Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 14, 2024

We are working behind the schoons with our communitybased organizations and with the street invention team, theyre very well connected in the community so as much information as we can have to put out those fires before they do erupt on campus is the optimal situation. I dont know if commander lazar, klcaptain williams, wants to tak about that. But getting that information from the community, i agree with you, because if we can help to address those situations before they become something of violence and someone gets hurt, we would prefer to do that. And to work with our Community Partners and to address those. In response to this i want to let you know that the captains of our district stations are now having the officers adhere to a policy where if theres any type of crime or violence that occurs within a home or within their communities that involves a juvenile that is attending the San Francisco unified School District, that i receive a copy of that report want upon receipt of the copy of the report i contact the sfsud and they confirm whether or not the student attends the schools and what school site that they may be at so we can provide them with services and address any type of behavioral change accordingly, and understanding that theres something that has happened, that is traumatizing this student. Commissioner were you done, commissioner . I wanted to say how is the union involved in this . Because i have seen several disturbing videos and kids are passing these around and theyre getting on instagram. And some i hear are not even reported. You know, its that tricky thing because as an administrator im not you know, i cant supervise everywhere but we have concentrated groups of children and i hear that violence is happening. This is one of those gaps between agencies that i think that is when issues dont get resolved they get more intense and then we see, you know, they can erupt with violence. Our San Francisco muni officers that work with sfmta is in constant communication with cypress and when we get those footages available, its put out to all of our officers. Frequently our School Resource officers are able to identify young people. And there have been times when ive had videos that we havent been able to identify the young person but we have just enough information for sfsud to then assist us with the crime. And we also have some people that have access to various social media platforms and even if theyre not reported through cypress we find out about them and when we do we take the appropriate actions. Thank you. Commissioner . Thank you, kevin, for the presentation. I had two questions. And i think that the other one we could answer later. My current question right now is, you know, were talking about present time things that happened during the event and im just curious to understand where theres opportunities put in policies, places where we support schools or institutions or locations after these kind of activities. And so from my experience, you know, things happen and there is i mean, theres trauma that happens. So what is the followup . Does that need to go into this m. O. U. . You know, we just were age to put a Wellness Center at balboa, right, but that was like advocacy through the schools and the principals and everyone. But to formalize something and put something in policy, if a school goes through Something Like this, and you know, i just wasnt clear of how do we support institutions that go through these type of trauma events moving forward. Okay. So well, for one we do have Wellness Centers in all of our high schools and in all of our alternative schools. The balboa Wellness Center was changed for next year but they had the teen Health Center funded by d. P. H. So were very fortunate in the sense that we have social workers a at all up our schools. And one of the only School Districts that can actually say that. And now having a social worker at the school and now, in addition, we have in the School District an office and the position is open right now for a Crisis Response and School Emergency preparedness and were replacing that position because mr. Kasata has moved to arizona. Anyway, in addition to that, we have another office within School Health programs that is school Crisis Response and Emergency Preparedness and thats led by a team of social workers and nurses and health care counselors that provide a direct response to schools. So lets say, for instance, that a situation happened at a school and there was we make sure that social worker has the support that they need if we need to contact additional agencies and provide additional counselling at the school, if theres been a tragedy, then those resources kind of kick in also. And i believe that we we communicate that also to the Board Members when there are situations and the school has been traumatized by an event, we try to tell you as often as possible of what we have done. But were very fortunate to have the number of social workers and nurses that we have in our robust Wellness Initiative to also support the schools. I think that the c. B. O. Partnership is also very, very important. We have a strong relationship with hope s. F. So that helps us in key critical neighborhoods in this city as well. Commissioner cook . Good morning and thank you for the presentation also. So in our presentation we see some examples of what happens with s. R. O. S and just what happens when situations come up at schools. Just for the benefit of the public can we share how many s. R. O. S are at particular schools . All right, well, we have 12 s. R. O. S providing sayses to our schools in the city. And this one s. R. O. Per site, right, and people are not doubling