San Francisco SFPD (2025-2026 inspection cycle)

Initial Inspection Report 2025-2026 Biennial Inspection Cycle Date of Exit Briefing: 8/25/2025 Inspection Type: Comprehensive County: San Francisco Facility Name(s): San Francisco Police Department Stations BSCC #(s): #4681 #4682 #4683 #4685 #4686 #4687 #4688 #4689 #4697 BSCC Type: TH Facility Representatives: Captain Chris Wilhelm BSCC Field Representative: Dale Miller Corrective Action Plan Required? YES DATE CAP DUE TO BSCC: 9/24/2025 Current Items of Noncompliance Title 15. Section Description § 1024. Court Holding and Temporary Holding Facility Training At a minimum, all personnel who supervise Agency Wide - The current manual does not include incarcerated persons in…a Temporary requirements for all nine of the training topics. Holding Facility shall complete eight hours of Additionally, a review of the topics covered during the specialized training. Such training shall 8-hour training did not clearly find that all required include, but not limited to: topics are covered as part of this training. Some (a) Applicable minimum jail standards; references are outdated or are not included in the (b) Jail operations liability; course overview. (c) Separation of incarcerated persons: (d) Emergency procedures and planning, fire and life safety; (e) Suicide prevention (f) De-escalation; (g) Juvenile procedures; (h) Racial bias; and; (i) Mental illness § 1029. Policy and Procedures Manual Agency Wide - The SFPD Booking and Detention Facility administrator shall develop and Manual is dated July 2008 and has been out of publish a manual of policies and procedures compliance during the last 7 inspection cycles. There for the facility. The manual shall address all has not been any documented comprehensive applicable Title 15 regulations…Such manual reviews or updates. shall be comprehensively reviewed and updated at least every two years. San Francisco Police Department Initial Inspection Report Title 15. Section Description § 1029. Policy and Procedures Manual Agency Wide - The current department policy does The manual shall contain a Zero tolerance in not contain a Zero tolerance policy in reference to prevention of sexual abuse and sexual persons being held in custody. harassment. § 1029. Policy and Procedures Manual The manual shall contain policy and Agency Wide - The manual does not contain a policy procedures to detect, prevent, and respond or procedure for detecting, preventing and reporting to retaliation against any staff or person after sexual assault or sexual abuse. reporting any abuse. § 1029. Policy and Procedures Manual (1) The manual shall provide for multiple internal ways for an inmate to privately report sexual abuse and sexual harassment, retaliation by other inmates or staff for reporting sexual abuse and sexual Agency Wide - The manual does not contain such harassment, and staff neglect or violation of policies or means of reporting sexual assault or responsibilities that may have contributed to sexual harassment. such incidents. (2) A method for uninvolved inmates, family, community members, and other interested third parties to report abuse or sexual harassment. § 1046. Death in Custody (a) The facility shall develop written policy and procedures to comply with in-custody death reporting requirements of Government Code 12525. The facility administrator shall submit a copy of the report…to the BSCC within 10 days of an in-custody death. Agency Wide – The current manual does not include (c) The facility administrator shall submit a current reporting requirements outlined in the revised copy of the initial review report of every in- Government Code section 12525. custody death to the BSCC within 60 days of the death. The administrator shall provide a copy of the initial review report that comports with the disclosure requirements of section 832.10 of the Penal Code. San Francisco Police Department Initial Inspection Report Title 15. Section Description § 1050. Classification Plan In determining housing…a person’s own Agency Wide – There is not a question on the intake views with respect to their own safety shall assessment sheet for staff to determine the person’s be given consideration. view of their safety in the facility. § 1058.5. Restraints and Pregnant Inmates Agency Wide – The current manual does not include The facility administrator…shall develop current requirements of Penal Code Section 3407. written policies and procedures for the use of restraint devices on pregnant people…in accordance with Penal Code Section 3407. § 1027.5 Safety Checks Safety checks at many stations are not random. Safety checks shall occur at random or Specifically, Richmond, Bayview, and Northern varied intervals. stations. § 1027.5 Safety Checks Safety checks at many stations do not show a A documented process by which safety documented supervisory review of safety checks. checks are reviewed at regular defined Specifically, Mission, Tenderloin, Richmond, and intervals by a supervisor… Northern stations. § 1056. Use of Sobering Cell In several cases, the reason for placement in the sobering cell is not being documented. Only those Sobering Cell shall be used for temporary arrested for 647(f) PC are being recorded as being in holding of incarcerated people who are a the sobering cells. threat to their own safety or the safety of others due to their state of intoxication. Records of sobering cell checks are not being Intermittent direct visual observation of properly documented. Specifically, at Northern people in the sobering cell shall be Station, three sobering cell sheets showed checks conducted no less than every half hour. hours after persons were released. Such observations shall be documented.