Earlier today, Supervisor Dean Preston, Chair of the Government Audit and Oversight Committee, announced an October 11 Special GAO meeting on the Mayor’s practice of obtaining undated resignation letters from commissioners. The emergency hearing will be the first opportunity for the public to weigh in since news broke on September 23 of the practice.

Litigation Continues on Applicability in Nonpayment Cases

Public health officials and experts take center-stage at Preston’s hearing on overdoses, laying out proven public health solutions to this public health crisis

Supervisor Dean Preston will be joined by the Department of Public Health and experts in the field at a hearing to address San Francisco’s plan to address drug overdoses. Three months after Preston called for the hearing citing a lack of comprehensive plan to address addiction and overdoses, the Administration unveiled its 2022 Overdose Prevention Plan on the eve of the hearing.

Days after Mayor Breed’s Office announced a pause in the city accepting new applications for pandemic-related rent relief, Supervisor Dean Preston has announced a hearing on October 6th to investigate the decision and its impact on vulnerable tenants.

City Attorney Finds Practices “Inconsistent” With City Law

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved legislation today to create a special neon sign district for the Tenderloin, home to nearly one-third of all neon signs in San Francisco. The first neon sign district in the state of California, the effort creates special rules to encourage new neon signs and makes it easier to repair and restore existing historic neon signs.

Following successful advocacy from Supervisor Dean Preston, the City celebrated today the opening of 835 Turk Street, formerly known as the Gotham Hotel, for permanent supportive housing.

Storied Jazz and Blues Club to Remain in Upper Haight, Home Since 1989

San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston today released a pointed letter to the Director of California’s housing department, accusing the Department of prioritizing real estate developers and wealthy investors over working people desperately in need of affordable housing.

Elected leaders, community members and anti-displacement advocates – more than 100 in total – gathered today at King-Garvey apartments, demanding a stop to evictions of long-term Black residents at the 211-unit affordable housing cooperative in the Fillmore.

For 54 years, Richard Henegan has called King-Garvey apartments, a 211-unit affordable housing cooperative in the Western Addition, his home. On Wednesday, July 27, a Sheriff’s Deputy was scheduled to evict him, following an aggressive eviction case pursued by property manager Kalco Properties.

Backed by prominent voting rights groups, including California Common Cause, RepresentUs, and Asian-Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus, Supervisor Dean Preston’s Voter Participation Act goes before the full 11-member Board of Supervisors today.

A civil rights ballot measure to maximize voter participation in local elections will head to the November election, after the Board of Supervisors voted in support on Tuesday.

The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved today a groundbreaking investment for affordable housing, predicated on the significant windfall from Supervisor Preston’s Prop I ballot measure that has raised hundreds of millions for the city.

The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously called on District Attorney Brooke Jenkins to preserve the independent Innocence Commission established in 2020 under former District Attorney Chesa Boudin. The Board’s approval comes days after Jenkins fired the District Attorney’s former liaison to the Innocence Commission, Arcelia Hurtado, and various other Post-Conviction Unit attorneys.

On Wednesday morning, Supervisor Dean Preston and representatives for Supervisor Hillary Ronen joined criminal justice advocates who gathered in front of City Hall to urge interim District Attorney Brooke Jenkins to preserve the San Francisco District Attorney’s Innocence Commission, which currently operates in partnership with the University of San Francisco (USF) School of Law’s Racial Justice Clinic. Supervisors Preston and Ronen jointly introduced a resolution at the Board of Supervisors this week urging newly-appointed District Attorney Jenkins to do so.

In the wake of revelations of government corruption and misconduct, the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved legislation today to expand the city’s capacity to investigate and oversee city functions through the Board’s Budget and Legislation Analyst. The vote follows a budgetary allocation from Supervisor Preston to grow the BLA to undertake an increased role in preventing public corruption.

District 5 Supervisor Dean Preston introduced a resolution today to support Starbucks workers’ efforts to unionize their shops in San Francisco. The Resolution calls on Starbucks to let workers freely decide whether to unionize without any interference, threats or intimidation.

Transit advocates, Supervisor Dean Preston, SFMTA, and the SF Recreation and Park Department came together Saturday to celebrate the return of the 21 at Steiner and Hayes on the corner of Alamo Square. The celebration came after two-plus years of advocacy by transit advocates and Supervisor Preston to bring back suspended Muni lines.