Backs in the community. They are preventing violence from coming in the schools. They should be involved. I wish we were talking about m. O. U. S were folks who know the communities and are doing kind of antiviolence work as members of communities of color. First of all, i want to advise you that our offices take a lead from the staff administrators. Certainly we dont know the full positions, what has happened in the School System, and we dont propose that you have that willing. We take the lead from the School Administrators when we respond to the school. Deescalation techniques. We have weekly meetings with them and in Service Telephone calls with them on frequently and then they are consistently being trained to deal with juvenile issues, how to handle a young person dealing with posttraumatic stress or what frequently occurs in and out of the School Systems. The School Resource officer is there doing presentations on safety awareness. Presentations on young people knowingnary rights. We are there for parent conferences. We do partner with sbid. We do partner with united players and they are called as one of the many resources. We are there to provide young people with only one restaurant. It is to the young person in the School System but we help to ensure these services are available for the family, the complete family unit. Our officers have been trained how to handle young people dealing with Mental Health issues. They are receiving extensive training to ensure that we are providing a service and a resource. We are not in the schools just for disciplinary reasons. We respond because we have other programs that are offered throughout the district. I know the School Resource officer that served my Daughters School is a caring person, i also still have questions about these are more larger picture questions. I guess even specifically if we are adding language that says we wont have Police Question students. It is at this descretion of the principal how the School Resource officers are utilized. I said we take the lead from the School Administrators. We dont know if a young person has a special learning disability or anything like th that. However, we First Respond and speak directly with the dean or the principal at the school site. Our mode is that we are there to support in a way that is going to be successful for everyone who is involved. What i noticed in some occasions principals have if we are not questioning students, we have Police Question students without parents in concept. I have heard from parents a concern that School Resource officers were brought in to rooms where administrators were questioning students. I have heard this reported by parents. I would want that language to be included. I am telling you i heard from a parent that they did not want their child to be interviewed without their involvement. They were with the administrator and their son was interviewed with the sro in the room. The parent felt that was intim dating for hersion. I want it just about the actual sro. Sometimes it is how administrators may or may not about their presence. This specific sri, i know him by name. Hhe is a very caring person. We have to acknowledge that police as a presence have an impact in communities of color. That is something that i think we want to acknowledge and it is a concern that comes up for me regardless how well they are trained. If they are providing the communitybased services, all of ththe thingsna you are doing hae to do with being a caring adult. We have or folks to serve those rolls. I would like to move away from police in schools at all. These adults could be provided these services. That being a Police Officer in a school it has an impact on communities of color, and those are questions and concerns i have. I want to let you know. 96c covers a Police Officer interviewing or having these type of exchanges with a young person. That is what 96c is when. However, i believe you did discuss something about a concern of a Police Officers in rome when staff is questioning the young person. I have made it clear in our Staff Meetings and consistently that we will not be included in conversations when the school isvis gating something. We will come afterwards to speak with the administrator or the staff person that requested us. Again. That is in compliance with 96c. We have a long list of folks that want to chime in. I have commissioner norton. I just want to follow up on the question asked about the m. O. U. Doesnt really silent on the issue of students with disability and any training we are providing both school staff around the additional protection for students with disabilities would receive. I think these comments are very good. I did send her a message that we want to look at some of those comments. Let me find something that i wanted to point out. There are a couple things that i did want to mention there are specific places where we say if not there to address criminal behavior. There are some proactive things to do as part of the communities. It lists things to do. Talk about careers and restor Restorative Practices and school attendance. All of those trainings would be accessible to students with special needs. It is mentioned. I do want to say in section 20 it lists officers will be trained in special education laws. Then i said maybe we need to mention it. I said man fistation is conducted by the school psychologist. We trained all of the schools in manifestation determination and threat assessment. In both cases we dont want police to be part of it. We believe once you had the manifestation that comes up during prosecute of what happened to her whenever we have an expulsion the first thing is see if it is manifestation. If it is we cant move forward with the case. It is not as