President Clay would like to take roll.

Commissioner Lowe.

Here.

Commissioner Scott is excused.

Commissioner Leo.

Here.

Commissioner Benedicto.

Here.

Commissioner Lyons is in route.

Vice President Techie?

Yeah.

President Clay, you have a quorum.

Also with us tonight are Chief Derek Lou from the San Francisco Police Department and Executive Director Paul Henderson from the Department of Police Accountability.

All right, thank you, Sergeant.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our July 15th meeting, where we begin the meeting, Sergeant.

Line item one, weekly officer recognition certificate.

Presentation of an officer who has gone above and beyond in the performance of their duties.

Officer Kevin O'Donnell, star number 4028, the strategic investigations unit.

Good evening.

Uh Commissioner President Clay, Chief Liu, Director Henderson.

My name is Steve Jonas.

Um I have the pleasure of being a captain of the San Francisco Police Department and the privilege of being the commanding officer of the Strategic Investigations Unit, which includes our real-time investigation center and our Phoenix drone unit.

I'm here tonight to recognize Kevin O'Donnell for his sustained dedication, reliability, and exceptional operational contributions as a founding member of the Department's patrol drone team, and now as a full-time drone as first responder operator assigned to the real-time investigation center.

Officer O'Donnell played a key role in shaping the early development of the patrol drone team.

From the outset, Officer O'Donnell demonstrated an immediate and genuine commitment to emerging technologies that improve officer safety, enhance public safety, and increase efficiency during rapidly evolving incidents.

His belief in the mission of the drone program has consistently been reflected in his willingness to make himself available for patrol support at all hours, his focus on victim-centered response, and his steady, composed presence during high pressure deployments.

Officer O'Donnell continues to serve as a core leader within the drone's first responder unit.

He's consistently the first to arrive and the last to leave, and every member of the unit has come to rely on him for his dependability.

Whether it's being called in at 3 a.m.

on a Saturday to support a high-risk search warrant or assisting with community demonstrations for school groups, Officer O'Donnell responds without hesitation.

During June of 2026, Officer O'Donnell supported several significant incidents, including on June 1st, Officer O'Donnell was at home and off-duty after working his full shift when Officer Brittany Taylor was shot.

Kevin immediately returned to work and was the first operator to arrive at Arctic in support of the response, demonstrating his unwavering commitment to the unit and the department.

On June 16th, following an ALPR alert for a stolen vehicle, Officer O'Donnell located the car traveling westbound on Turk and Larkin and coordinated with patrol units to approach safely.

When the car fled, he maintained aerial tracking until the suspect abandoned the still-moving car and fled on foot, allowing patrol units to apprehend the driver after a brief pursuit.

On June 17th, Officer O'Donnell provided aerial support when patrol located an attempted kidnapping suspect involving with a juvenile victim.

On June 18th, Officer O'Donnell conducted drone operations in support of a community violence reduction team search warrant in Oakland related to a robbery and shooting suspect.

And on June 28th, Officer O'Donnell supported the high-profile arrest of multiple robbery suspects.

In all these deployments, Officer O'Donnell maintained composure, precision, and a steady operational presence.

His accurate real-time observations consistently assist ground units in making informed tactical decisions.

Officer O'Donnell's conduct reflects professionalism, dedication to duty, and a consistent commitment to the mission of the real-time investigation center and the drone's first responder program.

His sustained contributions positively impact public safety, support investigative operations, and strengthen the department's ability to respond effectively to complex incidents.

So, Officer Kevin O'Donnell, it's my pleasure to present you with this certificate designating you as the officer of the week in recognition of your dedication and professionalism demonstrated through outstanding community policing practices and inspiring greatness by exemplifying the ideals of police officers as guardians of our community.

Such an example of dedication is worthy of the highest esteem by the city and county of San Francisco and the San Francisco Police Department.

Congratulations, Captain.

Thank you.

Thank you guys very much for having me up here.

I really appreciate it.

None of this work would be uh able to be done without the DFR team that I work with every day.

They work as tirelessly as any one of us.

I have great supervisors.

Um they they show up just as much as I do.

They do everything, uh the same hours, all that stuff.

They come in early, they can leave late, the same thing.

Uh also we wouldn't be successful in our program if patrol wouldn't, you know, work with us too, and everybody else and the rest of the police department that helps us when we locate suspects and do that stuff.

They go out and make the arrests and they do truly the hard work.

So without them, we wouldn't be able to be successful and do what we do every day.

So truly this is uh I appreciate it, but it belongs to everybody else in the police department.

Thank you.

So, Officer O'Donnelly, wait a minute here.

So uh we want to thank you for your service.

I mean, you're on the cutting edge of modern day policing.

You and your your group that are served there at the uh real-time investigations.

We've got to see your work uh live and in living color, seeing investigations go off because what you guys do.

