Supervisor Sandoval's Seal

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has individual pages for each member on the official sfgov website. If you were to visit each page you'd see they are all have the same format and similar information. That is, until you visit the site for Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval.

Supervisor Sandoval's page differs in that it has a big blue button in the middle linking to his Greeting Page. If you scroll to the bottom of this page, you see a button for a Private Page. A click on the Private Page button tells you the following:

Disclaimer - Supervisor Sandoval

Please Notice

You are now leaving the Board of Supervisors web site for a private page maintained by Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval. Although you may find value in reading the contents of this site, the Board of Supervisors does not endorse, control, or take responsibility for this site, its views, or the accuracy of the information contained on the destination server.

[Note, if you click on the Personal Link at the bottom of the Greeting Page, you are sent directly to www.gerardosandoval.org without the disclaimer.]

Seal of Approval

The links on Sandoval's Greeting Page refer to www.gerardosandoval.org as either a "private" or "personal" page. Yet a visitor to www.gerardosandoval.org is greeted with the Official Seal of San Francisco (on every page).

Here's what SF Code has to say about the City Seal:

SEC. 1.6. CORPORATE SEAL.
(a) A corporate seal of the City and County is hereby adopted and established as the official seal of the City and County.

(b) The official seal is described as follows: A shield supported by a miner on the left and a sailor on the right, with a device of a steamship passing the Golden Gate; at the foot of the supporters, emblems of commerce, navigation and mining; at the crest, a phoenix issuing from flames, below which shall appear a motto consisting of the words "Oro en Paz - Fierro en Guerra" (gold in peace; iron in warfare); and around the margin the words "Seal of the City and County of San Francisco."

(c) The Clerk of the Board of Supervisors shall have the custody of the corporate seal. The use of the corporate seal of the City and County of San Francisco shall be for purposes directly connected with official business of the City and County; and those matters approved by the Board of Supervisors by resolution.

(d) The Clerk of the Board is empowered to authorize the use of the City seal on items that are offered for sale by the City and County of San Francisco for the purpose of promoting the City and County of San Francisco. Prior to authorizing such use, the Clerk shall procure from the Director of Administrative Services a plan describing the items that would bear the City seal. Such plan shall include the criteria used in determining the proposed items and an analysis of the marketability of each item. Only those items bearing the City seal that have been authorized by the Clerk pursuant to this Section may be offered for sale by the City and County of San Francisco. The Clerk of the Board is empowered to authorize the use of the City seal on the face of San Francisco Affinity Credit Cards and San Francisco Affinity Prepaid Phone Cards that are offered for sale in connection with San Francisco Affinity Credit Card and San Francisco Affinity Prepaid Phone Card Programs to be developed by the City.

(e) Every person who maliciously or for commercial purposes, or without the prior approval of the Board of Supervisors, uses or allows to be used any reproduction or facsimile of the Seal of the City and County of San Francisco in any manner whatsoever is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Added by Ord. 534-79, App. 11/2/79; amended by Ord. 98-99, File No. 990407, App. 4/30/99)

Take a moment to visit the other Supervisor's pages and you'll see that only Sandoval has added to his profile page and only Sandoval has links to outside pages. Ironically, Supervisor Sandoval uses his Greetings Page to point out that he is an attorney.

D1 Jake McGoldrick
D2 Michela Alioto-Pier
D3 Aaron Peskin
D4 Fiona Ma
D5 President Matt Gonzalez
D6 Chris Daly
D7 Tony Hall
D8 Bevan Dufty
D9 Tom Ammiano
D10 Sophie Maxwell
D11 Gerardo Sandoval

Ah, Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval and the web...

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