intentional as it needs to be. We can work on that. The manifestation i is a good point. Those are all of the things. Attending school stal school st. It says they will offer straining in strategies for working and communicating with students. We want to look at that language to strengthen it and talk about a man festation, hey that kid is in the sore program. What that means he is not responsible for those actions. I think it is a really important thing to bring up. I want to thank you for doing this m. O. U. It is really important. I do have something bad. The incident at balboa. I had a family friend in the bathroom during the incident, anchoring to my mom when the swat team showed up to the bathroom they had guns pointed at my friend. This caused him to have performed tsd. He hasnt talked to anybody since the incident because of having the gun pointed at him. He hasnt talked at all. I dont believe that having police at school is a good thing. I think it is more dangerous just because of the person of color because of the history that police have with people of color. A lot of students in and out of jail can feel like i feel when i see Police Officer. A plaintiff. A Police Officer. It is important to have healing if they look like us and relate to our stories. Some of the cases may be really strong. I strongly belief that we should handle the situation because it helps reduce suspension and expulsion. I can say that helped redoes the rates reduce the rates at my school. A lot of our schools are taking into consideration pier mediates do help and they are putting this in our data. The students getting suspended and expelled are students that are africanamericans and have iie. We are the ones hugh understand what they are going through. I dont think adults understand that. Thank you. I want to thank you for working on the m. O. U. I think it is a very powerful document and from seeing it last year i was one of the students who gave Student Input. From this presentation i can see Student Input is taken and i see the changes made to the document. I am happy to see you public size this to sros and the school admin and staff and students. This is a powerful document, as powerful as the writing is if the community sees it. I hear the other comments which i agree with. This is not the final m. O. U. , but i am happy with the work you have done. Thank you. Thank you for your work on this. I have a couple questions. Kevin can you remind me when the last time an m. O. U. Was adopted by the board . Yes. 1 14 14. It was a five year m. O. U. January 14, 2014. It was five years. It expired january 14, 2019. It is still in existence of the there is an agreement that the former m. O. U. Exists until we sign a new one. The schools know that. Any monetary contribution for this program . Yes. Well for this program. We pay for a portion of captain williams position. 25 . That is the extent of our contribution . I dont know how much he makes. It is 1 . She makes a lot. That is if extent . Yes. In that because she is partially paid by the district, and i am looking at my favorite person. That provides captain williams. She is partially paid by the district and it provides us access to synergy many times when we share data it is important that she has access to confidential data to do her job. If she knows a student has been arrest period she can look that student up to see if he is in special ed and she needs that access. This is one of the ways to provide them with the data. How did i do . I am grateful you provide that information and access to us because we have been able to work with our Mental Health professionals and sfusd wellness to provide a array of services and have them understand more about the nature of what is going on so they can stand down and be more sensitive to issues that some of the young people are going through. Thank you. Can you speak about the Selection Process for qualifying the officers to get in the program . Currently what occurs is that we have our signups every six months within the Police Department. At that time certain officers will indicate desires to become School Resource officers at that time the captain of the station will discuss the particular persons who are interested in it with myself. Then, of course, we will consider did needs of the schools within that district, the length of service of the Police Officer, we will look at their training, their other percent thrill matters to make sure we are selecting the most appropriate person to serve as School Research officer to be a valuable partner to the School District and to the parents and the community we are serving. My recollection is this originally started the relationship between sfpd formal relationship was after columbine, it was a cops in schools federal grant . Prior to that we had no program but the grant came around and gave us additional funding. Captain williams was a very big part of that grant to provide School Resource officers to be assigned to the schools. They had an office and computer in the schools. That was around 2,000 . Yes,na grant actually ended in 2012. It was 2012 the last time the sros were stationed in high schools. That is when the funding stopped, the funding required a certain m. O. U. Without that we didnt have an existing m. O. U. It went away. That is when it was decided when we had that because we had an m. O. U. How to interact. We have had situations at schools. I want people to note that there were stationed Police Officers in our high schools and middle schools when i was principal at horace mann there was a Police Officer stationed at the school. I was one of the Board Members back in the 2000s against having armed Police Officers in the schools, particularly because i think our student delegates can