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Noncommercial news and investigative reporting for San Francisco Bay Area — online, print and on air at SFPublicPress.org & KSFP 102.5 FM.

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Who was hit hardest by #covid-19? Possibly immigrants in unprotected essential jobs. Osbaldo Varilla-Aguilar and others still face lingering, sometimes extreme symptoms. #sf #longcovid

From our partners at El Tecolote.

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/after-months-long-coma-this-latino-immigrant-worker-is-still-fighting-mysterious-symptoms/

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NEW STORY, OUT TODAY:

dispatchers received at least 24,000 calls about mental health crises or attempted suicides in 2023, including calls from bystanders and police, based on our analysis. Often responders couldn’t find the people in crisis.
https://www.sfpublicpress.org/5150-holds-and-often-vicious-cycle-through-sf-mental-health-care-system/

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NEW:
Common narratives about and in focus on people who reject help. But last fall, our reporters met an unhoused man so desperate for care that he asked to be detained just to get his meds. 🧵

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/5150-holds-and-often-vicious-cycle-through-sf-mental-health-care-system/

SFPublicPress, to SanFrancisco
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NEW: Language barriers obstruct access to lifesaving information for San Francisco's Indigenous Mayans, fueling the fentanyl epidemic. On this episode, we discuss the profound impact of linguistic disparities, the need for culturally competent drug health services and grassroots efforts shaping this critical issue.

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/overdose-deaths-swell-among-sfs-mayan-residents-highlighting-urgent-need-for-culturally-competent-drug-health-services/

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California is home to more than 7k unhoused veterans. Dennis Johnson of Swords to Plowshares is one of the people trying to connect vets with housing and services here in the Bay Area.

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/booted-from-the-army-he-spiraled-now-he-works-to-solve-the-veteran-homelessness-crisis/

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NEW: The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us, but an early reckoning is making it clear that we failed to learn from the past and have yet to come to terms with the loss of life and society-wide trauma.

In this episode of "Civic," an epidemiologist shares how a lack of public trust led to unnecessary deaths, AIDS activists discuss the importance of facing trauma and a woman who lost her father to COVID is fighting for a memorial for those who died.

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/reporters-notebook-to-prepare-for-the-next-pandemic-lets-not-forget-the-last-one/

SFPublicPress, to SanFrancisco
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Ballots are due today!

If you still have questions about the ballot measures or candidates, check out our nonpartisan voter guide: https://sfpublicpress.org/march-2024-sf-election-guide/

The SF Department of elections shared this map of ballot boxes around the city:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1a_J5S0j93AhR1Sf9dLEyooNIEtRJFeMT&ll=37.75434115044796%2C-122.42378459735824&z=13

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Ballots are due tomorrow!

As part of our nonpartisan voter guide, we have 3 "Civic" episodes on San Francisco's party central committees, superior court judges and Proposition F.

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/march-2024-sf-election-guide/

SFPublicPress, to SanFrancisco
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Ballots are due next Tuesday, March 5. Do you know what you're voting for?

Check our our nonpartisan voter guide. We don't make endorsements, but we do provide info on the ballot measures and candidates.

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/march-2024-sf-election-guide/

SFPublicPress, to SanFrancisco
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📢 We've updated our voter guide!

Find bios, website and social links for the candidates. We sent the candidates questions based on the responses from our December community survey — hear what they had to say! All the ballot measure summaries are there, too, in audio and text formats.

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/march-2024-sf-election-guide/

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NEW: San Francisco's Chinese New Year Parade is this Saturday and there's a brand new dragon for the parade finale, celebrating the Year of the Dragon. For over a century, this parade has served as a means of civic engagement for Chinatown to combat stereotypes and to tell the Chinese-American story.

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/new-parade-dragon-carries-on-local-legacy-dating-back-nearly-175-years/

SFPublicPress, to SanFrancisco
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NEW: A drug crackdown in the Tenderloin that was supposed to encourage people into treatment focused heavily on Latinx people, yet jails offered English programs only. Service providers for Latinx inmates demanded access to the jails at last week's Sheriff’s Oversight Board meeting. This week, a Spanish recovery program was launched. But some longtime jail workers give it less than 2 weeks.

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/service-providers-demand-access-to-latinx-jail-inmates/

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NEW: 2023 Is San Francisco’s Deadliest Year on Record for Drug Overdoses

Last Thursday San Francisco’s chief medical examiner released the city’s updated overdose death count — 752 so far — making 2023 the worst year on record for drug-related fatalities.

As fatal overdoses swelled, so did cases involving fentanyl, which was a factor in more than 81% of overdose deaths this year. That statistic is up from 70% in 2022, and 74% in 2021.

Nearly one-third of those people were listed as having no fixed address. Later that day, a crowd gathered at Civic Center Plaza to remember more than 420 who died in the city while experiencing homelessness this year.

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/2023-is-san-franciscos-deadliest-year-on-record-for-drug-overdoses/

SFPublicPress, to SanFrancisco
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For more than a decade, San Francisco’s Department of Public Health, in collaboration with other city agencies, has been exploring how climate change will impact the health of residents. Those investigations have revealed that Chinatown could be particularly vulnerable during periods of extreme weather due to a range of socio-economic factors as well as the built environment.

Check out the full photo essay.

