0:13I call this meeting to order at 11.06 a.m.
0:22Commissioner Reverend Tolliver.
0:32Chair, you have a quorum of five members present and uh three are absent.
0:38Four correction for asked.
0:41Any statements from the general public.
0:50Chair takes a motion to approve today's agenda.
0:54May I have a second, please?
0:56All those in favor, please say aye.
0:58All those who oppose, please say nay.
1:02Chair changed the motion to approve in January 29th, 2026.
1:10Yeah, second, please.
1:12All those in favor, please say aye.
1:15All those opposed, please say nay.
1:17Regular meeting opening this are approved and let the record reflect that uh commissioner is also in attendance.
1:25Any commissioner updates seeing the director's report.
1:49So I'll note that uh we did go through the through the first uh full quarter of the year.
1:58Um the total cases pending across all stages.
2:02This is something that we're adding um so that it's clear kind of all the active cases that we're working on at a given time.
2:08So the total for the first quarter is 240.
2:11I believe the current as we stand now is around that amount as well.
2:16And then uh 260 inquiries, fairly consistent with last the last quarter of fiscal year 25 and 112 new cases or new complaints filed in the first quarter.
2:27Note that that is uh 32 more than the last um uh quarter of the fiscal year of 2026 or the last quarter of the fiscal year 2025.
2:38Uh investigations closed 80.
2:42And of those uh that were closed, 18 were duplicate cases.
2:46Uh note that sometimes the duplicates are individuals we notice are filing uh the identical or substantially similar complaints.
2:55Um sometimes different investigators are working on those, so sometimes there is work that's being done on them before it's identified as a duplicate.
3:03Then I'll note that one of the cases were was resolved after administrative hearing, two cases settled, and the known total uh settlement amount is 700.
3:14So when you say two uh staff are working on the same case, do they know they are working on the same sometimes?
3:22It's not apparent right away.
3:25Um so as they're talking about the cases, uh of course working with the deputy director to my right, uh it becomes apparent that these are the same.
3:34And what we've seen as well is that it's not always readily apparent uh that it's a duplicate.
3:40Sometimes we see complainants who are filing what appears to be a duplicate, but it's maybe like a different respondent or there's some additional claim, and so there is work involved in identifying.
3:50So then do I mean to come to a consensus of what the outcome is?
3:58So generally, and I can let my speak to this a bit more, but in working with Tamaya, she will direct them on kind of the steps to take from there in terms of either sometimes it's a consolidation of a complaint if it's the same claims but two different respondents or three different respondents, uh, or uh dismissal of the duplicate if it's just completely duplicate, dismissal of the duplicate one of the duplicate complaints, and then they proceed with the other.
4:25Mary, did you want to add to that?
4:26Uh yes, that's absolutely correct.
4:28And then sometimes depending on who's further along in the matter, then we will um, you know, if it's the same situation, we'll either close it as a duplicate or if it's something that needs to be merged in with an existing and we'll assign it to the investigator that's further along, but they usually notify me, you know, um, or we're examining the system or uh our data team will flag that hey got similar cases, so that's been our way of uh kind of identifying and trying to resolve these matters or reaching out to the complainant if there's additional details and they've added something else to figure out hey, is this something unique that needs to be treated as a separate complaint, or is this something that you're just adding to your already existing site?
5:11So any other questions on the data before I move to the remainder of the report.
5:22I also there'll be time for more questions as you kind of digest the information.
5:26I do want to note that we will be hosting uh similar to last year, a commissioner summer social um following our July 9th commission meeting.
5:36And also for the next that next meeting, we will be having chair and vice chair elections.
5:41So please uh submit your nominations by the end of June so that we can include that on the agenda.
5:50And then I will turn it to Claire to present the policy matters.
5:56Hi everyone, I'll try and project this way.
5:59Um starting off, our policy and data team has published uh not published but completed in a policy memo on artificial intelligence and discusses how AI can potentially be used in the employment and housing spaces, it's potential uses, potential harms, the current legal landscape and arguments maybe for and against regulation and then potential next steps.