And I know the community is proud of what you do.

We are proud of what you do, your department, all the rest of the men and women who serve on the ground and where you're giving them information are proud of having you there to support them and helping them do what you do in terms of your activities there at the center.

So we are very grateful for your service, and you just keep doing what you do.

We really appreciate it.

Thank you.

Commissioner Benedicta.

Thank you, President Clay.

Thank you, Captain Jonas, for uh making the nomination introduction.

Congratulations, Officer Donald.

Thank you for your incredible work.

Uh I'm always happy to congratulate a fellow Kevin in this case.

But uh the work that the Arctic has done uh in just a short amount of time has been substantially impactful.

Uh and we've really seen that tremendous work.

I've had the privilege of visiting the Arctic.

Um I got to br very briefly and very terrifyingly fly one of the drones to appreciate the incredible capabilities they provide.

And I think what what's really important to get to, and I did not crash it, I was very scared.

Um I think something that's really important that the work that you all do in collaboration with patrol is you really are able to act as that force multiplier and able to, you know, at a time when the department, as departments across the country, are dealing with fewer with lower staffing levels and having to make do with fewer resources.

And in a department like ours that does not have an aerial unit, uh the drone program and the drones of first responder program has really helped, whether it's pursuits, whether it's barricaded suspects, we've seen the fruit of that work and the dedication that it takes.

So thank you to you and all of your team.

I think it's uh consistently all the officers we recognize recognize their teams as well, because it really is a team effort.

But uh so congratulations to you and your whole team and to your whole support system that enables you to do this great work for the people of San Francisco.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Commissioner Techie.

Thank you, President Clay and Officer Kevin O'Donnell.

I just want to say thank you for all your work.

And um I just want to echo both President Clay and Commissioner Benedict's comments.

I personally myself also had visited the Arctic and I was blown away with the technology, how how well it can be done and very clean and very precise.

And so I really appreciate all the work that your co-hudds, co-workers and your supervisors do it from the Arctic.

Thank you very much for your work.

Thank you.

Commissioner Leon.

Thank you, President Clay.

I'm going to state the obvious, which is that the technology doesn't police, it's the people who do.

So thank you and for your teammates for all that you do and for making the technology work.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Chief Liu.

Thanks, Steve.

Thank you to the entire Phoenix team back there.

Congratulations, Kevin.

Thank you, sir.

Um I mean, I don't need to say it, but I will.

Um you guys have really changed the way that we fight crime.

I think it's what, over 600 arrests that the uh Phoenix program has um helped in in or assisted in in some way.

Um really changed the way we do it, the precision, as the Commissioner already said.

Um you really have impacted the safety for San Francisco in a positive way.

Uh officers as well as the community, just in terms of mitigating risk every single day, mitigating pursuits, mitigating other things that are just inherently dangerous to police work.

Um, and then really it's uh uh enhancing prosecutions as well that we otherwise wouldn't have.

We're we're we're just providing much better cases.

So uh thank you to all of you and congratulations, Kevin.

Thank you.

If any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item one, the weekly officer recognition, please approach the podium.

And there is no public comment.

Line item two, general public comment.

At this time, the public is now welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on tonight's agenda but are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the police commission.

Under police commission rules of order during public comment, neither police or DPA personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public, but may provide a brief response.

Alternatively, you may submit public comment in either of the following ways.

Email the Secretary of the Police Commission at SAPD.commission at SFgov.org, or written comments may be sent via U.S.

Postal Service to the public safety building located at 1245 Third Street, San Francisco, California, 94158.

If you would like to make public comment, please approach the podium.

Go ahead.

Hi, good evening, Commissioners.

My name is Amelia.

I'm a resident of District 9, and I want to make clear that I am speaking here only as an individual, as a direct service provider of almost nine years with five on the street crisis response team.

I want to thank this commission and specifically Lieutenant Donald Anderson for the opportunity to join the critical incident team training this past year.

It was an enlightening to the shared responsibilities of our dynamic, diverse responses.

However, in the next few weeks, we are facing the removal of peer counselors from the street crisis response team.

One of the public statements made at the fire commission to justify the removal of the peers was a concern of the cohesiveness in training.

Interestingly, in my years of running 911 calls, CIT was the first opportunity I had to run training scenarios with any sworn staff.

Regardless of the proposed structural shift away from trauma-informed care, I would like to share appreciation to the police officers, sheriff deputies, BART police, federal and park police, and CHP officers that called us to try something different.

On all of those calls where officers were at a standstill, weren't able to de-escalate, or felt that a non-uniformed approach would allow for a better intervention for the individual in crisis.

I have appreciated the creativity and the bravery of the officers to put the peers on the front line.

To the officers that called for peer intervention when a half dozen sworn staff couldn't make someone drop a bat, thank you.

She dropped it.

We hugged and walked hand in hand into the ambulance.

