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So white, asian, africanamerican, if you go down, you can see the different groups and thats where the wide gaps are. First, more white or caucasian staff than population in the city. So the red bar versus the blue. We have fewer africanamerican staff than we have people in the city. Its looking at that imbalance and helping to set policy about how we oversee hiring panels, what kind of oversight we do in terms of recruitment, hiring a recruiter to improve the racial diversity of our pools for applicants, all of those things were done in response to looking at that data. Next slide. And then j...

Points into three key points around availability of data, accuracy of data, and being folks being able to ingest it. A lot of the data that we requested is not available because its not broken down in ways that are meaningful and helpful to identify the communities that are most negatively impacted. A lot of times that means that we cannot actually get answers to some of the most pertinent questions. There was a situation that we were in a meeting and wanted to know the population of special education students that were of africanamerican ethnicity or race. And we were not able to get that inf...

Legislation what are the mandates of the legislation on the horizon . Its to collect information on all stops made by officers and import the information to the department of justice. The bill requires that each state and local agency, Police Officers to report to the attorney general data on all stops as defined and conducted by the Police Officers and include that information including time, date, location and reason for the stop. The bill further requires the employees 1,000 or more Police Officers to issue its first report by april, 2019. Why does that bring me to this point . In april, 20...

Contract exclusivity provision issuing a permit for ebikes for the others there. Our signing the agreement did not preclude us from issuing our permits legally. Its just an agreement acknowledging our ability to issue this oneebike permit not specifying who the provider would be without compromising the exclusivity clause. That was the resolution of the dispute resolution process that was invoked i dont remember fit was invoked by motivate or ntc. Throughout the process we were communicating closely with folks in the Mayors Office because the whole contract came about through the Mayors Office...

Three, family justice and four economic power. These are what i consider longer term outcomes and determinaters. This city has kind of stood behind loose and thin measures while we have seen the outcomes go down the drain. Well explain what it means. We at hope sf as an initiative and many of my colleagues are here in the room, its collective Impact Initiative and we focus on results basic accountability. Were having the robust conversation about data and we want to look at transparent Decision Making, longterm outcomes to make sure the population as a whole is better off. I mean things that l...