6:26Um we have also continued to update our public dashboard.
6:31Uh I believe if you scroll down a little bit, there's a picture of what the dashboard currently looks like.
6:37Um highlights from the dashboard is there were 25 cases filed in March, which is a little bit outdated now, but we're hoping to do a June 1st update as well.
6:48And then also the dashboard showing that 112 cases were filed this quarter, and there was a 25 point increase from 89 complaints in the previous quarter.
6:58We also really see the increase in cases from 2024 to 2025.
7:04Um next, we have launched our complaint portal project.
7:09So, in partnership with the Bureau of Technology, we're working to create a complaint portal that will provide complainants and respondents with an online portal on our website where they're able to input like a unique ID and it's gonna show like the status of their complaint.
7:26And we're hoping to do this so that as investigators have a growing caseload, um, they won't have to field as many questions about complaints from complainants and respondents, they'll just be able to know the online portal um TVD on when that portal project will actually be published, but it's in progress.
7:48And then we are releasing our just housing amendment impact assessment after two years of hard work from everyone.
7:57Um we invite you all to um to join us next Wednesday for the release of the report.
8:10Laura Nasbomba Marina from Research Collective, who was our lead researcher with Roosevelt University and uh Gwendell Robinson, the executive director of the store justice will both be there to do a fireside chat.
8:24Um we're very excited to finally release the court, and I think those are all the policy members.
8:35Also, we will be sharing a copy of the report um that assessment with you all as well directly.
8:42And then Commissioner Levinski.
8:44Which assessor is so we did a um a research partnership with Roosevelt University to review the impact of the just housing amendment, looking at the kind of the data that we don't have just from um complaint data.
8:57And so that assessment will be released, and then Claire will actually do a review of the report at the beginning of the event next Wednesday, uh, followed by that discussion between um the lead researcher uh from Roosevelt as well as um uh Wendell uh was with uh re-entry services as they have a discussion about just like the actual connecting the data with the real world impact and what they're seeing in the community.
9:27Um I my questions were um on the AI memo and just curious what's the like says next steps and what are the long-term further goals on this um AI and employment and housing is incredibly complicated at the moment.
9:48I think a lot of organizations are trying to figure out how to deal with this.
9:54Um, and I'm just curious if we're taking any particular stance on it, or if this is just like some you know, general information, links to other things.
10:03I'm just curious what the vision is.
10:06Thank you for that question.
10:07So the intent is that so we wanted to provide with you all kind of a an overview of the current landscape.
10:14We are working on guidance in terms of how AI interacts with our current anti-discriminate anti-discrimination provisions in employment and housing.
10:24So when employers or housing providers use AI, when would that result in a violation under the existing ordinance provisions?
10:32Uh, and then determining if there are any gaps or we need to recommend uh ordinance amendments to account for AI usage in this in these spaces.
10:42This this memo is just internal to the commissioner.
10:46Yes, this is not a public facing.
10:50And then our intention is to draft something that is have a draft uh that is public facing that we will bring to the commission for review and input uh so that we can give some guidance not only to individuals who are who would be impacted um by the employment and housing like usage of AI there, but also employers and housing providers who are trying to navigate this space as well.
11:12What's the um what's the timing you guys are looking at?
11:17We intend to bring the memo, the public memo to you all at the next meeting in July.
11:22And um sorry, like who all are you working with outside of like this group?
11:29Like currently, no one.
11:32Um, just because we were initially looking at how it how it's uh in terms of like how our current provisions apply to AI usage.
11:40Some things have come out of our um open houses with the community advocates in terms of what things they've seen, like different AI tools, um, and that's kind of reviewing like okay, taking into consideration would this result in a violation or things that we've seen in other cases, if that would be looking.
11:58I think there is a new discussions on the new Illinois law that may be relevant to some of this too.
12:09I can forward you some information too.
