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Commission approves two community working groups for 2025 to update domestic violence and deaf/hard‑of‑hearing policies
Summary
SFPD proposed a calendar of DGO reviews and the commission approved working groups for DGO 6.09 (domestic violence) and DGO 5.23 (interactions with deaf and hard‑of‑hearing individuals). Department staff said the groups will engage survivors, advocates and subject‑matter experts and feed improvements into policy and operational manuals.
San Francisco — The San Francisco Police Commission approved the department’s proposal to convene two community working groups in 2025: one to update guidance on domestic violence (DGO 6.09) and one on interactions with deaf and hard‑of‑hearing individuals (DGO 5.23).
Hitesh, the department’s community working group coordinator, summarized the working‑group unit’s achievements over the preceding year and presented the department’s rationale for selecting the two DGOs for full working‑group review. He said the department had completed other working groups more quickly than the allotted DGO 3.01 timeframe and that the domestic‑violence DGO would aim both to align policy with recent legal changes and to surface recommendations useful for a separate domestic‑violence manual update.
The proposed domestic‑violence working group will aim to involve victims’ advocates, survivors, SFPD members and community groups, and the department said it expects the working group to identify operational and training gaps as well as possible manual updates. For DGO 5.23, the department said it would engage disability‑rights advocates, interpreters and technology experts to evaluate policy, training and relevant technologies that could assist officers and deaf or hard‑of‑hearing community members.
Jermaine Jones of the Department of Police Accountability (DPA) told the commission DPA supports the two working groups and praised the working‑group unit’s process and outreach in recent DGOs. Commissioners emphasized outreach to community members who do not typically participate in SFPD policy development; the department said it had a new staff member, Emily Quiliza, focused on expanding engagement with underrepresented neighborhoods and stakeholders.
Why it matters: Proposition E and the department’s own rulemaking process require transparent public input on policing policy. Commissioners and staff said community engagement for these two DGOs will help ensure operational policy aligns with survivor needs and accessibility expectations for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Next steps: The commission approved the working‑group list and the department plans to schedule meetings, circulate working‑group materials, and report back to the commission as the groups complete their drafts.
