FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Contact: Mayor’s Office of Communications, 415-554-6131

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BOARD OF SUPERVISORS APPROVES MAYOR LONDON BREED’S POLICE COMMISSION NOMINEES
Damali Taylor and Dion-Jay Brookter to Serve on Police Commission

San Francisco, CA—Mayor London N. Breed today commended the Board of Supervisors for approving her two nominees, Damali Taylor and Dion-Jay Brookter, to serve on the San Francisco Police Commission.

“I want to thank the Board of Supervisors for their thoughtful consideration and collaboration in approving Damali Taylor and Dion-Jay Brookter to the Police Commission,” said Mayor Breed. “Both will bring important perspectives to the Commission, rooted in their extensive experience with San Francisco’s diverse communities, as they work to strengthen our Police Department and institute important reforms.”

Damali Taylor is an accomplished former federal prosecutor who served from 2011 to 2017 in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of California as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and Deputy Chief of the Organized Crime Strike Force Section. In her role, she focused on racketeering cases against large-scale organized crime enterprises and supervised all organized and violent crime cases investigated and charged in the Northern District of California. She received the FBI Director’s Award for her work in 2015.

Prior to that role, Taylor was an Assistant District Attorney in San Francisco from 2009 to 2011. During this time, she served in the Domestic Violence Unit, where she was responsible for handling and trying criminal cases including domestic violence, child endangerment, and weapons charges. She is currently a partner with the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers, where she focuses on white collar matters.

Dion-Jay Brookter currently serves as Deputy Director for Young Community Developers, a grassroots community-based organization that provides training and wrap-around services for residents in Bayview-Hunters Point. He oversees a number of initiatives connecting residents with employment opportunities, job training, and education resources as well as managing a 61 member staff. He returned to this role in 2018 after also serving in the same capacity from 2010 to 2016.

Brookter served as Executive Director of the Southeast Community Facility Commission from 2016 to 2018, where he was responsible for the revitalization of the Southeast Community Facility and Greenhouse, a city-owned facility constructed to mitigate the adverse environmental and social impacts of the Southeast Treatment Plant expansion projects in the 1970’s and 1980’s. In this role, he worked closely with the City and community organizations to connect residents with available resources, develop programming for underserved communities, and implement a long-term strategic plan to ensure the continued fiscal health of the Facility.

The seven-member Police Commission is charged with setting policy for the Police Department and conducting disciplinary hearings when police conduct charges are filed.

Taylor has lived in San Francisco for over 11 years and is involved in a number of community activities in the City. She holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. from Boston University.

Brookter resides in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Phoenix and graduated from Utah State University.