Meeting called to order at 2:06 pm. Pledge of Allegiance.

ROLL CALL

PRESENT: Afuhaamango, Brookter (at 2:18 pm), Carrion, Nguyen, Palmer, Soo, Wechter, Acting Secretary Leung

A quorum of the Board was present.

President Wechter moves agenda item 4 to after agenda item 9 with no objections.

GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT

PUBLIC COMMENT:
Thierry Fill, appearing in person, this is the 2nd time we have seen him, last time he said if we keep going without action, it’s not going to be too good. He doesn’t know what the Sheriff’s doing. You are all friends; you want to work with him as parties. Something is not happening. It should become more and more obvious that we need to take a step forward to make things happen. We are going to be in trouble. Serious. He knows that we understand what he is saying. It’s very difficult to deal with what’s going on. Generally speaking. We are under very thick pressure, awful pressure of corporations, politics, obviously, big pharma, technology, which is even worse than everything. We need to fight against AI, we are going to lose our jobs. It’s going to be awful. Mark my words, it’s coming. So, it’s now. We need to understand, focus, use critical thinking, try to do our best to unite our energies and work together. Have a good afternoon. He will see us again. Bye.

Unidentified Speaker, appearing in person, he was up somewhere yesterday, trying to speak in this capacity and it was very hard after he sat down. He couldn’t really take it. He doesn’t think he was even visible to you guys. Two other guys there in room 416 hearing room. He was up there speaking and sat back down, and he said something weird happened, he didn’t know what it was, he thought it was one of you guys. He thought it was Beven Dufty, but it wasn’t him. He thought it was someone else. He didn’t know why they were doing that. It was really hard to understand. It’s really hard to process. He is wondering if he goes back to his seat, is he going to feel the same way? He doesn’t know. Does he have to yell and scream? Beat his chest? He doesn't know. He tweets. He has a Twitter account. He started a thread about a CHP officer who stopped him on the Bay Bridge in 2011. He took his car. Never got it back. Slapped him with a fine. $900. Took his car. The State of California is making some money off that car today. That money is probably getting somewhere. Buying you guys muffins or something. But listen, there is some really weird stuff that is going on. Big crime is going on. Our rights. He doesn’t have any rights. It’s all for this money. They are going to give you a bunch of money. Talking about all this money. Billions and billions of dollars. That’s a lot of money. Money. Money. Money. He is wondering if it’s really going to work out? He doesn’t know. Is it going to pan out in the end? He doesn’t know. There was a lady in here just talking, talking, talking in here. He was sitting down and he was trying to get up to talk but he didn’t know what she said, she didn’t know what she was talking about. This is just what happens every day. Can’t process anything. Don’t have anything to deal with. It’s just really hard.

Andrew James White, appearing in person, he is just trying to stay in whatever loop he can stay in. Try to reestablish himself with stability in the mainstream of society. He dealt with a little bit of OIG- COC stuff down in LA. And he moved here about 5 years ago, actually on seven three eighteen. A little over five years ago. Seven seven twenty three? I believe it is. He had communicated. He had come up here through the shelters, off the streets, now he is back in the work force. Whatever people deal with, surgeries, jumping around. Whatever happens. Maybe the cool kids are hanging, maybe they’re not. He is trying to understand what is happening here. He has some correspondence, which is tough to do when you’re in the streets and your voice is diluted. You get better at it. He has had some correspondence with Shamon Walton’s office. D10. D6. Moved around a little bit in the last 5 years. He has taken the sheriffs to court once. He doesn’t talk much about it, but they ... but he isn’t going to talk anything about it. But it is in court for a very good reason. You get better at this stuff. Communicating is tough to do. That’s why he is striving to do himself. He is trying to understand what this panel is designed for, what’s going on, with the next step with the OIG. He communicated this with Shamon Walton’s office. We get better. He is taking classes. He is training at a minimum. Slipping and sliding like everybody does. That is what he is doing. He is reading the statement of incompatible activities. He doesn’t know. He’s come from San Diego, through LA, Tinseltown, if you will, up here to the Golden Gate, doing whatever. Being labeled as whatever. He is a non-party preference person. At this point, if you look at his voter registration, which he does have transparently set, through that option. You’ll see MVP not some whoever else they pretend you are. He doesn’t really want to get into it right now. Say he doesn’t want to get into politics in the courtroom. He doesn’t know what kind of room this is. Guess he needs to find out. He’s still dealing with some things… that’s it. I don’t have anything else.

