Good evening. The recommended action is that the board approve the attached agreement between the San FranciscoUnified School District and united educators of San Francisco certificate of classified paraeducators regarding the mayors stipends at the potential schools and related Public Disclosure document. Thank you. I think we have one speaker signed up. Good evening. I am the president of did you night educators of San Francisco united educators of San Francisco. We did negotiate this agreement and the executive board did approve it. We had a very i thought i had musical there like a show on tv. We had a really interesting long engaged discussion about this item. One of the things that i felt was important to point out, and i told our executive board i would do this. The issues about providing the services and education to students at historically underserved communities is complex and we have a lot of ideas how to make it better. The 10 million from the Mayors Office for which we thanker is just one piece of what we need to do. One thing we would really want to see and you have heard our members say this before is not just more money for people working in the schools but more people working in the schools. Thank you very much for your consideration. Thank you. Any comments from the board . Roll call vote. roll call . Six ayes. Section h number one. Second amended amendment to be contract for doctor vincent matthews. May i hear a second on this item. I will read this that they approve the Second Amendment to Employment Contract for soup superintendent matthews any comments from the board . Okay. Roll call vote. roll call . That is seven ayes. Congratulations. Thank you. Section i discussion of other educational issues. Doctor matthews. Tonight we have the memorandum of understanding between the San FranciscoUnified School District and Police Department presenting is the Community Support department and captain williams in the Community Engagement division with the sfpd. Chief true wit and captain con kaepernick continue williams. This is my last board presentation. I expected more people. It is my last chance to get my emmy on television. I am kevin truitt. Good evening, i am here tonight and joined by our new director of Crisis Response and Emergency Preparedness who will take over this as the liaison and extremely happy to be joined by. Yolanda williams, captain of School Resources program. I am honored to be here tonight. I enjoyed my commander. Okay. So tonight this presentation will share an update of the m. O. U. Including the following. I will share the opportunities for Community Members to participate. Some of you have seen these if you are on the joint select committee these may look familiar. I will share the opportunities for Community Members to participate in the process of providing feedback and give you a sense of who attended and share resources to the Community Members. Some of the most mentioned topics we will share a snapshot of the arrest data and provide the examples of draft language in key areas where we proposed new language in specific sections of the m. O. U. We held four Community Forums facilitates by sfusd leadership. Two were in december and january, last year. We had over 50. Then two additional meetings were requested at schools. Those two meetings were facilitated by our cb o partners. Let me take that back. One at mission was facilitated bby ali and at the high school was by the sac. They had 23 and 41 participants. Additional meetings were convened with alliance for girls and the Youth Commission and were facilitated by the organizations themselves. In other words, we allowed participants their own meetings without staff. We provided with a facilitators guide and existing m. O. U. And blew up the top sections and provided feedback forms and sign up sheets and they provided it to us and we recorded thousands of comments. I want to point out there was diverse representations from the organizations and groups. I dont mean to go through by name, but you can see that we did have quite a bit of representation. Captain williams. The feedback obtained we received suggestions throughout the process and we transcribed and scanned all of the comments and suggestions. We shared it with anyone who provided emails. Some of the most discussed sections were in reference to the term innology for all to understand. For example e exigent circumstances came up a lot. We have make sure that regulations are included in the m. O. U. Some of the sections previously were not part of an amendment or appendition. Appendix. We are willing to protect the identity of juveniles with any incident of police involvement. Schools are to add here to the language that clearly states the Police Department officers should not be commonned to school to deal with disciplinary issues with students. Before we go into the language we are changing in the m. O. U. We want to look at what is happening . What does the data look like . I would like to share this data the last three years and go further back. Not all of these are officially arrests. Sometimes students are detained and released to parents. This shows any incident where a student was removed and became in the custody of the police. Two years ago there were 9 9 arrest 79 and last year was 38. In 20182019 there were 28 arrests. If you go to 201011 there were 195 arrests. Following year 167. Then 133, then 94, then 90, then what you see here. I mention this because i cannot proof a causal relationship. One would make the assumption providing clarity and direction may have a direct impact on reducing the arrest at school. Lets look at the language. What i have done here is anything you see in white is current language. Highlighted is new language. In this section formally section 11 which is now section 9 it discusses requesting police assistance. There were three situations when a school can request school assistance. These three situations it is necessary to protect the physical safety of students and staff. The community here asked for specific example goes to fall under these categories. That is what we provide. Instead of saying necessary to protect physical safety of students, which could mean a lot of things. We offered examples. Distribution of child pornography, violence causing serious body injury. We provided examples what