To the officers that called for peer intervention when they got bad vibes, but no words regarding someone's suicidality.

Thank you.

After a few minutes of peer counseling and self-disclosure, we packed her a bag and brought her to a crisis center.

I could list any number of high acuity calls where your staff trusted us to meet a person where they were at while having our back.

And for that, I thank you.

As it seems now in the coming weeks, your officers may not be able to expect the same behavioral health de-escalation.

Please remember the successes of what we have done, and please keep in mind that your officers' ability to incite peer intervention may be fundamentally changing.

Thank you.

Tell me what.

Okay.

Good evening, President Clay, Vice President Techie, Commissioners.

My name is Scott Burrell.

And I've come here to softly put on your radar an issue that I believe has some urgency.

I've written a letter to you about it that I believe has been distributed to you.

Some of you may have had may have had an opportunity to read it.

I wrote about a recruit who was dismissed by the department.

And I believe that she was dismissed without being afforded her due process rights.

Specifically, I'm talking about her right to have what's known as a Luby hearing, which is simply a right to have an opportunity to confront their reasons for the dismissal and to clear her name.

And I've taken the unusual step of coming here tonight because I do believe that the matter has some urgency.

And I do believe that the harm to her by not having this Louby hearing is great.

And I believe that you, Commissioners have the power and the ability to uh change what's happening.

Um I believe that when you review this issue, and I am going to ask that you review it with some urgency, that you will agree with me.

And I'm going to ask that after that process that you ask the department or direct the department to provide my this young recruit that Luby hearing.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Good evening, uh President Clay and uh Vice President Truckee and the members of the Commission.

My name is Paul Chignell.

I'm a retired SFPD captain.

And I'm the legal defense administrator for the POA, which is comprised of 3,0400 active and retired dues paying members.

And the POA has asked me to speak tonight about the same topic that Mr.

Burrell just spoke to you.

It is unusual for a personnel matter to be addressed under general public comment, as you are quite aware, but the circumstances are exigent for her case.

I support the comments of Mr.

Burrell and understand the personnel matter as described cannot be heard tonight.

However, we believe the police commission under Charter Sections 4.109 and 8.343 have the authority at the appropriate time to direct the hierarchy of this department to provide a LUBY hearing to the officer.

In the late 1970s, I was a young patrolman in my twenties who represented Officer James Luby at his hearing before the Chief of Police.

That case was subsequently taken up to the Court of Appeal, where the historic Luby decision was promulgated.

As you may aware, the subsequent LUBY court decision is now a preeminent standard throughout the State of California.

Hundreds of public employees have utilized that decision to obtain due process.

And it's directly applicable to the case involving the young officer.

I have spoken to her training officers and her training sergeant in this case, as well as multiple officers at Tendeloin Station.

And the Department's rationale for her termination cannot be supported.

So please allow to have a due process hearing for this young officer, who which she is in completely entitled to.

Thank you for your time.

Hello, Commissioners.

My name is Zachary Schwartz, and I help run DFLOC SF, an organization dedicated to holding the police accountable for their misuse of the Flock automated license plate reader system.

We have all seen how SFPD has hidden their use of flaw cameras since the 2023 contract was signed.

The Department has failed to announce expansions to the mountain cameras or the locations, despite doing so rather thoroughly for their other public safety cameras.

Twice now the Department has failed to prevent data breaches, first in 2024, and then again with the leak revealed last month.

When the data is so immense that they are unable to detect issues like this, it becomes that clear that Flock's ALPR system is truly mass surveillance of citizens.

The police department has likely violated California Civil Code 1798.90.55, which bans agencies in the State of California from sharing data with out-of-state agencies.

The city's flock usage should be independently audited with a full transparency to the public.

That being said, it's my first time at a police commission meeting, and I'm not sure the procedure for asking questions, but I would like to ask the Commission to supply or request an update on the internal inquiry into the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center at leak that Chief Liu discussed last meeting.

Thank you.

And there is no further public comment.

Line item three, consent calendar, receive and file action.

China Basin Ballpark Company, LLC in-kind gift, venue space at Oracle Park and related facility valued at 45,500 to use for the police department recruiting event.

San Francisco Police Community Foundation gift of $3 million to support the real-time investigation center technology and San Francisco Police Community Foundation gift of 103,750 to support the O2X Wellness Initiative and Officer Wellness Program.

Is there a motion?

Motion receive and file.

Second, if any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding the consent calendar, please approach the podium.

There is no public comment.

On the motion, Commissioner Lowe, how do you vote?

Aye.

Commissioner Lowe is aye.

Commissioner Leong?

Aye.

Commissioner Leong is aye.

Commissioner Benedicto?

I.

Commissioner Lyus is aye.

Vice President Techie?

Aye.

Vice President Techie is aye.

President Clay.

