J. Riccardo Benavides
Commissioner, San Francisco Arts CommissionWe identified Benavides’ voice at five meetings.
Next Arts Commission meeting: Mon, Nov 2, 2:00 pm · Clerk’s calendar
Benavides asked two questions at the five Arts Commission meetings where we identified them
Benavides’ one question to a city department at the Arts Commission went to libraries, arts and culture.
| Department | Share | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| Libraries, arts and culture | 1 |
Every meeting where we identified Benavides’ voice
- Aug 3, 2026Arts Commission0.5 min1:02:42
- May 20, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries0.9 min27:54
- Apr 15, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries1.8 min48:10
- Feb 18, 2026Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries1.7 min47:11
- Nov 17, 2025Arts CommissionArts, culture and libraries0.5 min51:58
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 Benavides was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets J. Riccardo Benavides’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 Benavides 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 Benavides or of San Francisco alone.