L. Lawrence Brandon
Commissioner, Oakland Public Ethics CommissionWe identified Brandon’s voice at one meeting.
Talk time, and Brandon’s other bodies
- Public Ethics Commission: talk time not compared. Seated for only 5 meetings in 12 months.
Every meeting where we identified Brandon’s voice
- Apr 15, 2026Public Ethics Commission1.9 min34:47
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 Brandon was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets L. Lawrence Brandon’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 Brandon 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 Brandon or of Oakland alone.