ADOPTION OF MINUTES

Motion to approve the Minutes from June 2, 2023, by Member Soo, seconded by Vice President Carrion.

PUBLIC COMMENT: None.

Vote to adopt the minutes of June 2, 2023:
AYES: Afuhaamango, Brookter, Carrion, Nguyen, Palmer, Soo, Wechter
NAYS: None
Motion passes and approved with no objections. Minutes of June 2, 2023, are adopted.

RECRUITMENT OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

Benjamin Richey, Department of Human Resources, appeared in person to give a brief update on the applications for the inspector general and answer board member questions.

Questions from Vice President Carrion, President Wechter, Member Soo, Member Nguyen, Member Afuhaamango, Member Brookter, and Member Palmer. 

Jana, Clark, Deputy City Attorney, appearing remotely, gave board advisement, and answered questions from the Board.

Russell Bloom, Independent Police Auditor, Bay Area Rapid Transit, and former member of the Berkeley Police Commission, appeared remotely, and spoke on his experience in oversight, the structure at his job, and how he does his job.

Questions from Vice President Carrion, Member Afuhaamango, Member Soo, Member Nguyen, and President Wechter.

Motion to ask DHR to incorporate subject matter experts from the civilian oversight community into the rating of the supplemental written answers provided by the applicants by President Wechter.

Mr. Richey responds and gives further information and suggests a closed session to discuss the candidate pool.
Questions from Member Soo.

No second on the motion, the motion does not move forward.

PUBLIC COMMENT:
Unidentified speaker, appearing in person, he listened to both of the presentations and to him, it doesn’t make any sense. Both of the people don’t make any sense to him at all whatsoever and he thinks that was clear to you as well. He sat down, he listened to both of the guys, it doesn’t make any sense to him. It’s clear as day to him that it doesn’t make sense. He doesn’t get anything. He doesn't hear anything. He doesn’t see. He doesn't hear, anything. And both of these guys were here talking for 30 minutes. It’s jibber jabber. That’s what it is. Complete utter jibber jabber. He doesn’t understand how you can sit there and listen to all that and pretend you are going to do something about it. You can’t do anything about that. It’s just complete shut down of it. You heard him right? He shot a guy in the back. Messerli. He’s somewhere in Northern California, he’s hiding somewhere. What he wants to tell you is, why are you wasting people’s time? You’re a prosecutor? I don’t know. You want to throw that information out into the air like somebody cares. Nobody cares here. What are you going to do? Prosecute somebody for it? For speaking? What he wants to tell us is, there’s some stuff going on, and it isn’t good at all, whatsoever. He’s been around. This is his thirteenth year, out here, in the elements. He’s a homeless man. It’s his thirteenth year and it makes no sense to him at all, whatsoever. He’s ashamed to be here. He’s ashamed to be in this state, this city, in this country. He’s ashamed. He’s ashamed of it. He’s sorry to the city to the public for wasting your time. He probably isn’t going to stick around here. He wants to understand if this is the way you do stuff. Is it because he’s black? Is this the way you do stuff? I know you got a history. (Time was up).

PRESENTATION BY THE SAN FRANCISCO SHERIFF’S OFFICE

Chief Richard Jue introduces Marin Okumu, Director of IT at the SFSO, appearing remotely, who gave the presentation on technology, availability of data, availability of reports, and resources required to pull data.