Yes.

President Clay is yes.

You have six yeses.

Chief Liu.

Good evening, President Clay, Commissioners, Director Henderson, and members of the public.

I will start off with weekly crime trends.

As of July 12th, 2026.

Overall Part 1 crimes are down 21 percent year to date compared to 2025.

Total violent crimes are down 10 percent for the year.

Specifically addressing homicides.

As of this reporting period, there are 16 homicides year to date in 2026 compared to 13 last year.

Looking at gun violence, defined as the number of people injured in a shooting incident, added to the number of persons killed by a firearm.

We are down 16% compared to 2025.

Incidents of reported rapes are down 16%.

Assaults for the year are down 2% with a decrease of 27% in assaults by firearms.

Robberies are down 20% with robberies using a firearm declining by 24%.

Human trafficking incidents are down 7%, with 13 incidents being reported so far this year compared to 14 last year at this time.

Total property crimes are down 22 percent.

Burglaries are down 26%.

Motor vehicle theft down 26%.

Larceny theft down 21% overall.

Moving to significant incidents.

And there were zero homicides reported this week.

The first was on the 12th.

I'm sorry, the first I'll speak about is on the 12th at uh approximately 1 in the morning at Fernandes.

There was a physical altercation.

Uh subject fired a shot at one of the involved participants.

That victim was located by police and was uh subsequently transported in critical condition.

Uh there's been no arrest in that particular case.

Uh it is an open pending investigation.

Uh the other shooting was on the 7th at approximately midnight, and that was a self-inflicted injury.

Again, no homicides for the week.

Um in terms of media uh interest, there was a capsized vessel in the bay yesterday that our uh our marine unit along with several agencies to include the fire uh fire department and coast guard responded to at around 3 30 yesterday.

There's a capsized vessel.

Um it was broadcast over the over the radio.

Our our officers responded via marine unit and located numerous people in the water uh along with other agencies, uh several uh uh people uh were brought back to shore.

Um victim was pulled from the water.

We attempted CPR, uh however that person is deceased.

Um that is uh we we will we will investigate that particular incident uh along with the Coast Guard and uh now this is is uh turning into a recovery uh type of uh incident.

Terms of firearms seizures, the current year-to-date number, five hundred and fourteen year to date.

Just a quick community engagement message.

Um we are aware that um there's been a spate of scammers contacting people asking for personal and confidential information using uh technology to kind of to spoof our SFPD numbers and identifying themselves as law enforcement.

I just want to put out to any to the public and anyone that is watching that this is a scam.

We do not make cold calls and ask for personal information over the phone.

So we urge everyone to be suspicious of strangers calling for personal information, such as your social security number, and anyone who received such a call should hang up.

Do not engage the caller in conversation, never give out personal information, and please do report it to us.

Uh we did participate in one city day this past Saturday, uh myself along with many officers from uh all over the city, as well as our community engagement division, uh volunteered uh across the city to clean parks, pick up trash, support our neighborhoods.

So big thank you to uh everyone in the department who showed up.

And then I also wanted to extend an invitation to the commission.

Uh coming up on August 4th, it'll be national night out.

So there are several um venues uh that will be holding events for national night out, and we'll get those distributed out to you.

Hope to see you out there.

Just a quick update on academy enrollment.

We have two academy classes in progress with a total of 69 recruits.

The 289th began on March 2nd.

It uh that class will graduate on the 26th.

There are currently 24 recruits in that class.

They'll be graduating early next year, and there are currently 45 recruits in that class.

Okay.

A little bit of catch-up from last week.

Wanted to make the commission aware.

We did submit the letter of inquiry to Supervisor Fielder uh last night at around 1800.

So that will be posted to the commission site.

Tonight.

Okay.

Also, I know last week we spoke about the possibility of a town hall with regard to the transmarch.

Um I just wanted to circle back on that and uh let the commission know that I am amenable to a future town hall of uh in in some format.

Um I think at this point I'm unable to commit to a uh a time uh a date for a few reasons.

Number one, it is uh uh we discussed a little bit.

There's an active ongoing investigation with the PD currently.

Uh there's a lot of of uh evidence to go through.

They're still going through it now, combing through it now.

Um, as the other piece of this is there are at least a few defendants whose current cases are going through the court system right now.

So um, due to the due to those reasons, I'd like to uh postpone any sort of um town hall meeting until after that adjudicates.

Uh lastly, I did want to take up uh another issue that was media worthy.

There was an article that has garnered a little bit of of following uh by news outlets.

Um obviously our article was written.

Uh this was by Wired magazine.

Uh specifically, uh the article was was written about SFPD drone operations.

Uh more specifically, there was a discovery of a URL or a link that was publicly available on a website used by security researchers.