12:20That'd be different from the ones listed here.
12:23Um I'd have to like I'd have to cross if it is.
12:27I'm always side that I'll just confirm that it's the same.
12:31What is the the more information we have the better?
12:33Okay, yeah, say the only ones are like that.
12:39There may be something in relation to something that we can do.
12:50Um, are we doing work with the folks in the charge with uh Minnesota, New York and Richard legislation, Charlotte and seems like interesting key conversation with them?
13:03Is that something that might be a good opportunity for us to learn like what they're seeing in their states?
13:07I think at some point when we're looking at what um ordinance amendments might be necessary to keep up, certainly that would be the space.
13:15Current the thing that we'll bring in July or that policy, it's just like under our existing law, how does that impact AI usage in employment and housing?
13:24But I think that would be we're we're kind of taking it piecemeal in terms of like what do we currently how do we currently regulate the usage of AI and then trying to identify the gaps there to figure out kind of then how do we address those, uh, which I think will guide those discussions with like yeah, current.
13:43What about conversation with uh city commission um state commission about active AI and also assessing this?
13:54I don't I haven't seen anything come out from them in relation to that, but that could be something to consider when we get to that.
14:05We look forward to your feedback, uh all of your feedback on the memo too.
14:09Just we don't want to miss anything because this is an ever-evolving space and it is very complicated.
14:15So we want to be sure that we're accounting for all of those things as much as we can.
14:23So interesting, yeah.
14:25Trying to stay stable.
14:31Outreach, I have to read it to the point.
14:35Um, outreach meanker.
14:38Uh good morning, everyone.
14:40Um outreach, as you can see, we've been very busy.
14:45Um I won't go through all the events, um, but they're all listed here.
14:50So if you're curious as to what we've been up to, we've been doing a lot of trainings, we've also been doing thank you.
15:00Um we've been very busy, and what I was saying was that we've been doing a lot of trainings.
15:04We've done some trainings in Spanish.
15:06Um, we've also um participated in a podcast like we did last year.
15:11Um, and we've been doing a lot of outreach events.
15:14So we've been connecting with a lot of people um in terms of upcoming outreach activities on June 3rd.
15:21We're gonna be attending the Illinois Reentry Council quarterly meeting, and this is virtual.
15:26On June 6th, we'll be hosting a resource table at the Chicago Urban League's annual housing fair.
15:32Um, in terms of communications, um, we published the just housing amendment background screening process notice to our website in February.
15:41Um, so this is the downloadable tool for housing providers to use, um, letting um applicants know their rights, letting them know what the application process looks like to ensure that there's compliance with the just housing amendment.
15:57Um, so we published that back in February.
15:59Um, and right now our human rights newsletter currently has uh 2,539 subscribers.
16:06So this is another increase from the last number reported.
16:10Um, and that's it from us.
16:13Thank you for your word.
16:14I'll also add that we created a new TikTok account so that we can try to reach individuals there as well.
16:19So we'll be doing some more like short form videos, um, just so expanding the reach in terms of audiences and where people are going to get their information.
16:28How does that go on with the content creation?
16:31You got a team on that?
16:33You know, we're we're figuring it out, we're staffing it accordingly.
16:36Um we mold over like uh using Tic Tac or just like who's gonna create all that content like Isaac's volunteer.
16:45I know would you like to help us a few TikToks?
16:50Bianca is uh doing the content creation.
16:52If you want to speak to that a little bit, yeah, um we actually later on in June we're gonna um upload a reel that kind of highlights all of the numbers and stats that we reported in the annual human rights report.
17:04So it looks really nice.
17:06Like we'll be putting that out.
17:09So just we're trying to interact with as much people as possible.
17:12Aside from TikTok, I do want to say that the Instagram account has grown a lot.
17:16Been taking a lot of the tips from Chair Soul Hell, so thank you.
17:19Um, but we have seen a good increase since the beginning of the fiscal year and hoping to grow even more by the end of it.