handle the community of color. It was a long h long time ago. Ththe event in 2002 resulted in the armed officers on marshall after they could not contain the student fight. It was others on campus that resulted in correct me if im wrong officer in distress signal, the highest they can give is officer down . Yes, i was, working at that time and was a School Resource officer. I was not working that day. It was a situation with multiple officers citywide coming to the school. It was an incident we wished never would have happened. We learned a great deal because of it we have been able to accept shortcomings. Now we base many of the methods and responses we use now are based on best police practices. It was 126 Law Enforcement. Swat, sfpd, and deputy sheriffs in riot gear. It ended up being the largest presence in Law Enforcement. It is north getting better. I think the numbers you show here in terms of the actual detainments and arrests are going in the right direction. I would want us to get to a point where we wouldnt have to use Police Officers in our schools. I dont know if that is going to happen. We need to be sensitive to what our students are saying and be able to even get to a lower were point. Specificking in here frost the last year. Do you know how many of those students wind up at ygc which we are going to close . It is not the actual breakdown. It is all the arrests twice a year. That brains it down and includes if they are in special ed. I dont know from the 28, 13 hi, 13 middle and 2 elementary. I know where the elementary kids went . The duration of that would be good to know. Not just that they entered but how long they were there, if you can. Thank you for being here and for reporting. I think i just want to start out by saying i dont want to please presence in schools. I am not supportive of sros either. That is where i am. I am looking at the incidents at the schools. We havent had anything in place so we were uses a fiveyearold m. O. U. Specifically with the feedback about schools not contacting sfpd for disciplinary issues. The first month this year that happened four or five times and the disciplinary issue was for fighting. Sfpd was called. In one instance they were called on a fifth Grade Student because they absconded. There was fear of the student leaving and it was to the point where i had to look this up. The definition says this person is avoids arrester. In thinking it through this person is a soyearold so we are calling the police on a 10yearold. This is happens this school year. I want to figure out with this in place. My colleagues are asking for things not here. We have been working on it this entire year. It is still not in a place to have the highest level of protection for our students. How are we going to ensure that incidents like that dont continue to happen . We need the m. O. U. That everybody is completely trained on. When these things happen, she is communicating with me a lot about the incidents when it was a call that should not be made. I talk to my colleagues add lead and say this happened at your school. Talk to the principal because this happened. We do this whenever i am told that is what will happen. The officers will respond if called to the school many times it could be a fight or a student that is a danger to themselves and others. Let me know. I will talk to their school supervisor. What does the danger mean . When are they justified. The police are coming based on what the administrator is saying. If they are not prepared if we have an m. O. U. That is not going to change that incident from here on out. Those are the conversations we need to have. I have had them call me pan say this is what the student is doing police. Is there anyone that student has a relationship with . There has got to be someone who is trained. We talked through this. These are the situations that we do need to discuss and make sure we are not over policing. At least i get to use that. Let me send you the section. This is what you coul could have done. Lets talk through that. Thank you for the presentation. A couple questions to follow up on commissioner lopezs comments. Talk about in terms of utilizing the partnership with sfpd, when are we at the point, okay, this is not something we can do or are we short on t10s . First, the sfpd does not supervisor oversee at all. We want to be clear with that. Some have misunderstooding over the years. Our t10s call them so the only calls to dispatch should come from the school administrator. Not from security. I wanted to clear that up. We have a high turnover in security. We are trying to get the security guards trained. We have had extra trainings. We had trainings on Crisis Response including how to respond to emergency situations. Certainly i think our security guards. Some are highly skilled in part of that community and absolutely worth a tremendous asset to the school. We have a high turnover and it is difficult to bring everyone up to training. The Security Force is inconsistent from school to school. If we had the security t10 staff, are we calling sfpd because we dont have the capacity to provide the service to our kids . Is there a specific reason we call it. Is it specific . Schools with t10s call more frequently than those without t10s. In terms of training for the sros. We are calling dispatch. How many times do we actually have training . I think folks are busy. Officers have to get the ball. How many times are we getting officers not trained in the school resoars sources that you offer. Is it proper that we could get it because kids are inside and outside the schools, right . I concur with you. In fact, commissioner, i was discussing this with mr. True wit today. It is a goal that i have set and i am waiting to engage in a conver