up, two per site . There should be one each s. R. O. Should be functioning individually. So that we get more coverage. And they come from out of their district stations. Right. And those are all 12 are at high schools . They cover high schools, middle schools and if needed they will respond to a call for service at an Elementary School and advise them what they should do at that point. Okay. So an s. R. O. Has regional schools they respond to based on the issues . Yes, sir. So theres no s. R. O. Based at a site throughout the entirety of a day. That is what we used to currently do . Not currently theyre at one specific school site full time. Okay. So in the past before this m. O. U. , the last previous m. O. U. Before that we had the Community Orienting police in schools grant, the cops grant. I had an s. R. O. On my campus every day so that provided s. R. O. S actually on the school campus. They had an office. They were there just like a regular staff person all day long. That grant sunsetted back in 2014. And thats when that grant required that we had an m. O. U. With the School District. When the grant sunsetted the m. O. U. Sunsetted. And then i came downtown. And then they said that we still need this m. O. U. Because the Community Orienting police in schools, the s. R. O. S went back to their station, they reported to their station and they didnt go to the schools and they did not have an office in the school anymore. But thats what triggered us to have reinstating an m. O. U. With the Police Department. So thats what we did back in 2014. But since then they have not been in the schools as a regular staff. Right. And so then s. R. O. S are only responding to schools when the incidents coming up and theyre not engaged in the school sites that theyre connected to otherwise . No, thats not necessarily so. So hopefully theyre establishing a relationship with that school. Right. What are the avenues for the s. R. O. S to stab relationships with their assigned schools or how are we accomplishing that . We have so all of our s. R. O. S are trained to present instructions. And we have s. R. O. S now that are working with the individual schools within their district, with the agreement with their principals and they are presenting educational curriculum about bullying and harassment and proper social media and also for young people to know their rights. In fact, were in communications right now and meeting with kevin truett and others at sfsud to expand our interactions and engagements. But we are engaged when we are requested to be there to present and we are there and we are prepared to consistently to work with the schools. You know, if i can just say thats going to be that question is directly responded to in their presentation. So they have one after me. And it talks about the s. R. O. Roles in schools and what they do. So thats actually included in there. So i think so i see more names on the thing and we could probably just keep going around and around and i will let you to finish the presentation. Theres two important parts to bring up also. This section, Police Interviews on school campuses, got a lot of discussions at the community meetings. I dont expect people to read that and, again, i wanted to show and you really illustrating the yellow is all new. So the white section is what the m. O. U. Said previously and due to the Community Input weve added all of the yellow highlighted. So we have newly adapted board policy to require if the police are going to interview or interrogate a student that it requires a warrant, a parent order or Parent Guardian consent or circumstances to allow the police to have an interview by police. We have also added new language that requires students 17 and under to have consultation with the public defender prior to any interview. And in response to the Community Input weve also added that the students may contact their parents using their own phone to be present for the interview and this helps students. Because if they are going to call the parent and the parent sees that the caller i. D. Comes up theyll pick up that call. And the location of the arrest, this is this is gotten a lot of discussion as well. And the yellow is what we added. And basically what we have said in this is that its something that got a lot of discussion, is that s. R. O. S shall take into consideration the students right to privacy when being escorted off campus. Students who are arrested on campus and escorted off should be free from the publics view and or reasonable attempts shall be taken to conceal the students identity. Thats new language. Great. Thats the end . That is. Okay, so i will call you guys in one second and i would like to go back to slide nine. So this is part of the requesting Police Assistance. This is the point that we came to last part, i want you to talk about that because it still leaves some discretion and i understand that there needs to be discretion in these situations, but the part that im talking about is where it says site administrators shall rely on their experience and reasonable discretion to determine when Police Assistance is necessary to protect the safety of students and staff. And then if they have any doubts theyre to call the assistant superintendent. I just want you to talk a little bit about that and see how likely that is and how real it is in realtime and or what the response was in terms of sfsud and the interaction with the community on that particular item. Yes, theres definitely discussion about schools that a lot of this discussion was about School Administrators that are calling police for disciplinary matters. Lets say, for instance, that you hear a rumor that theres going to be a big fight after school. You dont have any evidence