Please join us at 6 pm on January 28th for an important and timely discussion of the PERT program with its Director, Dr. Marvin.
In 1996, PERT (Psychiatric Emergency Response Team) program was established in San Diego county. In fiscal year 2019-2020:
PERT Clinicians (Law Enforcement and EMS combined) conducted 35,701 contacts in the community.
PERT provided 12,340 Crisis Interventions (of which 5,750 or 47% were diverted from a 5150 hospital transport for other community resources) and 23,361 Community Service interventions.
PERT Clinicians provided 9,413 crisis intervention services to persons identifying as being homeless.
PERT attempted crisis resolution contact, but was unable to do so (e.g., person could not be located or declined to interact) an additional 7,695 occasions (thus, a total of 20,035 Crisis Interventions were attempted).
Mark Marvin, Ph.D. (Vice President of Community Research Foundation, PERT Division – Director) and Wes Albers (PERT Community & Law Enforcement Liaison) will address an overview of PERT including its history, the role of the PERT unit, and training provided to first responders.
I am writing to invite you to a roundtable discussion about Measure B, and next steps in the transformation of the current Community Review Board on Police Practices (CRB) into an independent Commission on Police Practices.
In preparing for this roundtable, we compiled a large list of local community groups. We are writing to you because of your leadership in the San Diego NAACP. If there is someone else in your group who would be a better fit to represent your organization, please feel free to forward this message to them.
The roundtable will be online, and will take place on Monday, November 30 at 4pm.
The purpose of this roundtable is threefold:
To share documents developed by the CRB’s Ad Hoc Transition Committee (which was formed to plan the transition of the board into a commission, in anticipation of Measure B’s passage). These documents include a timeline for the transition, and a list of key concerns for the City Council’s consideration in drafting an implementation ordinance for Measure B.
To answer any questions community organizations may have about Measure B and the new Commission on Police Practices.
To solicit feedback from community organizations, specifically on which aspects you feel to be most important for the new Commission on Police Practices.
The roundtable will be co-hosted by:
Patrick Anderson, current CRB member, chair of the Outreach Committee, member of the Ad Hoc Transition Committee Poppy Fitch, current CRB member and 2nd vice chair Andrea St. Julian, author of Measure B and member of San Diegans for Justice
Questions or comments about the shared documents may be sent in advance of the roundtable to the following email address: [email protected]
Finally, I offer my profound gratitude for your commitment to community-based work, and my sincerest hope that you will be able to join us on November 30!
Yours, -Patrick
— Patrick Anderson, Professor Department of Communication Department of Ethnic Studies Program in Critical Gender Studies University of California, San Diego
The San Diego County Office of Education will be partnering with Panorama Education to host a 3-part virtual learning series focused on Enhancing Equity with SEL. It’s now more important than ever to focus on the racial inequities that exist within our school districts and learn how to actively fill the gaps.
Throughout the series, we’ll focus on how to leverage social-emotional learning (SEL) to address inequity that exists among, students, staff, and families. This is a space to ask questions and share resources with district leaders and educators just like you. Let’s tackle today’s challenges together and help each other grow. If you would like to join us, please save your seat. Be sure to register for each specific learning session that you would like to attend:
If you are unable to attend a session but would like access to the recording and materials, register for that session and we will follow up after. Please forward this email to your colleagues to spread the impact!
Please join us at 6pm, Tuesday November 10th for a presentation by and discussion with District Attorney Summer Stephan on the function, efforts and specialized units of the district attorney’s office.
On Thursday night, October 22nd at 6pm the NAACP San Diego Branch will host a forum with the candidates for the San Diego County Office of Education District 1 board seat, Mark Powell and Gregg Robinson. This event is co-sponsored they the League of Women Voters and the California Charter Schools Association.
President Francine Maxwell First Vice President Brian Bonner Second Vice President Philip Liburd Secretary Delfina González Assistant Secretary Diane Langworthy Treasurer Hakim Alaji Assistant Treasurer Jennifer Porter
Executive Committee At-Large Members
Dr Robert Lee Brown Althea Dougherty Tariq Harris Wiley Lane III Derrick Luckett Brittany McKnight Sonja Robinson Dr Leonard Thompson III Thomasine Whitehurst Donte Wyatt, Esq
November 19th Runoff Results
November 12th Election Results
The NAACP San Diego Branch held its election on November 12th via ElectionBuddy. It went reasonably smoothly; 277 members voted, and approximately 30 of those called in to the Election Supervisory Committee for assistance. Three errors were discovered in the membership roster, but those folks were enabled to vote through the quick thinking of the Election Supervisory Committee.