that actually means. Slide nine is revised proposed language. On the procedure for school staff to request police assistance. In the previous m. O. U. It was fine for sros to be called or text for immediate assistance. That is a problem because it takes and places the responsibility of documenting the call for service in our system on the sro who has to lead and it can lead at this point to underreporting of incidents. By calling for the Police Dispatch number this will ensure every call is properly records, monitored and prioritized. We found it is problem attic they might be called when they were off work on holidays or regular off days or taking a vacation day. This last two call and not being answered in a timely matter. Some sros in some high incident schools are texted by one principal and another principal texted another one at the end of the school day it is better to call dispatch. Section 10 which is now section 15 refers to officers entry on campus. In the current m. O. U. Officers entry on campuses begins with absent exigent circumstances. This raised concern for Community Members unclear about the definition of exigent circumstances. Here we provide the definition of ex get circumstances as circumstances that would cause a reasonable person to believe caution that caution was necessary to prevent physical harm to the public or officers, prevent escape of a violent suspect or destruction of critical evidence. On slide 11 we refer to arrests on School Campuses the Community Feedback requested examples of consideration officers should make in determining whether the arrest should take place on school grounds. For example, consider whether the arrest in response to a schoolrelated offense. If the arrest is for conduct that occurred outside of the school, this would weigh in favor of making an arrest away from the school grounds. There are other examples listed such as if the law did not require an immediate arrest. It can take place away from the school grounds. In the officer can make the arrest at another location the arrest should take place away from the school grounds. Policing on campus. I dont expect you to read that. That is a lot of new language. I highlighted the main four Points Police interviews on campus will cover. We have added the new board policy requiring a one court order Parent Guardian consent to allow an interview by police. The new law requiresault students 17 and under in San Francisco must be provided with consultation with the public defender prior to the interview and miranda. We added language to permit the student to contact their parent with their own cell phone. Parents will pick up the phone if the caller id if it is their child. This states specifically that students and families will be provided with interpretation and provided copies of the know your rights brochure. Slide 13 regarding location of arrest. Once police determined the reasonableness of the arrest as defined by section 16, the current m. O. U. States to the extent practicable all at a private location out on of sight and sound shall be arranged for arrest. The new language states they shall take into consideration the students right to privacy when escorted offcampus. Officers who arrest a student should make reasonable attempts to conceal the student identity sand keep the student out of public view when escorting a student offcampus. Those are some major sections. What happens next . We want to receive some feedback from anyone in the public and from the commissioners, at which time we will submit if final draft for approval, signatures, then it will come back to the board under the m. O. U. Section not for another presentation necessarily but under the m. O. U. Agenda and you will vote on it. We will promote and publicize it rejamulpel modes via multiple modes. That is what i have. There is public comment. Good evening, commissioners, delegates. All of the great people in the audience, i am kevin bogus. I work at children youth as political director. During this m. O. U. As well as past versions of it, coleman has been involved in the creation of the m. O. U. S. I think we feel the process has run its course. It is not helps address the issues in the district around safety, around things that promote Restorative Practices in schools. One of the big challenges in the past with the Police Department is there is no one to hold the School District or Police Department accountable when it is broken. There is no commitment to bring the Police Officers to the community. I think a good example of this is an incident last year at Balboa High School a gun was discharged at the school and the swat team came in and shut down the school for part of the day. The police werent present in the process to take part in that. I think we need other ways to promote safety at school. What other all auternatives do we have alternatives do we have. This is better than maam programs programs across the nation. We think the document worked on is better than what we see in a lot of cities across the nation. We dont think it addresses the primary issues in the school and isnt reflective of the direction the School District is trying to take as part of promoting Restorative Practices, Community Accountability and not criminalizing students. African american and latino students rving the majority of police contracts. If it is not addressing that, what purpose is it serving . Thank you. Good evening. I am a budget advocate for the Student Advisory Council and i assist that department. My role last semester was Facilitation Organization on a public forum. A great deal of Community Members from the Youth Commission and parents, commissioner lopez came to join the public forum. I want to speak on the weight of the Student Voice and exposure to the drafting of the m. O. U. There is a great deal of them. There is value in having this memorandum and having a set understandings but i feel there is a great deal of weight between the students exposed and it in language which the students could understand and get feedback on, and, you know, it is an incredibly contentious issue. There is a lot of divided temperature about the revised m. O. U. I would like to speak how important it was to have so many students see it, provide their feedback and really see those changes manifested in the m. O. U. Proposed to you today. Thank you so much. Good evening. I wanted to go last when this was mr. Truits past presentation. I appreciate you provided this to some of the partners early to review. I am here on the committee for special education. One of the things that standing out to me is that when you do a search you find the words disability, iep,504 plan, manifest determination. Zero times in the entire 15 pages of this m. O. U. In the presentation none of the data included students with disabilities. I will give you statistics. There is a Data Collection project. The last data publicly available is from 2015. At that time specific to fu they accounted 32. 