Scott Dignan

Member, Mayor, San Francisco Sheriff's Department Oversight Board

We identified Dignan’s voice at five meetings.

5 of 12transcribed meetings with their voice identified

8questions at the Sheriff's Department Oversight Board

6 of 6present at roll calls through Jul 24, 2026, from the clerk

Next Sheriff's Department Oversight Board meeting: Fri, Nov 6, 2:00 pm · Clerk’s calendar

Two clips, newest first

Scott Dignan · Member · Sheriff's Department Oversight Board · May 1, 2026 · 33:18
“And with clients, sometimes the clients have a lot of property with them, not just on their person. They have other things that belong to them. What happens with their property?”
Scott Dignan · Member · Sheriff's Department Oversight Board · Jan 9, 2026 · 1:13:14
“…when you were doing the presentation, you said the numbers were coming from California-wide. Were any of the numbers reflected based on San Francisco today?”

Every roll call, and Dignan’s other bodies

Present at 6 of 6 roll calls at the Sheriff's Department Oversight Board, roll call through Jul 24, 2026

From the clerk’s own record. We don’t compare members on it.

PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Absent 0. Nov 14, 2025 to Jul 24, 2026. The clerk’s record covers 9 of the 12 meetings we hold, through Aug 7, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →

Sheriff's Department Oversight Board: talk time not compared. We could name only 29% of the speech they may have given; we compare members at 30%.

Questions

Dignan asked eight questions at the five Sheriff's Department Oversight Board meetings where we identified them

At least this many: direct questions only.

Of Dignan’s 6 questions to city departments at the Sheriff's Department Oversight Board, 6 went to sheriff, jails and probation.

Who they question: 6 questions to a department, 1 body · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026.

Sheriff's Department Oversight Board6 questions to city departments

Sheriff's Department Oversight Board: questions by department
Department	Share	Questions
Sheriff, jails and probation		6100%

Neighborhoods Dignan named

One place Dignan named in meetings

Lines where Dignan 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.

San Francisco

South of Market 2 times

Places are drawn at the centre of their own boundary in the city’s Analysis Neighborhoods file (DataSF (City and County of San Francisco)). A dot says the place was named, not where Dignan was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Dignan’s voice

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

Sep 4, 2026Sheriff's Department Oversight Board1.5 min2:15:34
May 1, 2026Sheriff's Department Oversight BoardPolicing and public safety2.4 min31:01
Mar 6, 2026Sheriff's Department Oversight BoardPolicing and public safety1.3 min26:25
Jan 9, 2026Sheriff's Department Oversight BoardPolicing and public safety0.7 min1:13:05
Nov 14, 2025Sheriff's Department Oversight Board0.6 min5:27

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 Dignan was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Scott Dignan’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 Dignan 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 Dignan or of San Francisco alone.