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Candidates Answer Questions on the Issues Sheriff; City of San Francisco | |||||
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The questions were prepared by the League of Women Voters of San Francisco and asked of all candidates for this office.
See below for questions on
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Answer from Vicki Hennessy:
I would seek to increase true accountability and transparency in the Sheriff's Department through a series of efforts including: providing training for all staff in implicit bias, crisis intervention, updates on mental health and substance abuse treatments; implementation of staff career development; establishment of a community stakeholder group to assist in identifying transparency needs, including meaningful website information; an inmate ombudsman program; and, a public annual report on complaints received containing investigative summaries, statistics and dispositions that also includes an early warning system for flagging employee misconduct.
I will continue the Sheriff's Department's history of providing community prevention, in-jail, post-jail and alternative programs. I will actively communicate with criminal and social justice partners who provide programs to ensure meaningful curriculums that are coordinated to minimize duplication while providing a continuum for each participant. The establishment of metrics to measure success within context is also a goal. I would like to increase the reach of the Sheriff's Garden Project to more at-risk youth, support the Five Keys Charter School and enhance the ability of the Women's Resource Center to be more effective.
Answer from Vicki Hennessy:
I understand and fully support the findings of the Sanctuary Ordinances in the area of building community trust, keeping families from being separated, and not holding people who would be otherwise released, beyond their scheduled release date via the use of detainers. I also support the idea that Chapter 12.I is written to promote the general welfare and believe that an undocumented immigrant who has been convicted of felonies that are still felonies, should be subject to additional scrutiny under 12.H.2-1 to determine whether the individual poses a public safety risk and if so that ICE be notified.
Finally, I support on-going communication by the Sheriff with all law enforcement, even ICE, even though we may agree to disagree.
Answer from Vicki Hennessy:
Over a 32-year career in the Sheriff's Department, I served in leadership positions in every division -- jails, civil and field services and as a valued leader within the executive team that put San Francisco at the national forefront of progressive and effective law enforcement programs and policies.
Because of my expertise in emergency planning and ability to forge strong relationships with all city departments, I was appointed in 2008 as Director of the Department of Emergency Management, where I directed citywide emergency planning as well as 911 emergency dispatch for police, medical and fire.
In 2012, I was appointed by Mayor Ed Lee to serve as interim Sheriff, while the current Sheriff was on leave.
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