Bring up is that electronic monitoring is being overused. I think this is also brought up in the pie charts. African american makes up half of the folks on electronic monitoring. There is no real evidence that electronic monitoring is being used as an alternative to incarceration. If we didnt have electronic monitoring, as mr. Yuen pointed out, we werent using it a lot in San Francisco. Those same folks were being released without having to have electronic monitoring added as an additional condition for a pretrial release. With these principles in mind, i am asking the board to make three changes to the sheriffs and the probation departments policies and procedures with respect to electronic monitoring. The first is that the sheriff and a. P. D. And their private contractors should make every reasonable and simple attempt to contact our incliclients before seeking an arrest warrant if there is a technical violation. This could be reaching out to support people, a list of caseworkers, P
Electronic monitoring and they have a Strong Partnership with the California Department of justice where we can get more data. And they just received their Research Ethics approval for this study so we will be moving forward and we expect to have the study completed in about a year. Were interest in the larger question that chair fewer mentioned about electronic monitoring. Thats all i have, thank you. Thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues on item number one in the presentation . Seeing none, lets move on to item number two, which is a hearing on electronic monitoring. So i like to first call up chief miller from the juvenile probation department. Good morning, good to see you. Good to see you. I just have a few slides and ill be brief. Please let me know that you see it. Yes, its visible, can you make it larger . Yes, how is that . Thats perfect. Thanks chair fewer. So good morning everybody, nice to see you. I have a few slides. Its a quick run through on
[gavel]. President yee okay. Good afternoon and welcome to our october 27, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll . Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk mr. President , you vid have a quorum. President yee okay. Thank you, please place your right hand over your heart for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] if. President yee all right. Thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv, karina mendoza, who records each of the meetings and makes each of them available online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes. The minutes of this meeting will reflect that during the covid19 Health Emergency, Board Members participated in this meeting remotely through Video Conference to the same extent as though physically present. The board recognizes that Public Access to City Services is essential and certainly more acute during this time of covid19. Therefor
Clerk mr. President , you vid have a quorum. President yee okay. Thank you, please place your right hand over your heart for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] if. President yee all right. Thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv, karina mendoza, who records each of the meetings and makes each of them available online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes. The minutes of this meeting will reflect that during the covid19 Health Emergency, Board Members participated in this meeting remotely through Video Conference to the same extent as though physically present. The board recognizes that Public Access to City Services is essential and certainly more acute during this time of covid19. Therefore, we hope that members of the public are able to take advantage of the following opportunities to be able to communicate with the board of supervisors or to be able to access this meeting and participate remotely. We are happy
Spare other queer kids from the rejection that he faced. Tom met jerry in 1972, which hao whomhood build a life together. The two would marry in october 2013 in a public block partystyle wedding. Tom was diagnosed with h. I. V. In 1983, a death sentence at the time as little was known about the virus that was killing gay men by the thousands. Tom far outlived his diagnosis and over the decades he and jerry donated time, money and loving support to countless causes and organizations. They founded the Diversity Foundation which for years has been the quiet caretaker of the rainbow flag. And tom gave countless houring to secure lighting for this most iconic installation of gilberts flag. Tom and jerry maintained and lovingly cared for the hundreds of the rain bow flags that line the street. And yet as recalled in a recent bay area reporter column about toms life, few people knew how much work tom put into caring for these beloved and internationally recognized symbols of queer equality. B