Um it it the article goes on to describe numerous incidents that they recorded over a over two days prior to them alerting um anyone about it, and then uh I think just generally speaking, without going into the full details of the article, which is available online at issue were security concerns and then con general concerns over whether drone flights were in policy.

So what I'll just speak to quickly is that um there's no evidence that it was a large-scale breach.

This was not a um a mainstream website, like I said, used for security researchers.

Um we did speak with the authorities or not the authorities, but the folks over at Wired magazine.

And uh what we were told was that there were two days of recordings.

We advised uh we we learned that there are about 20 incidents that uh were recorded.

We did confirm they were all in policy.

The link was immediately turned off, and all such links are now off pending new security measures.

And I think that bottom line, what I'd like to say is that um clearly, as evidenced by what we talked about at the beginning of this meeting, uh uh Arctic and drones in general are a game changer for the public safety of San Francisco.

Uh it's a truly awesome public safety tool that I think positively impacts all San Franciscans.

But I do recognize at the same time, along with that awesome tool comes an awesome responsibility by the San Francisco Police Department to ensure that we're using those tools in a lawful manner and that we are um safeguarding people's privacy.

So, all in all, as the chief, I want everyone in San Francisco to know that we take that balance very seriously.

And with that that concludes my Chief's report.

Thank you, Chief.

You know, we all know when you deal with technology, there's always a backdoor, there's always seem to be something there that links to other people being getting access, and that's what you do.

I mean, that's one of the things about technology.

Where it's a it's a work in progress.

We're always issues that are coming up with the issues with somebody being able to access your information and how you plug that.

And we had that with the courts when they put in the new system.

We've had that, you hear it all over these leaks, and how people have been able to come in and go into somebody else's uh system to get information.

So we're very happy that they alerted you to this issue and you guys were addressed it.

So uh kudos to the department and getting on that immediately.

As it relates to the town hall, um as you've seen last week, the um it was very interesting in the courts in the high profile case that was going on and the issues of the lawyers, the defense lawyers asking the court not to admit certain information because the case was going to be going to trial and all the stuff for the other people in the community, they wouldn't be able to get a jury.

I had that in the Meserly case when I had to do those the Oscar Grant case, the same thing.

The issues are you want to make sure that the person is getting a fair trial and the defendants in this case, and I know there's been a lot of talk about this and and talk about what the process and procedure, your operations, it's important how you however you do them.

That's what you do.

We don't do that.

But the idea is I think having the community having access to talk about this at some period of time is going to be very important uh for the community needs.

So thank you, Chief, for your report.

Um Commissioner Lyas.

Chief, thank you for addressing um the uh issue.

Uh I know a town hall is is something that's reserved for um the officer-involved shootings, but I'm wondering if there's some other forum.

I mean, granted there is an open criminal investigation, obviously you don't want to to um jeopardize that, but some other forum which allows the community to express their concerns to you and your leadership um in a more private, intimate setting.

A town hall is usually advertised and um distributed to the masses, but maybe you can think of a um a way for maybe a more private intimate forum where you don't necessarily have to give out information, but just allow the community to come and express their concerns so that you can hear some of their experiences firsthand and ex and and hear their frustrations and take it back take it as feedback so that you can go back and see if there are any issues that maybe you can resolve um or if there are best practices that maybe can be adopted from this and use it as a learning experience.

Um maybe you can look into that kind of setup or forum because I think that would be respectful of the criminal process and not jeopardize it, but it also allows the community to connect.

And I say that because when we did the police chief search and we went out to different um communities and did the different um talking sessions with the community, one of the things that they were adamant about is having a chief that was accessible to the people.

Um having uh a way to communicate to the chief the issues that the community was facing and their gripes.

So I think like having uh a forum to address that would be very helpful and go a long way.

Commissioner Benedicto.

Thank you, uh President Clay.

A couple of things, Chief.

Thank you for your report.

First, I I echo what both President Clay and Commissioner Elias said about uh glad that you're continuing to address the continued community concerns about the incidents surrounding uh the Transmarch and that there'll be further community you know feedback solicited in whatever form it might be.

Again, I I said this last week and I repeated, you know, that this shouldn't be something talked about one time and then never again.

And you know, and I I see that members of the community that are here again.

I'm very grateful that um to to have you here again with us.

Uh I hope that uh I know this is our last meeting before our recess.

I hope that when we return from our recess in in the fall, either something has taken place or there'll be a more substantive update on that.

I I definitely agree with what Commissioner Elias said.

I think that um perhaps if uh uh you know uh a meeting with organizations where they're at might be a way to understand some of their concerns and to sort of come to that community that might be a product productive exercise.

I also think it can be more than one, you know.

I I I I say this on a lot of issues, you know, and all of the above strategy can help.

If it's a substantive update here at Commission, if it's something resembling an OIS town hall, even though not an OIS, if it's a targeted community meeting between command staff uh and uh organizers of the transmarch, I I I think all, you know, it it doesn't have to be either or, and I think uh that that uh it's good to hear that you're amenable to that and look forward to hearing that process continue.

