all right. good evening, commissioners. and chief. and members of the police department. and i also want to first of all let me introduce myself to the members of the public that may not be aware, of me. and may want to also verify my background and my credentials. and i am andrea shorter and i have the pleasure of serving as the vice president of the commission on the status of women. where i have served under three mayors. first appointed by brown, and then now, lieutenant governor nusom and now the current mayor ed lee and i am the most veteran member of this commission. and i also want to echo what president loftus has said, and testifying to not only the expertise and the dedication of the women that were mentioned but they are not just local leaders and expertise, we have national model problems here and so what we are discussing today, and in terms of what types of policies, and what types of practices, that we want to have implemented in san francisco, and under
with us on cases that can follow up with the families after we have done our investigation or during the investigation and that person works with us, and to look at a not just from the cps but from the community perspective and provide the community engagement. and so, in that process, which often involves like i said the rilely center, we make the decision of whether we are going to keep a case open, and whether we are going to have the child in the home and out of the home and part of the mandate is to have the least restrictive placement for children and so we try to keep the families together the least restrictive is with the parents and that is our goal, if the child can be safe and we want them to remain in the home, one of the and some of the tools that we use, and i know that, there is concerns in the community, about the rolls of cps and the people have talked about the distrust of cps based on a lot of the history and the things that we do is support and work with
and chief. and members of the police department. and i also want to first of all let me introduce myself to the members of the public that may not be aware, of me. and may want to also verify my background and my credentials. and i am andrea shorter and i have the pleasure of serving as the vice president of the commission on the status of women. where i have served under three mayors. first appointed by brown, and then now, lieutenant governor nusom and now the current mayor ed lee and i am the most veteran member of this commission. and i also want to echo what president loftus has said, and testifying to not only the expertise and the dedication of the women that were mentioned but they are not just local leaders and expertise, we have national model problems here and so what we are discussing today, and in terms of what types of policies, and what types of practices, that we want to have implemented in san francisco, and under the command and the direction of our chief,
placement for children and so we try to keep the families together the least restrictive is with the parents and that is our goal, if the child can be safe and we want them to remain in the home, one of the and some of the tools that we use, and i know that, there is concerns in the community, about the rolls of cps and the people have talked about the distrust of cps based on a lot of the history and the things that we do is support and work with the family and keep the families together and one of the tools that we use is called structured decision making and it is trying to differentiate what are the immediate safety threats verses what are the general risks. fl safety threats are dangers that are immediate and what we are concerned about is a danger that is unmitigated and the risk is anding like alcohol abuse or homelessness or different things and that is not a danger but it is a concern and? ing that we want to help the family with and we are not going to remove base
veteran member of this commission. and i also want to echo what president loftus has said, and testifying to not only the expertise and the dedication of the women that were mentioned but they are not just local leaders and expertise, we have national model problems here and so what we are discussing today, and in terms of what types of policies, and what types of practices, that we want to have implemented in san francisco, and under the command and the direction of our chief, we know that it will not only have impact here locally, when we all work together, collaborativively as a community and we know that we have the great local impact and we also know that it has incredible impact beyond san francisco. so, that is something that we should all be mindful of. and very quickly, i just want to also make known that i chaired the justice and courage oversight panel on domestic violence for the types of policy reforms, that we are discussing today, for the past 12 years, and jus