Transcripts For SFGTV Police Commission 20240712

Tonights meeting, and once thats done, we will adjourn that meeting and begin september 2. As always, im going to ask Public Commenters to reduce public noise, turn down the television. If you want to be heard, put your name in the chat. Commissioner youngblood, can you please call roll. Clerk yes, thank you, commissioner. [roll call] clerk you have a quorum. Also here tonight is chief w l William Scott from the San Francisco Police Department. Vice president taylor i wanted to say that the public will notice we have a new commissioner, and oddly enough, shes probably why every Single Member of this commission is on this commissioner. Commissioner malia cohen, welcome to your First Police Commission thank you very much. So i just wanted to, you know, just straight believe that share in my beliefs that i believe in transparency, and i believe in the examining of data and accountability and also support the positive moves toward Police Reform. And as you know, im a soontobe new mother, and im aware that we need to do a lot of work in order to create a very safe and stable future for those of us that are not only here today but for future generatio generations. So i just want to say to everyone here, thank you, and thank you to the mayor who had the confidence in me to appoint me to the commission. Im excited to be here, and with that, commissioner taylor, i turn it back to you. Thank you. Vice president taylor thank you. Okay. So can you please call the next item on the agenda, sergeant . Clerk yes. Line item 1, reports to the commission, continued from august 19, 2020. Commission reports. Commission reports will be limited to a brief description of activities and announcements. Commission discussion will be limited to determining whether to calendar any of the issues raised for a future Commission Meeting. Commission president s report, commissioners reports, and Commission Announcement and scheduling items identified for condition at future Commission Meetings, action. Vice president taylor i dont see any names in the chat, so seeing none, lets move onto the next item. Clerk item 2, discussion and possible action to adopt the Community Ambassador Program Manual, continued to september 2, 2020. Vice president taylor okay. Item 3 . Clerk item 3 is Public Comment. Vice president taylor this is general Public Comment that you werent able to provide on august 19 because of the technical difficulties. If you wish to provide Public Comment, please do so now. Clerk members of the public are welcome to address the commission up to two minutes on items that do not appear on the agenda for august 19 but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction. Commission. Speakers shall address they remarks to the commission as a whole and not to individual commissioners or department or d. P. A. Personnel. Under Police Commission rules of order, during Public Comment, Neither Police or d. P. A. Personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public but may provide a brief response. Individual commissioners and police and d. P. A. Personnel should refrain, however, from entering into any debates or discussion with speakers during Public Comment. So far, commissioner, we have one Public Comment. Vice president taylor okay. Operator good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Caller, you are unmuted, and you have two minutes. Are you there . Okay, commissioner, i will go to the next caller. Okay. Caller, you have two minutes. Commissioners, i wanted to call you tonight to ask you to produce a reasoned plan to defund the police as tens of thousands of your constituents are calling for in the street. I understand that what was done before is clearly unacceptable, and now, as we move forward, i would love to see this commission take responsibility solely for the actions of its brutal and corrupt organization where you have members taking obscene amounts of over time. I certainly dont think theres any reason to be harassing random participants in a band in a park, and yet, weve managed to turn up six cops in riot gear. I certainly dont think there is any reason to respond to levels in force that you guys have to the protest, yet for every individual small group of people, youve managed to surface 30 or 40 Police Officers. That seems to be the only function that the Police Department has, and i would ask whether large portions of that task might better go undone. And i dont imagine any other organization has the capability to recommend which of those tasks shouldnt be done by the Police Department better than this commission. So im asking the commission to man up, do its job, and figure out how to come up with a Police Department that is responsive to what the people actually want and not abusive as its primary and almost exclusive function. Vice president taylor thank you, caller. Next caller. Operator good evening, caller. You have two minutes. Caller, you have been unmuted. You have two minutes. Commissioner, that is all for Public Comment. Vice president taylor thank you. Next line item . Clerk line item 4, closed session. Continued to september 2, 2020. Vice president taylor thank you. Next item. Clerk line item five, for the adjournment of the august 19 meeting. Vice president taylor can i have a motion for the adjournment of the august 19, 2020 meeting. Commissioner hamasaki are we done . So moved. Commissioner hamasaki ill second. Clerk okay. On the adjournment of the august 19, 2020 meeting [roll call] clerk commissioner taylor, you have six yeses. Vice president taylor okay. How do we do this procedurally, opening the next meeting . Ill leave that to you, sergeant. Clerk okay. So for the meeting of september 2, 2020, we are roll call for this meeting, as well. Vice president taylor okay. Clerk roll call for the meeting of september 2, 2020 [roll call] clerk commissioner taylor, you have a quorum. And also, we have present chief of police William Scott and [inaudible]. Vice president taylor and i dont think you included me in the roll, but im present, as well. Clerk and commissioner taylor is present. Vice president taylor all the same rules apply. Phone number 4156550001, meeting i. D. 1461408360. Commissioners, put your hand up if you want to make comments. Next line item. Clerk item 1, adoption of minutes for the meeting of august 12, 2020. Commissioner cohen i make a motion to approve the minutes. Commissioner hamasaki did somebody move . Commissioner cohen yes, i did. Okay. And second. Clerk for line item 1, adoption of minutes [roll call] Vice President taylor next line item . Clerk item 2, reports to the commission, discussion. Chiefs report. Weekly crime trends, provide an overview of offenses occurring in San Francisco. Major significant incidents. Provide a summary of planned activities and events. This will include a brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in San Francisco having an bakt on Public Impact on Public Safety. Commission discussion on unplanned events and activities the chief describes will be limited to determining whether to calendar for a future meeting. Presentation of the safe streets for all Quarterly Report, Second Quarter 2020. Presentation of the fdrb findings and recommendations and o. I. S. Investigative summaries, first and Second Quarter 2020. Hi, commissioner cohen. Commissioner cohen nice to see you. I just want to talk a little bit about the training ive mentioned it to the commission before. Training was created and implemented in 2018, and basically, the course was developed and designed to reinforce [inaudible] tactics to involve less lethal. As you know, weve decreased our pointings of firearms and the use of force in the chapter 96a report, but we do believe that this training that we have creates has addressed gaps and really led to more effective leadership in the field. The training actually emphasizes the principles of deescalation which has been embraced by members. Its all about coordination, decision making, response, and effective decision making. We have significantly reduced the pointing of a firearm, which is actually our biggest category of use of force from where it was in 2016, when we started to track this information until to now. Theres been almost a 70 reduction in the pointing of firearms. And also, the percentage of use of forces that involve pointing of firearms has gone from down from about 70 in 2016 to 44 of our total use of force this year, so its really a good thing that this training was recognized by the International Association of chiefs of police. I think it shows, once again, that our city is on the forefront of trying to make things better in policing, and i just want to give my hats off to everybody. The training unit, commander Denise Flaherty who was the lead on this, and the participating members. Together, weve trained 1,540 members, and we believe its had an impact on the way weve trained for Critical Incidents and leading to better yut comes for Critical Incidents. Outcomes for Critical Incidents. Wanted to start with our crime trend. Overall, we are down 28 from last weeks crime. Compared to 20192020, were down 20 . Our total property crimes were down 21 . However, we are still up in homicide 23 up in homicide. We did not have any homicides this past week, which is good news, but we still have a lot of work to do in terms of our homicides for this year. We had seven in the month of august, and the previous month, in july, we had five. Of the yeartodate cases, weve cleared 13 of the yeartodate cases, and weve also cleared some of our older cases. I know there is a desire by commissioner brookter to talk about some of our shooting incidents. There are several districts that are up. The two that are most concerning are the ingleside district, with an increase of 100 of shooting incidents, and thats six 12 in 2020 compared to six in 2019. Tenderloin also has a significant increase. There is seven in 2019, 16 this year. Were talking about total shooting incidents. Bayview has one more shooting incident than they did last year, and mission has one more shooting incident than they did this time last year. Bayview, that number is 29 compared to 28, and mission is nine compared to 8. Of the remaining six districts, everyone else has had a decrease in shooting incidents. The most significant decrease is central, who went from five to one, and thats the individual breakdown of the individual districts. We, again, have a presentation scheduled with our crime strategies directors on what we are doing to reduce shootings and to work not only shortterm but longterm, so were looking forward to that presentation. In terms of property crime, we are still struggling with burglaries. Were up significantly in burglaries, which is alarming. The biggest trend were seeing are garage burglaries with items like bicycles, tools, small things that can be carried out. We are up significantly, with over 1300 more burglaries than this time last year. Our Motor Vehicle thefts are also up significantly, 900 more than this time last year, a little bit more than 900. Whats driving the decrease in total property crimes are our overall thefts are down significantly, 35 , which is a large number. Were down almost over 8,000 theft incidents than we were this time last year, and that includes our car burglaries, which are down significantly from this time last year. Overall, we are down, but we still have some significant concerns in terms of our property crime. In terms of individual cases, we had four shooting incidents that id like to brief the commission and the public on on 8 or august 30, 2020. Officers arrived and found a victim down on the 100 block of gonzalez, in the ingleside district. The victim was talking to a female, and shots rang out, and it was unknown the origin of the gunshots. The victim is expected to survive but was injured. On that same day at 2 00 p. M. , a victim stated he was walking in the area when he felt gunshots and felt weak. He was taken to the hospital, and it appeared that there was some sort of physical altercation that the victim was involved in before he was shot, so that one is still under investigation. Were trying to find witnesses for that case, as well. On august 29, at 4 23 p. M. , a victim was walking near the San Francisco general hospital, when a car pulled up and he felt pain in his leg. He was transported to San Francisco general, and no suspects have been arrested in that case. On august 26, 11 33 p. M. , two victims were sitting in a vehicle when two suspects started walking up and started shooting. One victim suffered a graze to the buck and the other a gunshot wound to the leg. They selftransported to the hospital, and both were listed in stable condition. We have some leads on that, but we have not made an arrest in that case as of yet. Moving onto major events, we continue to monitor protests in the city. We have not had any significant incidents over this past week. There are many of the events are unplanned, and we hear about them either through Community Members or through second party information, but we have not had any incidents. As you all know, there are still many very alarming protests happening around the country, but thankfully, we havent had that come to our city here lately. We will continue to monitor and facilitate peaceful protests and keep the commission updated on how thats going. There was an unplanned march in the taraval district, had about 60 to 70 people. It was in the area of sloat and great highway, and the people were peaceful as they marched up great highway. We had one unit basically trailing the group, closing off intersections in front of the group so they could facilitate the march, and it was peaceful, and that is the highlights for this week. With that, i will open it up to the commission for questions if there are any questions. Vice president taylor thank you. Commissioner elias . Commissioner elias thank you, chief. Im glad that the incident training is going to be displayed at the International Police chief meeting because i had a lot of people comment to me on the critical mindset training, so im hoping that you can discuss what the training entails because i think the fact that its already had such positive responses from Community Members will be helpful. Thank you. Be happy to do that, commissioner. Thank you. Vice president taylor thats a great idea. Im going to calendar that for a future meeting. Commissioner brookter . Commissioner brookter yeah, and thanks again, chief, for acknowledging what i brought up in the last meeting. But i do want to make sure, from what i was hearing, it sounds like ingleside, tenderloin, the bayview, and mission, homicide was up, and thats a problem. Thats a problem. So i want to make sure that as we do these reportouts, and were looking at the data, and were looking at the information thats in front of us, that we are looking at a plan to make reductions in these areas and have the staff that we need in order to see a decrease in these areas. I think that was extremely, extremely alarming. Were looking at a 100 increase in ingleside, so i wanted to make sure we pointed that out and make sure thats on our radar, chief, and were planning how were going to see a decrease in homicides in the city. Yes, sir. I may have spoke, but the shootings are whats up in inglesides, which is just as problematic. Commissioner brookter no, point well taken. Vice president taylor commissioner brookter actually stole my thought because, you know, when we look at this, it just says yeartodate incidents. It is bayview, mission, ingleside, and tenderloin pretty much where the black and brown people live. So what im going to do for a future meeting, chief, and i told you this would be coming up, but kind of more pressing now, what is the department doing in terms of the bayview. When i look at everything is down but the four areas where minorities tend to live, these incidents, i just want to know what the department is doing to reach out to the community thats clearly struggling here, so im going to ask you to present on that at a future meeting, chief. Thank you for that, Vice President taylor. We will definitely put together a presentation on that. Vice president taylor thank you. Commissioner dejesus . Commissioner dejesus so chief, im looking at the data that you gave from 2016, 70 pointing guns down to 44 . Thats good. Thats a 26 reduction, but i guess for the public to understand, the pointing of the begun, gun, is it still pointed at black and African Americans, besides the training, what else can we do to bring it down because its still quite high, i mean, close to 50 . Yes, commissioner. It has been reduced in terms of the first of all, let me back up. Youre correct. Theres still disparities in that particular demographic, and definitely, its less of a disparity than it was four years ago, but we still have work to do on that. So part of this, with training as the cncr and other training that were doing is helping greatly in that regard, but we still do have some work to do movement on that issue. And you look at the trainings over the last three, four years, the number has been reduced, and the biggest demographic as far as the pointing of guns have been African Americans. So that number has been reduced significantly, as well. However, its still disproportionate, and that is a concern, and its something that were continuing to work on. But this training definitely helps, and that in conjunction, some of the work that were doing, particularly in the area of bias and the work that the department has recently revised we think will all lead to Better