17:27So yes, if you have any ideas, feel free to share for content creation.
17:37Um I have a question about outreach.
17:39It may be a little adjacent outreach.
17:42Um, so especially with just housing.
17:46I've been noticing we've been hearing about an increase in law enforcement on uh CTA, removing people that are unhoused from CTA.
17:55And what we're kind of tracking is that uh my other way what we're tracking is that this may lead to increased um size of unhoused communities and an expedited need for more attention to get them rapidly rehoused and it leads to all kinds of public safety and health concerns.
18:14So it might be a good time to double back with our outreach with all Chicago and all and other types of like houses like rapid housing support to ensure that you know um they're identifying and eliminating any discriminatory barriers that just because there might be a spike in the next year with this increased activity.
18:35So there's yeah, yeah, some of this may fall under their scope, yeah, or directly maybe just like a coordination type of thing, yeah.
18:49You remiss without mentioning so I just want to mention that.
18:52We're gonna say something to the reports.
18:55Um, we did participate in the um Illinois reentry councils meeting, and that did come up.
19:00Um, someone from the mayor's office in a presentation.
19:03There's an opportunity for us to join the task force on homelessness.
19:06So we're looking into that.
19:11Thank you, Close Mr.
19:12Are there any other questions about the director's report?
19:18That concludes our director's report for today.
19:23Great, great, great work.
19:24Uh next is the 2025 annual report of the Cook County Commission on Red.
19:35I will kind of give a review of this clear please add anything that I missed.
19:39But this is our thank you so much.
19:41Our uh annual report for fiscal year 2025.
19:45So no Devember, December 1st of 2024 through November uh 2025.
19:50Uh noting, of course, it includes performance metrics across the entire year.
20:00So I'll just go through for fiscal year 25, just to do a quick highlight.
20:09There were a total of 352 cases in FY 2025 in comparison to 151 in FY24 and 94 in 2023.
20:21So I think that's about 133% increase from the last fiscal year.
20:25The total active caseload.
20:27So this is a new metric that we will begin to report on annually as well as on a quarterly basis, as you saw in the director's report.
20:35Total cases handled across the year, 483.
20:40Cases closed 239, which is a stark increase from the prior three fiscal years.
20:49And then reported settlements were 14,547 greater or reported, uh greater than those of the last two fiscal years as well.
20:58And then there was also a pretty great increase in terms of trainings and community meetings, 146 for the total of FY 2025.
21:09So noting, of course, the number of uh complaints filed and just the total active caseload, we've seen a stark increase, um, certainly over any of the prior fiscal years.
21:24Claire, did you want to I'll turn it to you if you want to I can think on the next data section.
21:32So um next the report goes over commission trends.
21:36This kind of emphasizes what Jennifer has been talking about in a director's report and um just like what we've been seeing in the increase in complaints over time.
21:47Um there's a breakdown of the different types of complaints we get.
21:51So you can see there's a substantial amount of paid leave cases, substantial amount of employment, and housing as well.
21:59Next, um, there's a little bit of a closer look on the complaints by type.
22:05Um just giving a breakdown of our most common complaints types, and then again, the most common ones were paid leave at 32%, employment at 25%, and housing at 20%.
22:18And those constituted 81% of all new complaints.
22:23Um I'll note that the next section of data does not include any duplicates.
22:28So if you see any like kind of um differences in the numbers between the totals, these are excluding those duplicates that Jennifer was talking about before.
22:36But we've made some graphs about the most common cases of discriminations that people file with under the three most common types.
22:45So housing, employment, and paid leave.
22:47So you can see in housing, um, housing status, retaliation, source of income, race, ethnicity were all very common bases of discrimination.
22:57Um, and people can select multiple bases of discrimination.
23:01So some of these again are like overlapping, and then same with employment, retaliation, disability, and race were all very common.
23:10And then through paid leave, a lot of people do choose to select multiple different bases.