For comparison, fewer than 30 people voted in the 2018 Branch Election.
You may view the results of 275 voters by following the same link you were sent to do your voting. However, because accommodations had to be made for two of the membership errors, the online vote differs just slightly from the numbers below. These additional votes did not affect the outcome.
We congratulate the winners and thank all the candidates for their service and their efforts. We look forward to working with everyone to move the needle for Civil Rights in San Diego and beyond.
Stage 5: The Election
Voting will take place from 4-9pm on November 12th, 2020.
Once you get your ballot and get logged into ElectionBuddy, voting is easy. Simply click the circle or box next to the candidate(s) you wish to vote for. If you don’t wish to vote for any candidate for a particular office, click “Abstain”.
Keep scrolling down, because there are a lot of folks you might vote for! When you are done voting, click “Verify your selection”
ElectionBuddy will remind you who you voted for, and you can either go back and make changes (“Edit Ballot”) or make your vote final (“Submit ballot”).
You will only be allowed to vote once, so be sure before you hit “Submit ballot”!
You will be given a verification code; make sure you copy that down!
Stage 4: Nominations
October 1st General Membership Meeting
At our October 1st General Membership Meeting, we have four matters of election business:
The Nominating Committee will present its slate of candidates
Nominations by petition will be taken
We will choose the software we will use to conduct our election
These folks were charged with coming up for a nominee for each of our six (or seven) Officers and ten At-Large Executive Committee Members. They will give their report at our October meeting and present their list of candidates. If you would like to be interviewed by the nominating committee for a position on their slate, please email [email protected]. The Nominating Committee requests responses by September 18th.
2. Nominations by Petition
Nominating Petitions
Also at the October 1st General Membership Meeting, we will accept nominations by petition. In order for a nomination by petition to be valid, it must be signed by the nominee (granting consent for the nomination) and by at least three other members in good standing.
You may download a Petition and Consent form here. The form should be signed by all parties and emailed to [email protected], or mailed to the Branch at:
NAACP San Diego Branch PO Box 152086 San Diego CA 92195-2086
Please realize that the form MUST reach the Branch by October 1st to be considered. Postmarks are insufficient; we MUST receive it.
For email, we will accept scanned copies or copies signed via AdobeSign or DocuSign or similar.
We greatly encourage you to submit your nominating petitions sooner rather than later. We will validate them and let you know if there is anything that needs to be fixed. There is no margin for error at the October 1st meeting. Your petition will be validated during the meeting, and if it is found invalid you only have until the nominations closeduring the meeting to resubmit it.
“Good Standing” — Candidate and Signer Eligibility
We have written a lengthy post listing what the various official documents (which can all be found at sandiegonaacp.org/election) say. It boils down to this:
In order to run as a candidate you must:
Have been a paid member of the NAACP San Diego Branch, without any lapses in membership, between May 1st, 2020 and November 12th, 2020.
Live or work in the jurisdiction of the Branch; San Diego county south of the 56 freeway.
In order to sign a nominating petition you must:
Have been a paid member of the NAACP San Diego Branch, without any lapses in membership, for 30 days before the date you signed the nominating petition.
Live or work in the jurisdiction of the Branch; San Diego county south of the 56 freeway.
However, if you have your membership card, you can get some hints:
If your Unit Number is not 1063-B, you are probably not eligible.
If your Expiration Date is earlier than October 1st, 2020, you are probably not eligible to sign a nominating petition or run as a candidate.
If you are a new member and your Expiration Date is later than May 1st, 2021, you are probably not eligible to run as a candidate, though you may be able to sign a nominating petition for someone else.
John Doe is probably not eligible. Jane Brown is probably eligible.
We say “probably” not eligible because there are some instances where there have been misunderstandings that can sometimes be fixed. Please email [email protected] and we will try to help.
We say “probably” eligible because continuous membership in our Branch since May 1st, 2020 is required, and that continuity is hard to tell from a card, and you have to live or work in our jurisdiction, and that is also hard to tell from a card.