Outcomes. A lot of work to be done, but i think were putting the pieces in place to make that situation better. Vice president taylor thank you. Commissioner elias . Commissioner elias i think its important to note, too, and maybe the chief can speak to that, the use of force numbers are going to be drastically different from this point forward given the use of force bulletin that we just passed a few weeks ago because the new bulletin is going to require officers to account for any time a weapon is pointing someone, including those that dont result in hospitalization or an actual shooting, so the numbers are going to be very coming in the forthcoming months and years, so i think thats something that we should also consider, as well. Vice president taylor yeah. I think we should expect a decrease in use of force going forward. Yes. Just to your comment, commissioner elias, how we track, just like we did when we introduced resolution on use of force, we hope to capture that in use of force policy, use of force on those overcoming resistance, so if we set it up right, well be able to track those captured by this policy and be able to track what the changes are. Just like with use of firearms. We know how many pointing of a gun use of forces there are, so we can kind of compare apples to apples in the use of force. That has to do with the tracking, and putting together the right mechanism as we roll this thing out. Vice president taylor thanks. Commissioner cohen . Commissioner cohen chief, i wonder if you can give me some insight, whats the plan to deal with outside groups that come into San Francisco with the view of disrupting Peaceful Demonstrations . A lot of it, commissioner, is about getting ahead of it. We track a lot of that information, and a lot of it is posted online. We kind of get a feel its not a perfect science, not anything near a perfect science, but we get an idea. Also, some of whats being said online gives you an indication. A lot of what we saw online was a lot of violent talk, saying they were going to come in and do certain things. We saw trends around us, and sure enough, those trends were in our city. The more information we have, the better prepared we are. Now when we get a situation where we have a small group thats trying to create a situation or incite a violent situation, our plan is to deal with the group effectively as a whole. Oftentimes, we can isolate, if you understand who it is thats causing violence or causing disruption turning into violence, and isolate on that group and not take it out on the whole group and end up having to deal with 1,000 people when its only ten that are violent. Commissioner cohen so it sounds like youre surveying and gathering intelligence so youre able to pinpoint yes, thank you. Thats exactly what were trying to do. Weve been able to do that so far, and had some good outcomes. Weve spent a lot of time talking about what the appropriate thing to do is. So so far, we havent had a lot to deal with in our city so that Peaceful Protesters can get out and do what they need to do. Commissioner cohen thank you. Vice president taylor commissioner hamasaki . Commissioner hamasaki chief cohen, to follow up on commissioner cohens question, theres been a lot of surveilling and monitoring protesters and Peaceful Demonstrations. What procedures do you have in place to ensure that your surveillance of political demonstrators isnt inpinging on First Amendment activity . Who is your Department Monitoring . Are they monitoring protest groups that want to speak out against black lives matter . Is that something that theyre monitoring . We monitor online, open Source Information to know whats happening in the city. But surveillance on those groups or any group thats planning a protest, thats not something that we do. And there is policies and protocols and county ordinances on that. The board of supervisors right now is going to go through coit the city office of Information Technology is creating data under the ordinance. We are working with coit to get our policies before them, but we monitor open Source Information. We always will do that so we know whats out there and whats coming. If there is a protest thats unplanned, spontaneous, we will monitor that in terms of actually having officers either in the area or helping to facilitate or something in the area. There is very thoughtful processes to make sure that we avail peaceful protests and we allow them to exercise their First Amendment rights in that sense. Commissioner hamasaki all right. Well, i think this came up last week. There was a release of documents relating to surveillance at pride and at the fourth of july. We went through this at the last meeting, as well. I think theres some other surveillance activities, and ill ask to schedule that meeting because there is a bigger item than what we should be covering in the chiefs report. Thank you. Absolutely. We want the publics confidence that were doing the right thing. So we definitely welcome that, and again, working through this whole process with Surveillance Technology and what were going through. We welcome that. Vice president taylor thank you. Next item, chief. Thank you. Next item, we actually have commander correa reporting on our safe streets for all report. Good afternoon, Vice President taylor, commissioners, members of the d. P. A. , members of the public. Sergeant youngblood, am i coming through loud and clear. Vice president taylor yes, thank you, commander. Okay. Appreciate that. My name is commander correa, and i am the commander of the special Operations Bureau of the Police Department. Tonight, im here to make a presentation for safe streets for all, our Second Quarter yeartodate update. And the next slide, please, sergeant. So our goals and efforts in our safe streets for all program, to continue to support vision zero, to continue to patrol citywide uniformed officers from our district stations and motorcycle officers. Conduct investigation on area thats have been identified throughout the city as highinjury corridors, collaborate with other agencies and our district stations, participate in Community Meetings and educate the public. Down below, we have vision zero and some of our partners, including San Francisco department of Public Health, d. P. H. , sfmta, which is the San Francisco municipal transit authority, walk sf, which is a group for safe pedestrians and travel throughout our city and other coalitions. Sergeant, if you could go to the next slide, please. Thank you. We have a twitter account where we try to get out information to the public about operations that we conduct with our Traffic Company. Our name or our tag on twitter or handle is sfpdtrafficsafety, and what we have here are slides or screen captures from our twitter account which display a number of Traffic Safety operations that weve conducted in the last year, Second Quarter of this year, along the high injury corridors which include the taraval, police district, ingleside, and Bayview Police districts. Next slide, please, sergeant. Thank you. In addition to those districts, weve been in the central, the southern, and the Northern Police districts, which are our top two slides. They are our top two photos. Beneath, on the lower left corner and the lower right corner, the program that we were involved with in connection with getting information out to the communities during the citys response and Community Response to covid, there were several Community Caravans that were held to raise awareness in different communities throughout the city, which include the bayview, the oceanview, l. M. I. , the southern district, the northern district, and the park police district, and the roll that the Traffic Company officers played on motorcycles with facilitating the caravan. Sergeant, if you wican go to t next slide, please. So this slide, this graph depicts our Traffic Violation by our individual units, ten district stations and Traffic Company. 11 reported reports out for the period of january through june 2020. Our Department Wide totals, 9,520 Traffic Violations. 2,124 nonTraffic Violations, and our focus on the five violations, 5,211. The percentages in parentheses there indicated we were to report all our citations, were at an average of 55 . The Police Departments commitment to vision zero was to meet 50 of all of our citations, so for the through First Six Months of this year, our average is 55 . Sergeant, if you can go to the next slide, please. This slide depicts our focus on the five violations percentage by each of the ten district stations and our Traffic Company. The red line was our yeartodate for 2019. The blue line indicates our yeartodate for this year, and in all but i believe two instances, our percentages have increased for focus on the five violations. The reason for members of the public, who may not be aware at the moment, the reason that we are focusing on the five violations, its been identified as a primary collision factor in serious injury and fatal collisions in the city and county of San Francisco. Our goal is to Issue Citations and hold and make traffic stops for these violations in the hopes of both changing the behavior and raising Public Awareness in the belief that if we can reduce the instances where these violations occur, we can have an impact on the number of serious injury and fatal collisions. Sergeant, the next slide, please. So we have two graphs here, two pie graphs. The first indicates these are for traffic fatalities. Unfortunately, they occurred between january 1 and june 30 of this year. The information relayed there is the type of or method of transportation of an individual who died as a result of a collision, so you can see we have for passengers and exterior passengers, we have two individuals. One person on a bicycle, four people walking under the category of pedestrians, three people on motorcycles and two who were driving a vehicle. As a note, the passenger category, where i said exterior passenger, earlier in the year, we had a passenger riding on a coupling between two vehicles on muni, and that person fell off while muni was making a turn and suffered and died from their injuries. This also displays the ages of victims of each individual category. Sergeant, next slide, please. So this depicts our traffic fatalities from january to june of this year. All the blue lines that you see on this map are areas that have been identified through vision zero stating or research in the downtown network. Youll see in the eastern part of the city, the tenderloin, almost every street is on High Injury Network corridor. The points on this map indicate individuals who died in a collision. If you look at a location, for example, crossover drive and m. L. K. , as well as the method of transportation motorcyclist, bicyclist, people walking, pedestrians. In some cases, a determination has been made to the actions that precipitated the collision, and those are noted, as well. Sergeant, if you could go to the next slide, please. This depicts our fatalities, comparing the same period in 2019 to this First Six Months of this year period for 2020. Pedestrians, we had a change of 64 . Motorcyclists, we have an increase of 200 . We had one the same period of 2019 and three this year. Minus, a cut in half percentage of 50 for drivers killed in collisions. And then passengers and persons using bicycles were the same for 2019 and 2020. Sergeant, if you could go to the next slide, please. And thats the information that ive prepared for this presentation. Thank you for your time, commissioners, and i want to ask if anybody has any questions that i can answer. Vice president taylor thank you. I dont see any names oh, commissioner hamasaki is waiving his hand. And youre muted. Commissioner hamasaki sorry. I feel like i just wrote it in the chat. Vice president taylor i dont see it any ways. Commissioner hamasaki hang on. Im having a little bit of problem. Can you hear me . Vice president taylor yeah. Yes. Commissioner hamasaki okay. Thats weird. You can hear me . Vice president taylor yes. Commissioner hamasaki okay. Its showing my microphone as muted. Commander pereia, just a question. I appreciate these interactions. We all want our pedestrians and bicyclists and everyone to be safer. Do you have any data to support that these Enforcement Actions in the high injury, high accident corridors are effective . Meaning, are you seeing a decrease in collision, decrease in injury accidents following the enforcement action or is it more just, like, theoretical, that hopefully if we do this, that this gets the message out . Being okay. Thank you for your question, commissioner. Ill try to answer it as best i can. Part of our strategy, we want to raise awareness. Whether its officers just being present in the area in high injury corridors, or traffic stops, or whether that results in a traffic citation or advisement, all of that helps to raise awareness. All of these areas that we are focusing our attention on identified by the vision zero s. F. Committee working out of sfmta, the department of Public Health, and we get also get ive had a lot of strong input and feedback from walk sf and the Bicycle Coalition in terms of their desire for us to be in these areas to help prevent fatalities. Hard numbers, i dont have at this point. I dont have any data that i can point to specifically that say things change by the presence of collisions or [inaudible]. Commissioner hamasaki right. I guess im trying to be thoughtful about the use maybe its because budget season is stretched, and weve heard a lot of issues raised about use of resources, and we want to be sure that the resources that were using are being used effectively. So if there is a way and maybe this is something that we can think about to track the data to show that these programs are impactful, that would probably be helpful to present down the line and be able to demonstrate with data as opposed to anecdotal effectiveness. Yes, sir. Vice president taylor okay. I dont see any other questions, so wican we call th next item on the chiefs report agenda . Thank you, Vice President taylor. Deputy chief [inaudible] will present our findings and recommendations. Okay. Good evening Vice President taylor, commissioners, chief scott, chief of staff hawkins, and administrators. My name is [inaudible] and ill be presenting to you the fdrb findings and recommendations to the board. Next slide, please, sergeant youngblood, and then, the next slide, please. So tonight, commissioners, i will be presenting the summary of o. I. S. Next slide, please. So officer involved shootings 17005 occurred september 23 of 2017 between the hours of 2335 to 0330 the following morning. The location of this occurrence, this officer involved shooting was in the [inaudible] block of salmon and [inaudible] in the city of San Francisco, september 23 of 2017 approximately 2335 hours, officers responded to the area. Officered attempted to persuade the suspect to surrender. The host age Negotiation Team established communications with the suspect via telephone. During the negotiations, two separate single gunshots were heard coming from inside the residence. After the incident, the suspect indicated he had shot his wife in the head. The team initiated a tactical rescue. The officers made their way into the room and contacted the suspect. The suspect had a gun in his lefthand and was ordered to show his hands. The suspect did not comply and moved toward the officers in an aggressive manner, lunging up from a seated position. Two officers simultaneously discharged their departmentissued rifles. The suspect was struck and taken into custody. Aid was rendered, and the suspect was transferred to San Francisco general, where he later died. The hostages were rescued, and there were no other injuries. The recommendation to the chief of police was that the use of firearms in this incident was in policy, and chief scott concurs. Next slide, please. Officer involved shooting 18003 occurred on march 21, 2018 at approximately 1629 hours, at 949 geneva avenue. San Francisco Police uniformed patrol and plainclothes offers responded to 229 amazon avenue to investigate a 911 call regarding an i imagine in front of the residence with a gun. As officered were responding, dispatch advised that the suspect had flashed a gun and tried to break into the residence. Officers onscene were directed by dispatch and a resident as the suspect was now at the amazon barber shop, located at 949 geneva. Officers observed an individual inside the barber shop who matched the description of the suspect broadcast by dispatch just minutes earlier. As officers entered the barber shop, the suspect opened fire at the officers. The two officers drew their firearms and returned fire at the suspect. One officer and the suspect were struck by gun fire. The officer and suspect were transported to San Francisco general for the injuries. The suspect was pronounced deceased at the hospital. The recommendation to chief scott for this incident was that the use of the firearms by these officers were in policy, and chief scott concurs. Next slide, please. The next is an officerinvolved discharge 00119, occurred july 31, 2019, approximately 1542 hours, cero magnum and market streets. Officered were flagged down by an anonymous person stating that there was an aggressive dog in the shopping center. The dogs owner was not present. Officers requested animal care and control to respond to the scene with the animal grohling and being aggressive. The animal ran and lunged at one of the officers. The officer sidestepped and drew his weapon and fired one time at the dog, striking