Supervisors press for clearer budget and governance as city advances Justice data‑sharing roadmap

City officials told the Public Safety & Neighborhood Services Committee that the Justice program — the city’s criminal‑justice data‑sharing hub — has a new five‑year roadmap developed with Gartner and that technical work is underway to modernize reporting, enable analytics, and decommission the legacy ‘‘cable3 CMS’’ mainframe.

President Norman Yee opened the hearing with a recounting of Justice’s origins and a call to finish a project that ‘‘spanned over 20 years.’’ City Administrator Naomi Kelly and Department of Technology Director Linda Jarrell said the Justice program has been moved to the Department of Technology, that an executive board and four advisory committees are now in place, and that COIT funds have supported a Gartner contract to build a roadmap and cost estimates. ‘‘We established 4 advisory committees… so that we have all the right technical people in the room,’’ Jarrell said.

Joe Siegel of Gartner summarized the discovery process (23 interviews, 129 participants) and said the roadmap includes about 25 initiatives across four major components, with priorities such as risk mitigation (decommissioning cable3 CMS), governance, an analytics platform, and master person management to aggregate records across agencies. Rob Castillo, Justice program manager, said department case management systems are connected to the Justice Data Hub and described a rolling decommissioning plan to avoid a ‘‘big bang’’ outage when the courts go live with Ctrack.

Supervisors pressed officials for clearer policy direction and funding. Supervisor Shamann Walton asked how Justice data would be used to inform plans such as closing County Jail 4; Josie Halper Infiniti of the Safety & Justice Challenge said the MacArthur Foundation grant is a two‑year effort that will yield proposals within months but that measurable project timelines extend across the grant period. Several supervisors asked for a consolidated project budget so the Board can understand total costs across departments; Naomi Kelly and staff said departments will present individual budget asks during the season but agreed to prepare consolidated figures for oversight.

Officials also discussed privacy and legal issues: the District Attorney’s office asked for legal guidance on data sharing; DPH, DataSF and Justice staff described plans to create a de‑identified repository for public dashboards while preserving criminal‑justice record protections. Supervisors asked the executive board and advisory committees to set shared goals so data sharing supports concrete policy outcomes rather than simply moving records.

The committee closed the item after a request that the administrative code reflect Justice’s reorganization and asked the clerk to close the file pending follow‑up on governance and consolidated budget planning.