Mayor’s Task Force on Anti-Human Trafficking Meeting

June 28, 2017                   1:30-3:30pm                     City Hall, Room 305

1 Dr. Carlton B Goodlett Place, San Francisco, CA 94102

 

Attendees:

Laurel Botsford, Shared Hope Intl; Mollie Brown, Huckleberry Youth Service; Frances Byrne, CY House; Rachel Cairati, Department on the Status of Women; Gena Castro Rodriguez, SFDA Victim Services; Cristy Dieterich, Department of Public Health; Danny East, Not For Sale; Abigail Ellis, Senator Feinstein; Katherine Ericson, SF District Attorney; Elias Feierabend-Peters, Freedom Fwd; Antoinette Flores, Department of Public Health; Marie Gaillac, NCCSS; Justin Gomez, Alliance to End Abuse Contra Costa; Elise Hansell, Department on the Status of Women; Emily Hinsey, Love Never Fails; Christine Hoang, Tahirih Justice Center; Rita Jovick, Sisters Against Trafficking; Megan Kalsman, SF Environment; Minouche Kandel, Department on the Status of Women Peter Keith, City Attorney; Sojeatta Khim, Department of Public Health; Melissa Lall, City Attorney; Christina Lee, Department of Public Health; Robyn Levinson, ACDAO HeatWatch; Jessica Lum, Hotel Council; Alix Lutnick, RTI; Alex Madsen, Alliance to End Abuse Contra Costa; Victor Magallenes, Arriba Juntos; Angie Miot-Nudel, Larkin Street; Jorge Montiel, Department of Public Health Massage Unit; Rose Mukhar, Justice at Last; Anne Pearson, City Attorney; Tori Porell, Legal Services for Children; Kim Sandoval, SF District Attorney; Nehath Sheriff, Department of Public Health; Sarah Small, Department on the Status of Women; Cory Smith, Department on the Status of Women; Mary Steiner, UNA SF; Dongmei Tan, Department of Public Health; Reyna Tiscareno, Arriba Juntos; Lenine Umali, Compass Family Services; Jennifer Wang, FBI Victim Specialist; Alia Whitney-Johnson, Freedom Fwd; Karina Zhang, HSA; Cai Zhen, ACDAO DAJA

 

1. Introductions/Check-In

 

2. Minutes from April 26, 2017 meeting were approved [Minouche Kandel/Alia Whitney-Johnson]

 

3. Presentation on MAP 1193 (Robyn Levinson)

Robyn Levinson from Alameda County District Attorney’s Heatwatch presented on MAP 1193, an online tool to help implement Senate Bill 1193 (certain businesses mandated to hang a poster with human trafficking hotline number). It is a mobile optimized website that indicates the level of compliance of businesses and allows users to update businesses’ status and report information. A red-labeled business is not in compliance, orange indicates some signage that is not visible to all, green indicates compliance, and grey indicates that the business has not yet been inspected. Each county wishing to use this tool needs an administrator working in an anti-human trafficking-related government agency. MAP 1193 provides this administrator with frequent updates on businesses and information on who is reporting. The site will enable volunteers with simple training to get involved in the fight against human trafficking and educates businesses on SB 1193 in the process. In Alameda County, SB1193 applies to roughly 350 businesses and users filed over 100 reports using MAP 1193 in the last two months (about 5-7 reports daily).

 

Minouche Kandel from DOSW, Peter Keith from City Attorney, Archie Wong from District Attorney, Patrick Fosdahl from DPH Environmental Health and a representative from SFPD will meet to discuss whether San Francisco might like to be part of the MAP 1193 system.

 

4. Task Force Evaluation: Administration of Levels of Collaboration Scale (Alexandra Lutnick)

Alix Lutnick administered the second annual levels of collaboration within the Mayor’s Task Force, as part of the evaluation. Returning members filled out scales reflecting levels of collaboration in the Task Force. The surveys were collected and follow up individual interviews will begin in August.

 

5. Committee Reports

 

1. Executive Committee

Minouche Kandel presented a draft of membership guidelines for the Task Force, as drafted by the Executive Committee in May. The Task Force discussed attendance requirements for members to gain voting rights and whether voting members must be affiliated with an organization. A straw poll was taken on the latter issue, with a majority in favor of unaffiliated individuals being non-voting members only.

 

2. Adult Trafficking

Megan Kalsman from the Department of the Environment presented on the Healthy Nail Salon Program. The Program first began in San Francisco in 2012 and has since spread to other California counties. It is a voluntary and free program that educates salons to look for less toxic materials, have adequate ventilation, and generally improve hygiene and work safety conditions for employees and patrons. The program is currently being updated to add information on labor rights. The Asian Law Caucus is currently assisting in translating the materials. “Pretty Shouldn’t Stink” awareness ads will be in bus shelters as well as on social media. Materials can be found at https://sfenvironment.org/nail-salons.

 

Minouche Kandel presented on the Good Food Purchasing program. The goal is to ensure that the city government is using its purchasing power to support food suppliers that are local, sustainable, healthy, and have fair labor practices. The program began with school districts and the program is now aiming to expand with city hospitals and the Sheriff Department next fiscal year.

 

3. Data Workgroup

The data workgroup updated the data tools used to collect information on human trafficking for the annual Mayor’s Task Force on Anti-Human Trafficking report on Human Trafficking in San Francisco. Elise Hansell provided an overview of the changes made.

 

Alia Whitney-Johnson updated the Task Force on her efforts to safely de-duplicate data on human trafficking.  

 

6. Agenda items for next meeting: August 23, 2017
   1. Alix Lutnick will report back with findings from the evaluations on coordination.
   2. Further suggested agenda items to be sent to Minouche Kandel.

 

7. Announcements:
   1. Tears of Salt documentary screening, August 26^th at San Francisco State University: screening courtesy of United Nations Association of the USA SF Chapter
   2. SF Bad Date site launch, 3pm on Friday, June 30^th at St. James Infirmary: the site/app will allow sex workers to post and communicate about problematic clients and officers.
   3. Emily Murase announced that the city budget will include disconnected transitional aged youth (TAY) funding, rapid housing funding, new case management funding including vocational services, and funding for a late-night outreach program for sex workers in the Mission through the Department on the Status of Women.
   4. The Benefit for Freedom House has been postponed until October.