23:17And so we saw that there was a fairly even spread of complaints across the different bases, like failure to notify a rent of paid leave, failure to properly compensate, um, things like that.
23:35I can take the the policy section as well.
23:38Um so for our our policy highlights, we talked about the equity landscape review that was published this year.
23:48Um the previous data fellow uh worked to interview different immigration uh community groups and different leaders across the county in immigration to create this report.
24:03Um the commission provided different conclusions uh through the report, including public awareness, um providing intentional increased outreach is necessary to spread public awareness of language access services.
24:18Um the second recommendation was to increase services, so expand events and strengthen translation capabilities with regard to public facing materials, and the third was to create a shared understanding, so build widespread internal knowledge of the department's DEI strategies and how they can be expanded to better support the needs of immigrant and refugee communities.
24:38So the full report is linked in the annual report if you're curious and want to take a closer look.
24:45Um we also discussed the national origin amendments and guidance documents that were published earlier this year.
25:00So the definition of national origin was amended to this definition, the place that to individual or once or one of such individuals' ancestors were born, including but not limited to associated physical, cultural, and linguistic linguistic characteristics.
25:10So we talked a little bit about the publication of that guidance.
25:14And then some additional highlights.
25:16We did targeted outreach to screening companies this year, SMERS, which are specialized mental mental health rehabilitation facilities.
25:31A lot of people like there's an exception there, but it's kind of a little bit more complicated than initially thought.
25:38So we did some outreach there to those mental health facilities and nursing homes.
25:44And then we also did a relaunch of the immigration website or web page on the county site.
25:51So we have been adding new immigrant community organizations and resources for imminent immigrant groups and putting those on the county webpage.
26:00And then we also did an update of our online decisions database.
26:04So the database is now searchable by subject matter.
26:10The most recent years have been updated, which they weren't before.
26:15And it's mostly been an initiative to help our advocates so that they can better like search decision documents and get information on previous cases.
26:27So those are the policy sections.
26:31I can turn it over to outreach and training sections.
26:37Or I can just leave that's helpful.
26:40So essentially some of the highlights from outreach and training, of course, an increased number of trainings and community events.
27:05And we also created paid leave ordinance guidance for school districts as they became the ordinance became effective for them at the beginning of 2025.
27:16So it was important that they have specific guidance, and there are some differences as how the ordinance applies to them.
27:23And then I'll also note along with an update to the online searchable database for the human rights cases.
27:30There were a number of website improvements just to make it easier for individuals to navigate and find the resources that they need.
27:38So including like you know, icons, just a reorganization, putting things in places that we thought it would be easier for people to kind of easily identify as a as a place, making it a bit more intuitive.
27:51And then, of course, our um first event that we've done during uh second change and fair housing month in April, uh April of last year in terms of reviewing um the Jess Housement Housing Amendment five years post-passage, uh which included a panel of advocates and also the county board president uh Tony Pripointo.
28:13It was really a great discussion in terms of the history of how the ordinance came to be, ordinance amendment came to be um its impact currently and where we can go from there.
28:24And then I'll just make a note of our uh accomplishments and goals uh from last year.
28:31So last year's goal uh accomplishments, uh of course an increase in complaints while that is of course due to not only um increased awareness uh and out our outreach references, um, but also the um of course paid leave ordinance.
28:48We also made uh amendments to uh the paid leave uh substantive rules as well as the human rights substantive and procedural rules.
28:57Uh we brought on additional uh investigators and leveraged uh those individual are of course great team members and case management system to kind of work through these matters.
29:08You see that the substantial increase of number of cases that were resolved within fiscal year 25, and then of course expanding education and outreach, which the new guidance that was issued, the number of trainings and events that were attended in this uh coming year, fiscal year 2026, continued expansion of our outreach initiatives.
29:31So, of course, in creating new and some updated guidance materials, and uh we also anticipate having an expanded library video or video library.
29:41Uh, so more of those short term videos for individuals to learn quickly about like what this actually means to them and incorporating uh specific examples so that they can see how the law applies, may apply to them.
