Whitney Jones

Vice president, San Francisco Library Commission

We identified Jones’ voice at eight meetings.

8 of 11transcribed meetings with their voice identified

7 of 7present at roll calls through Aug 20, 2026, from the clerk

Every roll call, and Jones’ other bodies

Present at 7 of 7 roll calls at the Library Commission, roll call through Aug 20, 2026

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

PresentExcusedAbsentOldest first, 1 square per roll call

Absent 0. Nov 20, 2025 to Aug 20, 2026. The clerk’s record covers 7 of the 12 meetings we hold, through Aug 20, 2026.

Official roll call, from the clerk →

Library Commission: talk time not compared. On a random sample of meeting time, between 48% and 68% of members' speech here carries a name; we rank when the low end reaches 60%.

Neighborhoods Jones named

One place Jones named in meetings

Lines where Jones 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

Chinatown 1 time

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 Jones was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Jones’ voice

Eight, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Jones’ first remark.

Sep 17, 2026Library Commission6.6 min31:32
Aug 20, 2026Library Commission2.2 min37:13
May 21, 2026Library Commission1.2 min2:04:25
Apr 16, 2026Library Commission5.1 min1:03:58
Mar 19, 2026Library Commission6.7 min56:48
Feb 12, 2026Library Commission4.1 min12:08
Jan 15, 2026Library Commission6.3 min1:15:46
Dec 18, 2025Library Commission2.6 min1:25:10

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