In-Meeting Validation
Please remember that the Secretary will be required to validate all the nominees and petition signers during our October 1st General Membership Meeting! Please do all our members a favor and submit your petitions early so we can validate them early and not make everyone wait. As an added bonus, that will mean there is no chance of a misunderstanding and an invalid nominating petition.
We are going to use online election software. Two choices will be presented, and we will ask the membership to choose which they prefer. We have evaluated four packages:
Price (per election)
Requires Trusted Admin?
Voter Receipts
Handling of too Many EC Votes?
Non-email voters
SimplyVoting
$340
No
Fully Automatic
Refuses
Unknown
ElectionRunner
$65
Yes
Manual
Refuses
Yes
ElectionBuddy
$89
No
Automatic
Error message
Yes
OpaVote
$50
No
No
De-selects earlier vote
Yes
Of these four packages, we believe OpaVote and ElectionRunner are not viable, due to security (ElectionRunner) and the de-selection of earlier votes and lack of voter receipts (OpaVote). ElectionBuddy and SimplyVoting are both acceptable and will be offered as choices at the meeting, but at around a quarter of the cost (which will add up if we have both a practice election and a runoff), we recommend ElectionBuddy be chosen.
DRAFT Election Process Proposal
If you are interested in learning more about how an ElectionBuddy Election might work, we refer you to the following presentation:
Proposed Election Procedure Running the 2020 Branch Election with ElectionBuddy
Please be aware that this is very much a work in progress!
4. Election of the Election Supervisory Committee
The Election Supervisory Committee are the folks who will actually work out the nuts and bolts of the election. They may not be candidates for office or the Executive Committee. Please consider that the election is a lot of work they will be required to do; they should have both the skills and time to manage an operation like this.
In order to stand as a candidate for the Election Supervisory Committee, you have to have been a member of our Branch since September 1st, 2020 and live or work in our jurisdiction.
Stage 3: Nominating Committee & Number of Members-at-Large
The next steps in our election take place at the September General Membership Meeting. We need to do three things at that meeting: Elect the Nominating Committee, decide how many Members-at-Large there should be on the Executive Committee, and choose the method of the election.
The Nominating Committee
The Nominating Committee consists of 5-15 members, only 2 of which may be current Officers or Executive Committee members. In order to serve on the Nominating Committee, you must have been a member in good standing of the NAACP San Diego Branch for the entire time period of August 4th, 2020 through September 3rd, 2020.
The work of the nominating committee will be to produce a “slate;” persons recommended for each Branch Office and each at-large position on the Executive Committee.
Members-at-Large
Members-at-Large of the Executive Committee are elected members who are on the Executive Committee without serving the Branch in a specific office or as a Committee Chair. The Branch chooses in September how many should be elected; a minimum of 10 to a maximum of 24.
Election Method
Due to COVID-19, the Board of the NAACP has decided that all elections should take place online. We postponed choosing the election method hoping they would give us recommendations by the promised September 8th date; they did not.
Stage 2: When and Where?
At our August General Membership Meeting, the Membership will decided to hold the election on November 12th, from 4pm – 9pm. Due to COVID-19, elections will not be done in person but will take place through an online voting system.
Stage 1: the Membership Deadline:
In order to run for election in November of 2020, you must be a member in good standing as of May 1st(1), with your membership dues paid up. If you have even a single day of lapsed membership from May 1st to the election in November, you will be ineligible to run. We have seen this happen in our very Branch in the past, and the Secretary wishes to ensure it never happens again.
If you think you might run, check your membership card; if the Expiration Date is coming up, renew now! Whatever the date may be, please make a mental note to renew before then, if you think you might run. On their part, the Secretary will do their best to remind you when your dues are due, but it is ultimately your responsibility to keep up your membership.
Note: it is currently impossible to renew your membership in our Branch from National’s website.
You must renew your membership at join.sandiegonaacp.org, either with a credit card or by downloading a membership application and mailing it in with your check.Please write [email protected] with any questions.
NAACP San Diego Branch PO Box 152086 San Diego CA 92195-2086
To be eligible to vote in our Branch, you must live or work in our “jurisdiction,” which is San Diego County south of the 56 freeway. Members in good standing will by now have received an email if their address of record is not in our jurisdiction. If you have moved or if you work south of the 56, please email [email protected]
Note 1: Those of you who study the bylaws on a daily basis (we assume that is all of you) may have read that the membership deadline is April 1st. That deadline has been moved, for this year only, by the National Board of Directors.