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Commission hears Sparks report and community praise for domestic-violence and deaf/hard-of-hearing policy working groups
Summary
Policy staff presented SFPD and DPA SPARKS and DGO updates, and community members and officers praised collaborative working groups that rewrote the domestic-violence DGO and crafted language-access tools for deaf or hard-of-hearing residents.
The Police Commission received an update on SFPD's Q3/Q4 2025 Sparks report and multiple department general orders on Feb. 11, with policy manager Aja Steves outlining work to revise legacy DGOs and implement community-sourced changes.
Steves said the department provided dozens of DGO and manual updates in 2025 and noted specific items in leadership review or meet-and-confer, including DGO 5.23 (interactions with deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals) and DGO 6.09 (domestic-violence manual). "SPARCs is required for both SFPD and DPA per a resolution from the police commission from…
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