it. Animal care and control responded and took care and custody of the dog. Next slide, please. The following are still open o. I. S. Cases, and they list the status active and still pending criminal investigations. And then, the last slide, sergeant youngblood, thats the presentation for this evening. Vice president taylor thank you. Can you give us a sense of why you think it takes to long the first case that you talked about was from three years ago, september 2017, and i noticed some open items as early as from january 2017, so just educate us and the public, what the process is and why these things take so long to go through the review board. Its a Vice President taylor, its a combination of whether the theres going to be a criminal charge to the d. A. S office, the length and time it takes to review the criminal charges or criminal investigation, the administrative investigations, and any other investigations performed by any other entity, including the d. A. S office. [please stand by] i dont know if were ready for the Vice President. Next line item. Next line item dpa directors report. Report on recent activities and announcements. The descriptions of dpa activities and announcements. It will be limited and any of the these issues raised inaudible . Good evening members of the viewing public and chief scott. Ill start tonight with an overview of our statistics to date we have opened 549 cases compared to 495 this time last year and we have closed 595 cases and in compare ton to 430 cases this year. We have 392 cases pending as opposed to 367 at this point last year. We have sustained 39 cases and currently we have cases pass the 2780 day mark. We have 34 of those cases down from 38 at this point last year and the reason they are passed the 270 day mark are because officers are out on disability pay or because theyre told for other reasons including on going criminal or civil litigation. Or criminal investigations. Currently, we are at 30 cases mediated to date as compared to 26 last year. As we will recall a new stat that commissioner ally as asked for was the number of cases we have pending and number of caseses we have pending with the commission. Currently, we have 14 cases that are pending with the commission and the oldest was filed with the commission in april of 2019 and there are two other cases currently pending with the commission filed in 2019 and there are 10 cases pending with the commission from 2020. One of those is an appeal and one actually, as i believe commissioner thomas mentioned earlier tonight, its set second hearing tomorrow. In terms of cases pending with the chief, we have 32 currently. I did get a request for commissioner alliance in an attempt to on exactly what stage each of those 32 cases is in. I have been working with sfpd and corresponding with ac moeser and with one of the sfpd lawyers. I would rather, if its ok with the commission, present those pum stats next week and one of the issues istats and they havey officer names so i have an updated list with the officer names and were working on that. At the next presentation well be able to give an accurate report and a fair report of the status of those cases. Thank you. inaudible . Better. Speak really closely. Its also my understanding that that information will be more readily available because the dpa and the department are having conversations to streamline documents exchange between the two agencies to ensure it will be exchanged and dpa will provide those reports. That is correct. We are on track to work on automating or more seamlessly sharing the information and in the meantime, were still struggling with the manual data pools but we will be able to achieve those goals for the commission and for the public. One request was an update on the investigation and what i can say is that dpa opened two cases related to the death of public defender jeff adachi. One of those investigations was regarding the leak of the incident report related to that death. That investigation is open and on going. The second investigation was with regards to search warrants that were issued in San Francisco Police Departments investigations of the leak. That investigation has been completed with dpa and its currently involved in the process outlined in the city charter for what happens when a dpa and given confidentiality rules cents th, its the updatet investigation but i did want to share that information and with the public as well. Thank you, go ahead. Go ahead. So, i also wanted to share some information about the upcoming release of the reporting on use of force audits. The dpa and the controller staff met with a number of people from sfpd command staff with 37 recommendations and sfpd has a month to respond to those so we had a discussion yesterday, sfpd will file a written response by september 25th and well have that report filed by september 30th and are hoping that well be able to agenized that before the commission pending your schedule but hopefully and week remote we do virtual outreach on august 24th, dpa hosted a virtual session on oversight and sb1421. On august 28th, we held a dpa101 session where one of our attorneys, Stephanie Wilson gave a presentation about San Francisco civilian oversight and the rights afford today seville comincivilians. We have two interns this fall. Im sure you will hear from them at a future date. We also have another virtual dpa101 on friday september 11th and on thursday, september 15th, we are hosting a talk called Police Reform and Community Involvement and happy to report any questions that you have. Thank you. inaudible . Next line item. Commissioner will be limit today activities and announcements. Commissioner session will be limited raised for future Commission Meeting. Commission president s report, commissioners report and commissioner announcements and schedule items identified for consideration at future Commission Meetings. Anyone else hearing feedback. Maybe we can have folks mute themselves and maybe it will help. So commissioner, do you have our report for the commission . Sorry, i thought it was two agenized an item, sorry. I see no reports to the commission so maybe we can move on to the next item. So at this time we need to take Public Comment. Before Public Comment, i think commissioner alias has something she wants to agenized and i have something as well. Thats what i meant. The next item under this we went through the commissioners report and its time for the commissioners to say what they would like to act for future meetings. So commissioner, ill ask you. Id like to agenized dgo5. 3 and have that come up before the commission. Weve put it off and i think its time that we bring it back and see what we can do about it and see where we are since we already passed 517 and they were lumped together. Yeah, sorry. I agree. We had a consensus from the working Group Commissioner and changes and they were trying to work through that since then and i hope we can have a product that is ready to go and chief, id like for you to report. Yes, commissioner. Thank you. Next line item, please. So commissioner. Thats what i left it in the chat route hitting return. Chief, i not chief, as far as agenizing items, there was a couple of items that i raised a few months ago now that i wanted to get followup and from the chief. On the agenda. One of them was for misconduct reporting by the department by officers and theres selfreporting or reporting of other officers and theres always been a concern about the blue code or thin blueline and you dont inform or rat on your fellow officers. And so, we discussed having a Quarterly Report about obviously about whether or not in fact sfpd officers are willing to report misconduct when it occurs in their presence as they are obligated to do so thats one item and chief,oid like you to,o be prepared to followup with that and get it on the agenda. We talked about when we came back was the use, if any, of noknock warrants. This came up relating to the discussion of grandma taylor and i had asked the condition or procedures underway the department does execute noknock warrants and i wanted to get a report to the commission on that to ensure that we have the highest standards to protect human life during those if there are to be the use of those type of warrants and and thats the second item. Thank you, well add those and make sure theyre added to future agendas. I see no other hands in the check so please call the next line item. At this time the public is welcome to make Public Comment online item 2 regarding reports to the commission. Members that would like to make Public Comment, start now to raise your hand. And at the moment, we have one comment. Good evening, caller, you have two minutes. Is this Public Comment . Yes. You have two minutes regarding line item 2. Is it Public Comment for all . For line item 2, reports to the commission. Ok. Im not sure. Is it general Public Comment . No, this is the chiefs report, dpa report and the commissioner reports. Ok. The chiefs report. So this is public grounds. Hi, how are you. Good, how are you . Im getting out of this noise coming from my phone. Im calling concerning my son ab rewhaubry who was murdered in 26 and im still seeking justice for my son and he was shot, i met with the police with my investigator today and michael, you know, just try to get some information and i was just glad that i was able to meet with them today. You know, even with all of that i still just wondering what is going on and how were going to go forward about getting my childs case solved. Like i was saying, i also run a service for mothers and fathers who lost their service and healing and im considering the cold case and unsolved homicides and i was wondering what we can can do and if you can do a blast out concerning my son. We had the media blackout age and i was glad everyone supported me and who was able to come out on the 14th for the Media Coverage and the circle for the other mothers and fathers out there. Again, im just calling to ask you to do another blast out concerning my son who was murdered august 14th, 2006. Thank you. Glad to hear from you but you know, i want to intrigue members of the public if you have any information and please call the non tip line and 415575444 and ms. Brown is here every Commission Meeting asking for justice for her son so if you have any information call that tip line. Thank you. Commissioner, that was the last Public Comment online item 2. Thank you. Next line item. Discussion to adopt the manual discussion and possible action. We have com panderer darrell fong who will make this presentation. Commander fong. Thank you, chief. Good evening Vice President taylor commissioners, welcome commissioner cohen and chief hawkins and chief scott and members of the community. My name is daryl fong com commar of the Community Engagement position, i will present an overview on the embassador program. Its comprised of civilian non sworn members who serve to supplement foot patrol business within business and commercial corridors. The goal of the program is to bridge the gap through partnerships with the distance improvement districts to provide inkeysed visibility in an effort to reduce crime. The Union Square Area has been identified as the area for implementation of a Pilot Program for the Departments Community embassadors with the uni square Business Improvement district. The goal is to implement this city wide and the Programs Mission is to provide enhanced safety for the community in retail and commercial corridors for visitors, merchants and residents. To serve between the department and Community Benefits and Business Improvement districts and reduce crime and assist in province stopping by using working partnerships with city departments and within the community. The community embassador staff consist of 10 embassadors, which are committed to working 20 hours a week and 960 hours for fiscal year and their proposition at the city charter amendment. The program is facilitated by the department the primary focus is to observe and report. Reporting response of the Department Personnel for any crime in progress and contacting 911 and cellphones and this quality utilizing fell services are resources and collaborate ing Community Partners within the Community Policing and province solving effort and demonstrating mind set. Building relationships with merchants in businesses to discuss and resolve reported issues and to distribute cards for engagement, sfpd safety, park smart, Homeless Outreach resource and San Francisco Safety Awareness for everyone to educate the community on resource available in hand safety and strengthen partnerships. The product cal for the embassador checking in with a signed district station platoon commander attending lineup for current district issues foray wareness and communicating with the district officer that discusses area issues and and contacting the district sergeant for administrative issues the district supervisors responsibilities involve monitoring conducting and administrative investigations such as on duty injuries, allegations of misconduct involving our community master. The training for embassadors consist of first aid and cpa and crisis i think soar selection escalation training and time and distance in deescalation and overview of the homeless and healthy streets Operation Center as known as a collaborative of city agency task with assisting with reported encampment issues. Training puts a buy as and procedural justice which focuses on the four tenants of procedure justice of voice neutrally and on 21st and the focus on two pillars. Building trust and legitimacy and Community Policing and crime reduction. Members are signed a jacket with a community sfpd community embassador logo on the back and embassador logo on the front of baseball cash and as well as the canadian embassadors would be wearing as part of their uniform. Within the department, the community embassador program is a sign within the Community Engagement division. And over seen bit embassador Program Coordinator and non sworn civilians who is responsibilities include assignment, training inspection and scheduling of embassadors. To summarize the embassador program and manual highlights include, establishing duties and responsibilities of the community embassadors and defining the embassadors role as civilian non sworn members and clarified that they do not possess Law Enforcement authority and that they are not authorized to use force in their positions. Training standards include implicit bias, principle policing as well as working knowledge that the six politifact pillarpillarslisted y policing. Theres no guarantee or expectation of employment hours as the employment will continue at the program would be reviewed for budgeting on an annual basis. In discussion with the department of police accountability, the complaint process will also be updated on the Department Website to inform the public that any complaints involving embassadors would follow the department civilian complaints process as outlined under the department general order 2. 