Questions from Vice President Carrion, Member Afuhaamango, Member Soo, and Member Brookter.

BREAK (4:02 pm to 4:09 pm)

Chief Jue answered questions from President Wechter.

Continued questions for Director Okumu from Member Nguyen, Member Brookter, and Member Soo.

Chief Kevin McConnell, field operations division for SFSO, appeared in person, and presented on the Emergency Services Unit (ESU) and recent deployment of deputies in the field.

Questions from Vice President Carrion, Member Brookter, Member Soo, Member Nguyen, and President Wechter.

PUBLIC COMMENT:
Unidentified Speaker, appearing in person, we heard a lot today. It’s not easy sitting through this meeting. The police commission goes to 5 hours. He was here 6 hours, sitting here, just listening to nonsense. Listening to police codes. There is no reason for a guy like him to be here and put up with this. What he is asking is, he is trying to find out why he’s here. Why is he sitting through a police commission for 7 hours? That is his rule, if he makes a public comment, he is going to stay here and stay here until the end. But it doesn’t make sense to him. Nothing makes sense to him. He doesn’t know how you can do that to somebody. Somebody who can’t help himself. He’s at the mercy of people he doesn’t see, that he doesn’t know, but they have these wide, wide tentacles, that go all around the city. Whichever way you go, look up, down, sideways, they’re all here, all around you, all the time. Who are you? Who are you, is what he wants to know. He’s trying to find out, who are you? You’re talking to me in this room, all the time. He’s here, down the hallway, down the street, anywhere he goes, to the post office, Shell gas station, anywhere he goes, you are all there. Who are you? Does anybody know? Who are you? Like really, who are you? I’m trying to find out. This is going on 13 years, I’m asking this question. Somebody’s invisible, talking to me, and preventing me from coming up here and sharing my thoughts. Who are you? Is anybody know? Does anybody know who they are? (Time was up).

Andrew James White, appearing in person, as the last individual just stated, who are you? Who are you? Who is he? Who he is. But who are you? That’s a good question because this is revolving around anonymity hearing complaints. He’s listening to a lot of what’s going on around here, what’s the design for. He is hearing a lot about data sharing, sharing rights, SFSO, SDOB. Great. That’s what he’s trying to think about. Bouncing around like a human pinball, like that pinball wizard down in LA before he came here. Trying to figure out what’s going on. A lot of times the documentation, the record keeping, very informative, but what he’s getting here is anonymity, everybody knows. A lot of people, they don’t like to file a complaint, that may want to go anonymous, but that kind of dilutes the complaints sometimes, not always. You’re still getting followed around. It’s really easy to find out who the complainant is, but who the cops? Balance is necessary. The supernatural, the unseen, the unexplainable that’s going on. Tension gets heated and people freak out and then the referees have to come in and figure out what is going on. Then that gets heated, then color of law is violated. Then that has to get figured out then due process kicks in because the light of natural reason is not available anymore. The referees come in. The complaint process let’s think about modifying anonymity. Simple SB16, SB1421, 832.7.8. chapter 67, sunshine ordinance, article 1 sec 3, brown act, he’s still getting acquainted with all this as far as (unintelligible), zoning, this that, and the spirit within, so who are you? He’s had to be directed from the OIG to the sheriff themselves, directing on a straight complaint, maybe this is okay, he had to find the officer that he had this disposition with and gave the deposition to and he had to call him up and track him down. (Time was up).

Due to time constraints, the Secretary moved to continue Lines item 6, 7, and 8, to the next meeting. Vice President Carrion asked that the quarterly report be heard due to the time sensitive nature.

QUARTERLY REPORT TO THE SHERIFF AND THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Open discussion by Vice President Carrion, President Wechter, and Member Soo.

Motion to accept the Report with the amendments to correct the tenses, add the timeline, and add the future community meeting at Glide Memorial by Member Brookter, seconded by Vice President Carrion.

