This is first september 17th, 2015. The meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee of the San Francisco board supervisors. My name is eric mar. Im the chair. To my right is vice chair campos. To my left is julie. Our clerk is mr. Derrick evans. Mr. Evans, please give us our announcements. Silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices and complete speaker cards and documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items will appear on the september 29th, 2015 board supervisors. Theres three items on our agenda. Please call the first item. Resolution urging the city and county of San Francisco to establish a memorial for comfort women. Thank you. Colleagues, i wanted to say that today is a historic day in these chambers. Were joined by incredibly courageous woman, mrs. Hamaney, grand lee, young su lee from korea. I wanted to start by saying todays hearing is about a history of breaking silences. Its about a fight for empathy, for hundreds of thousands of women and girls.
Good afternoon, everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is first september 17th, 2015. The meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee of the San Francisco board supervisors. My name is eric mar. Im the chair. To my right is vice chair campos. To my left is julie. Our clerk is mr. Derrick evans. Mr. Evans, please give us our announcements. Silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices and complete speaker cards and documents should be submitted to the clerk. Items will appear on the september 29th, 2015 board supervisors. Theres three items on our agenda. Please call the first item. Resolution urging the city and county of San Francisco to establish a memorial for comfort women. Thank you. Colleagues, i wanted to say that today is a historic day in these chambers. Were joined by incredibly courageous woman, mrs. Hamaney, grand lee, young su lee from korea. I wanted to start by saying todays hearing is about a history of breaking silences. Its about a fight
To move our city forward. As a chinese america, with a daughter who is chinese and japaneseamerica who is 15yearold, i want our young folk and future generations to know the stories that are told in these chambers today and allow those stories and that spirit to transform them as well as we move forward with a history and with a passion for peace and justice like lee. I also wanted to say that many people spoke at a Board Meeting on tuesday. Lots of them, veteran leaders from many movements and i wanted to also say that from the inner face communities like rabbi doug to reverend brown, and to those they talked about how people may come from different nations and different communities and neighborhoods, but we all bleed the same in the same color, in the same way, and thats why i say lee, grandma lee brings us together, unifies our communities for a future without oppression of women and girls, a few of peace and justice for all. I wanted to also start by saying that i, as a chinese ame
Google Language Access five core languages english spanish Chinese Korean and vietnamese and every single officer assigned to the streets has one of those phones on their person. Any officer navigating on a smartphone via google language so were very proud of the strides weve made we worked very closely with the director and immigrant Rights Commission that Everybody Knows their rights and knows whats in bounds and out of bounds and how we treat folks in this worldclass city we like to think that were that worldclass Police Department. We have fallen short in 2012 we did have one compliant sustained where an officer didnt know these different policies that i spoke to and in 2013 we had 3. Those officers were admonished regarding policy but to put into perspective because of the mass retirements were hiring about 150 officers a year where this is all new information for them and in both of these years where we had one compliant, the San Francisco Police Department handled over a million
Your leadership the Language Access Community Grants program. Then we have with us today our small but highly Competent Team of inhouse language specialists who id like them to stand up. Okay. So you can see we only have two fulltime chinese specialists one doubles as the outreach and Education Media and production coordinator and then we have one spanish person speaking person whose position is temporary wed love to make her permanent and one filipino tagalo speaker who is also our research and a backup spanish interpreter. Shes the unit leader and supervisor and our lao Compliance Officer and in addition to serving as our analyst and my right hand and everything else. Then the Community Ambassador Program Assistant who is a fulltime Program Assistant is the asneeded russian interpreter so we have the capability of specialists who do both interpretation and translation work and this is really rare because these are entirely different skill sets. The unit is overwhelmed i have to be ho