The S.F. Democratic Party voted to back Flock cameras and rejected tighter safeguards, despite more than 1.6 million illegal searches of city Flock data in 2024 and 2025.
from @frankieduryea
https://t.co/K8i3pOw4U6
San Francisco's pretrial services provider has largely stopped taking new clients. Its replacement won't be ready to take over services until next year, leaving the city's most vulnerable defendants at risk.
from @frankieduryea
https://t.co/bWe7bsZ8FD
Mayor Daniel Lurie's office apologized for appointing zero public school students to San Francisco's youth commission.
His all-private-school appointments were an "oversight," he said, that he would learn from.
https://t.co/6MO2gtBKr7
A film crew recorded inside San Francisco County Jail No. 3 with the Sheriff’s Office’s permission. The resulting episode gives viewers a dramatized view inside the city's largest jail.
https://t.co/nADPzY7Tuj
A judge has dismissed the charges against 18 people arrested in this year's "Stud Alley" party, which took place over San Francisco Pride weekend.
The judge said the evidence did not support the charges, & tossed them "in the interest of justice."
https://t.co/8wgQhfa6bc
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A recent court ruling makes it harder to keep people in jail pretrial. DA Brooke Jenkins wants to change the laws that made it possible.
by @frankieduryea
https://t.co/Qe7XmCubci
San Francisco’s jail count fell last week to 978, its lowest since August 2023, even as bookings rose. Officials point to a state Supreme Court ruling on pretrial release that was sparked by a stolen cheeseburger.
from @frankieduryea
https://t.co/eMuDDF1b21
SFPD officers did not issue dispersal orders immediately before arresting 18 people at the “Stud Alley” party over Pride weekend, according to internal police documents and body camera footage.
from @frankieduryea
https://t.co/W8Yr3AMxzH
Nearly one-third of the roughly 500 people who answered San Francisco's first jail survey alleged they were seriously injured while in jail, primarily by sheriff's deputies or peers. Attorneys say the survey confirms what they've been hearing for years.
https://t.co/np78INXFod
The landlords of rat-infested Alice Griffith are set to pay $9M in city penalties and property improvements — the first settlement of its kind in SF history.
The city attorney says Mission Local's reporting was a big factor.
via @marina_e_newman
https://t.co/i8DndmSsHh
Two San Francisco cops who smashed a car window and pepper-sprayed the wrong man were flagged for excessive force, according to a police accountability report released Monday
https://t.co/dmVNuNdGH3
ICE HQ in S.F.’s Financial District has 80-year history of detaining immigrants.
Decades ago, the building was called a 'skyscraper concentration camp.' The detention space there is still in use today.
https://t.co/Z5Zodi2d9Z
At least two people were detained in S.F. by ICE Thursday, a 25-year old Colombian woman and a 41-year-old Salvadoran father among them.
It's unclear how many more people are being held with them.
https://t.co/itwdvXOEIw
San Francisco sheriff Paul Miyamoto's choice for the next governor of California is a Trump-supporting MAGA Republican:
https://t.co/F847b7okf0
From @miss_elenius and @EskSF
2,123 people have been arrested by ICE in the S.F. area since January 20, 2025.
By cross-referencing three datasets released this month, on ICE arrests, detentions and deportations, Mission Local was able to follow the journeys of those arrested:
https://t.co/NrOUPgSTjN
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One victim of San Francisco’s recent ICE raids? Summer camps.
Several parents are keeping kids home in fear. Some have even asked camp counselors to be emergency legal guardians, in case they’re taken.
https://t.co/TYoDuHYd6B
BREAKING: ICE agents clashed w/protesters outside San Francisco's immigration courthouse this morning.
At one point, an ICE SUV drove through protesters trying to stop an immigration arrest. A woman, holding onto its hood, was thrown off.
https://t.co/5WEvwrPhyM
JUST IN: ICE agents in San Francisco just now drove through protesters, used pepper spray, & brandished rifles at those who had gathered to try to stop an immigration arrest.
A woman, holding onto the hood of an ICE SUV, was thrown off.
https://t.co/Bx7N5Rb0BW