1 of inschool suspension. 39. 9 of out of school and half of expulsions. This m. O. U. Contains zero information about the special protections our students eaching special education are entitled to in the discipline andy escalation is not included. Students like my son are not obvious with disabilities. When he is frustrated he loses disability to hear and respond. He is an africanamerican boy who at age 14 is now taller than me. For him and for every other africanamerican student with disabilities we need to update this m. O. U. To be more specific and supportive. Thank you. That concludes public comment. Any questions from commissione commissioners . I will come back to you. I am doing my book club every time we meet. I am reading dance the blues. It is written by doctor morris specific to the experience of criminalization of black girls. It has a whole chapter on removing police from schools. The problem reliant on the presence of Law Enforcement it is a fabricated construct of safety in the first place. I appreciate kevin bogus comments. This is not just about an m. O. U. We should talk about student safety. What she discusses is the idea there is so much discretion in school policing work across the country. The idea that officers. We had some wonderful communitybased sros in the school. Most of the policing relies on police to make decisions on their own discretion. That was called out by fisher. How do we support students with disabilities . How do we make sure that the folk are aware how to deescalate and they are informed and trained how to make decisions not based on common sense. It says Police Officers are particularly ill equipped because they tend to respond with the same tools used for impression. These methods dont facilitate safety in schools. Police may need to remove a dangerous person. The continuous presence is not to prevent violence nor do they prevent safety from girls of color or other students. I am having trouble with the whole m. O. U. Process. I think there is a Robust Community process, and i believe as a district we do a better job of thinking about these things. If we dont have safe schools, if students are not welcome and if we are not Building Community and we dont have Restorative Practices in schools, these are the schools where we see children acting out or bringing weapons to school to protect themselves from bullying. This process is disconnected. From the larger conversation which we have. How do we support a safe schools pracand then the question would be how does policing fit into that . There are Community Members involved in kind of keeping the peace. I think of united players and organizations working in communities to help heal communities. It is interesting that we are looking at an m. O. U. With the police but not with organizations doing gun buy backs in the community. They are preventing violence from coming in the schools. They should be involved. I wish we were talking about m. O. U. S were folks who know the communities and are doing kind of antiviolence work as members of communities of color. First of all, i want to advise you that our offices take a lead from the staff administrators. Certainly we dont know the full positions, what has happened in the School System, and we dont propose that you have that willing. We take the lead from the School Administrators when we respond to the school. Deescalation techniques. We have weekly meetings with them and in Service Telephone calls with them on frequently and then they are consistently being trained to deal with juvenile issues, how to handle a young person dealing with posttraumatic stress or what frequently occurs in and out of the School Systems. The School Resource officer is there doing presentations on safety awareness. Presentations on young people knowingnary rights. We are there for parent conferences. We do partner with sbid. We do partner with united players and they are called as one of the many resources. We are there to provide young people with only one restaurant. It is to the young person in the School System but we help to ensure these services are available for the family, the complete family unit. Our officers have been trained how to handle young people dealing with Mental Health issues. They are receiving extensive training to ensure that we are providing a service and a resource. We are not in the schools just for disciplinary reasons. We respond because we have other programs that are offered throughout the district. I know the School Resource officer that served my Daughters School is a caring person, i also still have questions about these are more larger picture questions. I guess even specifically if we are adding language that says we wont have Police Question students. It is at this descretion of the principal how the School Resource officers are utilized. I said we take the lead from the School Administrators. We dont know if a young person has a special learning disability or anything like th that. However, we First Respond and speak directly with the dean or the principal at the school site. Our mode is that we are there to support in a way that is going to be successful for everyone who is involved. What i noticed in some occasions principals have if we are not questioning students, we have Police Question students without parents in concept. I have heard from parents a concern that School Resource officers were brought in to rooms where administrators were questioning students. I have heard this reported by parents. I would want that language to be included. I am telling you i heard from a parent that they did not want their child to be interviewed without their involvement. They were with the administrator and their