PUBLIC COMMENT: None

Vote on motion:
AYES: Afuhaamango, Brookter, Carrion, Nguyen, Palmer, Soo, Wechter
NAYES: None
Motion to accept the Quarterly Report for the 2nd Quarter with the stated amendments passes and approved with no objections.

SUMMER RECESS

Open discussion by Member Soo, and comments by President Wechter.

Motion to take summer recess and not have a meeting in August by Member Soo, seconded by Vice President Carrion.

PUBLIC COMMENT: None.

Vote on motion:
AYES: Afuhaamango, Brookter, Carrion, Nguyen, Palmer, Soo, Wechter
NAYES: None 

Motion to take a summer recess in the month of August passes and approved with no objections. The SDOB will be in Summer Recess and have no meeting in the month of August 2023.

FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS

Open discussion to:
- have a closed session to discuss the candidates for inspector general at the end of July
- reschedule the community meeting at Glide Memorial.

PUBLIC COMMENT: None.

GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT

Unidentified Speaker, appearing in person, he lives about 4 blocks from here, on the corner of Laguna and Grove, he’s been there for about 13 years. He looks out the window every day, and he tries to see when he will be free, when he will have freedom. He wants to get around, he wants to do things. He wants to buy a milkshake. Want to take a date out to Starbucks, get some coffee, sit down, talk, about life, about what they want to do. Have kids or not. But they say there is a lot of money for you, there is billions and billions and billions of dollars and you can’t do none of those things until we give you the money. Until you get the money, you can’t leave your house. You can’t associate, you can’t come here and talk. People are starting to fight him in here. He comes to city hall all the time and he wants to share his thoughts, his experiences and his hardships. People are starting to come up to fight him. They are giving him attitude. They looking at him weird. This guy almost touched him. He’s some sort of dude here. Crazy dude trying to get unleashed on you. Somebody’s doing that. He doesn’t know who it is. This is 13 years, it’s every day of your life. Night and day. Your night and day. You can’t sleep at night. So it’s during the night and day. He doesn’t have a place to live. He doesn’t have social security. He doesn’t get SSI. He doesn’t get food stamps. He doesn’t get nothing. He guesses he’s lucky he has a phone to share what’s going on with him and his life. He’s lucky he has this phone. He’s not even supposed to have this phone. Nobody is supposed to see you. Somebody is doing all this and you wonder who it is. Somebody very powerful. It’s has to be someone very big and powerful, right? Who does this to you. It does it to you from when you’re a little child. This is a hard 13 years, so he is trying to see if you can help him.

ADJOURNMENT

All those in favor voted AYE. No NAYS.

Meeting was adjourned at 4:56 pm.

Dan Leung
Legal Assistant,
Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board

Full video recording may be accessed at https://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/player/clip/44042?view_id=223&redirect=true&h=9982f31cb11605e788275d66dd0aacdc       

Meeting called to order at 2:04 pm. Pledge of Allegiance.

ROLL CALL

PRESENT: Afuhaamango (at 2:11 pm), Brookter, Carrion, Soo, Wechter, Acting Secretary Leung

Motion to excuse Member Nguyen from today’s meeting by Member Soo, seconded by Member Brookter. Unanimously approved.

A quorum of the Board was present.

GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT

PUBLIC COMMENT:
Terry Feel, appearing in person, thought it was important to address the board. We are living in amazing times. What is amazing about it is to now be able to raise our level of consciousness awareness. Everything that is pushed on us. To summarize it. If we want to know how to end humanity, we get it. It’s exactly what’s going on. On every side, the whole spectrum. The push on technology, the manipulation of science. All the lies, the lies, the cover ups. It’s crazy but it’s a chance for us to realize if we want humanity to end. We get it. We’ve got responsibility now. Full awareness. The goal, it’s a mission. He’s on them. Look, it’s the way it is. The goal is happiness for everybody. We have to wake up. This is going to be the answer. He doesn’t know how long we have to be aware of that. Thanks a lot for your attention.

