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Plus: The mayor's mandatory resignation letters—and why the new Housing Element Draft is a long, detailed, carefully crafted joke. That's The Agenda for Oct. 9-16

Drug policy

SF mayor and DA call for a return to the failed War on Drugs

Tim Redmond - October 5, 2022

In a stunning press conference, top officials demand more arrests, more jail time, and more cops to address the overdose crisis. That has never worked.

Homelessness

Lawsuit challenges SF’s homeless policies and seeks to stop sweeps

Tim Redmond - September 27, 2022

Data shows how the city repeatedly violates its own policies and federal Constitutional rights.

Police

Supes advance police spying bill

Tim Redmond - September 14, 2022

Measure opposed by civil-liberties groups now goes to the full board.

Nightlife

‘Fight for Our Rights’ party puts abortion access at center of dance floor

Marke B. - August 5, 2022

DJ Heidi Lawden heads a huge lineup of women and femme-centric DJs at 1015 to raise funds in the wake of Roe's reversal.

Police

SF cops want expanded rights to spy on all of us—for no good reason

Tim Redmond - July 10, 2022

Proposal would give SFPD access to a huge network of private cameras, without any meaningful limits on how the data can be used or shared

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SF continues to violate court order on sweeps of homeless people, filing says

Michael Shellenberger, who says progressives ruin cities, has alarming transphobic tweets

Four takeaways from the historic Police Commission vote this week

San Francisco continues homeless sweeps, during storm, defying a federal court order

John Crew, legendary police accountability activist (and wonderful guy) dies at 65

SF mayor and DA call for a return to the failed War on Drugs

Lawsuit challenges SF’s homeless policies and seeks to stop sweeps

Supes advance police spying bill

‘Fight for Our Rights’ party puts abortion access at center of dance floor

SF cops want expanded rights to spy on all of us—for no good reason

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