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The civil grand jury foreperson, Michael Carboy, told the committee the jury's investigation found that \"the San Francisco Police Department systematically failed to adequately enforce traffic regulation, with ticketing down 95 since 2014,\" and that the shortfall has real-world consequences: \"This is more than a statistic. It means broken bones, hospital experiences, and loved ones in caskets.\" The committee filed the report (item 1) and sent a related response resolution (item 2) to the full board for consideration.

Why it matters: The jury tied fewer traffic citations and fragmented enforcement data to higher risk on city streets, and recommended a mix of improved enforcement expectations, modernized citation and collision-reporting technology, area-based engineering (includingÂ\"hardened daylighting\"), and sustained, neighborhood-focused outreach to rebuild community buy-in.

Most important facts

- Findings: The civil grand jury concluded that SFPD enforcement declined sharply over the last decade and that traffic enforcement must be re-emphasized as part of a broader safe-systems approach. Foreperson Michael Carboy said the jury's work found enforcement is a central failing in Vision Zero outcomes.

- Enforcement data and technology: Report presenter Kate Blumberg explained to the committee that enforcement and collision data are publicly available but difficult to use because they are published as PDFs; officers often avoid the department's eCite mobile ticketing system because printers and software do not reliably work in the field. Blumberg said of eCitations and collision reporting, \"it's miserable\" and that the current paperwork process \"really hampers the ability and the interest in an officer taking on that role.\"

- Police response: Captain Pete Shields of the SFPD's traffic division acknowledged antiquated technology and said the department is pursuing technical integrations so eCite data will feed required state benchmarking systems and the courts. Shields said the traffic division has increased directed enforcement and that recent citation counts are up compared with 2024 levels, but he stressed that motorcycle and other equipment are aging and staffing remains constrained.

- SFMTA engineering and outreach: Shannon Hake, SFMTA livable streets program manager, described projects completed or underway: daylighting at roughly 2,000 school intersections this summer; automated speed-camera warnings and citations (more than 300,000 warnings and then roughly 20,000 citations since switching to citation enforcement in August); signal timing and pedestrian head-starts; and planned expansion of daylighting citywide with updated 20-foot standards.

- Mayor's office: Sofia Kittler, director of the Mayor's Budget Office, said the administration largely agreed with the jury's findings about enforcement declines and outdated collision-reporting technology. Kittler said the mayor's office and departments are revising the 2025 traffic enforcement plan and will review enforcement tools and modernization requests through the budget process.

Key context and details

- Citations timeline: The jury and department witnesses discussed a decade-long drop in citations: more than 120,000 citations in 2014, a steep decline through the 2010s, about 4,000 in 2022 (as cited in the report), then an increase to roughly 15,000 in 2024 as enforcement resumed. The traffic division said recent year-to-date citation totals were about 30% higher than 2024 levels but remain well below mid-decade numbers.

- Admonishments and data gaps: Captain Shields explained that officers often give verbal admonishments or written \"admonishments\" that are not included in published citation tallies; those actions are currently hard to quantify in published data because the systems do not capture them consistently. He estimated admonishments might represent roughly 20% of enforcement contacts in some operations.

- Legal/formal limits: The committee discussed state rules that require certain paper notices; Captain Shields cited California Vehicle Code section 40518 when explaining why some elements of citation workflow still require paper documentation.

What supervisors said

Vice Chair Janie Sauter, who led questioning on the report, emphasized the human costs reported by the jury and pressed agencies on eCite functionality, printer reliability and why officers often default to paper. Supervisor Steven Sherrill asked about how admonishments were recorded and whether increases in admonishments offset citation declines (department and jury testimony said they do not fully account for the long-term decline in enforcement). Chair Cheryl Felder (committee chair) moved the committee actions and thanked the jury and departments for their work.

Actions taken at the hearing

- The committee voted to amend the proposed response resolution to the presiding judge (item 2); the motion passed (recorded vote: Vice Chair Janie Sauter, aye; Member Steven Sherrill, aye; Chair Cheryl Felder, aye).

