Victor Sampson

Commissioner, Los Angeles North Valley Area Planning Commission

We identified Sampson’s voice at three meetings.

3 of 6transcribed meetings with their voice identified

Talk time, and Sampson’s other bodies

North Valley Area Planning Commission: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Sampson’s voice

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

Sep 17, 2026North Valley Area Planning Commission0.4 min21:29
May 21, 2026North Valley Area Planning Commission1.3 min28:54
May 7, 2026North Valley Area Planning Commission1.1 min50:56

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 Sampson was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Victor Sampson’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 Sampson 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 Sampson or of Los Angeles alone.