for the department of Human Resources while the entertain and take care of this incredible project. Thank you to president soo for her tireless work. The multiple hours she put in. I know she is very humble that rnsh but i want to make sure she gets the accolades she deserves as she gives acknowledgments to all that helped us. October, november was the grind. Looking at amazing apcants that came nationally and determining who were the highly qualified, who were the best of the best and we are lucky that terry willie was in that. It is a absolute honor to be here. It look a lot of work from a lot of people to get to this moment and we are here to celebrate in community and continue learning from you and doing the work that needs to get done. I look forward to continue serving you as Vice President and we look forward having you participate so community, come to us, email us, public comment, all of those things. We want to hear your voice. We want to incorporate your voice in the decisions we make, so thank you all so much for being here and have a wonderful rest of the event. [applause] thank you. I just want to recognize izy ramsey, our u. S. Attorney from Northern District of california here with us today. [applause] we also have some well wishes from our public defender manohar raju. District attorney. Terry you are famous because i was getting Text Messages 10, 11 at night. Give terry my best wishes. I cant be there, but in spirit. Susan, county administrator for Alameda County and i also need to let you know, in San Francisco city hall, we are generally very collaborative. Is was working to our county clerk diane ray office but ran into the city administrator and city county enter ourselves and say city administrator carmen chui, asked when i was going and had not met diane and said let me walk you and call to make sure. Carmen chui also sends her best. And to give an official welcome to city hall, we will have Paul Miyamoto and Paul Henderson. First up, sheriff Paul Miyamoto. [applause] thank you president soo. Good morning everyone. If we could have a turnout like this at our board meetings, i will be very happy if that is what you accomplish, terry. Want to acknowledge everybody presence. Thank you for all being here. It is important to continue that sort of engagement and our Office Actually very much looks forward working hand in hand with our new Inspector General. One thing very important to understand, this supports our shared goals, our shared vision. T nojust with the Sheriff Office and oversight bored and your mission as the Inspector General, but with the community at large. Transparency, accountability, continuous improvement, those are the goals we hope to achieve and reach and continue to reach to and with your 33 years of experience in al meady county at the District Attorney office that represent immense amounts of experience and knowledge which we are very confident will represent fair and impartial approaches to independent investigations. Fair and impartial approaches to who we are and what we are capable of becoming in the time and years to come. Would no agenda other then public interest, Public Safety and the best that we can do for the community. Collaboration is actually going to present us as a agency with a extra set of eyes that is very much needed. Not just acknowledging the work and the achievements and gad work of our personnel and members. The every day things that happen in our department. The every day things that we do, but it is a look at those things and how we can improve on those things. We want to always be at the highest level of standard for not just Law Enforcement and Public Safety, but also for the community and we are looking forward to having you make sure that we meet those standards. You will play a crucial role helping us identify and address concern to the community. Most importantly, investigation of allegations, not just of of staff, contractors, and members, but those independent investigations are important to make sure the Community Knows we are dedicated to and i want to acknowledge right now the next speaker who is coming up, executive director Paul Henderson from department of Police Accountability who has been a partner for a number of years to address these very concerns. Absence the presence of Inspector General and the work we have done through the years to insure that we have that viewpoint to insure we have that independent investigation into all of these Different Things has been a important part of what he has done and we had challenges in terms of getting the support to make sure that he has the resources available. I want to acknowledge the work you have done for us and as we transition now into this, not to forget everything you have done so thank you very much director henderson. [applause] to you and your staff. I think one thing important too and i want to make sure i address before we move on is that, working closely with the Oversight Board through you is going to help us bridge a lot of gaps that weve seen since weve created and weve worked with the Oversight Board. It will be veryinvaluable in addressing areas of concern for us in ways we can improve how we do our job and we want to identify those issues before they escalate and become a incident or problem or concern or lawsuit or anything else. I am looking forward to working with you, to working with the board and continuing to improve our processes and getting that viewpoint and making sure that we have a positive progressive step towards Building Trust to our community, to our public, to the city and county, which is very unique here, and while you have the experience in alameda, i look forward to many new experiences here in San Francisco and your engagement with our community