- The committee voted to send the amended resolution (item 2) to the full Board of Supervisors with a positive recommendation (recorded vote: Vice Chair Janie Sauter, aye; Member Steven Sherrill, aye; Chair Cheryl Felder, aye).

- The committee voted to file the civil grand jury report (item 1) (recorded vote: Vice Chair Janie Sauter, aye; Member Steven Sherrill, aye; Chair Cheryl Felder, aye).

Next steps

The committee sent the response resolution to the full Board of Supervisors for consideration on the board agenda (item 2). The hearing record also signaled upcoming follow-up at the Board's Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee where staff and departments will be asked for additional details on enforcement tools, eCite and data integration.

Ending

Committee members and the jury emphasized that progress so far is a mix of early operational improvements and remaining gaps: better automated enforcement and daylighting work are underway, but the jury and department witnesses agreed that improved incident-level data and reliable mobile citation technology are necessary to make enforcement a measurable, sustainable element of street-safety strategy.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","San Francisco County - Video Open Video Only in Windows Media Player","oneSentenceSummary","The Government Audit and Oversight Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Sept. 18, 2025, heard the civil grand jury's \"Failed Vision\" report on street safety, filed the report and forwarded a response resolution to the full board after discussion about enforcement shortfalls, fragmented data, and technical barriers to ticketing.","taxTitle","San Francisco County, California","taxId",2862,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6470906,"Grand jury: modernize city tech governance for AI; committee advances response with amendments",3649,8576000,12225000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5778781-32aea2d5f5edff1ca2d9ff18416f92ee&start=8576&end=12225","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5778781-32aea2d5f5edff1ca2d9ff18416f92ee/thumbnail_8576000.jpg","/articles/6470906/San-Francisco-County/California/Grand-jury-modernize-city-tech-governance-for-AI-committee-advances-response-with-amendments","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6470906-93e8c9d74a012e4e7eae2cfca1749362/orig.mp4?Expires=1770918055&Signature=UfWINfNWDQZ7HsK9My9GODMuA1asTyPIHJiYcZYXoCKwZbtfT7ycYQ4z~MbEyhv1rr5q9IWCzsHR3uZ9UkAt5futcQ2CYO24Dsxx1ARJEvA-aLTixGnyHvADXcwLcpE2hNUwDs4ttfJphgPWDid-Etl4VJQq~QYG~20bGCAyJImYs9JcLE4eKVbePt2Q21985YVVq1L5n9EMQLEbTY8dVHfzwLnAwvrWeppEXBPX9p1DZNz4ANlMZlHxJ~raayb46n3VDlcS-VhNx11EB~KX14uh2vg6ABSW640WEyadqPeq6Me0n8AHI2bqhpqZpRdQEXesyvPSvataXHbp8ms0ng__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Government Audit and Oversight Committee on Sept. 18, 2025, considered the civil grand jury's \"Techs in the City: Government's Opportunity to Seize the AI Moment\" and debated governance, procurement and procurement-risk controls for artificial intelligence and related emerging technology. The committee approved an amended response resolution (item 6) for the full Board of Supervisors and continued a related hearing (item 5) to the call of the chair.

Civil grand jury member Cameron Parker told the committee that rapid public adoption of generative AI and related technologies presents both opportunity and risk. \"Doing nothing is a choice, and it does have cost,\" Parker said. The jury recommended clearer strategic leadership, stronger governance and a coherent road map for AI pilots, procurement and workforce training.

Major points and departmental responses

- Governance and procurement: The jury found that San Francisco's federated technology management and procurement structures have slowed pilots and created duplication. The report recommended consolidating governance where appropriate and empowering a central technology authority to set enterprise procurement standards and interoperability expectations.

