Andre Brumfield

Vice-chair, Chicago Plan Commission

We identified Brumfield’s voice at two meetings.

2 of 8transcribed meetings with their voice identified

Talk time, and Brumfield’s other bodies

Chicago Plan Commission: talk time not compared. On a random sample of meeting time, between 28% and 42% of members' speech here carries a name; we rank when the low end reaches 60%.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Brumfield’s voice

Two, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Brumfield’s first remark.

Aug 20, 2026Chicago Plan Commission0.5 min2:51:06
Dec 18, 2025Chicago Plan Commission5.4 min6:10

How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 340 commission lines drawn, 260 right, 4 wrong, 1 unclear, 75 couldn’t be judged

A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Brumfield was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Andre Brumfield’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Brumfield said. For commissions, of 340 lines drawn, 260 were right, 4 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 75. We have since removed the voices behind 64 of those lines (3 wrong, 0 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 276 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 228: 226 right, 1 wrong and 1 unclear (90% lower bound 0.97). They couldn’t judge the other 48. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Brumfield or of Chicago alone.