August 19, 2010

Members:

Presiding Judge of the Superior Court, or designee

Director of Department of Aging and Adult Services, or designee

Mayor, or designee

Director of Department of Children, Youth, and Their Families, or designee

President of the Board of Supervisors, or designee

Director of Child Support Services, or designee

District Attorney, or designee

Director of Domestic Violence Consortium, or designee

Chief of Police, or designee

Director of Consortium for Elder Abuse Prevention, or designee

Sheriff, or designee

Director of San Francisco Child Abuse Council, or designee

President of Commission on the Status of Women, or designee

Chair of Batterer’s Intervention Programs Subcommittee

Chief of Adult Probation, or designee

Director of Department of Animal Care and Control, or designee

Chief of Department of Emergency Management, or designee

Public Defender, or designee

Director of the Department of Public Health, or designee

Superintendent of San Francisco Unified School District, or designee

Director of Human Services Agency, or designee

I. CALL TO ORDER/ AGENDA CHANGES DISCUSSION/ACTION 1 min.

Action: To approve the meeting agenda.

II. INTRODUCTIONS DISCUSSION 2 min.

III. APPROVAL OF MINUTES DISCUSSION/ACTION 1 min.

Explanatory document – Minutes from May 20, 2010 Family Violence Council meeting.

Action: To approve the May 20, 2010 minutes.

IV. BUSINESS DISCUSSION/ACTION

A. Announcements 5 min.

B. Violence Prevention Plan 15 min.

Brief overview of the status of the Violence Prevention Plan implementation.

C. “Courage to Change” Report 15 min.

Overview of a report released by the Justice & Courage Oversight Panel documenting reforms to the criminal justice response to domestic violence.

Explanatory document – Executive Summary of “Courage to Change.”

D. Annual Report on Family Violence in San Francisco 45 min.

Review of the draft annual report, validation of statistics, and trend analysis.

Explanatory document – Draft “Comprehensive Report on Family Violence in San Francisco, 2010”

E. Future Meeting Dates 5 min.

Proposal to change future meetings of the Family Violence Council.

V. PUBLIC COMMENT DISCUSSION 1 min.

This item is to allow members of the public to comment, for a maximum of 2 minutes each, on matters within the Council’s purview, as well as to suggest new agenda items for the Council’s future consideration.

VI. ADJOURNMENT ACTION 1 min.

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