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Tom De Simone

Member, Los Angeles Budget and Finance Advisory Committee

We identified Simone’s voice at two meetings.

2 of 4transcribed meetings with their voice identified
Talk time, and Simone’s other bodies
Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Simone’s voice

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

  1. Jul 10, 2026Budget and Finance Advisory Committee4.2 min58:34
  2. Feb 27, 2026Budget and Finance Advisory Committee6.8 min1:52
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 Simone was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Tom De Simone’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 Simone 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 Simone or of Los Angeles alone.