A San Francisco harm reduction program recently came under scrutiny for giving vodka and beer to unhoused people struggling with severe alcohol addiction.

St. John Barned-Smith ⚔️ and I looked into it and here's what we found out: sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…

Scoop by Sophia Bollag: Gavin Newsom is threatening legal action against Half Moon Bay, site of a deadly mass shooting that exposed substandard farmworker housing, for delaying a project to house senior farmworkers. sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…

NEW:

San Francisco created an office to fix its system for reporting sex crimes. Years later, it’s changed almost nothing

By Megan Cassidy and Susie Neilson

sfchronicle.com/crime/article/… via San Francisco Chronicle

New: The Providence Foundation of San Francisco, a homeless shelter operator under investigation for alleged wage theft, is accused of ‘blatant’ fraud.

SF City Attorney has suspended the nonprofit from receiving any new city funds.
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A Half Moon Bay tragedy exposed ‘deplorable’ living conditions. A plan to help is being stonewalled reports ⁦J.K. Dineen⁩ sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

This is major: Elena Kadvany confirms with the AG that a new law will make it illegal for restaurants to charge service fees (or healthcare fees or credit card fees or takeout packaging fees...) sfchronicle.com/food/restauran…

California gained population in 2023 after three straight years of losses — but parts of the Bay Area are still shrinking: sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl…

California will soon have its own opioid reversal drug — for a fraction of the price sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…

Boston bound with a PR in the bag !
📍Eugene Marathon
⏰: 3:23
🗒️: That hurt. Would not advise.

New: As the proliferation of fentanyl kills hundreds of people a year in San Francisco, people living in and around the city’s homeless encampments and drug users say their pets are also overdosing on the powerful opioid. San Francisco Chronicle sfchronicle.com/sf/article/fen…

Important story from Aldo Toledo:

Immigrant families are getting trapped in homelessness in San Francisco amid a shortage of shelter beds

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New: Mayor London Breed is introducing legislation to targets Tenderloin corner stores for 'perhaps unintentionally' contributing to the drug market and late-night crowds that instill “feelings of fear” in San Francisco residents.
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San Francisco is changing. These are people whose decisions will shape that change — for better or worse. trib.al/uHAdKHO

BREAKING: A woman died Thursday at a sober living facility run by HealthRight 360, the fifth person in a little over a year to die in a program run by San Francisco’s largest drug treatment provider. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/wom… via San Francisco Chronicle

A broken elevator may displace residents of S.F. homeless hotel. Supervisor blames mayor sfchronicle.com/sf/article/ele…

Modeled after an Oakland health care program, San Francisco hopes a new homeless housing model in the Tenderloin will help save lives, keep people housed and cut costs. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-…

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Our dispatch from Grants Pass, Oregon, a city whose homeless policies — heading to the Supreme Court next week — could rewrite the rules in San Francisco and across the country.

Story by Joe Garofoli
Photos by gabrielle lurie

sfchronicle.com/politics/artic… via San Francisco Chronicle

JUST IN: S.F. has filed a trademark infringement lawsuit against the city of Oakland and its port commission over a planned name change for the Oakland airport to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport. trib.al/XfAuJBk

SCOOP: After California Governor Gavin Newsom passed a law making it easier for farmworkers to vote in union elections, ag business groups are investing millions in anti-union ads on Spanish radio stations across the state.
✍🏽 w/ Mathew Miranda The Sacramento Bee
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As San Francisco struggles to get a grip on its relentless homelessness, drug and mental health crises, librarians say the issues are spilling into their workplaces, forcing them to intervene in difficult situations without adequate protections. 
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