29:54And then uh strengthen our investigation process.
30:03We want to make sure that of course there's continued access to the department but that includes not just being able to file a complaint but receiving some resolution to that.
30:13And then increased transparency and responsiveness as we see with the changes that we're making to our website increased data reporting and searchable databases to make information easy to find for the individuals that are interacting with us.
30:32Happy to answer any questions.
30:39I just want to say on screen report all whoever put the work in to put this together it's just such production very clear concise and um thank you to those that work on it.
30:52I know it's not easy to do this.
30:54It's all due to our outreach and team and clear if we're working on this they did a really great job in not only just the kind of development of the content but also presenting in a way that's great the report on this kind.
31:10No this there are some changes uh to the report that we've made in terms of the data that's being presented some of the date additional data metrics and data visualization um we want to continue to figure out ways to make the data more I don't want to say palatable but understandable to individuals whether it's just like presenting it in different forms as well distributed.
31:35So we distribute it we post it to our so upon approval by the commission we will post it to our website and we'll also share it out directly to our advocacy groups that we work with so that they have awareness of it we'll share it out with the president's office that that can be distributed it can be distributed through those channels as well and it'll go in our newsletter so that individuals can access it there as well and across social media platforms.
31:57I was going to say yeah that's a good reading of it on take sign up sign them up I know like the I think how do you read page 18 by any other questions comments seeing that chair I just think motion to approve 2025 and the report let's go county commission and human rights can have a second please second all those in favor please say aye aye all those who oppose please say congratulations thank you so much.
32:36Next up is our proposed CCCHR rule amendment so these we previously made amendments to our procedural rules in relation to commission initiated complaints and in thinking about this a bit more we're recommending some additional changes to ensure that the process is as objective as possible currently complaints of course would come to the commission for final determination which it seems or even request for reconsideration it could be reviewed by the commission.
33:12So there are some changes to ensure that the commission is not reviewing essentially their own work in that way.
33:18So I'll note um there's a small change uh to section 42120 it's the they should all be tapped so it'll be the first uh like tab yeah yes page 13 thank you thank you thanks for uh so just noting um just some more specific language it's not a a huge change here it's just uh being a bit more specific in terms of the process like all the commission may initiate but being very clear that it is the um that the executive director or designee would review information about a potential violation and bring it to the commission for formal um approval and the next tab is under the section about decision after hearing and that's particular that we would of course in our normal course of business we receive it a complaint open investigation make a determination of substantial evidence and send it to administrative hearing and then that the AOJ's recommended decision would come back to the commission but because the commission is a party um it seems more fair um that the commission would not review that so uh the recommendation is that after the conclusion of administrative hearing that the hearing officer's decision uh in order shall be considered final and served on the respondent and the commission as a party um and then the next tab uh appeal of that final order instead of it being a request for reconsideration that would come to the commission that it would go uh straight to circuit court for review based on um review of an administrative decision so this is just procedural alignment to kind of give it any perception of or actual kind of conflict of interest that might okay um
35:00Um, and then the next tab uh appeal of that final order instead of it being a request for reconsideration that would come to the commission that it would go uh straight to circuit court for review based on um review of an administrative decision.
35:20So this is just procedural alignment to kind of get rid of any perception of or actual kind of conflict of interest that might okay.
35:29Um just looking at page 13 section for 420-120.
35:37Um the addition there, there's like a one closed.
35:43I don't see that kind of format anywhere else throughout the uh rules.
35:50I just don't know if you want to take that out or align it with kind of the other formatting that's maybe A.
36:02The ones here are closed, right?
36:04And then I think yeah, I mean I don't know, it just it just doesn't look like the rest of it.
36:11We'll make that added.
36:13Um that's your high feel that I'm just a little hung up about this.
36:17So the I get the reasoning for why the commission wouldn't be reviewing and approving hearing officer decisions about commission initiative chosen by the department.
