Celebrating our 50th Year in Circulation c Official Publication Of The C SAN FRANCISCO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION This Publication was Produced and Printed in California, USA ✯ Buy American ✯ Support Local Business VOLUME 50, NUMBER 7 SAN FRANCISCO, JULY 2018 www.sfpoa.org New Coach, Mostly the Same Approach — The POA Will Continue to Defend Our Members By Tony Montoya as your new President because there is have dismissed or abandoned the most SFPOA President much to do and many changes and chal- vulnerable in our community. lenges in our profession that we will be When all else fails and when no one I am extremely honored and hum- facing. The Executive Board and I will else can handle it, what happens? Call bled by my recent appointment to the address all of them much like previous the cops. We are then expected to fix Presidency of the San Francisco Police POA Executive Boards have. We wont any and all problems in five minutes or Officers Association. To represent and back down when we are in the right less without touching anyone or hurting defend members of the SFPD who serve and regardless of any political theater anyone. This is simply not the reality and protect our community 24/7, as their that occurs in this city. If we are wrong, regardless of what the public sees on TV. President, is without a doubt one of the we will acknowledge it, accept it, and My members will do their jobs and will all-time highlights of my 29-year career do what we can to make sure it won’t serve the community as we always have, in law enforcement. I have represented happen again. Having said that, I will but as the new coach, I will take the same members of this fine organization as also say that my members in the SFPD approach and see that those who protect a Director from Mission Station, as and the POA will no longer be made the our community are always protected. the Secretary of the POA, as the Vice heavies because of the failures of our so- As always, take care of each other President of the POA, and as a committee ciety, our government, and families who stay safe. member on multiple POA Committees. My first official act as POA President, and this may be my best act, was to ap- man of the Negotiation Committee point Rick Andreotti as Vice President that these past several months have TONY MONTOYA and Matt Lobre as Secretary. These two been some of the most challenging that President officers bring a wealth of information the POA has endured in decades. The RICK ANDREOTTI complete lack of respect shown to the Vice President and knowledge to the table. Both have SAN FRANCISCO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION MATTHEW LOBRE served on multiple POA committees rank and file, by some in the SFPD and 800 Bryant Street, Second Floor Secretary San Francisco, CA 94103 including the Negotiating Committee. City Hall, demonstrates their naivete of SEAN PERDOMO 415.861.5060 tel our profession, what we do, why we do Treasurer They have also clearly proven them- 415.552.5741 fax selves out in the field as savvy street it, and how we do it. My team did an www.sfpoa.org TRACY McCRAY cops and they have earned the respect exceptional job in preparing for nego- Sergeant At Arms of their fellow officers. I believe they tiations, presenting factual data during are the future of the POA and I thank negotiations and mediation, and making June 25, 2018 an affirmative case for proper compen- them for stepping up to serve and take Senator Scott Weiner sation and benefits during arbitration. on all the challenges facing our orga- Capitol Office The Arbitrator’s ruling in our (POA) nization. They, along with Treasurer State Capitol, Room 5100 favor proves that. If you run across any Sean Perdomo and Sgt-at-Arms Tracy Sacramento, CA 95814-4900 McCray, will see that members will be of my team members, offer them thanks continually and constantly represented because they left no stone unturned Re: Sexual Orientation Data Collection Concerns – in all aspects related to our job. I have the to see that our members receive what AB 953 & S.F. Admin. Code 96A is due to them. Thank you Rick An- utmost confidence in each of them and I Dear Senator Weiner: am proud to serve with them. dreotti, Matt Lobre, Dan McLaughlin, I can tell you firsthand as the Chair- Greg Stetschulte, Gary Delagnes, Gregg Effective July 1, 2018, the San Francisco Police Department and all law enforce- Adam, and Marty Halloran. ment agencies in the State will begin collecting sexual orientation data for all I intend to hit the ground running contacts pursuant to the Racial and Identity Profiling Act of 2015 (AB 953). San Francisco Administrative Code 96A supplements AB 953 and specifically requires San