Public Safety Accomplishments

[Police Foot Patrols]
Sponsor: Mirkarimi
Establishes a one-year pilot program requiring foot patrols in crime-impacted areas within the boundaries of Northern, Park, Tenderloin, Mission, Ingleside, Taraval, Southern and Bayview Police District Stations, and require reporting and review on the effectiveness of the foot patrols.

[Expansion of community policing in San Francisco Housing Authority-owned developments]
Sponsor: Mirkarimi
Resolution urging the San Francisco Housing Authority to renew beyond June 30, 2006, and expand the size and geographical scope of its MOU with the San Francisco Police Department for supplemental law enforcement services dedicated to community policing in Housing Authority-owned developments.

[Boundaries of Police Department District Stations]
Sponsor: Mirkarimi
Ordinance to require that the boundaries of Police Department district stations be reviewed at least every ten years, to set factors for consideration, and to establish a process for adjusting station boundaries.

[Police Staffing at the Airport and Deployment of Personnel to District Stations] 2007
Sponsors: Mirkarimi; Dufty and Ammiano
Ordinance require the Chief of Police and Airport Director to determine staffing needs at the Airport Bureau; require the Chief of Police to create a staffing plan to redeploy sworn Airport Bureau personnel under certain circumstances; and set reporting requirements.

[SFPD Youth Competency Training] 2008
Sponsor: Mirkarimi
Hearing before the Public Safety Committee to discuss neighborhood specific youth cultural competency training at the San Francisco Police Department.

[Joint Hearing of the Public Safety Committee of the Board of Supervisors and the Police Commission] 2008-2011
Sponsor: Mirkarimi
Joint Hearing of the Public Safety Committee of the Board of Supervisors and the Police Commission to officially receive and discuss Police Executive Research Forum's findings and final report of their Organizational Review of the San Francisco Police Department.

[Update on the San Francisco Police Department Crime Lab] 2010-2011
Sponsors: Mirkarimi; Chiu
Hearing on the current status of the San Francisco Police Department Crime Lab, including information on the current backlog of DNA and drug testing, the budget of the crime lab, costs for outsourcing crime lab tasks, and a discussion of possible long-term solutions to create an effective and efficient crime lab.

[Hearing - Psychiatric Crisis Training] 2011
Sponsors: Mirkarimi; Avalos and Chiu
Hearing to receive a report on the status of the San Francisco Police Department training programs with respect to crisis calls involving people with psychiatric disabilities.

[Supporting Mental Health Crisis Intervention Team] 2011
Sponsors: Mirkarimi; Campos
Resolution commending the San Francisco Police Commission for implementing Mental Health Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) based on the “Memphis Model” urging stakeholder City departments and community based organizations to collaborate to provide adequate mental health services in order to facilitate the mission of the CIT and to ensure the CIT has the tools and resources necessary to achieve similar results to that of the Memphis Model.

[Accept-Expend Grant - Public Defender] 2008
Sponsor: Mirkarimi
Resolution authorizing the Office of the Public Defender to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $25,000 from The San Francisco Foundation for a senior clerk position and consulting services to support the implementation of the Safe Communities Reentry Council’s strategic plan.

[Establishing a Reentry Council] 2008
Sponsor: Mirkarimi
Ordinance amending the San Francisco Administrative Code by adding Sections 5.1-1 through 5.1-6 to: establish a Reentry Council; set forth the Council's purpose, powers and duties; and establish membership criteria.

[Authorizing the Sheriff to execute contracts with the State and accept and expend funds associated with a Secure Reentry Program Facility] 2008
Sponsors: Mirkarimi; Dufty
Resolution authorizing the Sheriff’s Department to execute contracts with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and accept and expend funds associated with the contracts. The purpose of the contract is to establish a pilot San Francisco County Secure Reentry Program Facility (SRPF) that will provide up to 12 months of intensive, in-custody evidence based reentry programming which will address the offender’s underlying employment, mental health and substance abuse issues. This will be followed by 12 months of accountability based out-of-custody reentry programming.