to tell you that its going to happen but theres Text Messages going back and forth and its basically a rumor. And then this part about the site administrator shall and the site administrator probably knows by knowing the students that, okay, theres been tension here going on for a long time. Apparently its all going down today after school. And thats where they rely on their experience and the reasonable discretion to contact the police to be proactive because they anticipate that theres going to be a problem. Thats an example of how that could happen. No, i get that point. I guess what im more concerned about is that those are words which is good but what action has the district taken to train and or to work with the school sites . I think thats probably more important. Im glad that there was input and im grad that ther glad thaf work on the language but the followup is probably more important than anything, because i dont know how many schools you have 120. How many . 120. So thats 120 i mean, minus probably the Elementary Schools based on the data, right. And middle schools and high schools are probably where this is the most important. But what has as a result of this m. O. U. What has sfusd done to train and or to achieve this particular level of readiness . I mean, theres discretion involved and the reference is experience. So i want to understand that a little bit better. So i think that one of the things is that all of the administrators receive training at the beginning of the year on Crisis Response and School Emergency preparedness. So in addition to contacting and interacting with sfsud is part of that and you know how to do a lockdown and a lockout and shelter in placeet set. On an individual basis we debrief with so every school is supervised by an assistant superintendent and we have every involvement when that occurs. So weve had situations where, for instance, the call to the police was not necessary. I mme immediately will meet wite assistant superintendent and with that who is supervising and counselling that principal on how they should have handled that situation instead of calling police. So we review these incidents when they come in go ahead. No, go ahead. So i did the incident report and it comes into the District Office and theres been a contact with police and we review that and determine if its necessary. If not, we do immediately reach out to that principal to find out what was the nature, why was it necessary to contact the police for this for this situation. So, again, with the School Supervision theyre guided and coached in that way and especially for the newer admin straighters. What will happen i would say almost the vast majority of the time is before theyre going to call police, an administrator will usually call their assistant superintendent and say im about to call the police, should i call them on this matter. And theyll generally go into my office and say that something is happening at aptus and they think they need to call the police, do you think they should call . So i wouldnt say that is perfect and i think we need those situations to do after action to review incident reports. Thats what is happening i would say probably, you know, half of the time is that reviewing them and counselling them on whether this was appropriate to call the police or making sure that they know to t call us before they eh make that call. I saw that you had data on arrests. Do you have data on the number of calls to police and the children involved in that . Because i know its a big part of the conversation at the school board and also at the board of supervisors and with the Police Department. And we get into situations of implicit bias. So were just concerned about that. So im wondering do you also keep the data on the calls that were made to police based on the students . We do have the calls for service. And sfusd keeps the calls of service. Most are nonidentified to a particular student so theyre calling about a situation that occurs and that refers to a student. But when something happens to a particular student, there is a detention, there is an arrest, and then it goes on and we go into that students profile and we actually write something about it. But if its just a call for service because they needed advice on something or something was happening, its not necessarily identified to a student. Okay, okay. Dusty ran randolph. I dont want to add any complexity to this m. O. U. But i know that commissioner collins at the last meeting was very interested in the enrollment, and enrollment partnerships between city college and the School District. And its one of the issues that well hopefully bring back to the committee here to give an update on where we are. And when were trying to increase the number of High School Students on city college campuses, is city college covered under this m. O. U. . For example, if a student under 18 takes a class at city college, and potentially gets into a situation where police are coming on campus. Specifically the right to privacy when being escorted off campus, does that not apply to city college . If theyre on city college campus, whatever city college determines as safety they can call the police for any matter they want, according to we dont know what how city College Staff are you know, whatever their safety guidelines are, this doesnt pertain to them. And i would say too that this m. O. U. Does not pertain to any other city Police Departments. So were talking about sfpud, but if Redwood City Police wanted to come into San Francisco and show up at a school and arrest a kid, they can do that anyway that they are told to do it. We cannot block any Police Activity from another juri

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