Just come on into the conversation if you like. What im hearing is that we actually have pretty much consensus on item number 1. Item number 2, i feel there is a pathway there. Item number 3, i believe it will take more work with the Sheriffs Department. As a board member, we dont have the authority to actually change the rules and procedures within the electronic monitoring in the Sheriffs Department, but we can actually help facilitate a conversation that we reach a consensus and agreement on how we can better serve those people, those clients we are serving. I think these three recommendations brought forth is an attempt to do that. Before we go any further and we lose some of our Public Commenters, i would like to open this up for Public Comment on items number one and two. Can you see how many speakers we have in the queue . My apologies everyone that this hearing has gone on for such a long time, but as i said, that we have continued this item, i think five times. I felt like we needed to give it its due full time and respect to this subject matter as so many departments have presentations for us for this deeper discussion about electronic monitoring. Can we see how many Public Commenters we have on items one and two please. Yes madam chair. Currently there are seven speakers in the queue and three listening. Okay, lets open it up for Public Comment. Lets give everyone 2 minutes for this public xhechcomment. Lets hear what our Public Commenters have to say. Thank you. Yes madam chair. Operations is checking to see if there are more callers in the queue. Operations please let us know if you have not already done so press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on hold, wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. Please queue in the first caller. Good morning madam chair and supervisors. I am the policy manager. We are strongly opposed to the citys reliance on using electronic monitoring. Our Reentry Program works closely with people who are formally incarcerated and their families. Many of them have been on electronic monitoring, which is not an alternative to but a costly and counterproductive extension of incarceration that does not only affect individuals but their families as well. There is no conclusive analysis or evidence that suggests that it works. We ultimately need to work towards a rejeshgs of the program there is daily evidence and vulnerabilities that result from this program. I urge you to recommend against approving the current rules and regulations and incorporate Harm Reduction measures. Among many recommendations that have been submitted to you, further steps need to be taken to decriminalize quality of life crimes, place a cap on the amount of times that people are on the program and electronic monitoring should be subject to less surveillance or excluded from it completely. Decrease the restrictions for the people subject to the program. There are multiple pages of rules, each with a thorough analysis. We need to facilitate and strengthen community ties, inclu including family care rather than requiring permission for these activities and punishment, rearrest detention should be the last result of the rules. We need to set people up for succe success, not throw up barriers. Thank you. Thank you for your comments, next speaker please. Hello speaker. We strongly oppose the use of electronic monitoring and i recommend against approving the current regulation of the citys program and incorporate Harm Reduction measures. G. P. S. Tracking negatively effect employment, child care, healthcare, and family responsibilities. It can create harmful complications with employments, especially with jobs with unset hours, and family emergencies. Expansion of electronic monitoring has resulted in large increases in overtime pay. Proponents of the electronic monitoring state it will reduce cost, but it only increases the amount of money that the city spends on incarceration. No data shows that the e. M. Positively impacts Court Appearances. What does work are programs and tools that support Court Attendance and reentry in the community. This also looks like supportive housing, Mental Healthcare and other employment services. Our city believes that electronic monitoring is harmful. I ask that you not move forward until more information is shared with the public and there is work to implement Harm Reduction implications and demands that we sent to you. Thank you so much. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. Hello supervisors. My name is meredith. I live in district 8 and im a staff attorney here in San Francisco. I am here to speak specifically of electronic monitoring of youth. We strongly oppose the use of electronic monitoring in the juvenile system. It has no basis in research as an effective intervention and contradicts the science of adolescent development. [please stand by] to electronic monitoring increasing when it was implemented. At the same time electronic monitoring was increases and Public Safety outcomes increased significantly. It has tripled our staffing and budget. That could be looked at as a conclusive to Public Safety rates increasing because we are able to provide our agencies are embedded in the community and nonprofit working in the states. We do believe it provides support. We are currently increasing for the pretrial services. Thank you, have a good day. Thank you for the comments, next speaker please. Hello, supervisors. Im gracey and livein the district. Im against electronic monitoring. Its not a Good Alternative to incidence cars ration. They fail to provide the opportunities that people need. This reinforces the racism of the criminal and legal systems. It expands jails and policing in the moms and communities of black, indigenous, trans, and poor people. Expansion