- COIT critique: The jury recommended eliminating or substantially revising the Committee on Information Technology (COIT), arguing it lacks executive authority and does not consistently steer departmental technology plans. The mayor's office and COIT leadership disagreed with outright elimination, instead recommending structural clarifications and enhanced reporting and accountability. The committee ultimately amended the response to recommend structural improvements to COIT rather than abolition.

- Department action and pilots: The city's mayoral staff said the administration has been cautious but active: the mayor's office hired a director of emerging technologies, the city has rolled out Microsoft CoPilot capabilities to many employees, and DT pilots include ChatGPT experiments, 311 AI trials and translation tools. Jane Gong, director of emerging technologies, said the DT team is drafting a citywide AI playbook that will emphasize problem definition, data quality, equity, labor impact and environmental considerations before procurement.

- Transparency and inventory: The Department of Technology and the mayor's office noted an existing public inventory of deployed AI tools on the city's open-data portal (28 tools published at the time of testimony under the city's AI-transparency ordinance, Administrative Code chapter 22J). Jane Gong said the team plans a fuller inventory report to the Board by January 2026.

Actions taken at the hearing

- The committee approved amendments to the response resolution on item 6 and forwarded the amended item to the full Board of Supervisors with a positive recommendation (recorded vote: Vice Chair Janie Sauter, aye; Member Steven Sherrill, aye; Chair Cheryl Felder, aye).

- The committee continued item 5 (the separate AI hearing) to the call of the chair to allow further deliberation and for departments to deliver additional materials.

Policy implications and concerns raised

- Public trust and civil liberties: Several supervisors and public commenters stressed that even well-intentioned pilots can damage public trust if transparency and privacy safeguards are not built in. Chair Felder stressed that \"we cannot absolve ourselves of the responsibility\" to ensure ethical and transparent adoption.

- Environmental and labor impacts: Committee members asked whether AI procurement KPIs should include environmental costs (data-center energy use) and labor impacts. The jury and DT staff acknowledged those concerns and recommended including sustainability and workforce metrics in any comprehensive procurement framework.

Ending and next steps

The committee's amended response will go to the full Board of Supervisors for consideration. Departments agreed to produce further documentation on the COIT role, the DT AI playbook, the city's AI tool inventory and procurement guidance; the committee continued the separate AI hearing to allow that follow-up work.","The civil grand jury's \"Techs in the City\" report asked San Francisco to centralize technology governance, streamline procurement and clarify COIT's role. The GAO Committee amended and forwarded a response resolution on Sept. 18, 2025; the separate AI procurement hearing was continued to the chair's call.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":92,"_47":93,"_49":94,"_51":95,"_53":96,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":97,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":98,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6470911,"Grand jury urges overhaul of nonprofit grant procurement; supervisors request mayor's reforms",2998,5549000,8547000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=5778781-32aea2d5f5edff1ca2d9ff18416f92ee&start=5549&end=8547","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/5778781-32aea2d5f5edff1ca2d9ff18416f92ee/thumbnail_5549000.jpg","/articles/6470911/San-Francisco-County/California/Grand-jury-urges-overhaul-of-nonprofit-grant-procurement-supervisors-request-mayors-reforms","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6470911-4b4e6020e18e8cefb4349b3c3459b281/orig.mp4?Expires=1770918055&Signature=eWkNS5sHlJ0tJwFdKVXcw5BxdiFZZT3bLAOH5ihk5EJ4ZO0CP4MkQ-NaxFq5urROKVZG1d9RlQBZ6fI~4bnJMhtxUwKJUnsaiwv6dis~mwtRnjOSe37u8xLgrFrQzNVdsxMW52xHLKdMpY8HBAwJmhashmFh8KJABqrMByGfsFDefgYc51swznXX5FZkRZECEQI5kWcW3JRvp4JClS~SpWI3pg0AfSbbGh1mnS35UiKWOYWmR2c5DrpEfftwPpkS5J8mirzzg64p4f5OXwF0IK6dRnY7F-UnZiM8OLmkXkMWNHFPycorQD30~kluosYugoYfBEZe1IKWly4Eh-jAPQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Government Audit and Oversight Committee on Sept. 18, 2025, heard the civil grand jury's \"Capacity to Serve: Setting Social Services Nonprofits Up for Success\" report, which found that an overcomplicated grant procurement system, uneven department capacity and inadequate tools are hindering timely and effective use of more than $1 billion in nonprofit-contracted social services. The committee filed the hearing and sent a response resolution to the full Board of Supervisors.