Reentry Accomplishments

[Ordinance amending the San Francisco Administrative Code Section 5.1-3 to add two seats to the Reentry Council for victims]

[Amending the membership, powers and duties, and sunset date of the Reentry Council.]
"The Council shall share information and work in collaboration with the San Francisco Juvenile Justice Coordinating Council, as required by the Juvenile Crime Enforcement and Accountability Challenge Grant 
Program (CA Welfare and Institutions Code Section 749.2-749.27)."(i) The Council shall appoint one member to the Workforce Investment Community Advisory Committee, as required by San Francisco Ordinance 270-07 (SF Administrative Code Section 30.7).

[Ordinance authorizing the Adult Probation Department to retroactively accept and expend a grant in the amount of $500,000 from the Office of Justice Programs for funding under the Second Chance Act State, Local and Tribal Reentry Courts and amend Ordinance No. 191-10]
(Annual Salary Ordinance, FY2010-2011) to reflect the addition of (4) four grant funded positions; (.20 FTE) in Class 8138 Court Reporter at the Adult Probation Department, (.20 FTE) in Class 8113 Court Clerk at the Adult Probation Department, (.40 FTE) in Class 8177 Attorney at the Office of the Public Defender (PDR) and (.75 FTE) in Class 2912 Sr. Social Worker at the Department of Public Health.

[Ordinance authorizing the Office of the Public Defender to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $47,000 from the Rosenberg Foundation, via Institute for Local Governance, to develop a California Reentry Council Network to assist in the development of statewide capacity to improve reentry policies and programs]
and amending Ordinance No. 191-10 (Annual Salary Ordinance, FY2010-2011) to reflect addition of one (1) temporary Class 8173 Legal Assistant, grant-funded position (0.55 FTE), in the Office of the Public Defender.

[Ordinance amending Administrative Code Chapter 5, Article I, Section 5.1-4]
Requiring the Reentry Council to collaborate with the Superior Court on the creation and operation of a Reentry Court to divert parolees and probationers from prison and to promote the successful transition of parolees and probationers into the community and to require certain City departments to create a plan to provide supportive services in conjunction with the Reentry Court, and amending Section 5.1-6, to extend the date of sunset for the Reentry Council until June 1, 2012.

[Resolution declaring the month of September 2009 as Reentry Month in the City and County of San Francisco.]

[Ordinance amending the San Francisco Administrative Code by modifying Section 5.1-3]
Clarifying that the Board of Supervisors shall appoint four, rather than three, of the members of the Reentry Council who are former inmates, and to exempt all members of the Reentry Council from the requirement that they be electors of the City and County.

[Resolution authorizing the Sheriff's Department to execute contracts with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) and accept and expend funds associated with the contracts]
The purpose of the contract is to establish a pilot San Francisco County Secure Reentry Program Facility (SRPF) that will provide up to 12 months of intensive, in-custody evidence based reentry programming which will address the offender's underlying employment, mental health and substance abuse issues. This will be followed by 12 months of accountability based out-of-custody reentry programming.

[Ordinance amending the San Francisco Administrative Code by adding Sections 5.1-1 through 5.1-6]
Establishing a Reentry Council; set forth the Council's purpose, powers and duties; and establish membership criteria.

[Resolution authorizing the Office of the Public Defender to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $25,000 from The San Francisco Foundation]
For a senior clerk position and consulting services to support the implementation of the Safe Communities Reentry Council's strategic plan.

Realignment Accomplishments

[Resolution approving the City and County of San Francisco 2011 Public Safety Realignment Plan]

[Resolution appointing the San Francisco Department of Public Health to the Executive Committee of the San Francisco Community Corrections Partnership]
For the purpose of developing an implementation plan for criminal justice realignment.

[Resolution designating, on an interim basis, the San Francisco Adult Probation Department as the county agency responsible for implementing post-release community supervision until an ordinance designating the San Francisco Adult Probation Department as the post-release community supervision authority is considered and adopted by the Board of Supervisors]

[Chaired Two Hearings on realignment at Public Safety Committee]