Um I am wondering if I I'm gonna bring this up to Commissioner reports as well, but I would like to see if you have any response to uh the the public commenter who talked about the CIT, the the peer counselor program loss.

Is there an update you can provide on uh on on that or what what decided the the public comment was the first I'd heard about that program about a change to that?

Yeah, I I I don't have any more information on that at this point.

I I'll certainly look into it.

Okay, it would I think uh I think given the tremendous success of the CIT program, uh I think it would be helpful to if there are any changes to to update the commission on that, even if it's in writing during the recess, and if not uh when we return.

Um I also wanted to follow up with you.

I think um some myself, Commissioner Um Lowe and Commissioner uh Techie were at the uh API forum last week, and we met with uh community member extraordinaire Marlene, who spoke who gave the um who was recognized at this commission for the excellent idea of having the the pins for the officers to indicate what languages they spoke.

And as I understand the sheriff's office has now begun to roll that out for their public facing uh deputies, and I was wondering if you had an update on SFPD's rollout of of those visual representations.

I don't have more of an update than I told you last week in terms of I know it would turn into a budget issue.

However, my trustee assistant chief may have more information.

Good evening.

Um Commissioner Benedicto, it's not a budget issue.

We will be able to purchase the pins.

Where we are right now is we are just identifying the specific officers at the district stations who are going to wear them.

Yep.

Will it require like I know there's uh is it one point there's a commission DJO and uniform uh will require any change to any policies regarding like uniforms?

Um currently the uniform policy is already being revised.

And it they're speaking more generically to the pins, so I think that that will there should be zero issue.

Okay.

I will double check with um with Director Steve, so um and then my last question, Chief, you know, speaking of of media, I I saw was reported earlier this week that uh the LAPD became uh uh when their contract with Flock was up for renewal, they opted not to due to some concerns.

Obviously, I know there have been we're constantly evaluating our policies on Flock, we had issues with the NickRick system and uh other departments too.

I wonder if there was anything you had or if if anyone from your office has been has reached out to their team to uh understand their reasoning and if it's affecting our your decision making in any way.

Yeah, I don't have further information on that.

Um and uh I that is all um thank you very much.

If any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item four, the chief's report, please approach the podium.

Hello again.

I was here last week to also complain about the transmarch and your events, your response to it.

I took a look at the letter of inquiry response that you left on the table.

And I do have a couple of questions, comments, and like not understanding what I'm reading.

So can we get the camera, I think he?

So it's been what, like two weeks, three weeks since the event happened.

It's July 17th now or 16th.

And how come you still don't have a count of the people who actually were on the scene?

Like I just don't understand how you you had the probably like roll calls, payroll.

How come you still we still don't know how many people were there?

Because it does not there were not 33 people.

There were like hundreds of them.

You were cattled.

You're pushed around.

And secondly is about how you describe how you intervened.

You say that you did not intervene broadly in the march.

However, you both officers march through the intersection of Turk and Taylor and push people around and shot people to the side of the street, like as they were dancing.

If that is not intervention of the March, I do not know what it is.

Uh also in that letter of inquiry, there's no information or no mention at all of the car that drops through the march as they were marching between Dolores and Turk and Taylor.

Right.

So I think this report does not actually convey what happened on the during the parade, during the event that there's supposed to be a celebration of trans pride and joy and love.

So I would like to actually get more answers during the downhall versus just express my concerns.

That's my stance on it.

Thank you.

Hello again.

Um I think one of the things I wanted to respond to um is regarding um the uh breach uh with uh um with the drones um and and footage with that.

Um and I think that there's a larger problem with these drones with the surveillance by them.

Um I I know you refer to them as like extremely effective tools, but I think they change how you police.

Um I think the um uh their presence is also obtrusive.

During the trans march, um uh people noticed at least one drone overhead, which I I believe now was a police drone.

And I I overheard I felt um threatened by it, and I overheard people who also felt threatened by it.

And later events, um I mean, you you mentioned that this drone was used to like isolate alleged vandals or like two alleged vandals.

Um that information was the reason the officers charged in and escalated the situation, um, escalated uh one one of the largest uh celebrations of uh Trans Pride into a violent event which uh deeply affected many, many members of the community.

Um so on top of these drones being insecure, and that insecurity like given the current situation.

I think someone else voiced this about the flop cams.

Um if uh uh given the situation between states where you know people would tra people were traveling between states um to do transmarch.

Um if this footage is insecure.

Hi, um thank you for calling me back in.

Um I just wanted to clarify with the CIT program.

Uh that was a great success in collaboration.

It was really great.

The peer counselors are being removed from the San Francisco Fire Department Street Crisis Response Team.

I'm not authorized to speak for the fire department.

