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Walter L. Johnson, Sr.

President, Appointed Community Representative, Oakland Police and Fire Retirement System Board

Runs the Police and Fire Retirement System Board’s meetings; we identified Johnson’s voice at all four transcribed.

4 of 4transcribed meetings with their voice identified

Presides over the Police and Fire Retirement System Board

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Talk time, and Johnson’s other bodies
Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Johnson’s voice

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

  1. Jul 29, 2026Police and Fire Retirement System Board4.2 minVideo
  2. Apr 29, 2026Police and Fire Retirement System Board2.0 min25:45
  3. Mar 25, 2026Police and Fire Retirement System Board1.8 min1:45
  4. Feb 25, 2026Police and Fire Retirement System Board3.7 min32:44
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

We identified Johnson’s voice at four meetings. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Johnson was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Walter L. Johnson, Sr.’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 Johnson 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 Johnson or of Oakland alone.