has increased the budget and overtime pay. Finally, more resources into incarcerate. Its less expensive than incarcerating in jail without cutting fixed cost like staffing, electricity, and water. Those resources should be reinvested into the community where they belong other than limit or takeaway power and agency. We shouldnt invest in a different type of incarceration. Decriminalizing use of life crimes would keep helpless poor folks from being puton em and stop the revolving door of heart shipment our cities rely on electronic monitoring. We must move away from this. Lets invest in support for increasing reentry and focus on services that will straighten community ties. This will keep us safe. As long as we use electronic monitoring. Speakers time has elapsed. Next speaker please. I would like to comment im opposed to electronic monitoring and id like to say why. When we have the rate of incarceration we do when we allow this level of electronic monitoring what it means is that we placed Police Officers in all of these communities to continue the specific superiors. What it means is again, those communities that are already suffering from over policing and mass incarceration and mass surveillance, especially are incarcerated are again going to be subject to to this excessive policing. There is another way. With mass incarceration. Beyond that eit means the surveillance state is much more privaciesive in the provasive. I oppose the two measures i join my community in doing so. We must stop this. Next speaker please. My name is christian and im part of the coalition that recommends against approving the current rules and regulations of the electronic program. This is while working to oppose electronic monitoring. The existing documents dont outline the rules and regulations this is the farther review of the rules and the concentrate consequences. We would like the opportunity for the public to weighin as well. The coalition sent over demands. They can be found on our website. There are Different Levels of custody. They should be restrictions for electronic monitoring. We also recommend the a time limit when someone should be allowed to have less sure fall vance. We need to invest in Court Date Reminder and transportation to courthouses. Our cities reliance on electronic monitoring muss be moved away from. Today, we not pass this and work with the preventionive measures we shared. Thank you for your comments. Im a district nine resident. Id like to echo what has been said. This is by the jail coalition. I oppose the use of electronic monitoring anywhere id like to thank the supervisor and echo what the very supervisor said this is the fifth time we met about this. We are often barred because we might have a criminal past. If you have a monitor on your ankle your options are limited. Even though you pay taxes and your license and you livein San Francisco. San francisco, l. A. , philadelphia, new york. All of these places are doing great work this is what the people in my community would like. Id like to thank you for having Public Comment and keep it going. Those on hold Police Continue to wait until the system indicate you happen to be muted. Please unmute the last speaker. Hello, im malissa hernandez. Until we make changes to ensure at the least Crime Reduction for people placed under these restrictive monitors. For purposes im personally opposed to the use of ankle chack shackles. This is another monitoring tool for people of color. Before the pandemic the number of folks of em increased but so did the number of people in our jails. Em is another form of incarceration. Id like to discuss the use of them in San Francisco. Em has grown and it seems there is a lot we dont know about how its use the our city can that will straighten community ties. In the meantime, as long as em will be used and we understand this is not a ref refer ran dumb. Anymore speakers. Hi, im kate in d. C. My research is in the use of em in the criminal and legal system. Im thankful you convened this hearing and been following this for the past several months. I sent a letter two weeks ago. Icon cur with the i concur the others concerns. Three quick points that came out today that i wanted to respond to. The Sheriffs Office and probation set the rules but the court orders someone to be puton the monitor. They hold a lot of power to determine someones time on the monitor. Some people are having 25 rules in addition to the court order conditions. Some overlap and some dont. I also think there are serious concerns and legal issues. We are sharing the data with law enforcement. There is no such bases here. There is a process concern. Most important, the question is how can emb used less. How can we find community alternatives. There is Court Appearances that dont involve surveillance. I welcome the opportunity. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Any additional speakers. Madam chair, that completes the cue. Thank you very much. Public comment on items one and two are closed. So, item number one is a hearing that has to be heard before the board. It doesnt need to be approved. Is that correct . Thats my understanding of the statue and penal code the board needs to review it, thats it. So, im wondering, i actually think we have momentum here. I think we learned a lot from the hearing. I think what we can honestly say we dont have enough data and we real have collective data on other strategies that might be more successful im wondering, supervisor walton. Im leading the office on january 8, 2021. I just wanted to make sure we started work here. Primary there is language thats before us to explore them today. So, im wondering supervisor walton, i was going to file the hearing on both of these items this is the program and regulations. If you would like