05 apron approval of this meeting. That concludes my presentation. Im open to any questions at this time. I have questions about this but my fellow commissioners might get to them. Thank you. This is not a question but a request or recommendation. In reviewing the presentation as well as dpas recommendation about the program, one of the things that id like to point your attention to was r2 which is the recommendation that even though the embassadors are not allowed to use force, i still think its official to have a mechanism in place to a count for that in the event that it does happen. Because, you know, i believe that we are moving towards a more datadriven system of collecting data and analysis of it and i think that its not fair to require Police Officers to be able toll record their uses of force and be held accountability to that and yet were not requiring that from embassadors, even though they arent supposed to be using force. I still think we should have a mechanism to track that. Thank you, commissioner. I know that i think the response of the dpa at the time was the embassadors as a non sworn capacity are not authorized to use force because they dont fall at 830 of the personal code which authorization peace officers to use force. Certainly there is a process that we try to also outline in the ambassador manual that should there be allegations of misconduct involving such as use in force, theres a clear process in terms of an investigative process or reporting process to followup on the allegation. I wanted to make sure they go through a chain of command or sworn officers so i think we would need to sworn officers to also be able to report and provide that information just as we would expect them to do so for sworn officers. Thank you. I think this is going to be a theme moving forward but im going to be asking questions about budgeting and costs of programs like than this. You just mentioned the annual budgeting for this. Can you tell us what that is . As far as the annual budgeted for this program, commissioner . Yes. Well, i dont have the figure front of me and the Program Costs or employees 10 embassadors part of this community and that is the framework that as i mentioned and they are allotted 960 hours under the charter under prop f and i dont have that in front of me but its 10 embassadors working an average of 20 hours a week which is a maximum of 960 hours per the school year. And what is the hourly cost per ambassador . I dont have that available but im happy to look at that and get back to you. Were not talking about officers salaries for this work is i guess what im trying to get to. Its the rate of a q2 without the french benefits and just on the budgeting, when we first began implementation or planning for implementation we did request in the 2019 budget to get this program started with the we were never able to use the money and this manual was supposed to get to the many months ago and we already had chosen the retirees and trained them and we used a budget to do that and for this coming year, we have not asked for additional money and we have to manage it through our existing budget and its like were doing it the proper employees for other components of the Police Department had h we had to get the manual approved before we can do anything and we didnt asked for money for this fiscal year because of the issues with the condition of the city but we do think think will be a viable program and we have a non arm response to deal with some of the issues is that we face. And then my final question on that program, is how you are the embassadors selected what kind of screening process do they go through. Obviously, if theyre going to be in such a public capacity, the former officers are retired officers, are we reviewing their disciplinary and personnel files to ensure that these arent had our use of force. Thats a great question. One other criteria, this is to scott, commissioners. The people that were selected all had a lot of experience with positive Community Engagement. This is Community Engagement and the people who have been on the department established a solid work history and work reputation and knowing how to deescalate those type of things, even before that became a thing. Those are the type of employees when they are on the department. Most retired by the time i got here but, it outstanding and understanding really the departments mission and the positive Community Contact out there and deal with issues without escalating so those are the type of people that we thought to seek out for this position and from everything that i know about the people that showed an interest, there are those people. Like joe garrity who really was designed to put the program when he was statement in the den per loin district and carl payne, who you all might know carl payne. He worked for muni for a number of years before coming over to the Police Department but Just Community oriented officer when he was in the department so those are the type of individuals that we sought out. Thank you. Commissioner cohen. Thank you. I actually had my question asked about how the persons were selected. Now my followup question to that was, the how is the location for the Pilot Program selected . And then my second question is, are the community embassadors bilingual . Are there a few that speak other languages other than english . Ill start with that last question. I believe so but as the commander to verify that but with the selection of the location, it was designed to be a pilot and the reason that we started off in union square is because of the infrastructure that union square provides and they have a very robust bid with private security and many of the businesses there and they have an infrastructure with cameras and with the sfpd to try to prevent type of issues and the Union Square Area so it was really that combination of those things and we wanted to have a chance of success with an eye forward hopefully if it takes off the third steed and those things went into play in terms of our decision to start there and a small enough union square we with can pilot it and hopefully with a chance of success. I have a couple of questions, these are all retired Police Officers. Yes, commissioner. I know they dont have a department assigned where these are all people who carry firearms . They will not be permitted to carry firearms during these assignments at all. Regarding the use of force, they know theyre not supposed to use force but obviously if you are a retired officer, youve had training on uses of the force and the recent training on the use of force so give us a sense of what theyre told and how the message is drummed if that theyre theyre training and experience should not make come into play in this role . Absolutely. The training theyve gone through portions or abbreviated crisis and most of them have retired and its really started to roll out it was around when they were here so theyve gone through that training and theyve gone through training on the dos and donts and the rules are including as commander fung said that they were no longer peace officers and they are not authorized to use force, period. That is part of the training and everybody who agrees to take it understands that and theyre willing theyre not out there to use force. Theyre out there to be ambassa, eyes and ears. Give directions and put a good face on and also, they know the linger and they know when to call on to resources when things go beyond what theyre called to do and they have that training and they know the radio goods and its a good fit. I attend part of the training myself to greet them when we started the training its spelled out clearly what they can and what they cant do. My last question has to do a the attire. I saw the vest and pants. Its not in San Francisco but there have been not in San Francisco but terrible examples of programs run by Police Departments where you have civilians who the public or children stated Police Officers. Right, so, i know that the sfpd community embassador but maybe its worth putting Something Like non Law Enforcement because you can think of terrible examples and someone thinks of Law Enforcement and bad things can happen and so its just something to consider the first line i saw was sfpd. Thank you for that. And just a little bit more context on some of the models that we looked at when we were creating this the university of Southern California has an Ambassador Program that is a robust program. They call the yellow shirts and they supplement the basically they focus on corners around campus and get directions and make students get to and from safely and that type of thing and we took a good look at that model when we were dividing this and actually talked to the chief down there and the person running their Ambassador Program. Really like that program, its not meant to be a Law Enforcement response. Its not meant to be that at all and we will stress that ticken into account what you said about the public maybe being confused they see sfpd on the shirts. Well take that into consideration and we can make adjustments there. Again, it is a part of the Police Department. I understand what you are saying. I just want to ensure the commission and the public this is not meant to be, you know, a Law Enforcement tactic or theyre not meant to use force, make Law Enforcement tactical decisions. This is a report and call us if it gets what you are called to do. Call the on duty resource . Commissioner cohen. Vice president taylor, i could adjust two things. To address the acknowledgment of the ambassadors, at the last page of the manual, the ambassadors signed acknowledgment of what their role and responsibilities are and it clearly states there are acting as a non form member and do not possess Law Enforcement powers or use force. Its reinforced there and they sign an acknowledgment as such. To commissioner cohens question regarding our embassadors, we do not have bilingual embassadors to to the chiefs point they have a wealth of experience based on a wealth avenue signments that they side of when they were in a sworn capacity. Perfect, thank you and i appreciate that. That was my followup question and i wasnt sure if i missed the answer. Chief, this program actually, im excited about it. I think this is a good Pilot Program and i hope that it will be successful. You know, i think were all involved in Public Service otherwise you wouldnt spend our time here in the evening on wednesdays on a weekly basis. So i can see retired officers coming back and wanting to serve. That seems logical to me. I would like to know what kind of benchmarks do you have in place to determine whether or not the Pilot Program is going to be successful, how are we going to evaluate this and then im also thinking about the future. Scalability . How do we begin to move n this into different neighborhoods, chief, you talked a little bit about key things that you looked for when selecting a neighborhood, right. The infrastructure and in terms of a Camera Network and merchants, neighbors, some level of organizations that you can kind of come back in and sound like augment or not augment but maybe just something that is complimentary. How do we do this . I want to know, so, we all are in agreement. This is successful and we go to the budget process and we try to get funding. What are those established benchmarks, thank you. Really good question and so first of all, one of the things is to measure the whatever the crime in the area. I mean, particularly if there is crimes happening. Robberies, purse snatches, even some of the velour leve lower l. People urinating on the streets that are qualityoflife issue. Whether theyre embassadors or o private security or Police Officers, we can curtain that activity. Some of it is tracking statistics saying what is happening on the streets. The other part of it though is really, an eye test, is being out there Walking Around and you can feel when things go better. And a lot of our an and i knw its subjective to that degree but its a valid way of determining how you are doing when you walk around a neighborhood and you do see the things that drive people to call the police and say things have to change here. So, the eye test is one and statistics is the other and surveying and evaluating from the Community Members were partnering with. The union square bid was a big partner in this in terms of working with them to ensure they supported this and theyre willing to work on this and they are and theyll tell us how were doing. Theyll tell us if its working or not working and there are a lot of, as you know, commissioner cohen, a lot of willing Community Partners that we just have to put a model out there where we can work with them in the best and most effective ways so all those things in total will give us a sense of whether or not were successful and really were looking forward to decreasing crime and a decrease in activities that causes and generates calls for service and particularly the relationship when you see someone that needs help, to get in front of that before its a crisis where someone is either getting hurt or hurting themselves. Those are the things that were asking and well track those things and track the number of engage and the calls and all but were looking for results. Thats the bottom line. Result and Better Outcomes and better feel. You know when an area feels safe based on the activities happening there and definitely the crime stats are part of what we monitor. Thank you. Commissioner alias. Thank you, chief. I wanted to give you an opportunity because i think you were going to Say Something with request to mregard to in thought used to be using it. Thank you. Thats are really an easy fix. If we have a use of force we can track that and report back on that and that is really its not supposed to happen but if we do it wont be counted as department use of forces i just want to make that distinction but definitely something we can track. Thats fine. As long as its tracked and we have the data available, thats fine. The other suggestion i wanted to make to you was perhaps we can also include the critical find set training in their training program. I see they received the cit training which is great. Even though its the eighthour versus the 40hour. If we incorporate the critical mind set, which also highlights deescalation, that would be beneficial too. We can do that. Thank you. I just wanted to followup om thinking about it, some of the questions that have been asked so when, say an ambassador is walking down the street and sees someone run out of a retail store with some goods, toothpaste, whatever. What do they do . In that situation, they would be the best witness that they can be understanding license plate numbers if theyre there or description of the suspect. Theyre going to have radios. Make it a broadcast and calling the on duty resources and we have supplement them and a lot of the businesses hire private security and some hire officers through uniform officers off duty. Really their role would be to report. If theyre trained observers by trade. Good information will allow us to followup because often times, if some of these cases were able to solve them on the back end when we get the right information and write down license plate numbers and description and with the video instruct we request video and these cases tend to come together. That type of role is what theyll be doing. Ok. And so just a followup to one of the previous questions. It sounds like this is not, from everything you are saying, its not a Law Enforcement role so potentially if it was a non Law Enforcement individual who wanted to apply for this, with that be possible . That would be possible. We started with the prop s and 960s because we have a pool of people that we can draw from. Were open to we cant hire them as 960s so they would have to actually be a more thorough budgetary process to create a position and actually hire them in some other capacity. Definitely something that were open to, if this pilot is successful. Its something were open to. Thank you. Thank you, chief. Commander, you have a comment. Do you want to be heard . No, i apologize. I believe sergeant kinly who oversees our Community Ambassador program was trying to raise his hand for some comments but i just thought if he just contacted me we could discuss what the concern was. Sorry about that. I apologize. With that, do i have a motion to adopt the Community Ambassador program . So moved. Do i have a second . Second. Do we need Public Comments . At this time, the public is welcome to make a Public Comment regarding line item 3, the Community Ambassador program. Those who wish to make Public Comment please press star 3 now. Commissioner, we might have two question marks. Im going to open them to see if they are raising their hands. Ok. Good evening, caller, you have two minutes. Do you have a comment . Good evening, caller, you have two minutes, would you like to make a comment . There is no Public Comment. All call roll for the vote. On the motion to adopt the Community Ambassador program [ roll call vote ] [ roll call vote ] i think were adapting the Program Manual but, yes. Presentation of the sfpd and general orders policy proposal sparks report. Second quarter 2020 discussion. Executive director mcgwire, i think you are on mute. I still cant hear you. It looks like were having technical issues and this might be a good time to take a fiveminute break. So well be back in five minutes and hopefully those will be resolved. Sorry about the delay. Good evening, Vice President taylor and members of the commission, welcome commissioner and chief scott and chiefofstaff hawkins and members of the public. Im catherine mcgwire, im the executive director of the Strategic Management bureau and ill present the Second Quarter report for the sparks report. Great. [please stand by] so as you can see, the duties of patrol officers, [inaudible] the serious Incident Review Board has a working group in process, and the Field Training program also has d. G. O. Is under revision, so [inaudible] excuse me. Sorry. Siri is talking to me. Siri decided that serious Incident Review Board was siri, and she was talking to me. The Field Training program is under revision right now. We did do some work with d. P. A. On that d. G. O. And came to agreement with the subject Matter Experts in a couple of sparks meetings, so we feel that weve made Good Progress on that d. G. O. , and then finally, as you know, the 3. 09 and 5. 03 are scheduled for future Commission Meetings. And arrest by provide persons, arrests of on will lookers, ar by officers are all under revision, and these are all in the final stages of drafting, so theyll be going to concurrence soon, and then, you all are very aware that the deaf and hard of hearing d. G. O. Has been confirmed. The Domestic Violence d. G. O. And the manual has passed concurrence and are now back to d. P. A. For final look, and then they will be coming to the commission very soon. And then finally, property processing and victims of Violent Crime are in the final stages of revision or are about to go to commission. People in custody and children of arrested persons are in process. The hostage and barricaded suspects are in revision right now. The hostage and barricaded suspect was merely to confirm. And then finally, the investigation of officerinvolved shootings and discharges is complete and has a working group process, and that is in the final drifting stages, and then, intervention and Resource Program is also under revision, in the final stages of that revision. Thats my update for you, and if you have any questions, im happy to answer to them. Vice president taylor yeah. I just want to confirm, 5. 03 is not in commission. Thats what commissioner elias and i were talking about before. Yeah, commissioners. Would you like me to update this presentation and send it back to the public the public documentation . Vice president taylor sure. I just wanted to make sure that the public was aware of that because thats not the case, and then, ill move onto other commissioners. But i do have one other question. You mentioned that there was a working group. Im sorry. For which . The serious Incident Review Board, 3. 