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Present. President. Sue present. Sue is present. We have a quorum. Is there a motion to excuse members palmer and wechter . So move. Do we have a second . Second . Any objections . The motion passes. Um, are there any announcements . Stan . Yes this is the regular inperson, monthly Public Meeting of the Sheriffs Department. Oversight Board Members of the Sheriffs Department Oversight Board will attend this meeting in person. Members of the public are invited to observe the meeting in person, except for persons with disabilities requiring reasonable accommodations only members of the public attending the meeting in person will have an opportunity to provide Public Comment. When Public Comment is called during each line item, the public is welcome to address the board for up to two minutes on that line. Item there will be general Public Comment at the end of the meeting for items that did not appear on this afternoons agenda, but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the Sheriffs Department Oversight Board comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available for members of the public who are present in in person by lining up against the far wall and approaching the podium. When it is free, you will have two minutes to provide Public Comment. The first tone will alert you. You have 30s to complete your Public Comment. The second alert you that your two minutes are up. Thats the end of announcements. Thank you. Please call the first agenda item calling line item one adoption of minutes. Action item review and approve the minutes from the Sheriffs Department Oversight Board. Regular meeting held on february 2nd, 2020 for. This mike seems longer. Its like really in my face. Um, do we have a motion to approve the minutes . Second. Right i need a motion. Motion okay. Um whats the correct motion to approve the minutes . Yeah. Okay. Do i move . Yes. So move. There. There you go. And do i have a second on that motion . Ill second. Um all those in favor . Oh, no. I we have to do Public Comment, and im sorry. Public comment. Public comment for members of the public who would like to make Public Comment on line item one adoption of minutes, please line up. Uh, please approach the podium when it is free. There appears to be no Public Comment. Ill call the roll on the adoption of minutes. Member mango i iphone mango is i Vice President carreon i carreon is i member win i win is i president sue i sue is i the motion passes the minutes from the february 2nd, 2020 Fourth Meeting are adopted. The next agenda item please calling line item two the Inspector General report informational item Inspector General terry rileys monthly report from the office of the Inspector General. Um good afternoon. Members of the sheriffs Oversight Board. Uh, its a pleasure to be here today. Uh, you know, i was looking at the calendar and it looks like ive actually been on the job. Exactly eight weeks, so, um, i thought it was. This would be a great opportunity to update you as to what weve accomplished over the last eight weeks. Uh, on the job. Well when i first arrived on january 8th, uh, of course, i needed to go through an orientation with both the city, but also the department of Police Accountability. And i want to thank Paul Henderson and the department of Police Accountability and marshal kane, because they had a very nice, uh, orientation laid out for me, uh, sometime seems unrealistic to get so much done in a day, but we got most of it done. Um and in part, a big part of it was just explaining to me the orienting me with the department of Police Accountability to see the facilities, uh, uh, the resources, the divisions and the responsibilities and, and the systems that they employ, uh, that went on for the first week. And in, in the second week, uh, began running. Uh bilyeu leave. Yeah, it was in the second week we began, um, uh, becoming more familiar with with, uh, the operations as they are basically, uh, taking care of a lot of the responsibilities of the, of the Inspector Generals office in terms of handling, uh, the cases that come out of the Sheriffs Department while we get up and running. Now another interesting thing that happened in those first couple of weeks was i attended, uh, the core training with the Current Academy class of the Sheriffs Department. So once they finished the sheriffs academy, they go through a six week core training. And so i was able to participate, date with the latest Academy Class in some of their core classes. Uh, unfortunately, i wasnt able to participate in all of them, but some of the ones that i did participate in was like the class on the use of force. Uh, the class on the use of the, uh, well, it was all all the Defense Mechanisms that they utilize in their training and i was very, very impressed with the training. I thought the instructors were really, really good. Um and so i came away, uh, feeling very, uh, comfortable with what i saw, uh, in the, in the, in the core training i. G. Williams. Were you able to do the, um, the simulation on, uh, you know, unfortunately, that day i was double booked and i wasnt able to attend the that training, but, uh, and that was one of the things i was really looking forward