to bring it back you can bring it back on a regular hearing and also updates. If i were to file both of the hearings as being heard. Supervisor, i think im knowing im leaving and leave this decision up to you. Thank you so much, chair. Id love to to call this to the call of the chair. We have had headway with the public defender and chair we can bring it back and come to consensus as members of the board move it forward in a positive manor. That possibility id like to reiterate as i listen to mr. Hollen. They focused on what the rules are suppose to be act. It sounds like its to benefit the individuals who might be on electronic monitoring. To your point, chair, i thank you for presenting the language that would be specific to item five. If this is really about the benefit of the client and making sure they understand their rights. It definitely should read Something Like only if the court mandates or something explicitly like that. If item number one continues to the call of the chair. Ill let the conversations continue. Thank you very much. Supervisor, anything to add . Nope, im good. Okay, thats great. Id like to tank everyone for coming today and the Sheriffs Department. They called you back multiple times. Your patients is incredible and id like to say i think we are trying all to get on the same page with electronic monitoring. We knew this could be the fall back and we are seeing it. I think we can agree the data is inadequate. Im happy to say the Sheriffs Department is taking the lead to do studies on this. Your head is in the right direction with this. As i leave here id like to say thank you to the sheriffs depart. Public defender, id just like to say thank you for bringing the recommendations forward and they are reasonable. I dont know why you couldnt workout this agreement but our time constraints we need to get in the room and workout the language. Thank you for bringing that forward. Duh to the others that gave us a deeper understanding about electronic monitoring and how complicated this issue is. I have to say, its odd to me we have three Different Companies and three did i have kent contracts with electronic monitoring and three different wavers you have to same. Are be the they all the same . Id like to look at the rules and procedures and see if we can alean them to be verisimilar to each other. Anyway, having said that, i think ill make a motion to continue item one to the call of the chair. Id like to file item number two, may i do that in one motion . Yes, madam chair. Thank you. Whether its in the news or watching the meeting about how, perhaps, we have come to consensus on this and how to make it better. Id like to make a motion to cauley temperature one to the call of the chair. Item number two id like to file. Roll roll [roll call] aye, have it. Id just like to thank you for your service to the city and county of San Francisco. Its been a pleasure severing you as it supervisor. Madam clerk can you cauley temperature call item number three. Indicating the board of supervisor nonbinding to appropriate agenda item by november 2020 for the tax ballot matter. Members that which to provide public callment to callin. Press pound twice. Press star 3 to indicate you would like to speak. Which will make it in your comments. Madam clerk, today we have with us super advice hanie. The floor is yours. Thank you, its good to see you all. I saw you just a few hours ago. This resolution in front of you would indicate the boards intent to appropriate revenue generated by prop l. This would pass overwhelmingly during our most recent election. Id like to thank all three of you for your support for the measure when it was in front of the board. Thankfully we have nearly 66 of the vote and in the near few we will have addition additional revenue. It is also connected to what is our related ongoing budget crisis and the many years in the making of the under funding and Public Health. When we first wrote prop l it main goal was for the economic recovery and the pandemic aftermath by raising up to 140 million. We made it clear from the by beginning from San Francisco voters they could make Great Strides and the Economic Hardship with coronavirus. The funds raised by the tax will be deposited into the general fund and the board would invest the funds for some of our most critical needs and hiring emergency responds. Its not binding and expresses an important intent that i think we have shared the need to invest funds into our health and Public Health systems. Particularly, as a result of the strains they are experiencing during the pandemic. I think i dont have to go through the elements of the tax itself and why it was needed. Well discuss that at length and its important that we express our intent with other general funds and revenue measures as to how we would plan toous the funding when it comes to us in a little over a year. We know that our Public Health system and General Hospital are under funding and staffing of nurses. Our Addition Services needin vestments and this will give us a sense to do that and its connected to the inequality our city is facing. I hope you will join me for the resolution supporting healthcare workers, emergency responders. And investing in our strained and struggling system. We can express our intent together as a board. Thank you for your time. Any comments or questions from my colleagues. Well open this to Public Comment. So sorry, id like to be added as a cosponsor. Checking to see if there are any callers in the cue. For those on hold continue to wait let us know if there are any callers that wish to comment on item number three. Madam chair, we have no colliers in the cue i make a motion. Roll call vote please. On the motion we recommend item number three with the recommendations. [roll call] appr