10. So as you know, the department has identified at the chiefs end and at the time president hirsch had identified certain d. G. O. S for working Group Processes that then we also developed and the chief and Chiefs Office developed a working Group Guidance for the department on how to assemble those works groups, and so this is independent of the c. R. I. Executive sponsor working groups. We can bring you all a little bit more information on that in a few tour presentation. Vice president taylor i didnt realize that there was a working group. Im sure that therell be commissioners who would want to be commissioner elias im just confused because im actually assigned to this Vice President taylor yeah, thats what i thought. Commissioner elias so the fact that theres a working group is news to me and alarming. So when we say a working group is in progress, its been assigned for a working group. Commissioner elias okay. And that progress is underway. Vice president taylor right, but is there a commission if there is a commissioner assigned to that, thats something i should be made aware of. Yes. Commissioner elias, you are assigned. We are reviewing the draft, but its not quite ready for you, so we want to make sure that we give you a product thats further along, but i think we are close to having something to bring you. Commissioner elias and im glad to hear you. When i spoke to tamara, that was one of the issues as far as i knew, when i spoke with her, she hadnt received that yet, so i think thats definitely something we need to keep on the radar and get a Progress Report on. Yeah, sure. Vice president taylor and commissioner elias will probably cut me off, but i want to be clear, on these presentations, i dont want the public to have the wrong impression of whats happening here. When they say a working group, its not that a working group has been convened so that the public is not thinking that theres things happening that have not been happening. Commissioner elias, do you have anything else . Commissioner elias no, just what you addressed, and then, i cut you off, also. Vice president taylor commissioner hamasaki . Youre muted. Commissioner hamasaki yeah, so i guess i have a different question, but i think everybody kind of keyed right in on it. You know, the policies for the department are in the jurisdiction of the Police Commission, and so i think the earliest contact that should be made when the police are consider drafting it are the Police Commission because were going to want to have a say or should have a way in who makes up the working group, obviously. I have this issue coming up on the 7. 01 working group, which was, you know, i think put together with a lack of subject matter expertise, and i was able to bring in people that had expertise in juvenile law and criminal law. So i would strongly urge, if you want this to be a collaborative approach, to bring the Police Commission in. And ultimately, if youre going to be doing this work behind the scenes, and then were going to have to come back and start from scratch again, i dont think thats very productive, and i dont think it shows the proper collaborative attitude towards the process. So if you are approaching d. G. O. S, and you are considering revising them, i would consider them or encourage you to contact the Commission Office and let us know so that we can determine amongst ourselves who are the appropriate commissioners who oversee the process. Because one of us ultimately has to come out and be able to work on it and explain it to the other commissioners why its gone through the commission process. Vice president taylor commissioner dejesus . Youre muted. Commissioner dejesus so i see the d. G. O. That commissioner mazzucco was working on, 1. 08, and last i heard, it was going to the d. P. A. So are we getting it back from the d. P. A. To talk about it . Like, exactly where it is in the process . Vice president taylor im trying to figure out where 1. 08 and i actually have a phone call scheduled with former commissioner mazzucco tomorrow, because youre right. He was the one working on it, and theres no one on the board thats currently part of that process. Commissioner dejesus what i recall, it was a slightly detailed eight, ten pages, it was a slightly detailed d. G. O. And i just want to make sure that if were going to be voting on it, that the public has the opportunity to review it. I dont know if its on for next week, if thats enough time. Vice president taylor no, its not on next week. Im talking to commissioner mazzucco, about who the stakeholders were to present it to the commission, exactly as you said. Did i hear you on that one correctly, commissioner, 1. 08. Vice president taylor yes, 1. 08. Yes, that d. G. O. Had a tremendous amount of Community Input. I know that i had asked for an extension so i could actually have deputy chief lozar who was heading that before he got promoted, there was a lot of Community Input and process on that. So its about ready to go. Whatever questions we can ask to get it on the agenda, were more than happy to answer those questions. Vice president taylor yes. But theres a lot of people involved, and i just want to make sure that the commissioners understand who was involved. I have a conversation with commissioner mazzucco tomorrow, and i hope to have it on the schedule in two weeks, depending on how many people were involved and the stakeholders, actually. Commissioner dejesus okay. So i have another question. 5. 16, search warrants. Im under the understanding that this is the working group, and this isnt the group that commissioner hirsch and i were trying to put together for search warrants or is it . Search warrants for doctors or for the privileged type of information . So im just wondering, would that groups be encompassed in 5. 16 or is 5. 16 something separate . Commissioner, its separate. Youre correct. Its the actual 5. 16 revisions, and you were on the wosh group when we attempted to get a work group together on the other part. I gave you a draft on the skill part and other part that we were working on. I think i gave one to commissioner taylor, as well. Vice president taylor yeah, i was supposed to be on that working group, as well, and im not sure what became of it. Commissioner dejesus yeah, i dont remember the status. Yeah. The decision was made either by president hirsch or somebody in the commission to separate the two, and so thats why we had a separate draft of the piece about the shield laws and all that thats really ready for feedback. And then 5. 16 needs some revision, too, because theres some things that we worked with on the district attorneys office, policy, to make sure we abide by the rules. Vice president taylor so when you say revision. [inaudible] commissioner dejesus yeah, it must have gotten lost in covid because i dont recall seeing any draft. If you could send it to me aga again. Vice president taylor im sorry, chief. That must be my bad, but if you could give it to us again, that would be great. Sure. Vice president taylor commissioner hamasaki . Youre muted. Commissioner hamasaki thank you. I think were all a little bit confused tonight. What might be helpful, a way to manage this so everybodys on the same plate is if the department can confer with the Commission Office d. G. O. By d. G. O. And make sure whoever is the representative is connected to that, and if theres no representative, we can look at it and assign commissioners just to make sure that we know whats going on in the area thats in our citymandated duties or charter mandated duties, so that would be super helpful. Vice president taylor [inaudible] for myself or commissioner dejesus, so that would be very helpful. Am. We will put some processes in place. Were going off of the schedule that the commission passed, the d. G. O. Schedule, so as youll recall, but we can put a reminder there to make sure we have it. Commissioner dejesus yeah, but that list was created by commissioner hirsch, so we it was sent without our input, so i think we you know, commissioner hamasakis suggestion is correct, that we should have the Department Contact the Commission Office and go through whats coming up. Sure. Vice president taylor okay. Commissioner dejesus wait. I also recall that we were setting up members for the First Amendment rights and others the Bar Association to go over this with us, and then covid hit, and i dont remember what happened to the working group we were trying to put together. So when you say revisions, i assume you mean the departments making revisions, and we dont have the Bar Association or the Public Defenders Office or anybody else on the working committee. Vice president taylor yeah. I think what the chief is saying they send a first draft to us, after which the working group will convene. That was on my plate. Im going to ask the chief to rescind it, and then, we can go from there. Commissioner dejesus okay. Thank you. Vice president taylor okay. Is that it for sparks . I believe so. [inaudible]. Vice president taylor oh, director hawkins. Just a couple of comments from d. P. H. On 1. 08, it was sent back with d. P. A. On 1. 08, it was sent back with our comments. Now just the general sparks report, i dont have any slides. Im going to highlight a few of the things that we filed. In the Second Quarter, we made multiple recommendations regarding sfpd policies, some related to the d. G. O. Revision process itself, and some were specific recommendations with regard to particular d. G. O. S. Of interest is 6. 14, which is the psychological evaluation of adults. That d. G. O. Is from 1994. One of the key things that we recommended is that the policy incorporates provisions that enable, in appropriate cases, for a Mental Health response instead of a police response. Obviously, thats something thats being discussed locally and nationally, and thats a recommendation that we made. Similarly a similarly old d. G. O. 5. 07, we recommend that policy incorporate First Amendment rights to protection, an individuals right to record, question, and observe the police. Another thing recommended was that sfpd create a disengagement policy which would outline and give the opportunity for officers to know when it was appropriate to disengage from a situation, take a minute, and potentially reengage in a different way as best suits Law Enforcement needs and Public Safety principles. So those are some of the highlights of the recommendations that we made. Over the Second Quarter, we made recommendations on 15 d. G. O. S. In total, over 150 recommendations were made. Obviously, were working through Department Standards and following the sparks process to make sure that our revisions are being made and getting discussed at marsparks meetings and with spubt Matter Experts. I think one example where the process worked well was with the police force d. G. O. I feel like that was a really productive process, and the result is much stronger for it. [inaudible] is that different than time and distance conceptually, and can you explain what that is . Yeah. Time and distance, i think of and im not the expert as a delay. This is a situation where we no longer necessarily need a Law Enforcement response, so how do we kind of exri indicacate our from this situation and call in another professional or another type of responder, so its a slightly different time and distance from our perspective. Vice president taylor okay. [inaudible]. Commissioner hamasaki did you just call me . Vice president taylor yeah. I think you might be the cause of the feedback, so if you could mute yourself. Commissioner hamasaki thank you for explaining that, miss hawkins. I would just encourage, if there are additional groups that d. P. A. Is involved in i know this isnt your necessarily your responsibility, but i feel like theres been this hole created with samra leaving. And i dont this isnt anybodys fault, but, like, im getting as good information as where policy stands, so, you know, if theres and i dont know quite where to loop us in, but just if theres a a better way from d. P. A. Side to ensure that were involved because again, these policies are ultimately going to come before us, and were going to have to work through d. P. A. And all the working group commitments. Thats a wonderful policy, and i think we could work with Bill Morehouse and Tessa Mcguire on the d. G. O. S and where they are in the process. Commissioner hamasaki thank you. That would be great. Vice president taylor thank you. Next line item. Clerk at this time, the public is now welcome to make comment online item 4 regarding the presentation of the sparks report. Any member of the public would like to make Public Comment, please press star, three now. Commissioner, there is no Public Comment. Vice president taylor okay. Next line item. Clerk line item 5, general Public Comment. At this time, the public is now welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on tonights agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Police Commission. Under public rules of conduct Neither Police or d. P. A. Personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions presented by the public but may provide a brief response. Members of the public wishing to call in may do so by calling 14156550001 and enter meeting code 1461408360. Press pound, and pound again, and press star, three to enter the queue to make Public Comment. Anyone would like to make Public Comment regarding general Public Comment, please press star, three now. Vice president taylor do we have any Public Comment . Clerk no, commissioner, we do not. Vice president taylor okay. Next line item. Clerk line item 6, Public Comment on all matters pertaining to item 8 below, closed session, including Public Comment on item 7, vote on whether to hold 8 in closed session. Anyone wishing to make Public Comment on items 7 or 8, please press star, three now. And there is no Public Comment. Vice president taylor okay. Next line item. Clerk okay. Vote on whether to hold item 8 in closed session, San Francisco administrative code section 67. 10, action. Vice president taylor do i have a motion . Commissioner hamasaki so moved. Commissioner cohen second. Clerk okay. On the motion to hold item 8 in closed session, we n [roll call] clerk commissioner, you have six Vice President taylor do we need to have Public Comment . Clerk item 9, vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion on item 8 held in closed session, Public Comment. There is no Public Comment. Vice president taylor okay. Roll call vote. Clerk on the vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion on item 8 held in closed session [roll call] clerk president taylor, you have six yeses. Vice president taylor next line item. Clerk line item 10, adjournment. Vice president taylor can i get a motion . Commissioner hamasaki motion. Second. Vice president taylor roll call vote. [roll call] clerk you have six yeses. Vice president taylor have a wonderful night, everyone. Welcome, commissioner cohen. Commissioner hamasaki welcome. Commissioner brookter congratulations, malia. Dont get used to this. Roughly five years, i was working as a high school teacher, and i decided to take my students on a surfing field trip. The light bulb went off in my head, and i realized i could do much more for my students taking them surfing than i could as their classroom teacher, and that is when the idea for the city surf project was born. Working with kids in the ocean that arent familiar with this space is really special because youre dealing with a lot of fear and apprehension but at the same time, a lot of excitement. When i first did it, i was, like, really scared, but then, i did it again, and i liked it. Well get a group of kids who have just never been to the beach, are terrified of the idea, who dont like the beach. Its too cold out, and its those kid that are impossible to get back out of the water at the end of the day. Over the last few years, i think weve had at least 40 of our students participate in the city surf project. Surfing helped me with, like, how to swim. Weve start off with about two to four sessions in the pool before actually going out and surfing. Swimming at the pool just helps us with, like, being, like, comfortable in the water and being calm and not being all not being anxious. So when we started the city surf project, one of the things we did was to say hey, this is the way to earn your p. E. Credits. Just getting kids to go try it was one of our initial challenges for the first year or two. But now that weve been doing it three or four years, we have a group of kids thats consistent, and the word has spread, that its super fun, that you learn about the ocean. Starting in the morning, you know, i get the vehicles ready, and then, i get all the gear together, and then, i drive and go get the kids, and we take them to a local beach. We usually go to linda mar, and then occasionally ocean beach. We once did a special trip. We were in capitola last year, and it was really fun. We get in a circle and group stretch, and we talk about specific safety for the day, and then, we go down to the water. Once we go to the beach, i dont want to go home. I cant change my circumstances at home, but i can change the way i approach them. Our program has definitely been a way for our students to find community and build friends. I dont really talk to friends, so i guess when i started doing city surf, i started to, like, get to know people more than i did before, and people that i didnt think id like, like, ended up being my best