I'm here speaking as an individual.

Um but I would be willing to answer any questions if the commissioners had any.

Partially because I do think that the loss of the peer counselors on the street crisis response team is going to affect police work on the ground every single day.

And I do have to say that every time the PD has requested us specially, they have been very glad that we're there.

Very glad that they're sharing the weight and the responsibility of what it is to work with people with behavioral health crises and/or homelessness.

Um it is something that is going to affect your officers on the streets.

It was just announced at the fire commission meeting last Wednesday, uh, which is why I can be here and say it publicly as well.

Uh however, I would really hope that the commissioners understand that this is a big change to the 911 first response system.

Thank you.

And that is the end of public comment.

Line item five, DPA directors report discussion, a report on recent DPE activities and announcements.

Executive Director Henderson.

Thank you, good evening.

Uh so this week uh on Saturday, July 11th, uh DPA, the organization, we joined uh the over 4,000 volunteers across the city for the one city day, San Francisco's first ever citywide day of service.

Uh our team volunteered at the Larkin Street Youth Services here in the Tinderloin that does great work with young people at the risk of experiencing homelessness.

Uh we've done a lot of work in the past uh in partnership with the public defender's office and with HRC focused specifically on youth uh with uh know your rights campaign.

Uh and so we were able to have some of that information available as well.

Uh our senior investigator last week, Brent Beijin was present uh when we had a number of people here uh from the community and the restate afterwards to speak to many of the members of the community that spoke about their experiences at the TransMarch and the Stud alley events.

Uh as I mentioned last week, uh we have open cases from both of those incidents uh and several new individuals later contacted DPA investigators from last week's meeting to share additional information with the agency.

Uh and based on that information, those investigations will continue.

Uh just in reference to that, uh I met with Honey Mahogany this week from the Office of Transgender Initiatives addressing uh issues of concerns that were brought to her uh specifically about anonymity and how DPA works, which I shared with her, but just as a reference, uh people are can contact uh DPA uh and share information with our agency anonymously, and she offered to use her office uh in case folks want to speak with her office and share information with them to get to us as well uh from the mayor's office.

Those investigations will continue and we will continue with the same policies that we have about anonymity in regards to how people contact our information, how people contact our agency, and I will end my week with that information.

Earlier also this week, we had our quarterly all-hand staff meeting, sharing update with all of the staff about uh this year's budget, uh, the hiring situation, new initiatives and accomplishments, uh, specifically with the hirants hiring, just in reference, the chief was just mentioning the graduating class, and so the officers that we're expecting to join the force uh is going to uh impact DPA and the ongoing work that we have and what we do.

I've talked uh over the past weeks about uh the volume and the number of complaints going up uh in the agency and having more officers uh joining the force will also impact some of the work that we do.

So walking all of our folks with and through that is part of what went went on this week.

Uh also this week, DPA opened 24 new cases uh and we closed 17 cases.

The most common allegation involved officers failing to take uh required action uh or neglect of duty.

Again, these are the allegations for cases that came in.

Uh and I have a full breakdown of all of the weekly activity reports with additional details about this reporting period that has been filed and is also available online.

Uh I'm joined this evening at tonight's commission with senior investigator senior investigator uh Helen Calderon in case there are issues that come up during the commission uh that people want to speak to us or any of our representatives.

Uh also present in tonight's meeting is Jamal Anderson, our director of policy.

Uh again, people can contact DPA at sfgov.org forward slash DPA.

Uh they can also contact us directly at 415-241-7741 during business hours or any other hours to leave a message with investigators to call them back.

Uh we can speak to folks tonight during the commission, later after commission, by email or by calls.

Again, all of these ways of contacting us can be done uh with anonymity as well to reference information to be shared with the agency in our new or ongoing investigations.

Uh we don't have in for we don't have cases on for closed session tonight, DPA, and that concludes my weekly update.

If any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item five, the DPA director's report, please approach the podium.

There is no public comment.

Line item six, commission reports, discussion and possible action.

Commission president's report, commissioners' reports, and commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at a future commission meeting.

So we had a quiet week.

The only thing I want to reiterate we have on August the 13th, there is a promotional ceremony going to take place at 1 p.m.

for the promotions of the new sergeants and captains and other.

So I think we're all invited.

And if you have an opportunity, it would be great to have you show up and support those uh officers being promoted.

So that's what I can tell you.

All right.

Any other reports?

Oh, that's good to think so.

Sorry.

No problem at all.

Thank you, President.

Thank you, President Clay.

Um just uh a couple of items uh to report.

Um I wanted to thank the Chief for continuing to address the issues around the TransMarch and hope that those discussions uh particularly the community engagement side continue.

Um I did want to um make an I did want to ask you, Chief, if there was an update uh that the public comments are I've also received some questions from the community about um the internal SFPD audit and the work with the human rights commission on the the Flock data nicker issue.