ADOPTION OF MINUTES

PUBLIC COMMENT: None.

Motion to adopt the three sets of minutes by Member Soo, seconded by President Wechter.

Vote to adopt the minutes of April 7, 2023, the community meeting minutes from April 11, 2023, and April 21, 2023:
AYES: Brookter, Carrion, Soo, Wechter
NAYS: None
Motion passes and approved with no objections. Minutes of April 7, 2023, and community meeting minutes from April 11, 2023, and April 21, 2023, are adopted.

RECRUITMENT OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

Danielle Butler Vappie, Interim Executive Director, Los Angeles Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission, appeared remotely and presented on the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Civilian Oversight Commission.

Max Huntsman, Inspector General, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Civilian Oversight Commission, appeared remotely and presented on the Inspector General’s Office.

Questions by Vice President Carrion, Member Soo, Member Afuhaamango, Member Brookter, and President Wechter.

Paul Greene and Benjamin Richey, Department of Human Resources, appeared in person to give a status update on the recruitment process and answer board member questions.

Questions by Vice President Carrion, Member Soo, President Wechter, Member Brookter, and Member Afuhaamango.

PUBLIC COMMENT:
Unidentified individual appearing in person, asked if the inspector general position was a permanent civil service position.

Francisco DeCosta, on the phone, is very interested in this issue. He has given his comments before. And what he feels is we need to do a deep investigation into our jail system. We have a very primitive jail system. We have to do a deep investigation into our San Francisco Police Department as to the gap of their workforce and what is happening over there. And I think we can’t be listening to Los Angeles who has a population of four million, and we have a population of 820,000. If we go the route of putting too much emphasis on an area that has a very large population, and very close to Mexico with all those things happening, much as we have on a smaller scale. We will marry the waters. He thinks that those of you, who are sitting on this board, has to focus on empirical data and expertise, real expertise. So that you can work with the inspector general. He has law enforcement experience and he knows what he is talking about. Thank you very much.

PUBLIC COMMENT ON CLOSED SESSION

None.

VOTE ON CLOSED SESSION

Motion to hold closed session by President Wechter, seconded by Brookter.

Vote on motion to hold closed session on personnel matters.
AYES: Afuhaamango, Brookter, Carrion, Soo, Wechter.
NAYES: None
Motion passes without objection to hold a closed session.

CLOSED SESSION

Motion during closed session by Vice President Carrion, seconded by Member Soo.

Vote on motion in closed session:
AYES: Afuhaamango, Brookter, Carrion, Soo, Wechter
NAYES: None
Motion passes without objection.

OPEN SESSION

VOTE TO DISCLOSE DISCUSSION ON CLOSED SESSION

Motion to not disclose discussion in closed session by Member Soo, seconded by Member Afuhaamango.

PUBLIC COMMENT: None.

Vote on motion to not disclose discussion in closed session:
AYES: Afuhaamango, Brookter, Carrion, Soo, Wechter.
NAYES: None.
Motion to not disclose the discussion in closed session passes without objection. Discussion in closed session will not be disclosed.

QUARTERLY REPORT TO THE SHERIFF AND THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

Open discussion by Member Soo.

Motion to approve the quarterly report as presented by President Wechter, seconded by Member Brookter.

PUBLIC COMMENT: None.

Vote on motion to approve the quarterly report as presented.
AYES: Afuhaamango, Brookter, Carrion, Soo, Wechter
NAYES: None.
Motion to approve the quarterly report as presented passes without objection.

FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS

Open discussion by Vice President Carrion, Member Soo, Member Afuhaamango, President Wechter

Future agenda items:
- Sheriff’s Inventory
- Summer break – August
- National Night Out events
- SFSO community events that board members may attend
- Invite HRC to the community meeting at Glide
- Report from Probation and Parole
- Future Sheriff’s training
- Public Defender Office
- Future community meetings with coordination with Supervisors

PUBLIC COMMENT:
Francisco DeCosta, on the phone, what he wants to bring to your attention is, that we need to have a hearing with you commissioners on how we propose to address the jail situation. It looks like you haven’t been to 850 Bryant. It’s despicable. So, with all the talk about the Inspector General, and the details about your meeting, and whatever. There are thousands of people over the years, that have been suffering because of the dirty situation, sewage flowing all over the place, and you are all nonchalant about this situation. So, I think you will need to have a hearing, so that you all can, hear from the people, at City Hall, rather than at 7 o’clock or 8 o’clock at night in the Tenderloin and the Bayview Opera House. Nobody is going to go there. People are not stupid. Nobody guarantees their security. We’re going to have this hearing at City Hall, just with you all – the Commissioners, so that we find out exactly what you all have in mind, to have this Inspector General, and if you really care about rehabilitation. You’ve got clowns before who do not care about the prisoners. We had to fight so that we could get rid of the bail situation and Jeff Adachi was dead. And talking about the Sheriff’s Department, in order to really get them on board, and make them have some empathy, you guys have to do something. (Time was up)

GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT

No public comment.

ADJOURNMENT

All those in favor voted AYE. No NAYS.

Meeting was adjourned at 4:16 pm.

Dan Leung
Legal Assistant,
Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board

Full video recording may be accessed at: https://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/player/clip/44042?view_id=223&redirect=true&h=9982f31cb11605e788275d66dd0aacdc

Mission Arts Center
745 Treat Ave., San Francisco, CA 94110

Meeting called to order at 6:17 pm.

ROLL CALL

PRESENT: Brookter, Carrion, Palmer, Soo, Wechter, Acting Secretary Leung
NOT PRESENT: Afuhaamango (excused), Nguyen (excused)

A quorum of the Board was present.

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

President Wechter welcomed the public. Vice President Carrion, Member Soo, Member Brookter, Member Palmer and President Wechter introduced themselves, welcomed the public, and gave a brief profile of themselves.

PUBLIC COMMENT: No public comment.

PRESENTATION BY THE SAN FRANCISCO SHERIFF’S OFFICE

The Sheriff’s Office asked that Board Member Nguyen represent the Sheriff’s Office to give a presentation for SFSO. Member Nguyen was unable to attend due to military leave.

PUBLIC COMMENT: No public comment.

COMMUNITY INPUT TO THE SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT OVERSIGHT BOARD REGARDING SFSO OPERATIONS AND JAIL CONDITIONS

Open discussion by Vice President Carrion. Member Soo, and President Wechter.

PUBLIC COMMENT:
Unidentified member of the public, in person, asked clarification of Sheriff’s policy and procedures and the SFPD and Sheriff’s Office.

Unidentified clinical librarian at SFGH, in person, asked if the MOU was available online.

Responses by Member Soo, Vice President Carrion, and President Wechter.

RECRUITMENT OF AN INSPECTOR GENERAL

Open discussion by Vice President Carrion, Member Soo, President Wechter, Member Brookter.

PUBLIC COMMENT:
Unidentified member of the public, in person, asked about the qualifications for an inspector general, had previously filed a small claims against the Sheriff’s Department and a complaint with DPA. Asked about a complaint filed 2 years ago and asked if he could file a complaint from 2 years ago. Asked about paper trail, records requests, and subpoena of personnel records.
Responses from Member Soo, Member Brookter, Vice President Carrion, and President Wechter.