36:34No, the department of administrative hearings, they assigned yes.
36:39Um is there's a separate entity, of course.
36:42They have their own procedural.
36:44Is there any is there any like concern about um decisions being a little less I'm like in the blue here?
36:56Um because the commission's not playing the role of approving it, does that undermine the strength and validity of the findings in any way?
37:07There are other this will just follow uh any other agency that's enforcing their ordinance would send it to administrative in other ways, and even on our ethics side, sometimes there are things that we've sent to administrative hearing for adjudication and a determination there.
37:24So it would be following that same process that we're seeking to enforce this provision of the ordinance and sending it to the administrative hearing officer to do so.
37:35And and even when it comes back to the commission, there is some level of deference that is given to the AOJ's uh recommended decision.
37:44Okay, that is very good.
37:47Another question, comment none, chair entertainment to approve the vote proposed CCHR procedure uh amendment second, thank you.
38:02All those uh will call vote.
38:05Commissioner Lipinski, yes, Commissioner Reverend Tolliver, Commissioner Ratner, Commissioner Isaacs, yes, Commissioner Sharma, yes, Chair Soho.
38:16Yes, the motion is approved with six uh's no nays and um three absences next uh uh investigation extension requests for 2024 six 2048.
38:38Actually, I'm gonna re wait to read them until we use them to vote on them.
38:42There's a number of investigation requests.
38:45Um questions for discussion before we move to a vote on the exception requests or any framing.
39:13I just um uh I'll just note that a lot of these are first requests, which is good to see.
39:19We don't have a lot of third or fourth requests, which is showing improvement and kind of the uh time.
39:29So I appreciate a lot of our work by everyone for at least our investigators have been working diligently to get through cases faster.
39:37And I will note too, we have come up with some new procedures for if things are taking too long to receive matters for parties, you know, sending out uh notices of this missile code to cooperate setting shorter deadlines uh or response, things like that.
39:51And then if we are not able to get a response, you know, we've come up with standard procedures for dismissal or uh default if it's in the case of respondents.
40:00So I think that's been helpful.
40:01We're trying to figure out other ways to manage mediation for settlement or you know, different things like that.
40:08So they've been exceptional working through the workload, and um we are trying to fill a number of positions too, then I think we help aid in that process even more.
40:19How many open positions do you have right now?
40:33So we'll wind those will get filled soon.
40:35But on that note if we're all can we can all share continue sharing the job those things to our network.
40:40Yeah, I think they've all we may be reposting one, but the others have come down.
40:45We're doing interviews for some preparing to do interviews for others.
40:51Is there any um ethical issues under our ethics ordinance about uh commissioners getting recommendations for people, or is it just oh we can only promote it?
41:01You can promote it generally, and it's um under the uh like SHACMAN exempt um those rules.
41:09So if it's uh SHACMAN exempt positions, I believe that those can be shared.
41:16Um, but if it's a SHAME one, then it's like something of that that sort.
41:23I don't want to we can speak more than that, but you know, we want to make sure everyone has two opportunity that everyone should be flying for the channels.
41:33Um I just want to say appreciation to investigators.
41:36I just how hard the work is to get through these things, and it's only a delay if there has to be appreciate you all.
41:44Um just um now I wouldn't just come to AI SAI you all do that, but that's also why the portal that y'all putting together is so great.
41:58That's little things like that.
41:59If anything is less time spent having two course on with nervous Nellies out there that are wondering what's going on with my case because they can slip it up on the portal.
42:08We're also hoping that will help the people case in that someone can see not just like receiving something, but also you can go on the portal and see like oh okay, they have it.
42:17I don't need to submit another one.
