Mayor’s Task Force on Anti-Human Trafficking

Super Bowl Subcommittee Meeting

Thursday, January 22, 2015, 3:30-5pm

25 Van Ness Ave, Suite 240, San Francisco, CA

Gena Castro Rodriguez, San Francisco District Attorney’s Office; Allison Ipsen, Department on the Status 

of Women; Carlotta Jackson-Lane, Sojourner Truth; Minouche Kandel, Department on the Status of 

Women;  Emily Murase, Department on the Status of Women; Therese Randolph, Northern California 

Review “Not on our Turf” Proposal 

Diana Oliva-Aroche to meet with Mayor’s Chief of Staff next Tuesday to present proposal, then it will be 

presented to Super Bowl Host Committee. Need for new title other than “Not on Our Turf.” Group 

brainstormed “Tackle Human Trafficking.” 

Update on Outreach to Hospitality Industry 

Debrief of meeting with Hotel Council and Golden Gate Restaurant Association: Hotel Council will see if 

they can provide full list of members. Then the Department can survey hotels to figure out which ones 

have done training. EPCAT publishes which hotels have signed onto the Code, but not which ones are 

doing training at the local level. EPCAT may be able to provide a list on which hotels have done training 

Northern California Council of Catholic Sisters (STOP SLAVERY): The Sisters met with Starwood (sponsor 

of America’s Cup) two years ago before the America’s Cup. They were able to train Bay Area Starwood 

hotels in 2012. The second year they did the project they targeted the Choice chain and visited 35 Bay 

Area hotels. They have list of 500 hotels in San Francisco which will be shared with this committee. Their 

goal is to train people in San Francisco, South Bay, and East Bay to be volunteers to do on the ground 

outreach to hotels (checking to see if training has happened and leaving materials). It’s very labor 

intensive, so they are hoping to partner with this committee to continue the outreach. 

Past Super Bowls were discussed: Jersey City and New York Mayors had multi-stake holder meetings 

that hotels were required to attend. 

Update on Outreach to Super Bowl Host Committee

There was a discussion of the Super Bowl Host Committee’s upcoming grant initiative. The guidelines are 

very specific. The Host Committee is looking to fund successful youth programs with established track 

records that could be expanded to other counties. Girls were not mentioned as an important population 

in the guidelines, which the Department on the Status of Women plans to address. The Department has 

discussed the need for consistent funding for human trafficking services with the Host Committee. 

Aside for the Host Committee, there was a discussion of the potential for local legislation that allocates 

general fund money for services in San Francisco, similar to the state legislation CAST is advocating for 

that would collect a $1 fee on all state issued documents to create a state fund for services.

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Emily discussed ideal vision with group: using US Conference of Mayors in June to road test some of the 

initiatives in the proposal. Contacts from Convention in Visitors and SF Travel will be looped in, and 

these meetings will be joined with the Hospitality Industry Advisory meetings. Next meeting: Thursday, 

February 26, 3:30-5pm (Advisory group will come 3:30-4:30), at DOSW.