friends. Its a group sport the way we do it, and with, like, close camaraderie, but everybodys doing it for themselves. Its great, surfing around, finding new people and making new friendships with people throughout surfing. It can be highly developmental for students to have this time where they can learn a lot about themselves while negotiating the waves. I feel significantly, like, calmer. It definitely helps if im, like, feeling really stressed or, like, feeling really anxious about surfing, and i go surfing, and then, i just feel, like, im going to be okay. It gives them resiliency skills and helps them build selfconfidence. And with that, they can use that in other parts of their lives. I went to bring amy family o the beach and tell them what i did. I saw kids open up in the ocean, and i got to see them connect with other students, and i got to see them fail, you know, and get up and get back on the board and experience success, and really enjoy themselves and make a connection to nature at the same time. For some kids that are, like, resistant to, like, being in a Mentorship Program like this, its they want to surf, and then later, theyll find out that theyve, like, made this community connection. I think they provided level playing fields for kids to be themselves in an open environment. For kids to feel like i can go for it and take a chance that i might not have been willing to do on my own is really special. We go on 150 surf outings a year. Thats yearround programming. Weve seen a tremendous amount of youth face their fears through surfing, and that has translated to growth in other facets of their lives. I just think the biggest thing is, like, that they feel like that they have something that is really cool, that theyre engaged in, and that we, like, care about them and how theyre doing, like, in general. What i like best is they really care about me, like, im not alone, and i have a group of people that i can go to, and, also, surfing is fun. Were creating surfers, and were changing the face of surfing. The feeling is definitely akin to being on a roller coaster. Its definitely faster than i think you expect it to be, but its definitely fun. It leaves you feeling really, really positive about what that kids going to go out and do. I think its really magical almost. At least it was for me. It was really exciting when i caught my first wave. I felt like i was, like it was, like, magical, really. When they catch that first wave, and their first lights up, you know their face lights up, you know you have them hooked. I was on top of the world. Its amazing. I felt like i was on top of the world even though i was probably going two miles an hour. It was, like, the scariest thing id ever done, and i think it was when i got hooked on surfing after everything is done inhouse. I think it is done. I have always been passionate about gelato. Every single slaver has its own recipe. We have our own we move on from there. So you have every time a unique experience because that slaver is the flavored we want to make. Union street is unique because of the neighbors and the location itself. The people that live around here i love to see when the street is full of people. It is a little bit of italy that is happening around you can walk around and enjoy shopping with gelato in your hand. This is the move we are happy to provide to the people. I always love union street because its not like another commercial street where you have big chains. Here you have the neighbors. There is a lot of stories and the neighborhoods are essential. People have they enjoy having their daily or weekly gelato. I love this street itself. We created a move of an area where we will be visiting. We want to make sure that the area has the gelato that you like. What we give back as a shop owner is creating an ambient lifestyle. If you do it in your area and if you like it, then you can do it on the streets you like. As a friendyou can submit u questions by chat only. Please submit your questions as clearly as possible and include your name and outlet. We will do our best to receive questions up until the q a begins. Remaining questions can be sent to des sfgov. Org. And here is the mayor, london breed. The hon. London breed good afternoon, everyone. Today, im joined by Community Organizations that have always been amazing partners with the city and have really stepped up during covid19 for our community. I was out with the Latino Task Force earlier this week to distribute p. P. E. For all businesses, and they are doing amazing work organizing and fighting for resources for the community. The sisters for perpetual indulgence are always at the forefront for keeping the sister of lgbtq healthy, always while having a little okay, a lot of fun. And the African American arts and cultural district has been working hard to make sure the Community Members know where they can go for support, from sharing information about testing, business grants and loans, and working to empower youth in the bayview, and opportunities for all has helped distribute books, activity kits, and technology that students need to be successful this school year, and their terms and fellows have repaired with Community Engagement and outreach throughout the city. So since the start of this Global Pandemic, we have always heard and received advice about how we can protect ourselves and others and slow the spread of the virus. Overtime, as our understanding of the virus has evolved, some of that guidance has changed, like face coverings, while other guidance shall stayed consistent, like frequent hand washing. You cant walk down the street, go to the grocery store, listen to music our browse social media without someone telling you to stay 6 feet apart, wear your mask, and wash your hands. Since january, our city has launched multilingual campaigns on t. V. , radio, social media, newspapers, bus shelters, and bill boards. A team of Disaster Service workers han been on the streets daily, blanketing our city with posters, multilingual posters and flyers. Since january, this team has distributed more than 3 million flyers. Posters, and fact sheets across the city. You cant turn anywhere in the city of without seeing our blue and yellow signs. This provides good information, and many people are listening. However, as weve stretched into our seventh month of this pandemix, we are looking for new ways to capture peoples attention to sustain the good work of our residents and communities. We want to be bold and strategic how we reach out to people who arent Wearing Masks. We wanted to find out why people might not be wearing face coverings and see if we can change their behavior because were all safer when we cover our faces when we go out, and regularly wearing face coverings will help us keep San Francisco on a path of reopening that we so desperately need. I asked our team, our city team to start working with people and organizations in our neighborhood to did he vel Community Led education campaigns and outreach efforts specifically around mask wearing, and many answered the call. Our nonprofits arts and faith organizations are on the frontlines impacting communities. Because of their relationships, they are often the most trusts and the most influential than the government. Im proud to say, today, we are launching our first series of communityled campaigns ahead of Labor Day Weekend, and you are going to hear from some of our partners shortly. But first, i want to address why we are launching this ahead of this current weekend. Historically, labor day is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of american workers. Because of the pandemic, this labor day has a special significance. It is a chance to honor the special workers in our community. We know this virus has disproportionately impacted our frontline workforce, many of them who have to reuse their medical equipment every sipping wisipping single day. Labor day marks the end of summer, and most years, we have barbecues and cookouts with our families, and i personally wish i could attend one of those gatherings. As we set at the beginning of the pandemic, the safest thing is to do is for people to stay home, but lets be real. People miss each other, and theyre going to decide to get together. So if you do, we ask if youre going to be other with others, keep it outside, make sure everyone is wearing a face covering, and avoid sharing food and drink. We know that oftentimes, when people come together, especially when they start drinking throughout the day, behavior changes. In addition to keeping our friends and our family safe, wearing a mask is one of the most effective things we can do to keep reopening San Francisco. Lets be mindful what we are doing and how we are impacting the spread of this share. Lets share the love, not the virus. And at this time, id like each of our Community Partners to talk about their campaign and why its important to protect our communities this Labor Day Weekend and beyond. First, we have dr. Scott sampson from the California Academy of sciences, which lent their creative and innovative design experts to help our city. Thank you very much, mayor breed, and thank you for your strong leadership during this challenging time, including in relation to this coronavirus. And warm thanks to all of our partners. Im scott sanchez, director of the California Academy of sciences. The academy has been part of San Francisco since 1853, just three years after california became a state. We care deeply about our city, and we are here to putting all of our cutting edge science to keep our community safe. When we heard that San Francisco is so close to hitting an important mask wearing milestone, our organization jumped at the chance to help get the word out. The science is crystal clear, wearing a mask makes a big difference, and we need everyone, especially young people, to mask up. We know beyond a shadow of a doubt that wearing a mask, watching your distance, and washing your hands will help crush the covid19 curve. This campaign, available in four different languages all over San Francisco, is asking young people to take one small step that can make a giant difference helping to keep our entire community safe. Whether youre missing outside lands or dinner at your favorite restaurant, a giants game or inspirational evening of night life at the academy, we are all in this together. We are excited to keep the citys reopening on track so that we can all return to enjoying the many amazing benefits San Francisco has to offer. I wear a mask so that we ask safely open the academy and welcome you back for more awe and wonder in golden gate park. Thank you, and stay safe. The hon. London breed thank you, dr. Sampson. Now next, we have up annie chung from selfhelp for the elderly who will talk about efforts to conduct outreach and education with our asian and Pacific Islander community. Annie . Thank you so much, mayor breed, and good afternoon, everyone. Im annie chung with selfhelp for the elderly, and as mayor said, weve been on the frontline, providing essential meals and other Elder Care Services to all of our seniors in San Francisco. And were honored today, mayor, to partner with you and to support you in your relentless fight against the covid19 pandemic, and to educate the chinese speaking seniors and families how to protect themselves once they step outside their homes. Mayor breed, i think the seniors are doing their part to abide by the health order. I urge all the seniors and families to remember what dr. Sampson just said and practice the three ws one, wear masks, two, wash your hands, and three, watch your social distancing. I know the Labor Day Weekend is coming up, and we may be tempted to invite friends and family over for barbecues and gatherings. Only invite people that are in your immediate household, and if possible, try to meet outdoors, which will be much safer for you and your family. Remember, prevent everyone from sharing drinks or using the same utensils or chop sticks with each other. Be aware at all times. Protect yourselves and others, and think positive. [speaking cantonese language] thank you, everyone, and thank you, mayor. The hon. London breed thank you so much, annie, for all the work that you continue to do. Next, we have director glen from the African American arts and cultural district. I understand the district worked with local rappers to produce a music video that well see at the end of this press conference. Evan . Thank you, mayor breed. We really appreciate the continued support that the city of San Francisco has shown the African American community. Its been a lot of unprecedented work over the last several years, and we deeply appreciate that. My name is evan glen. I am the executive director for the African American arts and cultural district located in the bayview and third street corridor. So it was a process working with fran says zamora, the frances zamora, the department of Emergency Management, making sure the message put forth in our campaign was representative of the people in our community our culture, the way we look, and it just resonated with our spirits and our soul, and so thats what youre going to see in bill boards across the city. We also thought it would be a good idea to put a rap together to resonate with the young people. After talking with my codirector, erica scott, she says hey, you know, my daughters going to parties, and the young people need a message, as well. So we got together with a rap group out of the fillmore, 16yearold girls called the poppin twins, and they wrote the rap that were going to share for everybody today. With that being said, i just want to send a message out to the community to remain safe because statistically, the bayview has been hit the hardest with covid19 out of any other area in San Francisco. We need to be aware of that. We need to wear masks, stay 6 feet apart from each other, and remain safe. And think about your grandparents. Think about the elderly in your neighborhood because their immune system obviously isnt as strong, and so we have to start thinking about each other. But again, i just want to thank the city of San Francisco for the work that theyve been doing to support the African American community. The hon. London breed thank you, evan, for your remarks and for joining us here today, and were looking forward to seeing that video. Now we also know that the Latino Community has really been the hardest hit in our city. In fact, over 50 of the cases that have been diagnosed were people of latino descent, and we have not been able to do we would not have been able to do the incredible work that we are doing to support this community and to address this disparity if it werent for the Latino Task Force. Theyve been an amazing resource in not only mask wearing but keeping people safe. Theyre here to discuss the latino Awareness Campaign in San Francisco. So thank you, susanna. Thank you, mayor breed. My name is susanna rojas, and i am the director of the Latino Task Force. Thank you so much for allowing me to speak and to collaborate dpshfor allowing the Latino Task Force to collaborate with the city so that our city can feel empowered to take action. The virus is just one more challenge to conquer, to stop the spread of covid19 and to protect our latino families ahead of Labor Day Weekend and beyond, im here to showcase the Latino Community. [speaking spanish language] [end of translation]. Our actions speak leader than words. We can show love by masking up. We can stay 6 feet apart, and most importantly, by not sharing food and drink. Now we in the Latino Community know that food is central to our interaction. It is the backbone to our community, and gathering with large families is how we show our love. Love during the coronavirus looks like wearing our masks, washing our hands, staying 6 feet apart, and protecting our seniors and our young people. Hugging in our families and physical contact is something we do on a daily basis, but right now, we have to demonstrate our love by hugging virtually by wearing a mask. And last but not least, we have sacrificed [speaking spanish language] thank you. The hon. London breed thank you again, susanna, for joining us and for all the work that you do. Im so excited for our next speakers. Sister, you are one of my favorite speakers, and i am so glad to have you here with us today. The sisters of perpetual indulgence along with supervisor mandelman launched an outreach campaign, focusing on the Lgbtq Community. The poster that you created was just amazing. Thank you, and join me, everyone, in welcoming sister roma. Hello, mayor breed. I cant wait to see that video, and of course im hungry for some great latin food. I want to thank you for unprecedented leadership during these very hard times. Your team is amazing. Since the beginning of the pandemic, its been hard for people in my community to not compare it to hiv aids, which we all know ravaged the Lgbtq Community very badly in the early 80s. And the sisters stepped up at that time and were actually leading the fight against hiv aids with providing information and education. So when this got here, we thought oh, this sounds familiar. When tom temprano approached me, i went back to my sisters, and we were all on board, and we went back to our methods of Harm Reduction and reminded our community that its best to stay safe and stay away from each other. This weekend, people are just itching to get out and dance and see each other. Its difficult, and itll be trying, and i want people to know that therell be a time that we can get together with each other and hug and hold each other, like we