Unidentified medical student and researcher at SFGH, in person, stated that not only is the Sheriff’s responsible for the jails but also for the DPH system, and they have serious concerns around the use of force at their clinics and hospitals as well as arrests on outstanding warrants in the hospitals, which can deter people from accessing healthcare services. They asked if the new inspector general would be responsible for following up with concerns around transparency. In 2021, they worked with the ACLU to file a PRA. The Sheriff’s has not adequately responded for released data around use of force incidences or around outstanding arrest warrants. They want that data. They think it is important for the public to know about it. Curious about the audits and whether that can be a way to get that data to the public being that they deserve transparency. DPH Must Divest is a campaign that’s working to find safety and prevent incidences of violence without having to rely on the police. One of the concerns they have is around the ways that use of force have been on their patients as well as demonstrative in multiple cases in the hospital. Healthcare workers will come to their coalition with their concerns. They worked with the ACLU to file PRA back in 2021. Limited response has been: giving information on training documents not for use of force or outstanding warrants. An incomplete response. They would like aggregated data on counts of use of force, as well as how many arrests are happening on campus because they don’t have the data. DPH does not have data on arrests on outstanding warrants in the hospital. The hospital keeps complaints around use of force, and anytime they find out about an arrest, they try to get involved in it and that’s how they found out about these cases. They have a weekly review of these cases. One question they have is it would be great for the inspector general not only to interface with the Sheriff’s Office but with the Department of Public Health around these incidents and other city departments. They recommend reaching out to Basil Price, the security director at DPH, to come speak to the board about concerns they may have. They have not gotten data (around the request for PRA) from ACLU. They hear people talk about it, but they don’t know what is going on. Context about what the concerns are around use of force and arrest for warrants: context for use of force is excessive use of force against folks who are being forcibly discharged from the hospital or who are being held on a voluntary psych hold, pregnant patients being shackled to beds for days unnecessarily, providers not being allowed to properly perform medical assessments because they’re (patients) shackled to the bed, or because of interactions between the Sheriff’s Department and the providers. In addition, SFPD is also all up in SF General Hospital, they will ask providers for information and try to look at, get people’s belongings without a proper warrant. Even stand in operating rooms during surgeries. There’s serious concerns they have. They say it is part of their protocol or policy and they have to escalate it to the captain and sometimes that works, and they can resolve the situation properly. Other times, by the time it happens, the patient has already been discharged, or whatever the situation is. It is clear whether it is the sheriff’s or the police as they wear different uniforms. They found out about the meeting because one of their members emailed them the Mission Local article. They had questions around auditing, is it exclusively for personnel or can they do audits around Covid 19 policies, or around seismic security of the buildings because there is serious concern in the past around San Francisco.
Question, answers, and discussion by President Wechter, Member Soo, Vice President Carrion, and Member Brookter.

Unidentified clinical librarian at SFGH, in person, question about the regular board meeting.
Response from President Wechter and Member Soo.

2nd unidentified member of the public, in person, has seen Sheriff’s Deputies parked in the neighborhood waiting for someone to arrest. He feels like this is a form of abuse. He hopes that when we hire an inspector general, that he keeps this in mind and pushes back on this kind of abuse. One will stop the person to talk to him and the other one will stand there glaring. He hears about this meeting the same way as everyone else has.

GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT

Unidentified clinical librarian at SFGH, in person, read over the job description and says these are huge shoes to fill, it is very broad in scope and range, it requires community outreach experience but legal expertise, data analytics, and was curious about what the process was in creating the job for posting was. Asked to hear from Board Member Palmer and Board Member Brookter, on what they are looking for in this job, what type of soft skills and not just qualifications on paper. She was concerned that the educational requirements is just a bachelor’s degree but the scope of the job is so broad, and the responsibilities are so broad. The desirable qualifications state somebody with a JD or master’s degree and the minimum requirements is just a bachelors. We had so much talk about data and auditing and reporting, she doesn’t see it reflected in the qualifications. Asked about the trauma informed perspective qualification.
Responses by President Wechter, Vice President Carrion, Member Soo, Member Palmer, and Member Brookter.

