Barbara Padilla

Member, ADA Advisory Committee, CTA Citizens Advisory Board, ADA Advisory and Ethics Committees

We identified Padilla’s voice at one meeting.

1 of 4transcribed meetings with their voice identified

Talk time, and Padilla’s other bodies

CTA Citizens Advisory Board, ADA Advisory and Ethics Committees: talk time not compared. Seated for only 4 meetings in 12 months.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Padilla’s voice

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

Jan 12, 2026CTA Citizens Advisory Board, ADA Advisory and Ethics Committees0.2 min6:35

How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 410 council lines drawn, 352 right, 0 wrong, 1 unclear, 57 couldn’t be judged

A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Padilla was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Barbara Padilla’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 Padilla said. For councils and their committees, of 410 lines drawn, 352 were right, 0 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 57. We have since removed the voices behind 110 of those lines (0 wrong, 1 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 300 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 268: all 268 right (90% lower bound 0.99). They couldn’t judge the other 32. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Padilla or of Chicago alone.