The jury's presenter, Nicholas (Nick) Weininger, described three core problems: insufficient nonprofit management capacity to handle large, complex contracts; procurement rules that have become fragmented by repeated carve-outs; and monitoring and audit systems that can take years to correct serious nonprofit mismanagement. \"When we looked into this... we talked to a lot of people across the city,\" Weininger said. \"There's a lot that requires first-principles thinking about procurement with integrity and efficiency.\"

Why it matters: City departments now route roughly a billion dollars a year through nonprofit contracts (about 20% of social-services spending, the jury said). Delays in awarding contracts, unclear procurement rules and outdated or siloed grant-management software slow the delivery of essential services to vulnerable residents, the jury concluded.

Key facts from the hearing

- Scale of spending: Supervisor Sherrill cited the jury's overview noting San Francisco now spends roughly $5 billion on social services overall, and that about 20% (more than $1 billion) is delivered via nonprofit contracts.

- Procurement complexity: Weininger and several departmental witnesses said the Administrative Code and repeated emergency carve-outs create multiple pathways and exemptions that in aggregate make procurement harder and slower. The jury recommended a first-principles ordinance to simplify grant-making procedures rather than continued piecemeal exceptions.

- Department and technology capacity: Mayor's Budget Director Sofia Kittler and city administrators said staff are skilled but hampered by processes and inconsistent or customized grant-management systems across departments. Kittler described efforts underway to staff up Office of Contract Administration and GovOps and to centralize procurement principles and tooling.

- Monitoring and corrective action: Laura Marshall of the Controller's Office described the annual fiscal-monitoring cycle and explained that many monitoring reviews are \"point-in-time\" assessments. When departments identify problems they may open corrective-action plans; some more serious cases can take many months or years to resolve because audits and forensic accounting are time-consuming.

Public comment and stakeholder remarks

Nonprofit leaders told the committee that increased reporting and monitoring burdens come while organizations face rising administrative costs and staffing stress. Rocio Molina, director of the San Francisco Human Services Network, thanked the controller and mayor's office for engagement and cautioned that heightened reporting requirements increase administrative strain for nonprofits operating with tight budgets.

Actions taken at the hearing

- The committee amended the proposed response resolution and then voted to forward item 4 (the resolution responding to the jury) to the full Board of Supervisors with a positive recommendation (recorded votes: Vice Chair Janie Sauter, aye; Member Steven Sherrill, aye; Chair Cheryl Felder, aye).

- The committee voted to file the hearing on the Capacity to Serve report (item 3) (recorded vote: Vice Chair Janie Sauter, aye; Member Steven Sherrill, aye; Chair Cheryl Felder, aye).

What the committee asked departments to do

Supervisors asked the mayor's office, the city administrator and the controller to work on a holistic plan that blends technology upgrades, clearer procurement principles and targeted staffing or capacity-building at departments that manage grants. The mayor's office said it is piloting centralized procurement principles, increasing Office of Contract Administration staffing and exploring interoperable grant-management software to reduce duplicative, highly customized systems.

Ending

Committee members said the report highlights a balancing act: tighten oversight and public trust while limiting burdens that reduce the ability of nonprofits to deliver essential services. The committee advanced a response to the presiding judge and referred policy and budget follow-up to future hearings and the Board budget process.","The civil grand jury told the Government Audit & Oversight Committee the city's social-services grantmaking is overcomplicated and slow, causing delays and capacity shortfalls for nonprofits. The committee filed the hearing and forwarded a response resolution to the full board after amendments.","actionData","errors"]

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