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DPA recommends technology upgrades, expanded data tools and health monitoring for San Francisco jails
Summary
Marshall Kine of the Department of Police Accountability outlined investigative findings and a prioritized set of recommendations for the Sheriff’s Office, including digital use-of-force logging, upgraded surveillance, wearable or room sensors for at-risk people, body-worn camera rollout and expanded data dashboards.
Marshall Kine, chief attorney at the Department of Police Accountability (DPA), presented the DPA’s first-quarter investigative findings and prioritized recommendations to the Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board.
Kine summarized the DPA’s current investigative role under a series of agreements with the Sheriff’s Office and emphasized that DPA jurisdiction—per the letter-of-agreement—covers sworn sheriff deputies in categories including use of force, weapons, certain misconduct allegations and in-custody deaths. “We only recommend investigative findings. We do not recommend discipline. We do not have any subpoena power to conduct hearing, and all of our access is granted, by the sheriff's office as an agent of or investigative arm for, the administrative investigations,” Kine said.
The DPA’s prioritized recommendations included modernizing…
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