son was interviewed with the sro in the room. The parent felt that was intim dating for hersion. I want it just about the actual sro. Sometimes it is how administrators may or may not about their presence. This specific sri, i know him by name. Hhe is a very caring person. We have to acknowledge that police as a presence have an impact in communities of color. That is something that i think we want to acknowledge and it is a concern that comes up for me regardless how well they are trained. If they are providing the communitybased services, all of ththe thingsna you are doing hae to do with being a caring adult. We have or folks to serve those rolls. I would like to move away from police in schools at all. These adults could be provided these services. That being a Police Officer in a school it has an impact on communities of color, and those are questions and concerns i have. I want to let you know. 96c covers a Police Officer interviewing or having these type of exchanges with a young person. That is what 96c is when. However, i believe you did discuss something about a concern of a Police Officers in rome when staff is questioning the young person. I have made it clear in our Staff Meetings and consistently that we will not be included in conversations when the school isvis gating something. We will come afterwards to speak with the administrator or the staff person that requested us. Again. That is in compliance with 96c. We have a long list of folks that want to chime in. I have commissioner norton. I just want to follow up on the question asked about the m. O. U. Doesnt really silent on the issue of students with disability and any training we are providing both school staff around the additional protection for students with disabilities would receive. I think these comments are very good. I did send her a message that we want to look at some of those comments. Let me find something that i wanted to point out. There are a couple things that i did want to mention there are specific places where we say if not there to address criminal behavior. There are some proactive things to do as part of the communities. It lists things to do. Talk about careers and restor Restorative Practices and school attendance. All of those trainings would be accessible to students with special needs. It is mentioned. I do want to say in section 20 it lists officers will be trained in special education laws. Then i said maybe we need to mention it. I said man fistation is conducted by the school psychologist. We trained all of the schools in manifestation determination and threat assessment. In both cases we dont want police to be part of it. We believe once you had the manifestation that comes up during prosecute of what happened to her whenever we have an expulsion the first thing is see if it is manifestation. If it is we cant move forward with the case. It is not as intentional as it needs to be. We can work on that. The manifestation i is a good point. Those are all of the things. Attending school stal school st. It says they will offer straining in strategies for working and communicating with students. We want to look at that language to strengthen it and talk about a man festation, hey that kid is in the sore program. What that means he is not responsible for those actions. I think it is a really important thing to bring up. I want to thank you for doing this m. O. U. It is really important. I do have something bad. The incident at balboa. I had a family friend in the bathroom during the incident, anchoring to my mom when the swat team showed up to the bathroom they had guns pointed at my friend. This caused him to have performed tsd. He hasnt talked to anybody since the incident because of having the gun pointed at him. He hasnt talked at all. I dont believe that having police at school is a good thing. I think it is more dangerous just because of the person of color because of the history that police have with people of color. A lot of students in and out of jail can feel like i feel when i see Police Officer. A plaintiff. A Police Officer. It is important to have healing if they look like us and relate to our stories. Some of the cases may be really strong. I strongly belief that we should handle the situation because it helps reduce suspension and expulsion. I can say that helped redoes the rates reduce the rates at my school. A lot of our schools are taking into consideration pier mediates do help and they are putting this in our data. The students getting suspended and expelled are students that are africanamericans and have iie. We are the ones hugh understand what they are going through. I dont think adults understand that. Thank you. I want to thank you for working on the m. O. U. I think it is a very powerful document and from seeing it last year i was one of the students who gave Student Input. From this presentation i can see Student Input is taken and i see the changes made to the document. I am happy to see you public size this to sros and the school admin and staff and students. This is a powerful document, as powerful as the writing is if the community sees it. I hear the other comments which i agree with. This is not the final m. O. U. , but i am happy with the work you have done. Thank you. Thank you for your work on this. I have a couple questions. Kevin can you remind me when the last time an m. O. U. Was adopted by the board . Yes. 1 14 14. It was a five year m. O. U. January 14, 2014. It was five years. It expired january 14, 2019. It is still in existence of the there is an agreement that the former m. O. U. Exists until we sign a new one. The schools know that. Any monetary contribution for this program . Yes. Well for this program. We pay for a portion of captain williams position. 