Pieces of evidence floating or a longtime. I imagine everyone is trying to get the bad guy. There are pieces floating around, not everything came together. Thankfully to the dogged persistence of especially when linda young, being able to pull the pieces together we are pretty much there. There will be more tweaks coming along. Good evening commissioners. Thank you for inviting the city Administrators Office. My name is linda young, deputy city administrator. I will discuss quickly the justis project. The transfer of function to the city of ministers Administrators Office which occurred in march, 2011. Our mission is to support the criminal Justice Department and need to share information in compliance. The justis project is to provide sharing data get abilities, provide individual Case Management system to address departmental Business Needs for the Police Department, the Sheriff Department, District Attorneys Office, public defender, adult probation and to connect the court system. T
So one interpreter may translate the word one way. Say, push. Another interpreter may interpret the same word saying it was a hit. We now have two inconsistent statements. One of the things i see in trial all the time, rightfully so, the defense is doing their job. They are pointing out inconsistencies. We can argue that they are not inconsistencies because of language barriers but it depends on how the jury will see that. When we are presenting cases to the jury they have in their mind that the victim was inconsistent. First she said it was a hit, no she says it is a push. A third interpreter is saying it was a slap now that shes testifying on the stand. Which is it . Beyond a reasonable doubt, is complicated. The other issue is when the victims dont come in to testify. Its even more of a barrier for us to get past all of the language issues to be able to bring any of the others out in trial. It is very difficult. Thank you so much jean. I am sure that the people who are cramming for
Agencies. For me personally the sfmta are folks that are being sited on the buzz but there are no explanation on what their sited for so usually theyre given the citation and told to go on. So brief i want to share some of the changes we see this explains some of the issues weve heard today. One i think considering you know where the cabinets the reason they come to secondly a lot of the client interactions we see they say why access the Community Services theyre in english so this barrier starts right away because they dont know the Language Access support is there and they dont see why they should access those services. Its difficult for them to file a complaint. There are not going to be putting in complaints if they dont understand. If they dont try they dont understand they can file a complaint. But if they file a complaint theres no solution are theyre maybe a fear of retaliation. So one of the things we want to suggest we need multiple channels to be talking about the City Servi
Police Department Says okay, share the aggregate data, that is when we connect the two so the system can show the reports of the department of women. We dont own the data. The data resides with the department that originated it. Thank you. We appreciate your efforts putting that together so that groups can see trends and recognize issues that we able to deal with. Our next line item is a report of the San Francisco Police Department regarding Language Access. And some of the concerns that were expressed by the assistant District Attorney jean roland about issues regarding interpretation. We have ms. Sandra marion, from occ, to talk about Language Access. Ms. Marion . Good evening. Commissioners, director members of the public and command staff and police officers. Im excited to be here and have the opportunity to talk about the work that many organizations, departments and commissions in collaboration with the Police Department on Language Access. I work for the office of citizen compl
Filing out the forms. The process are state mandated the files have to be in english but then those that dont require that requirement we do have a city id we have other forms in chinese and others as well. For in person we have a staff our department is small but our staff is basically bilingual and their fluent a in spanish and mandrin and that make ups more than half of our staff. We utilizes the Language Services and in person and over the phone. And if required we also offer a s l with advanced no, that that he contract with city vendor for that thank you very much thank you any questions. Thank you so much for being here. Were going to try to get through several of the Community Speakers we have two folks one from the African Advocacy Network and others so. I want to say good afternoon. Im michelle im from affirmative action and the Community Rights there. So im kind of here half of representingor collaboration and so were going a collaboration of 8 organizations serving Communit