is something that we are all going to support and regards to making sure we are transparent and continue our mission in Sheriff Office in partnership and collaboration with Oversight Board and office of Inspector General, so thank you. [applause] before i bring director Paul Henderson up, what a phenomenal job he and his entire staff do. I have been to the nacol conference, the National Association of oversight of Law Enforcement. Many y oversight organizations have missed statutory dates, pauls team, the investigators and attorneys have not missed a beat and they are a National Model so that is a impressive. Independent third parties have lotted our Police Department of accountability and that is something to be said for a very lean and mean office and i cant thank them enough for helping set up the infrastructure so the new Inspector General had something to walk into not just a empty office and offered unwaver report so thank you. Mr. Paul henderson. [applause] people said so many nice things already. Amazing how nicely people talk about you when they are not under oath. [laughter] i appreciate all that. They told me i only have 40 minutes, so i want to [laughter] let me start by thanking the commission. Julie in particular for so much work that shes done in navigating those of you that watched these commissions and those that paid attention to the machinations we have all gone through as a city. The leadership she has shown in this process has been phenomenal and gettings us here to this day where we can finally celebrate new leadership coming into San Francisco and i personally thank you for bringing us a extra body because these past few years wearing double hats has been complicated and arduous. I had two commissions, two commissions, so this is great. I do want to thank you in particular julie, but also the rest of the board that worked so hard back and forth both to develop and execute a process to choose the leadership that we have here today. I do think it is worth noting that here in San Francisco we are taking a big step forward in civilian oversight. We are committing to reforms and accountability where other counties, other cities, other states, other movements are taking steps back from the commitments they made to independence and civilian oversight for law fl forcement and that isnt the case here in San Francisco. From the very beginning of the legislation, we had the sheriff stepping up saying, i wanted this to be collaborative and just so we are clear, that collaboration started before we even had the legislation codifying where we are today. This culmination is a very big step both of affirming leadership for terry whom we all know and seen his work for many many years. We wont say the numbers, but for many many many many years because we started off around the same time, but he is way older then me [laughter] way like four years older it is nice to have that level of experience coming to the table to join the work, but i do think that this is important and it says a lot about who San Francisco is and it says a lot about where San Francisco is heading. I also just want to acknowledge Shamann Walton for putting together the legislation that created a lot of this position and more importantly, the funding allocation for this kind of work. There are so many hands that lifted up this bucket of success that i just want to make sure im sure im forgetting people, the folks like marshal kind and my office who did the work daily and who is at so many of these meetings. The rest of city hall and the budget team that helped pull all this together whom we have big expectations for moving forward, and all of you paying attention to all of this as well. It is easy to be an advocate knowing Community Supports you and there is Political Support for the work we do and committed to as Public Servants so thank you all for being here this morning and thank you most of all terry for applying and your willingness to bring your expertise, your professionalism, your management and your character to this work where it is so desperately needed, so well received. I think civilian oversight is taking a big step forward with you at its side and we cant wait to see what the future holds and how we may be able to serve and assist you in defining success for San Francisco. Thank you so much. [applause] so, budget will be the operative word for the next couple months. I also do need to thank the mayor Budget Office and please please give us more money. [laughter] so, now i want to also have a couple people speak before terry takes the oath of office. This is terry up close and personal. We have Yolanda Williams the executive directoryolanda jackson, so sorry. Yolanda jackson, executive director of the Bar Association of San Francisco. [applause] please let me start by saying congratulations for this amazing amazing honor and accomplishment that you are about to walk into. So, it is with immense pride that im here to speak today for the swearing in for the city and county of San Francisco inaugural very first ever Inspector General, terry. Terry and i have been friends 28 years. I owe my Bar Association and the role they play in the Legal Community and Broader Community to terry. When i passed the bar in 1995, so think you ask i are the same age paul i saw a flier and signed up to volunteer to legal clinic at the allen tempe baptist church. Terry was a [indiscernible] and leading that clinic. I was a brand new lawyer, didnt know what i was doing and terry was a great mentor and helped to get me appoint ed to the charles houston Bar Association board. That is who terry is. He is a good friend, an amazing criminal justice lawyer, a brilliant community servant. Terry has spent 33 years of his life serving the public. As a dep