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Announcements . Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and copy of any documents to be included as part of a file should be submitted to the clerk. Thank you. I wanted to also make a quick announcement which is this is intended to be a committee where everyone, commissioners, trustees, supervisors can bring forward agenda items. For anyone who has an agenda item that they would like to have heard, please send those to myself, as well as to one of my staff so that we can track those , and there will be, unless something changes, a meeting in july, which will be on july 12 th. If you have any agenda items, if you want to bring it to that meeting or future meetings, please let me know. We will not have a meeting in august because this entire building shut down and there are no Committee Meetings in august. You can go on vacation or schedule accordingly, and again, thank you, it is great to have this Committee Meeting on a regular basis
Do Public Comment. So commissioner collins . Yes, i want to put this on the record that i still have a lot of questions when we are looking at data. I had asked for data around sieft transfers as a sense of how we can see if kids are feeling safe. And the data that show shared with me showed that predominantly the number of kids requesting safety transfers were black students, is that correct . Or black and brown students were requesting more safety transfers than more races of students for violent related incidents . What is your sense . I dont know. The safety transfers are down quite a bit because we have more criteria that were looking at for safety transfers because a couple years ago, of course, it was just a tsunami of transports that kind of blocked the system. This year weve had less safety transfers this past year than we have in a number of years. So i guess that i want to put this out as a request more than a question. If were collecting data on students committing violence
Devices. Completed speaker cards and copy of any documents to be included as part of a file should be submitted to the clerk. Thank you. I wanted to also make a quick announcement which is this is intended to be a committee where everyone, commissioners, trustees, supervisors can bring forward agenda items. For anyone who has an agenda item that they would like to have heard, please send those to myself, as well as to one of my staff so that we can track those , and there will be, unless something changes, a meeting in july, which will be on july 12 th. If you have any agenda items, if you want to bring it to that meeting or future meetings, please let me know. We will not have a meeting in august because this entire building shut down and there are no Committee Meetings in august. You can go on vacation or schedule accordingly, and again, thank you, it is great to have this Committee Meeting on a regular basis and it is good to see you all. Madame clerk, are there any agenda changes .
Lot of questions when we are looking at data. I had asked for data around sieft transfers as a sense of how we can see if kids are feeling safe. And the data that show shared with me showed that predominantly the number of kids requesting safety transfers were black students, is that correct . Or black and brown students were requesting more safety transfers than more races of students for violent related incidents . What is your sense . I dont know. The safety transfers are down quite a bit because we have more criteria that were looking at for safety transfers because a couple years ago, of course, it was just a tsunami of transports that kind of blocked the system. This year weve had less safety transfers this past year than we have in a number of years. So i guess that i want to put this out as a request more than a question. If were collecting data on students committing violence we should also be collecting data on students that are being harmed or, you know, targeted because we