[gavel] good morning and welcome to a special meeting of the government audit and oversight committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. i am the chair of the committee aaron peskin joined to my right by norman yee our member london breed is in the nation s capitol today and won t be joining us. madam clerk do you have any announcements? please silence all cell phones and 21 electronic devices and all documents submitted to the clerk and items will be on the. board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. thank you ms. major. fiscal year can we have a motion to supervisor yee can we have a member to excuse supervisor breed. (inaudible). that is moved. madam clerk can you read item 1 and two. item 1 is a hearing on the recently published entitled san francisco s crime lab promoting confidence and building credibility. thank you madam clerk. first i would to thank the civil grand jury for this report acknowledge our interim police chief tony
fully implemented so i think we might or the mayor s office might want to change that because it has a matter of fact not been implemented. i think you agree and we re in the process of implementing it. [inaudible] [off mic] thank you supervisor. we will take a look at that and continue to work with the board to monitor. thank you mr. cunningham. deputy chief anything you. to add because i have more questions for you. no, would. in regards to the drug analysis lab what is the status and what is the future as contemplated by the pd for that unit? sorry do you have in front of you the recommendation number for that one? sorry. i thought you were staring at it. if i could and i am going to the body of the civil grand jury report and the civil grand jury noted after the madison case after 2010 although they don t call it the madison case it remained shuttered, presumably the analysis functions were contracted out is my assumption but i thought there was a recommen
disclose the closed session. second. all in favor, say i. i. opposed? other new business commissioners want to announce we ll not have the next commission meeting on august 23rd that is cancelled and next on september 13th same in the same room no future comments the meeting is adjourned [gavel] good morning and welcome to a special meeting of the government audit and oversight committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. i am the chair of the committee aaron peskin joined to my right by norman yee our member london breed is in the nation s capitol today and won t be joining us. madam clerk do you have any announcements? please silence all cell phones and 21 electronic devices and all documents submitted to the clerk and items will be on the. board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. thank you ms. major. fiscal year can we have a motion to supervisor yee can we have a member to excuse supervisor breed. (inaudible). that is moved. madam
[gavel] good morning and welcome to a special meeting of the government audit and oversight committee of the san francisco board of supervisors. i am the chair of the committee aaron peskin joined to my right by norman yee our member london breed is in the nation s capitol today and won t be joining us. madam clerk do you have any announcements? please silence all cell phones and 21 electronic devices and all documents submitted to the clerk and items will be on the. board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. thank you ms. major. fiscal year can we have a motion to supervisor yee can we have a member to excuse supervisor breed. (inaudible). that is moved. madam clerk can you read item 1 and two. item 1 is a hearing on the recently published entitled san francisco s crime lab promoting confidence and building credibility. thank you madam clerk. first i would to thank the civil grand jury for this report acknowledge our interim police chief tony chap
of forensic services. the level of turn over does not provide in our view the needed continuity for effective crime lab leadership. going one step further we believe there is a need for an independent crime lab totally separated from the police department. this is not a new or novel idea. in 2009 a blue ribbon committee of the national academy of sciences recommended that all public forensic laboratories and facilities should be removed from the administrative control of law enforcement agencies or prosecutor s offices. the committee stated and i quote forensic scientists who sit administratively in law enforcement agencies or prosecutor s offices or hired by these units are subject to the general risk of bias. we agree with this statement. the need for independence was also a consistent theme we heard from many of those we interviewed during the course of our review. it is time to begin moving in that direction. and mr. thompson as this was not actually included or at le