The San Francisco Police Department laid out plans to overhaul some areas it has set aside for breastfeeding mothers.
Speakers at the Thursday “Working Conditions for Women in the SFPD” hearing. From left to right: Supervisor Myrna Melgar, Kimberly Ellis, director of the Department on the Status of Women and Deputy Chief Peter Walsh.hearing on Thursday, the San Francisco Police Department laid out plans to overhaul some of the areas it has set aside for breastfeeding mothers.last October that the lactation spaces they were provided were “dirty,” “cramped,” and “uncomfortable.
Penny Si, the police American Disabilities Act coordinator, said that the department has “unique space constraints” in some of its older buildings, making it difficult to have rooms purely for lactation at every site. Si said that instead of designating new rooms, private lactation-only areas would be carved out of the existing spaces by “installing modular walls.”
“The conditions for women who do join the force have not been great,” said Melgar. “I think that every organization is made better by including women, including the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the Supreme Court, and the SFPD.” Ellis said that a lack of women in the department was a problem in part because female officers tend to have better outcomes when it comes to excessive force and racial disparities in arrests: “Having fewer women in law enforcement actually undermines our collective safety,” she said.
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