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/for-chinatowns-older-residents-in-sros-climate-disasters-pose-greater-risks/

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We have the designation of letters for local ballot measures for the March 2024 San Francisco election from the San Francisco Department of Elections

A - General Obligation Bond

B - Minimum Police Department Staffing and Five-Year Annual Funding Requirement

C - Transfer Tax Exemption Conversion to Residential Use; Office Development Allocations

D - Gift Prohibitions and Reporting, Bribery, Ethics, Training, Incompatible Activities, and Amendment Process

E - Police Department Policies and Procedures and Use of Technology

F - Substance Abuse Screening, Evaluation, and Treatment Requirements for CAAP Assistance

G - Eighth Grade Algebra and SFUSD Math Curriculum Development

Our upcoming voter guide which will include ballot summaries of the above measures in text and audio.

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NEW: Chinatown's older adults are particularly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Community groups say current systems are insufficient in keeping residents safe and more funding is required to catch up.

There are around 193,800 residents in San Francisco who are 60 or older. From 2010 to 2060, the city expects to see a 159% surge in its 60-plus population, according to the California Department of Aging.

“Climate change definitely affects our seniors’ quality of life as well as their health,” said Anni Chung, president and chief executive officer of Self-Help for the Elderly.

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/protecting-chinatowns-older-adults-from-climate-disasters/

SFPublicPress, to SanFrancisco
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NEW: Fentanyl-related deaths among teens more than tripled in the U.S. in recent years. 2/3rds of them had someone nearby who didn’t respond.

In this 6th and final episode of "San Francisco and the Overdose Crisis," we hear how people are learning how to help when someone is overdosing.

"I think it’s really important, especially in our school and at my age, that we should be teaching our students how this is performed." -Burton HS student Jennifer Mendoza, who participates in a program that teaches students how to recognize drug abuse and reverse overdoses.

The DOPE project & the SF Department of Public Health launched a peer-responder program for people living in permanent supportive housing.
"It feels like I’m useful, like I have a sense of purpose. I’m actually helping within the community." -Susan Lefever, SRO resident.

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/sf-students-sro-residents-train-to-reverse-drug-overdoses/

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This Giving News Day, we want to thank our wonderful readers, podcast listeners and those of you who share our work! We wouldn't exist without your support.

Will you help us reach our goal of raising $40,000? Today (and through the end of the year) NewsMatch will make your support go even further by matching every donation dollar for dollar, up to $1,000!

Give now to invest in news that’s for YOU, not for profit: https://www.sfpublicpress.org/donate/

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TOMORROW: Town Hall: The Future of Bay Area Journalism

KALW's Ben Trefny will moderate a FREE conversation with local media San Francisco Chronicle, KQED, @MLNow and @berkeleyscanner.

We hope to see you there!

220 Montgomery Street events space in downtown San Francisco on Tuesday, November 14. Doors open with refreshments at 5pm, and the conversation begins at 6pm.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/town-hall-the-future-of-bay-area-journalism-tickets-753618602527

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NEW: San Francisco privatized 29 public housing sites in the wake of scandals years ago. After $800 million in repairs, residents complain about living conditions, combative management companies and eviction threats.

“Its known that mgmt will leave tenants with leaks and broken toilets. Mgmt said they cant do anything about it,” read the raw notes from a complaint about a toilet that had been leaking for 4-5 days.

“It has changed a lot," a tenant in a Mission District subsidized housing facility said, describing the transition to new management. "Why do we have to hide in our room and walk down the hallway and hope we don’t see them?”

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/after-massive-renovations-code-violations-rise-steeply-in-subsidized-housing/

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NEW: As a lawsuit around SF clearing encampments makes its way through the courts, data from the city’s Homeless Outreach Team call log and interviews with service providers reveal the barriers unhoused people face when seeking shelter.

"We are assessing families from the moment our doors open to the moment they close. It’s an unending tide of need."
-Hope Kamer, director of public policy & external affairs at
Compass Family Services, a nonprofit that helps to connect families with shelters.

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/sf-shelter-hotline-staff-could-not-reach-most-people-who-called-for-help/

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NEW: San Francisco is experiencing two drug-related deaths a day. Now the city has promised to clean up the streets with an old, familiar strategy – police crackdowns. Critics say it’s a return to the failed war on drugs.

"There are increased turf wars that are occurring because you have a raid here, and another group moves in. I mean, we’ve had gunfire and a murder during the middle of the day." - Dean Preston at a San Francisco Drug Users Union rally.

"It feels like the police are allowing this to happen, and then when they feel like it, they swoop in and pick people up, and we’re not really solving the problem." - Alexandra Pray with the San Francisco Public Defender's Office.

"Until some other entity, other than the police department, deals with this issue, it really doesn’t leave us with much of a choice." - Police Chief Bill Scott.

#SanFrancisco #DrugWar #HarmReduction #Overdose #Podcast

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/drug-crackdown-has-sparked-violent-turf-warfare-in-central-san-francisco-supervisor-says/

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NEW: Posters calling out judges who dropped charges against people accused of selling fentanyl have popped up on Mission near 22nd. They're getting strong pushback from San Francisco legal professionals.

“This is just wildly inappropriate. You could cause violence against judges.”

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/anonymous-posters-singling-out-judges-for-leniency-in-drug-cases/

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@skinnylatte We've posted an UPDATE:
The poster campaign in the Mission quickly morphed into a public art political feud, with some torn off, and others tagged “Jail the Sacklers,” in reference to the family that owns the pharmaceutical company fined billions of dollars for poorly controlled wide distribution of opioids.

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/anonymous-posters-singling-out-judges-for-leniency-in-drug-cases/

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Congratulations to our own @Prado_Reports! She won the @INN's "Insight Award for Visual Journalism (small division)." She spent 12 straight hours documenting a crackdown on homeless residents by Berkeley police and officials, showing lives turned upside down by municipal power.

https://www.sfpublicpress.org/everything-is-gone-and-you-become-more-lost-12-hours-of-chaos-as-berkeley-clears-encampment/

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