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Yaman Salahi

Vice-chair, San Francisco Ethics Commission

We identified Salahi’s voice at seven meetings.

7 of 9transcribed meetings with their voice identified

One clip, newest first

  • Yaman Salahi · Commissioner · Ethics Commission · Jan 9, 2026 · 20:07

    “Is there any reason why the 60-day deadline couldn’t run from when a behested payment is actually made? That’s been solicited, not the solicitation, but the actual payment as opposed to the end of the waiver period?”

Talk time, and Salahi’s other bodies
  • Ethics Commission: talk time not compared. Ran some of its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Salahi’s voice

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

  1. Sep 11, 2026Ethics Commission0.8 min7:15
  2. Jul 10, 2026Ethics Commission4.3 min45:57
  3. Apr 10, 2026Ethics Commission6.8 minVideo
  4. Mar 13, 2026Ethics Commission0.9 min23:38
  5. Jan 9, 2026Ethics CommissionBudget and spending4.9 min4:50
  6. Dec 12, 2025Ethics Commission1.8 min16:17
  7. Nov 14, 2025Ethics Commission10.7 min0:11
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 Salahi was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Yaman Salahi’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 Salahi 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 Salahi or of San Francisco alone.