used to. But the sisters want to let you know that Wearing Masks can be fabulous. Look for us in dolores park on friday, where were going to be handing out 1500 masks, and then were going to be heading to the castro for our first friday event, which will be at 5 00 p. M. In the castro. So thank you for including me, and its been my honor and privilege. The hon. London breed thank you, sister roma. I almost didnt recognize you without your makeup on. Maybe ill join you on friday. That would be amazing. Oh, thank you so much. The hon. London breed okay. Finally, i want to introduce a leader who has a Bright Future ahead of her. Athena matthews. It is so important to demonstrate proper covid19 behavior, and masks are just one tool to prevent the spread of covid. Bypassi covid by catching droplets when you sneeze or cough, protecting those around you. Indifferent while understandable is not sustainable. It is imperative that this generation feel empowered to take care of ourselves and take care of each other because we need to be more active and take on an active role in fixing our nations challenges, even beyond covid19, so to my fellow general fellow genzers, let this be a warning not to just be aware of covid19, but be aware of those around you. Tag us on social media at 60s. The hon. London breed thank you. At this time, i wanted to play the video that evan mentioned, so lets get to it. [ ] the hon. London breed very nice. Thank you so much. That concludes our press conference. I guess now well be opening it up to a few questions. I want to take a moment to thank everyone for joining us and really express my appreciation to all the organizations for the work that you are doing to make sure that we are staying healthy, and we are staying safe. I love the amazing posters, the graphics, the videos, and all the cool things that we are using to really get people actively engaged in this need to finding Creative Solutions to get folk to see comply with the mask folks to comply with the mask wearing compliance. I think about when i was a kid, and talking about wearing your seat belt and the work that had to go into getting folks to wear your seat belt, and today, its just natural to get in your seat belt when you get in a car. And i remember when i was little, people used to smoke in buildings and on planes, and now, its completely different. Even wearing a condom and the push for safe sex, the conversation about mask wearing, we have to get creative in what we say in the culture and the fabric of this country. The work that you do in getting the community to trust you to know that twhat they do is important and it saves lives. So were thankful for your work, and at this time, were happy to open it up for questions. Thank you, mayor, and thank you to all everyone who joined us here today. Well jump right into the same questions. Mayor breed, we received multiple questions on this, and this is one question thatll cover it. What do you think about speaker pelosis decision to get a blowout in San Francisco on monday . Does she owe the Service Industry an apology . Is ignorance of the Health Orders an excuse . The hon. London breed well, let me start by saying that its really unfortunate that with everything happening in this country, with the fact that we basically have a dictator in charge of running this country, and we have our speaker, nancy pelosi, working day and night to try and fight, again, the challenges we have with the white house. She has spent her entire career working for this city and working for this country. Its unfortunate this conversation has blown up the way that it has and distracted us from the real issue. The fact is we dont have good, solid federal leadership that is helping to facilitate this covid19, and over 180,000 americans have died as a result of this virus. And had we had what we needed from day one from this federal administration, then we would probably not be in as bad of a situation as we are. Our focus should be on making sure that we as a city are providing also good information. I know that theres been a lot of confusion with our Small Businesses and operations and whether or not they can operate indoors or outdoors, and so we as a city, and the confusion between the local information and the state information, we have to do a better responsibility of doing a better job around communication. So we can either focus and blaming and saying who should do what, but we have bigger issues as it relates to this country, and i have a tremendous amount of respect and appreciation for the hard work that nanny pelosi does every single day to take care of this city and this country. And thats what we should be focused on because we are dealing with very challenging times, and leadership does matter. I do understand that the industry is suffering, not only the hair industry, but the masseuses and the salons. I understand the frustration, and some businesses may not ever open again. I understand this is hard for everyone. The decisions that were making around Public Health have everything to do with keeping people safe, and unfortunately, the economy and peoples li livelihoods have suffered. So i understand that, but i think its important to get back to the main part of Wearing Masks, and staying apart, and staying heath healthy, and the city will do a better job of communicating with our Small Businesses in San Francisco as we begin or reopening efforts. Thank you, madam mayor. The next question comes from cristian captain with ktvu. With the weekend almost here and warm weather for the forecast, what city parks and impeaches are open beaches are open, and what distancing steps are you asking for people to observe . Look, we know that parks and beaches are open, and its important for people to socialize and pick up a date or two, but what we also need you to do is comply. There are more parks that are dolores park or chrissy fields. Theres other places you can enjoy, as well. So what were asking people to do is to just make sure that youre using good judgment. If you go to dolores park, and you see that its crowded and theres no place for you to go with your people and maintain your distance with your mask and so forth, why even step foot in that park . We will be out doing enforcement more so than we have in the past, but we want people to use common sense because we tend to see spikes in our numbers as a result of the holidays, and labor day, im sure, is not going to be any different. Ive had people reach out to be to invite me to barbecues, people who want today do a jumpy with the kids, and im saying, why are you calling me . Im going to say no way. Its not that im not only going to go, its just that these are places where the virus could transmit. Im just asking people to remember, be a part of the solution, and we will do our very best to be out there, to do enforcement. We dont want to have to do enforcement. We dont want people out there, creating more attention than already exists because of people not being good citizens by Wearing Masks. We just want people to do their part. Were going to do our part. We hope we dont have to shutdown parks and parking lots and make it difficult for people to get out and enjoy things. We have so many parks where theres no reason why people have to crowd in one or two or three park in San Francisco. The beaches have been a lot more manageable because weve opened up more space there. Again, just use common sense not only to protect you but the people around you. Thank you so much, madam mayor, and everyone else for your time. There are no further questions at this time, and this concludes todays press conference. Thank you, and stay safe. The hon. London breed thank you. Thank you. Good morning. I am mayor london breed. Thank you for your patience. Today we have a total number of 9544 cases of those diagnosed in the past six months of covid in San Francisco, with sadly 83 people have died. This is, as i constantly say, a fluid situation. Remember just recently as i reminded folks at the last press conference, of course, one day we were talking about a phased plan. Then the next day we had to make significant changes. More recently we had a level of confusion between state issued guidelines and local guidelines. I want to be clear that we are definitely working and communicating with the state. I just believe that there was a level of confusion as it relates to what we were doing here locally because of our numbers and because of our Public Health officials. What we try to do is provide you the most uptodate, accurate information. It is important that you visit sfgov. Org to find the latest in guidelines. There are certain things that we have repeated over and over again that we are at a point where those are the kinds of things we should automatically do. That includes making sure we wear our masks, social distancing, doing our part because what happens is there are a lot of questions asked of me and so many leaders in the city. The biggest question is when can i open my store, when can my kid go back to school . When can i do this or do that . I understand the desire. I have those same desires, and the only way to get to that place is if we all do our part. Today we want to talk a little bit where the city is, a new phase every opening because of where the city is, but also just reminder that just because this happens doesnt mean that we, unfortunately, cant pull things back if we see a surge. Labor day weekend is coming up. Everybody is thinking, well, this is the time i miss my family. It is six months. Here is an opportunity to get together. That is highly discouraged. Highly discouraged, especially if you want your kids to go back to school sometime soon, you want to visit your elderly parents in the senior home that probably doesnt still allow visitors, if you need to reopen your shop to go back to work. As we approach Labor Day Weekend, it is so important that we remember in those family and friendly gatherings that occur that is where we see through Contact Tracing where the spread happens, where we run into problems. We saw it during the fourth of july weekend there was a spike and during holiday weekends. We understand human nature wants to connect with other people, but we have got to get through this. We have got to get through this. Dr. Colfax will go into more detail what is happening in the city. We are still based on the state system that has been established that the governor announced last week, we are still in the red category, and we want to, of course, move away from that as much as possible, but it doesnt mean that we arent able to move forward to provide guidance on when we expect to reopen. We are off the wait list, which is a good thing. We are not out of the woods. Keep that in mind. As of today, we no, i thinks like haircuts and outdoor hair salons and massages can resume, outdoor pools can reopen. This is not what people wanted. I sure dont want to get my hair done outside, to be honest. I get it. This is what we have to offer. We also said that as of today that gyms can open, our door gyms as well. We are working on the guidelines to make sure they are prepared. Most likely september 9th would be the first opportunity that could be available. Another thing after being removed from the state watch list, malls were opened. As of today malls can reopen because we are no longer on the state watch list, and because they were open previously before we were placed on the state watch list. Now, i also have heard there is a lot of talk about not knowing what the guidelines are for various businesses. I want be to direct any business, any community, anyone who is uncertain what they need to do to sf. Gov reopening. There is not only a laundry list of guidelines for various businesses, there is information that you can review so you can be prepared even if your business is not open at this time. You dont have to wait until these announcements occur. You can get ready before the opportunity is available to your business. The path forward is good news. Again, we have Labor Day Weekend coming up. We have real concerns because the more reopen, the more people are gathering and spreading around, and we still have concerns. We want you to do this responsibly because we want to make sure we see these businesses continue to be open. All plans are subject to change, just like they were before. The last thing i want to do is tell you that we are going to be opening and then need to make changes and start closing businesses again. That is the last thing i want to do. The good news is that starting midseptember, hotels for tourism and visitors, outdoor movie theate theaters and mini , tour buses, boats. Indoor museums, zoos and aquariums with approved safety plans, houses of worship can allow Outdoor Services up to 50 people. That begins midseptember. We will provide the specific date once we have confirmed the date and make sure we are in touch with those various businesses with the appropriate guidelines. The end of september is, i think, really good news. This is something we should all be working towards. What that means is sacrifice of another month of masking and socially distancing and doing everything we can to get to a place where we can have indoor personal services. We can move hair and nail salons and barbershops and massages by the end of this month indoors. That is incredible if we continue at the pace we are now. And we will be able to allow tattoo, piercing and indoors no more than 25 and 50 outdoors. Door oneonone training with the gyms. Safely with mask wearing because that is critical to success of not opening establishments but allowing them to remain open. The path forward for schools. I just want to be cheer that as mayor i am, of course, very, very supportive of our schools, our kids, in particular, and wanting them to learn, grow and thrive. What we have seen this year with our students, especially those students who may not have parents or grandparents or Family Support to help in lessons. When we provided devices and internet service, they are still falling further behind. It is why it was so important that we open these learning hubs. We are almost at capacity. We know how vital it is that kids have access to people who are able to help them with lesson plans. I am extremely concerned about the future of our children as we continue with covid. We have to make prioritizing the ability to get schools reopened, we have to put that at the forefront. We know it is not as easy as we can open the schools. There are teachers and educators concerned, we know we need to put together plans. We know it is not my decision but the decision of the School District to move this forward, and my plan is to do everything i can to work handinhand with the School District so we can move forward to get kids back in school as soon as it is safely possible to do so. Starting in midseptember we will have Community Learning hubs. K through 6 schools that submitted health and safety plans through the waiver process will be able to open. I want to be clear. There is a process and it is their decision. We want to be clear that the opportunity to move forward with k through 6 is possible. After that work toward getting the following open by midoctober, after that the goal is to take it to the next level. By midoctober k through 6 not part of the waiver process will be part of the waiver process and will determine whether or not they will open. Middle school through eighth grade. High School Students are similar to adults. We are cautious and not certain we will move forward with high schools any time soon. All of this again has everything to do with the numbers, with where we are, with what is happening as we open more businesses, as we start to move around San Francisco like we havent before. We will all play a role in this success of what we do moving forward. I cant reiterate that enough because you all have been a part of stopping the spread at one point. When we first started this journey six months ago, this city was like praised, it was praised because of our fast action and because of the people of the city who played a role in doing everything you could to not only stay home but to also support your neighbors and to support one another. Six months later, i am tired of it, too. I am tired of living like this, too. I understand how you feel. I cant imagine what parents are going through or people caring for elderly parents, but you know what . We all have to sacrifice. We are all going to have to sacrifice to get through is this. As i said. If we want to move to the next level, if we want to get kids back in school, want be to keep the business that we grew up going to open, the businesses that rely on us every day, if we want to keep them open, all of us play a role. I want to thank you all for your cooperation. I know it is Labor Day Weekend, i know it is attempting, but, please, keep in mind that this virus is still out there and we need everybody to play a role in making sure that it doesnt continue to spread, and as we reopen we dont want to see the numbers go back up, which will force us to take a different direction. That is the last thing i want to get out here and say is that unfortunately, i told you yesterday that we were opening and i am telling you today that we have to close because of the numbers. That is the last thing i want to do. Keep that in mind as we move about the daytoday activities. This is really great news for Small Businesses, especially the personal services that i know are struggling to survive. Thank you all so much for your cooperation and work. At this time for a detailed Public Health