Unidentified medical student and researcher at SFGH, in person, asked about the budget and where the money is coming from. Asked where restitution and support for people affected by the Sheriff’s department come from.
Responses from President Wechter, Member Soo, Member Palmer, and Vice President Carrion.

2nd unidentified medical student at SFGH, in person, his research and concern is about the Sheriff and the birth center at San Francisco General Hospital. California passed laws against restraints and shackling against people being transported to the hospital, at the hospital, during labor and delivery and during post-partum. Unfortunately, the reality is that 99% of the people who come in remain in restraints during their stay. He came in when the other gentlemen was talking about some other misconduct that has been ongoing and people in the community are seeing and professionals are seeing and are not concerned by. He is wondering how in creating this how we are going to ensure that there is an amount of transparency with the rest of the community so that this does not just become another black box where complaints go in, and people get slaps on the wrist, but then the truth of the matter is that 99% of the people that come into labor at San Francisco General are in custody and are being restrained. So they have this lack of continuity with the reality that we are discussing in this room, the reality that they are discussing in the court and what is actually happening in the hospital with community members. He’s wondering what this group is doing specifically for the birth center and how we are going to ensure these conversations are being really transparent so that the Sheriff’s department is not just looking after its own self for accountability. He understands that this is in part your role. He is wondering how that is going to be extended to really encourage accountability and transparency. Can you reach out to groups that have been working on this for a long time? Suggested to speak to No Jail SF coalition. It sounds like the only transparency as far as the process goes is from you all communicating with the public. There is no way for the public to, let’s say I called because my patient is shackled, unless you guys decide to do a report or a community presentation, nobody else is going to, there is no public transparency. Is anyone able to see the complaint process? Can DPH and the Inspector General look at and compare the information? He is still concerned with the lack of transparency, and he hears that this is also a concern that we have. Are we working on anything to make things more transparent? There is an opportunity to file direct complaints, is there also an opportunity to request specific audits if there is a coalition or group who is concerned about the sheriff’s, could they request a particular audit. Could that be, what is the process for that?
Responses by President Wechter, Member Soo, Vice President Carrion, and Member Brookter.

ADJOURNMENT

All those in favor voted AYE. No NAYS.

Meeting was adjourned at 7:59 pm.

Dan Leung
Legal Assistant,
Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board

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Meeting called to order at 6:09 pm.

ROLL CALL

PRESENT: Afuhaamango, Brookter, Nguyen, Soo, Wechter, Acting Secretary Leung
NOT PRESENT: Carrion, Palmer

A quorum of the Board was present.

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION

President Wechter welcomed the public. Member Afuhaamango, Member Soo, Member Brookter, Member Nguyen, and President Wechter introduced themselves, welcomed the public, and gave a brief profile of themselves.

PUBLIC COMMENT
Rosario Cervante, in person, a member of the San Francisco Democratic Club, was told of the meeting by Anita Fisher. She doesn’t really know what the meeting is for or what it is about.

Christina Macintosh, in person, a reporter from Mission Local.

Kina Sinapopo, in person, no longer a San Francisco resident but was raised in the Portola District now called Silver Terrace. Advocates for people who are marginalized.

RECRUITMENT OF AN INSPECTOR GENERAL

The floor was open for the public to address the board on what qualifications they would like to see in an Inspector General.

Open discussion and comments by Member Soo, and President Wechter.

Member Soo clarified that she was the point person with DHR.

PUBLIC COMMENT: No comments.

GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT

President Wechter clarified what public comment was.

Members of the public: Ms. Cervantes asked if the meeting was about a job opening. Ms. Macintosh asked about email contact. Ms. Sinapopo talked about routine mental health or psych evaluation screenings for the deputies.

Open discussion with members of the public who were present by Member Soo, President Wechter, Member Afuhaamango, Member Brookter, and Member Nguyen

ADJOURNMENT

All those in favor voted AYE. No NAYS.
 

Meeting was adjourned at 7:09 pm.

Dan Leung
Legal Assistant,
Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board

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