Minutes

Safer Schools Sexual Assault Task Force Meeting

Tuesday, October 24, 2017

2:00 – 4:00 pm

1 Dr Carlton B Goodlett Pl, City Hall, Room 305

San Francisco, CA 94102

 

 

Participants:

 

Task Force Members:

Denise Sicat Wong (by phone)

J. Ocean Mottley

Gena Castro Rodriguez

Denise Caramango

Leslie Simon

Amelia Gilbert

Stacey Wiggall

 

Absent:

Captain Una Bailey

Janelle White

Luoluo Hong

 

Consultant:

Julia Weber

 

Members of the Public

Emberly Cross, Cooperative Restraining Order Clinic (CROC)

Sarah Metz, Clinical Coordinator of the Trauma Recovery Services (TRC)

Elizabeth Trayner, San Francisco Art Institute

Becky Perelli, California Community Colleges Advocate

Virginia Duplessis, Futures Without Violence

Leilani Batiste, City College of San Francisco

Julio Marcial, Public Commenter

 

 

Elise Hansell, Department on the Status of Women

Minouche Kandel, Department on the Status of Women

Carol Sacco, Department on the Status of Women

Rachael Chambers, Department on the Status of Women

 

I. Agenda was approved. (Caramagno/Castro-Rodriguez)

 

II. Minutes were approved from July 2017 meeting (Mottley/Simon)

 

III. Final Steps for Report and Recommendations

• The Commission on the Status of Women will receive the report at its meeting in December.  In January, the Board of Supervisors will receive the report at a meeting of either the full board or at one of its committee meetings.  Members will be notified and are welcome to attend.
• The report will be updated with input from today’s meetings, including making sure the icons added to improve readability and organization are indexed to make it easier to implement going forward.

 

Suggestions and updates:

 

• Update the statistics we include and reflect the reality that numbers are gathered differently and it’s difficult to paint a complete picture of the issue using these numbers.  
• Reorganize to have the prevention section flow more effectively so that recommendations are grouped together.
• Define “assertiveness training” and clarify “bystander intervention” training.
• Specific Recommendations
  • City college can play a role in offering courses for trainers and others from a variety of institutions, but this should not mean other institutions do not have to provide training as well.  
  •  “Anti-oppression framework” should be clearly defined. A “standard resolution practice may not explicitly include transformative justice practices,” but these should be emphasized as a necessity in codes of conduct
  • Define intersectionality and trauma informed approaches.
  • Members provided input on more effectively addressing the need to provide sex positive, healthy relationship training and content and addressing sexual assault as involving power and control; update the recommendation to reflect agreement on that approach.
  • Move #18 to earlier in the documents and keep 19 and 20 as they emphasize the need to fully implement existing law.
  • 21: Change language to remove “separate”, noting that schools need to have in place a sexual misconduct policy that is (inclusive of all) employees
  • 22, 23: Keep
  • 24: Specify addressing a standard grievance process
  • 28: Clarify responsibility for in-house victim advocacy resources.
  • 35: While providing access to free legal services as provided in the University of Oregon project may be challenging, members agreed to include the recommendation and that schools and a subsequent task force could review options for adoption of a similar approach in San Francisco. Vote to Maintain Language on Recommendation 35: Passed In favor: Caramagno, Gilbert, Simon, Wiggall, Kandel  Oppose: Castro-Rodriguez Abstain: Mottley, Wong

 

V. Vote on the Report, with amended sections: Passed Unanimously

 

VI. Public Comment

Julio Marcial

• See attached comments provided verbally at the meeting. 

 

VIII. Adjournment: Meeting adjourned at 4:30 pm