Is there anything new that you have to provide on that?

No, no update.

It's just it's still ongoing.

Okay.

Um I also want to share, I know that with uh a member of the public who who noted this was noted before, but I think it's worth reminding that the the next DPA are I don't know if it's the next one, but the an upcoming Department of Police Accountability Audit is related to Flock and the automated license plate readers and uh I should say the DPA has a multiple award-winning audit team and this uh audit could not be more timely.

Uh, I have met with audit director Steve Flaherty, and I know that there's a lot of work underway on that audit.

So, in addition to the SFP the internal audit, in addition to the work the SFP is doing with the Human Rights Commission, there is a Department of Police Accountability audit on the use of ALPR that is coming, and I look forward to seeing that later uh this year.

Um and that concludes my report.

If any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item six, commission reports, please approach the podium.

There is no public comment.

Line item seven, discussion and possible action to approve, re approve Department General Order 1112, temporary modified duty for the department to use a meeting conferring with the affected bargaining units as required by law.

Discussion and possible action.

Good evening, Commissioners.

I'm Penny C.

I'm the ADA coordinator for the department, and I'm one of the subject matter experts for General Order 11.12 temporary modified duty.

This general order was created back in 2004, and we have had it on the 2025 annual review list.

And the Department received about 12 comments during the public review process, which resulted in eight revisions.

These changes include expanding the eligibility for temporary modified duty to non-sworn employees, uh separating the temporary modified duty from reasonable accommodation so that this general order focuses on temporary modified duty.

And we've also now are allowing temporary modified duty assignments at district stations.

This was championed by members of our family support unit.

We've also added a new qualification exemption and new work attire uh rules for our temporary modified duty assignments.

Those are the major changes for this general order, and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.

Did a great job of cleaning it up, but Commissioner Benedict?

That was exactly what I was gonna say.

I think it's a much more streamlined order.

It's uh it's shorter.

I've not had the pleasure of serving on a working group with you, but for those that have certain working groups with me, I give prizes for cutting the most words, and this would win by by a landslide uh for this.

Um I just had uh one question, which is it this general order would apply both to sworn and non-sworn personnel, correct?

Correct.

And so it's likely that for me to confer it would involve both the the officers union as well as the the unions representing the civilian employees, most likely.

Most likely.

Okay.

But I I'm not certain as I'm not part of that.

Okay.

Okay.

I I I see that um isn't Chief Jones nodding in the back.

That's very helpful.

Okay.

Those are all the questions I have.

All right.

So is there a motion?

I will make a motion to approve Department General Order 11.12.

Second.

If any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item seven, DGO 1112, please approach the podium.

And there is no public comment.

On the motion, Commissioner Lowe, how do you vote?

Aye.

Commissioner Lowe is aye.

Commissioner Liung?

Yes.

Commissioner Leong is yes.

Commissioner Benedicto?

Yes.

Commissioner Benedict is yes.

Commissioner Lyas?

Yes.

Commissioner Lyas is yes.

Vice President Techie?

Yes.

Vice President Techie is yes, and President Clay.

Yes.

President Clay is yes.

You have six yeses.

Line item eight.

Public comment on all matters pertaining to item 10 below closed session, including public comment on item nine, a vote whether to hold item 10 in closed session, and public comment on item nine, a vote whether to disclose any or all discussion on item 10 held in closed session.

If you would like to make public comment, please approach the podium.

I'm assuming this is a general public comment for the question.

No, this is um regarding closed session about going into closed session.

Oh, before closing the session?

If you have public comment regarding closed session.

Regarding closed session.

Oh, okay.

Um well, I I I I I guess um, let's see.

I I just wanted to cover some of the things that um came up after the last meeting uh that we weren't able to address during that meeting.

Um I think that um your idea of um That is only covered in general public comment.

Okay, okay.

All right, thank you.

All right, and there is no public comment.

Sorry to cover the line items I had my spouse works for the firm representing the plaintiff in the matter.

Copy.

Commissioner Lyas, you are recusing yourself from line item nine, ten, and eleven for the record.

Thank you.

All right.

Line item nine.

Excuse me, I will wait till Commissioner has left the room.

All right, line item nine, a vote on whether to hold item 10 in closed session.

Move to go into close session.

Commissioner Lowe is I, Commissioner Leon.

I Commissioner Leo is I.

Commissioner Benedict.

Disclose any or all discussion on item ten held in close session.

San Francisco Administrative Code Section Sixty Seven Point Two Action.

Second.

Commissioner Lowe is aye.

Commissioner Leo.

Aye.

Mr.

Leung is aye.

Commissioner Benedict.

Vice President Techie.

Aye.

Vice President Techie is aye, and President Clay.

President Clay is yes.

You have five yeses.

Line item twelve, adjournment.