Helen Skipper

Vice chair, New York Board of Correction

We identified Skipper’s voice at two meetings.

2 of 5transcribed meetings with their voice identified

Two clips, newest first

Helen Skipper · Member · Board of Correction · May 12, 2026 · 1:19:14
“I mean, not the air conditions— we don’t have any conditions like that— about the fans. I know you said that there is 250 in the warehouse, but how many units are actually operable in the housing areas, uh, versus inoperable? And how will they be switched out?”
Helen Skipper · Member · Board of Correction · Feb 10, 2026 · 47:45
“Hi, Vice Chair Skip here. I would like to know the outcome of the mold test for— what was it— Building 5. I think it said that mildew was present, but nothing was stated about mold, or that they did say it was being tested. So I’d like to know the outcome of that, please.”

Issues Skipper raised, by number of meetings

Rikers and city jails2 meetings

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

Neighborhoods Skipper named

One place Skipper named in meetings

Lines where Skipper named the place, read by two AI readers that both agree it means that place. Each dot plays the newest one; brighter means named more often.

New York

Bronx 1 time

Places are drawn at the centre of their own boundary in the city’s 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs) file (NYC Department of City Planning, via NYC Open Data). A dot says the place was named, not where Skipper was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Skipper’s voice

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

May 12, 2026Board of Correction2.6 min10:43
Feb 10, 2026Board of Correction8.3 min47:44

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 Skipper was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Helen Skipper’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 Skipper 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 Skipper or of New York alone.