update from the director of the department of Public Health, doctor brent colfax will joint us join us. Good morning, everyone. Thank you, mayor breed for all you do for this city every day. I am dr. Grant colfax, director of department of Public Health. I am happy to join the mayor and cochair of the City Economic Recovery Task force to discuss the San Francisco path forward towards recovery. As the mayor just explained the state has removed many of the restrictions that had previously prevented us from reopening low risk activities and businesses. While we have managed the impacts of the virus better than many other cities and counties. For example, we have one of the highest testing rates of any city in the country, and given the rates of infection, we thankfully have one of the lowest death rates in the country. Both of these, while being one of the densest cities in the country. We still need to move forward with gradual reopening as infection rates remain high as do hospitalizations. They have gone down over the past few weeks. We still have one of the highest hospitalization rates in the region. Of course, we are continuing to monitor the virus in our community and adjust and adapt our response as needed. We continue to have a high positivity case rate, and this continues to proportionately impact or Latino Community. Today in San Francisco we have 9544 confirmed cases of covid19. Over half of those cases are diagnosed in the Latino Community. We have made progress, but there is much more work to do. This is a priority for the department of Public Health. The reality is that we know more about the virus today than we did six months or even three months ago. We learn more and more about the virus every week. We are able to analyze more data and learn more about the relative risk and preventative measures we all need to take to reduce and slow the spread of the virus. This information is so key as we continue to follow the science, data and facts. These will inform our efforts as we open incrementally so we can manage the spread of covid19 and sustain the progress that we have made. We continue to monitor the rules and limitations of the states friday announcement, but in San Francisco we are placing an emphasis on our city indicators while decides whether we can reopen more and at what pace. We must look at the local contacts. Remember the state guidance is broad brushed, meant to cover counties as small and rural as yuba oral pine but also as large as la or as dense and urban as San Francisco. We will continue to be guided by the local Health Indicators which tract the covid19 cases, deaths, hospitalizations and Contact Tracing capability and availability of all important personal protective equipment. I want to provide an update on todays indicators from our data dashboard. The rate of new cases of covid19 remains high. We are seeing about 75 new cases every day right now and are still in the red zone. Our Hospital System indicators measuring the rate of increase of hospitalizations as well as capacity of our Healthcare System to respond are in green and indeed that is good news. Our other Health Indicators remain solid. Testing is green. We are testing over 3500 people a day, more than double our goal. Contact tracing is yellow and orange. We are reaching about 81 of cases and 77 of their contacts. While this metric has improved over the past few weeks, our goal is to reach 90 on both. Our ppe supply is at 100 of what we need for 30days, placing us in the green zone. The gradual reopening of Outdoor Services, hotels and children activities means people will start to move about the city more. Increasing risk and potentially Community Spread of the virus. With more activities we will likely experience an increase in not only cases but also hospitalizations. We will continually assess the new positive case counts and hospitalization numbers. Our reopening pace will be informed by our ability to manage the risk of more activity that may result in more cases and again more hospitalizations. Reenforcing the mayors comments, we need everyone to do their part, especially as we enter the holiday weekend. We must remain vigilant. I know six months if we are tired, but we must dig deeper and do our part. There is more virus out there than ever before, and indeed we have a narrow window to keep moving forward. The most important thing you can do to slow the spread of the virus is to continue to take precautions. I thank you for taking these precautions in march, june, july, now and in the future. Even in this time of uncertainty, especially in this time of uncertainty, it is important to remind ourselves and our neighbors that we do know how to slow the spread of the virus. Stay home as much as possible, cover your face to help us all keep on track. Keep six feet apart, wash your hands frequently, and please do not go out if you are sick and avoid social gatherings. We are in this together, and together we will get through this. In this evolving risk environment we will bring back our communities and economies the same we continue to fight covid19 by working together. Thank you. It is now my pleasure to introduce assessorrecorder carmen chu, cochair of the citys Economic Recovery Task force to discuss further the San Francisco path towards recovery. Thank you may or breed and dr. Colfax. We were here on friday to share our plans for expanding outdoor activities. We mentioned at that time we would be back this week to talk more about forward plans as we think about other industries. As dr. Colfax mentioned and the mayor pointed to we consider the restrictions and parameters the state provides. We will continue to reopen based on local Health Indicators. Today is important because it shows all of us what our path forward could look like. I will take a moment to thank the Public Health team for all of work they are doing to keep San Francisco residents and workers safe. I want to thank all of you for your individual actions that collectively have made a difference. Because of your actions, wearing a mask, keeping social distance and making sure you are taking precautions, we are here today to talk about what a path forward could look like. I want to acknowledge how hard it has been. I think for many people over the last month, month and a half it finley set in another i eye fine finally set in. We felt heart break we wouldnt be moving forward and this might be here longer than we hoped. We miss our family and friends and want to get back to work. More than anything as the city first started down this path when we first entered shel shelterinplace. We were here and it didnt really settle into us what this would all mean. What we did know was this this was going to be a situation unlike anything we had ever experienced before. Not only from Public Health perspective we are in the middle of an active Global Pandemic the Economic Impact would be so devastatdevastating and quick. Unemployment went from under 3 to 11 . There are over 60,000 in San Francisco unemployed at the moment. So many kids are having a very hard time adjusting to distance learning. Our most vulnerable continue to be isolated in homes and other settings. Not only that, we have heard from so many businesses they are hanging by a shoestring. In the beginning we knew there was a lot that we did not know about the disease. We had a lot to learn about how it is spread, prevalence and what it means for those infected and what treatments would look like. We know more today. We knew we had to b be flexibled transparent to sherry opening plans to get the economy back on track. We are transparent and will share forecast as soon as we know it, share guidance and best practices with you so you can operate safely, so that you can interact safely. We knew that we had to let the data guide us to make sure we were careful about watching the hospitalizations, our case counts, test positivity to allow that to guide decisions if it is safe to reopen, pause, or take other actions. We had to be thoughtful in our approach. We had to make sure that we understand the impacts of the actions we are taking. We go this is important to sustain the progress that we make. It helps no one when we pingpong and go and open and close businesses. People have to make investments to pull back or not able to use. These dont help our economy, they hurt our economy. We knew we had to focus on information an and guidance. The safety of our workers, customers interactions matters with economic recovery. There is no economic recovery unless people are confident reengaging with our city and city life. We will continue to provide immediate relief to workers, families, businesses. We will continue to be as flexible as we can. Through our words and actions we will break the narrative it is a decision between Public Health or the economy. Over the last few months we know we need both. That is our continued commitment to you. I am cautiously excited. There are many cautions out there, we hope you continue to do your best during this week end. I am excited this plan recognizes many things. One, we need to take steps to move the Economic Activity indoors. We need to do it safely to sustain the opening. It really does begin to recognize what that path forward could look like. This plan also recognizes the importance of uplifting large and Major Industries in the city including hog hospitalities. Thousands are employed in hotels and restaurants and retail stores. We can do that safely. We have shown the world we can do this safely. I will rest on this one thought. It is a refrain you have heard before. The idea that that progress isnt automatic. Again, i think san franciscans are familiar with this call to action. We have heard it before in all of thesive vit rights movements that we have had. While we make progress sometimes we somewhere to fight to make sure we dont lose ground. That is what we are facing. We know this can come back. What we have shown is that we know how to beat it back and can open up businesses together. I want to thank you, San Francisco, for all of the work you are doing to continue to help move our city forward and make sure we are able to keep opening in a sustained and safe way. To make sure we balance taking care of workers and customers at the same time. Thank you, San Francisco. We will begin the q a portion with dr. Colfax. The first set of questions from the San Francisco chronicle. What have you learned about reopening and about the virus since may and june that you are applying to reopening plans now . I think we have seen in our local response as well as across the country that we can mitigate and slow the spread of the virus, keeping the Hospital Capacity adequate and having enough capacity in our system to care for people who become infected. The other side that we have also seen is we know if we let down our guard, the virus can spread very rapidly. I think it is really getting this balance between the need to manage the control of the spread of the virus and realizing that there are key factors that we need to consider with regard to education, Mental Health, Behavioral Health and other Public Health considerations that we need to take into account in our reopens. We know that masking is so key. We know that more than ever. Something we learned a number of analysis have shown if as a society we can get up to 80 masking that will have a dramatic effect on the virus. In the guidelines coming out there will be an emphasis on the need for facial coverings. Out door activities are safer than indoor activities. Outdoor activities you can see in the phasing that we have. Outdoor activities that are expanded as of today. We also understand the need after six months for children to come back in to inperson learning as much as possible. We think that can be done in a safer way. From what we have learned in the data globally, we will be making recommendations around how to move forward with educational activities. There is no such thing as no risk. Pacing is important. That is why we spread out this process every opening and we need to be cautious as we go forward. Thank you, dr. Colfax. This is from ev baty. Are there Indoor Dining problems that keep it off the list of those you are hoping to open in september and october . If you look at the pieces we released today they fall into the buckets of the lower risk activities. The component of Indoor Dining there are a number of things that are concerning. Outdoor dining and takeout is open. There are opportunities there. Indoor dining would be in a later date at this point because of the risk that is entailed in people sitting down for long periods of time in crowded croud quarters taking off masks. I miss going to restaurants. If we all do our part we will be thrilled to see it coming online sometime in the future. Many next question with healthner from the San Francisco chronicling. Any plan for reopening kids playgrounds and basketball courts and Outdoor Recreation item . We are evaluating. One of the key things with regard to playgrounds. I would love to see them reopen and many parents and kids would as well. Playgrounds are mostly uncontrolled environment with a lot of children mixing different ages, interacting with different families. That does increase risk of transmission. At this time we do not have a date to reopen play grounds. Our Health Officer and Pediatric Team is looking at the data. That is something we would like to do as soon as it is safer to do so. Next set of questions are for mayor breed. First set of questions are from heather with the San Francisco chronicle. Six weeks after the city settled a lawsuit regarding the tenderloin how are things going in the neighborhood amid the covid19 pandemic . We didnt just put together a comprehensive plan to address homelessness and the large number of tent encampments we have spread to other neighborhoods where we have seen a level of homelessness that typically these particular neighborhoods dont experience as well. In the tenderloin in particular we saw over 400 tents with a few hundred people. We have been able to reduce that to as of today 41 tents. We have been able to get most of those people the help and support they need. That includes transitioning some of those folks to the safe sleeping sites, some into hotels, some into permanent be supportive housing. It is easier said an than done. It required a village of people working several different agencies. The home less Street Operations center under the Emergency Management because of this covid crisis and need to try to get people indoors, prevent the spread within the Homeless Population and provide people with a safe place to sleep, this operation has been incredible. I want to thank all city workers who played a role in going in to address the real challenge in several areas including one by ocean beach, one on oak street, in addition to the tenderloin. These camps resolution teams include workers from the department of public works, members of the San Francisco Police Department. Workers from the department of Public Health and the mag management team. I want to thank them. They are out there every day. Our Homeless Outreach team. When they began the resolution of addressing the encampment site. They dont show up just that day. They have to develop a relationship with the people there to understand the challenges they face so they are able to provide the support and assistance that they need. It is an ongoing process and the most effective thing we are able to do to resolve encampmentses and it is something we will continue to do. People are tired and frustrated and there is a lot of poverty and lack of housing and resources for so many folks. It is something we are working hard to address. Our program that we have established applan around homelessness has been the most effective that it has ever been since we put together this plan to address encampments. It is going well. It is not good enough. Going back to the conditions of the tenderloin in particular, it is really shorible. I want to be honest. We may have removed encampments but what we see in soma and the tenderloin around the behavior, urinating and def if indicating and public acts that are unmentional that have impacted the quality of life for the people in the community, we see things get worse. Part of what we need to do especially around the significant amount of drug dealing that occurs in the tenderloin, it is to to point where we have to get dress i. We cant have it both ways. You cant be upset that we are making arrests and then be upset we are allo allowing it is cont. These acts should not be tolerated. We will continue to push and do our job to make sure we cleanup this community so that people walking down the street with a baby stroller dont have to get off and go to the street to walk around a bunch of people selling drugs and shooting up. Is that okay for families to live like that . It is not. 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Few people happy of all ages ive gone my job so i have so stay is an i feel like the piano and music in general with my voice together i feel really powerful and strong [roll call] great. Well, i have the privilege of welcoming you all to the september 1, 2020 meeting of the Public Health commission. Welcome to the staff as well as members of the public, and i also have the pleasure of telling you im chairing the meeting today because it was commissioner bernals his 50th birthday, and i cant imagine why anyone would want to take their 50th birthday off. However, hes decided to do so, and so im sure youll join me in wishing him the very best for his birthday