to. Hopefully you can. Ive done it. Um, as a prosecutor on these issues before. And it was it was really interesting. Yeah. No. And i mean, uh, im really thankful that the Sheriffs Department has been very, uh, open and helpful. Uh, so that pretty much anything we want to see, anything we want to do that, um, and so i anticipate that at some point when things kind of slow up, ill have an opportunity to get back out there. Yes. And then i was going to say in october, our members will have an opportunity. If you havent gone to the community, um, uh, events at the jail. And then they, they do allow, um, working on the simulation and a tour through operations and it also includes the junior cadets from the high school, which was really nice to see the youth out there. Yeah, that would be great. That would be great. Oh, i also saw their taser training, which was i got to be honest, i learned so much about the taser in that training. Uh, and so now , now when i see any kind of a taser incident on video, i, im looking at it through completely different eyes now because now i understand how it operates. And, um, and kind of the whole theory behind the operation of the taser so that was that was really good. Uh, i also completed the mandatory training of the city and county of San Francisco, which which is it actually shocked me of how much stuff they, they you go through, uh, in order to onboard with the city and county of San Francisco. Um, and i was actually very, very impressed with how much of the training i had to go through. Just to onboard with the city and county. Uh, i completed a number of mandatory trainings, uh, implicit bias, ethics and sunshine laws, whistleblower program, and just the series of trainings that they require. Uh, i also attended the San Francisco new employee orientation, which was a 9 to 12, uh, training that was, uh, actually very, very good. Um so i was very impressed with that. Um then probably one of the most important things that weve been doing over the last, uh, several weeks is meeting with a lot of our stakeholders. Uh, so ive met with supervisors shamann walton, who, of course, uh, was the sponsor of the legislation creating the office of Inspector General. Ive met with sheriff miyamoto. We had a great meeting. Um, and really talked in depth about a lot of things that we want to do from the with the igs office and with some of their expectations are and where we kind of meet. Uh, and so i was very impressed with sheriff miyamoto. Uh, we also met with the sheriffs legal team. I spent about a half, uh, a morning with their legal team talking about a lot of the issues that that theyre seeing come up and, and things that, uh , uh, you know, we anticipate, uh, looking out for. But also very, very impressed with their legal team. Uh, ive met with the public defenders policy team, so i know that, uh, angela is here today to do a presentation. I met with her and the public defenders team, and, you know, we just we just had a general discussions and we anticipate having a lot more meetings and, uh, and i anticipate that well be meeting on a regular basis, uh, to ive met with Paul Henderson, uh, the executive director of the department of police, accountable. He was kind enough to take me on a tour of the board of supervisors. Uh, and i probably personally met about half of the members of the board of supervisors, but i met all of their staffs, uh, their Staff Members. Uh, ive met with the mayors budget team. Ive met with the mayors, chief of staffs. Um, ive met with the San Francisco jail. Just this coalition. Uh which is the coalition. Interesting that was the group that, um, was the they were the group that got the Sheriffs Department to. And the city and county of San Francisco to do away with, uh, commissary fees, uh, phone fees. They, they got funding or they found funding for the tablets that the inmates now use. So i think that theyve had a real positive impact on, on being incarcerated on, on the, on the life of those that are incarcerated and making life much easier for, uh, for their families. So i was very impressed with what theyve done so far. And we also agreed to meet on a on a rolling basis, you know, as things come up, uh, i, ive joined the Bar Association of, of Bar Association of San Franciscos, uh, task force, which is a task force of literally everybody involved within the criminal Justice System. And we meet, uh, i think once every four weeks on friday, and we just discuss issues of the day. And one of the issues that thats like currently being discussed, um, although i wasnt able to attend the last meeting, the meeting before that, what was being discussed was the, uh, uh, the policy cases involving the use of, uh, what do you call the not the flying robots, but the drones. Drones. Drones uh, drone policy. And it was a very interesting discussion. And so i , uh, i came away actually very impressed with that group, but there were a lot of smart people in the group, and there were members from the department of Police Accountability also on that task force. And so, um, uh, we also met with allie riker, who is the director of the Sheriffs Department programing, because one of the things we wanted to find out was we wanted a list of all of the sheriffs programs so that we