25 . That is the extent of our contribution . I dont know how much he makes. It is 1 . She makes a lot. That is if extent . Yes. In that because she is partially paid by the district, and i am looking at my favorite person. That provides captain williams. She is partially paid by the district and it provides us access to synergy many times when we share data it is important that she has access to confidential data to do her job. If she knows a student has been arrest period she can look that student up to see if he is in special ed and she needs that access. This is one of the ways to provide them with the data. How did i do . I am grateful you provide that information and access to us because we have been able to work with our Mental Health professionals and sfusd wellness to provide a array of services and have them understand more about the nature of what is going on so they can stand down and be more sensitive to issues that some of the young people are going through. Thank you. Can you speak about the Selection Process for qualifying the officers to get in the program . Currently what occurs is that we have our signups every six months within the Police Department. At that time certain officers will indicate desires to become School Resource officers at that time the captain of the station will discuss the particular persons who are interested in it with myself. Then, of course, we will consider did needs of the schools within that district, the length of service of the Police Officer, we will look at their training, their other percent thrill matters to make sure we are selecting the most appropriate person to serve as School Research officer to be a valuable partner to the School District and to the parents and the community we are serving. My recollection is this originally started the relationship between sfpd formal relationship was after columbine, it was a cops in schools federal grant . Prior to that we had no program but the grant came around and gave us additional funding. Captain williams was a very big part of that grant to provide School Resource officers to be assigned to the schools. They had an office and computer in the schools. That was around 2,000 . Yes,na grant actually ended in 2012. It was 2012 the last time the sros were stationed in high schools. That is when the funding stopped, the funding required a certain m. O. U. Without that we didnt have an existing m. O. U. It went away. That is when it was decided when we had that because we had an m. O. U. How to interact. We have had situations at schools. I want people to note that there were stationed Police Officers in our high schools and middle schools when i was principal at horace mann there was a Police Officer stationed at the school. I was one of the Board Members back in the 2000s against having armed Police Officers in the schools, particularly because i think our student delegates can handle the community of color. It was a long h long time ago. Ththe event in 2002 resulted in the armed officers on marshall after they could not contain the student fight. It was others on campus that resulted in correct me if im wrong officer in distress signal, the highest they can give is officer down . Yes, i was, working at that time and was a School Resource officer. I was not working that day. It was a situation with multiple officers citywide coming to the school. It was an incident we wished never would have happened. We learned a great deal because of it we have been able to accept shortcomings. Now we base many of the methods and responses we use now are based on best police practices. It was 126 Law Enforcement. Swat, sfpd, and deputy sheriffs in riot gear. It ended up being the largest presence in Law Enforcement. It is north getting better. I think the numbers you show here in terms of the actual detainments and arrests are going in the right direction. I would want us to get to a point where we wouldnt have to use Police Officers in our schools. I dont know if that is going to happen. We need to be sensitive to what our students are saying and be able to even get to a lower were point. Specificking in here frost the last year. Do you know how many of those students wind up at ygc which we are going to close . It is not the actual breakdown. It is all the arrests twice a year. That brains it down and includes if they are in special ed. I dont know from the 28, 13 hi, 13 middle and 2 elementary. I know where the elementary kids went . The duration of that would be good to know. Not just that they entered but how long they were there, if you can. Thank you for being here and for reporting. I think i just want to start out by saying i dont want to please presence in schools. I am not supportive of sros either. That is where i am. I am looking at the incidents at the schools. We havent had anything in place so we were uses a fiveyearold m. O. U. Specifically with the feedback about schools not contacting sfpd for disciplinary issues. The first month this year that happened four or five times and the disciplinary issue was for fighting. Sfpd was called. In one instance they were called on a fifth Grade Student because they absconded. There was fear of the student leaving and it was to the point where i had to look this up. The definition says this person is avoids arrester. In thinking it through this person is a soyearold so we are calling the police on a 10yearold. This is happens this school year. I want to figure out with this in place. My colleagues are asking for things not here. We have been working on it this entire year. It is still not in a place to have the highest level of protection for our students. How are we going to ensure that incidents like that dont continue to happen . We need the m. O. U. That everybody is completely trained on. When these things happen, she is communicating with me a lot about the incidents when it was a call that should not be made. I talk to my colleagues add lead and say this happened at your school. Talk to the principal because this happened. We do this whenever i am told that is what will happen. The officers will respond if called to the school many times it could be a fight or a student that is a danger to themselves and others. Let me know. I will talk to their school supervisor. What does the danger mean . When are they justified. The police are coming based on what the administrator is saying. If they are not prepared if we have an m. O. U. That is not going to change that incident from here on out. Those are the conversations we need to have. I have had them call me pan say this is what the student is doing police. Is there anyone that student has a relationship with . There has got to be someone who is trained. We talked through this. These are the situations that we do need to discuss and make sure we are not over policing. At least i get to use that. Let me send you the section. This is what you coul could have done. Lets talk through that