Chicago
Menu

Sandra Wortham

Attorney, South Side, Chicago Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability

We identified Wortham’s voice at 11 meetings.

11 of 15transcribed meetings with their voice identified

Next Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability meeting: Thu, Nov 12, 6:30 pm · Clerk’s calendar

Two clips, newest first

  • Sandra Wortham · Commissioner · Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability · Apr 2, 2026 · 1:14:53

    “Because if you’re on the scene and it gets to that, though, and you are there and can identify people who identify themselves as protesters who are physically engaging with federal immigration agents, then again, CPD’s technical legal responsibility would be to make an arrest, correct?”

  • Sandra Wortham · Commissioner · Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability · Jan 29, 2026 · 1:48:45

    “If you look and they were all justified pointing incidents, then it’s not we need the numbers down, it’s here’s why the numbers are up. And I just think that’s an important distinction in setting the course for what the work is.”

Issues Wortham raised, by number of meetings

We count who raised an issue, not which side they took.

Talk time, and Wortham’s other bodies
Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Wortham’s voice

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

  1. Aug 27, 2026Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability6.0 min28:58
  2. Jul 30, 2026Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability8.4 min1:34:13
  3. Jun 25, 2026Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability1.0 min24:44
  4. May 28, 2026Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability10.1 min40:00
  5. Apr 2, 2026Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability1.9 min1:12:10
  6. Feb 26, 2026Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability2.3 min1:04:30
  7. Jan 29, 2026Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability13.0 min45:30
  8. Jan 8, 2026Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability1.5 min19:12
  9. Dec 11, 2025Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability2.8 min13:50
  10. Nov 13, 2025Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability2.2 min17:23
Show all 11Show fewer
  1. Oct 30, 2025Community Commission for Public Safety and Accountability5.0 min37:08
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 Wortham was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Sandra Wortham’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 Wortham 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 Wortham or of Chicago alone.