Francisco Police Officers to collect data regarding a person’s gender identity. What is Assembly Bill Our Association has concerns that a person’s sexual orientation is private and does not need to be maintained in State as well as local databases. We do not 953 that President disagree with data collection programs because our Department has been col- Montoya addresses lecting race data for decades that show no racial profiling problem exists in San Francisco. However, we take issue with recording an individual’s perceived sexual in this letter? orientation because it requires officers to profile what an LGBTQ person “looks like” and then document it forever in a database. AB 953, Weber. Law enforcement: racial profiling, is an act to add Section Race is more or less objective as a person can have characteristics of a particular 12525.5 to the Government Code, and to race, but how does a person look LGBTQ? amend Sections 13012 and 13519.4 of the Additionally, data collection programs have the danger of being used for un- Penal Code, relating to racial profiling. intended purposes. For example, Governor Brown’s signing of AB 60 granting Existing law prohibits a peace officer driver licenses to undocumented immigrants, President Obama’s Executive Order from engaging in racial profiling and re- creating deferred action for childhood arrivals (“DACA”), and local Proposition N’s quires the training to prescribe patterns, passage permitting undocumented immigrants voting in school board elections practices, and protocols that prevent were meant to assimilate immigrants into our community and destroy barriers. racial profiling, as defined. The unintended consequence is that these databases could potentially be ob- This bill would enact the Racial and tained by Federal immigration authorities to identify and remove immigrants we Identity Profiling Act of 2015, which were trying to help. By parallel, our Association does not want sexual orientation would, among other changes, revise the information to be gathered by our members and used for an unintended purpose definition of racial profiling to instead that promotes inequality in the future. Periodicals postage paid at San Francisco, #882-320) (USPS CA refer to racial or identity profiling, and We urge you to modify this law to eliminate data collection for sexual orientation. make a conforming change to the pro- Sincerely, hibition against peace officers engaging Tony Montoya in that practice. SFPOA President Read more about AB 953 on Page 23. Page 2 POA Journal July 2018 Minutes of the June 20, 2018, Board of Directors Meeting Call to order Kirwan wanted to add a huge thank you President Montoya called the meeting to Director Louie Wong who purchased to order at 1202 hours. Sergeant at Arms $1000 in challenge coins. Val Kirwan led the Board in the Pledge of Allegiance. Approval of May 2018 Board Minutes Following the Pledge, Val asked for A motion to approve the May 2018 a moment of silence in honor of police meeting minutes was made by Board of officers and military killed in the line Director member Imhoff and seconded of duty. by Board of Director member Koniaris. President Montoya had Mike Hebel The minutes were approved by unani- swear in the two new representatives, mous vote. Pat Woods of Admin/Headquarters and Matt Inocencio of Ingleside. President’s Message President Montoya recapped the Roll Call recent Board of Supervisors action of Secretary Lobre conducted roll call. passing our contract on the first reading 24 Board of Directors were present and which occurred on June 19th. The second 12 were excused. is expected to be on June 26th. Our new contract is set to take effect on July 1st. The Board gives Val Kirwan a standing ovation following his announcement of his Presentations The new pay period begins June 30th, so SFPOA Executive Board resignation and SFPD retirement. Jim Clifford of Montgomery Advi- those of you working on that day may New Business sors spoke about our Paragon property get separate checks due to the 30th being Board of Director member Chan ques- as well as the Subway property. One of the end of the fiscal year and the 1st as tioned the numerous Like Work Like Pay the keys for the Paragon property was the Fiscal year. assignments that are currently occupied the liquor license is still held under the President Montoya indicated that by a lower ranking member. Board of Di- Paragon properties name, and should be Prop H did not go the way we had in- rector Chan wanted to know why these transferrable to the new tenant. Origi- tended. It did get the Police Commission vacancies were not being filled with nally it appeared that Starbucks would to put out a policy and set up a meet members off the active Sgt.