have a working knowledge on what are all of the programs that they offer to the inmates and their families, and so we had a great meeting with allie riker. I was very impressed with her. And, um, and just her knowledge of, of, uh, the programs that theyre providing, but also where, where things can be improved and, and thats always, uh, uh, a positive. Then we dealt with the budget and, uh, weve worked with the dpas finance team, and i really want to give special thanks to cherise yao and Nicole Armstrong because theyve worked very closely with our team. Uh, in terms of preparing our budget, uh, for this budget cycle, uh, weve met with the mayors budget office. Um, weve also well, weve met with the mayors budget office. Multiple times, and, uh, i think everyone understands is, um, that its important that, uh, you know, we are receive some, uh, budget funding in order to meet our obligations of the office of Inspector General. Uh, we made two public presentations, runs of our budget, uh, one on january 24th in city hall in room 416. And we made a second budget. Uh, present version on february 14th, 2024, in room 408. Uh, we finalized and submitted our Budget Proposal on february 21st, 2024, and, and, uh, i would say this about our budget is that we, uh, prepared and presented a budget that i think realistically assesses the fact that, uh, the city and county of San Francisco is in an unprecedented budget deficit, or they have an unprecedented budget deficit. So we understand that. And i think that the proposal that we presented was very realistic in terms of considering that were in the type of budget era that were in. Um, you know, we only asked for the basic things we need to get the agency off the ground. So i dont think that there were any over asks in our Budget Proposal. We also, uh, um, proposed agreements with both the Sheriffs Department and dpa to ensure that that they continue. Well, in the case of dpa, that they continue the investigations and that nothing is compromised in terms of the sheriffs investigation. Ations. Um, while all the oig obtains funding to hire on board and train staff, uh, because we understand that one of our challenges is that even when we receive the funding, you know, we still have to, uh, hire folks on board them and train them, uh, according to our procedure and protocols. And so thats going to take some time. And our agreement that were seeking to enter into with the Sheriffs Department and dpa takes all of that into, into consideration. Uh, we also launched a website, um, we developed and launched that website. And i actually want to thank, uh, dan, uh, leon, uh, for his assistance with that website. Um uh, dan was the man on the website. Uh, it has links to services and information. Um, and we will be updating the website. You know, when as appropriate. And as we develop as an agency. And ive also, uh, focused on, you know, i think its very important to raise the publics awareness of the office of the Inspector General, but not only inside San Francisco, not only with the stakeholders, but i think in the greater bay area. And so i participated in a number of speaking engagements on february second, uh, i was asked to be the keynote speaker in the silicon city of san jose. Uh, and, and the Silicon Valley chap of the naacp asked me to be their keynote speaker at their black History Month program. And, uh, it was a great opportunity to raise the profile of the office of the Inspector General. And i had a great, great time participating in that program. Uh last night or excuse me, before last night. Saturday. Uh we marched in the, uh, uh, the San Francisco Lunar New Year parade. Uh, and that was i was just telling, uh, uh, folks in the audience that its the biggest parade ive ever personally attended. I mean, ive seen the new york may, uh, thanksgiving day parade. Ive seen the rose bowl parade, but a parade that ive actually participated in, i mean, it was just huge. So, i mean, it really, really enjoyed the parade. Um, i thought the city did a great job of putting that parade on. Um, so it was a great time last, last night, i was a panelist on a kind of nationwide. Uh, well, it went out nationwide wide, but the focus was on the state of california, and it was called a conversation with Living Legends of the largest black Bar Associations. And it was an honor to be included in that, that group, because it was a group of real luminaries. His and it was hosted by the law firm of duane morris and, uh, you know, we had some great discussions that were very appropriate, given that we are at the end of black History Month and, um, and i think that also i think its programs like that that raise the profile of the office of Inspector General. Um, so i think as you can see, weve been very busy, uh, over the last eight weeks. And we really and this is just the beginning. So we anticipate, uh, staying on the same pace and trying to accomplish as much as we can in terms of, you know, our main goal is to get the agency up and running so that we are, uh, solely responsible for the oversight of the Sheriffs Department. Thank you. And i if i recall, you, you also were invited as a special guest to the fdas black history celebration. I was yes, i was, and i, i really, uh, enjoyed that. Um, an