Civil Service Commission - August 31, 2020 - Minutes

Meeting Date: 
August 31, 2020 - 2:00pm
Location: 

 

Minutes of Special Meeting

 

  Monday, August 31, 2020

 

     2:00 p.m.

 

I.

The Special Meeting was called to order at 2:05 p.m.

 

 

 

Present:

President Elizabeth Salveson

 

 

Vice President Jacqueline Minor

 

 

Commissioner Douglas S. Chan

 

 

Commissioner F. X. Crowley

 

 

Commissioner Kate Favetti

 

 

 

 

President Elizabeth Salveson presided.

 

 

II.

Public Comment on all matters appearing on the Special Meeting Agenda Session.

 

 

 

Public comment 1, from Bernal Heights. Indian descent Southeast Asian, support resolution to prevent Law Enforcement agencies in SFO to hire with sustain misconduct findings; family victim to racial profiling; California law makes it difficult to access prior misconduct; important policy change.

 

 

 

Malcolm from San Mateo in support of the resolution to prevent the hiring of law enforcement.

 

 

 

Kaitlyn in support of the resolution; San Francisco should be role model and set bar high and be example for rest of the country; don’t want to raise children who are scared for their life; opportunity for police officers to reform

 

 

 

Brian, lives in the Mission; supports resolution to stop hiring police officers with past misconduct; should have the same requirement for accountability as for others, like nurses and doctors.

 

 

 

Deborah Preste, from California, supports resolution to prevent law enforcement agencies to hire officers with past misconduct; in corona, parents of disabled man Kenneth French shot by an off duty police officer Salvador Sanchez; videos have been tampered with; san Bernardino county

 

 

 

Sam Holtzman, calling from Berkeley, supports resolution, prevents hiring officers with sustained misconduct; black lives matter

 

 

 

Cassandra Blank, Richmond District, supports resolution from hiring officers with sustained conduct; need more accountability; expect city leaders to lead change black lives matter

 

 

 

Megan Reynolds, Outer Sunset, supports resolution; not a person a color but has loved ones who are; interactions with police or obvious and disturbing the disparities in treatment that she has experienced.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

III.

Review of Law Enforcement Hiring, Promoting, and Training.  (File No. 0177-20-1) – DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION

 

 

 

 

Speakers:

Micki Callahan, Department of Human Resources

 

 

Anna Biasbas, Department of Human Resources

 

 

Dave Johnson, Department of Human Resources

 

 

Chief William Scott, SF Police Department

 

 

Steve Ford, SF Police Department

 

 

Sheriff Paul Miyamoto, Sheriff Department

 

 

 

 

Action:

Adopt the report; Department of Human Resources to report back with a proposal identifying classes that require background investigation.  (Vote of 5 to 0)

 

 

 

IV.

Board of Supervisors Resolution No. 291-20 [Urging the Civil Service Commission to Establish Disqualifying Standards for Applicants for Position of Police Officer and Sheriff Deputy Applicants Based on Misconduct] was enacted on July 3, 2020.
(File No. 0178-20-1) – DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION

 

 

 

Speakers:

District Attorney Chesa Boudin

 

 

Supervisor Shaman Walton

 

 

Cheryl Davis, Human Rights Commission

 

 

Shakirah Simley, Officde of Racial Equity

 

 

 

 

Public Comment:

Annemarie Donjacour, District 7 in support of resolution

 

 

Regina Islas, longtime and proud SEIU member, in support of resolution

 

 

 

 

Action:

Adopted the minutes with the condition for Agenda Item # IV, the Action also includes, “Those recommendations include: (1) proposed language defining serious misconduct should not include vague terms such as, “including, but not limited to.”  (2) proposed rules policies effectuating Part I of the Board of Supervisors Resolution should require sustained complaints.”  (Vote of 5 to 0)

 

 

 

Public Comment:

Katherine Eavy, from District 4

 

 

IV.

Adjournment.

 

 

 

5:22 p.m.