Francis Upton
Chair, Oakland Public Ethics CommissionWe identified Upton’s voice at nine meetings.
Chairs the Public Ethics Commission
Talk time, and Upton’s other bodies
- Public Ethics Commission: talk time not compared. Presides over its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
Every meeting where we identified Upton’s voice
- Sep 16, 2026Public Ethics Commission12.1 min5:39
- Aug 14, 2026Public Ethics Commission5.1 min0:44
- Jul 15, 2026Public Ethics Commission8.9 min6:58
- May 20, 2026Public Ethics Commission18.5 min3:48
- Apr 15, 2026Public Ethics Commission12.0 min6:09
- Mar 18, 2026Public Ethics Commission23.7 min2:28
- Jan 21, 2026Public Ethics Commission26.4 min9:30
- Dec 10, 2025Public Ethics Commission1.1 min1:17:07
- Nov 19, 2025Public Ethics Commission12.1 min3:00
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 Upton was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Francis Upton’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 Upton 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 Upton or of Oakland alone.