42:20So any other questions none, chair and take a motion to approve the investigation extension requests for 2024 H006, 2024 H018, 2024 E00106, 2025 PL00313, 2025, H00324, 2025, PL0035, 2025, PL00346, 2025, PA00348, 2025, PL 00358, 2025 E00364, 2025, H00374, 2025, PA00457, 2025 PL00523, 2025 E00527, 2025 E00213, 2025 E00517, 2025 PL00545, 2025 H00552, 2025 PL 00556, 2025 PL 00331, 2025 CS003, 2025 E0568, 2025 PL 00574, 2025 PA00596, 2025 PA00599, 2025 E00593, 2024 PL 00223.
44:32Um so correction I mentioned 2025 PA00599, which actually be 2025 PA00598.
44:46Uh 2024 PL 00223, 2024 PL 002412, 02580508.
45:00Uh twenty twenty-four PL zero zero two three, twenty twenty-four, PL zero zero two four one two, zero three five, eight zero zero five zero eight, twenty twenty-five PL zero zero five zero nine, twenty twenty-five PL zero zero five one nine, twenty twenty-five, pl zero zero five two four, twenty twenty-five, PA zero zero five three one, twenty twenty-five, PL zero zero five three, twenty twenty-five, PA zero zero, three five nine, twenty twenty-five zero zero three six three.
45:27Twenty twenty-five, eight zero zero, three six nine, twenty twenty-five PL zero zero, five eight seven, twenty three-five eight zero zero, three nine two, twenty twenty-five zero zero, three nine six, twenty twenty-five PL zero zero five six nine.
45:54Is the issue that one that's not listed here, but it is in here.
47:05Yeah, five nine nine.
47:15Well, there is five nine as well.
47:20Um I changed five nine nine to five nine eight.
47:23We're adding five nine eight.
47:26Two twenty-five PA zero zero five nine.
47:30Thank you for that clarification.
47:32Um motion is uh change the motion.
47:38Second all those in favor of I.
47:45Extension requests are I have one question on just investigations.
47:52Um is the department or looking into or using any tools to help assist initial processing of components.
48:07Um guidance that we proceeded to not use.
48:13I think the county's looking at two like proprietary AR.
48:18So explore potentially.
48:29All those in favor, which are all those who pose.
48:33We'll now move over to executive session.
1:12:18Thank you so much.
1:12:20All right, back in general session.
1:12:22First thing is chair to take the motion to approve the January twenty-nine, twenty twenty-six regular meeting closed minutes.
1:12:32May have a second, please.
1:12:33All those in favor, please say aye.
1:12:36All those opposed, please say nay.
1:12:38January twenty-nine, twenty twenty-six, regular meeting closed minutes are approved.
1:12:44Uh chair takes a motion to approve the request for reconsideration.
1:12:49Um for case number twenty twenty-six, PA zero zero one zero.
1:12:57So thank you, maybe a second, please.
1:13:00All those in favor, please say aye.
1:13:02All those who opposed, please say nay.
1:13:08Chair takes a motion to request the to open the commission initiated complaint as presented.
1:13:20We should have done a roll call on the request for reconsideration as well as uh.
1:13:28So going back, we need to do a roll call vote for request for reconsideration for case number 2026.
1:13:47So on the motion to approve the request for reconsideration for case number 2026, PA zero zero one zero.
1:13:58Commissioner Lapinsky.
1:14:00Commissioner Reverend Talliver.
1:14:02Commissioner Ratner.
1:14:04Commissioner Isaacs.
1:14:06Commissioner Sharma.
1:14:09Commissioner Hart chair, the motion uh passes with uh unanimous vote in the absences.
1:14:16Thank you so much.
1:14:17Chairman to require to approve the request of the commission initiated complaints.
1:14:49Commissioner Reverend Toliver.
1:14:51Commissioner Ratner.
1:14:52Commissioner Isaacs.
1:14:54Commissioner Sharma.
1:14:57The motion is approved by unanimous vote and reaction.
1:15:02Anything else anyone would like to share or add before we adjourn our meeting today?
1:15:20All those in favor, please say aye.
1:15:22All those who oppose, please.
1:15:25Meeting is adjourned at twelve twenty-one.
1:15:30Thank you all so much.
1:15:31And great great work.