Here’s Why Governments Keep Information From the Public
Aug 2, 2024 · Why would local governments withhold information from the public, rather than provide it on request — or even proactively?. Responding to requests can be time consuming, expensive and legally risky, said award-winning journalist Miranda Spivack, author of the forthcoming book, “Backroom Deals in Our Backyards: How Government Secrecy Harms Our Communities and the Local Heroes Fighting Back.”
Proposition J — Oversight of City Funds for Youth Programs
Oct 7, 2024 · Support. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to put Proposition J on the November ballot. In the official proponent letter, signed by all supervisors but Aaron Peskin and Connie Chan, they say it would enhance the “transparency and efficiency” of how the city allocates money to help young people.. That would include better tracking of dollars that City Hall gave the San Francisco ...
State Approves Closing SF’s Great Highway to Cars
Dec 12, 2024 · The California Coastal Commission on Thursday approved a permit that will allow San Francisco to close a section of the Great Highway to car traffic permanently. The permit allows the city to close the roadway to cars between Lincoln Way and Sloat Boulevard — known as the Upper Great Highway — as early as spring 2025.
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Shuttered Radiation Lab a Health Risk for Growing Neighborhood
Dec 16, 2024 · During that time, the lab also exposed San Francisco. When the facility closed in 1969, Atomic Energy Commission inspectors noted “significant radioactive contamination📄” in several buildings, some of which “could not be removed📄.”More than half a century later, as a massive residential development with thousands of planned homes rises close to …
Children Violently Removed by Court Order Celebrate Piqui's Law
Nov 10, 2023 · Two children who were violently removed from their grandmother’s Santa Cruz home in October 2022 and placed into a court-ordered program to recant parental abuse allegations celebrated a victory last month when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill prohibiting such programs.. On Oct. 13, Maya, 16, and Sebastian Laing, 12, and their allies celebrated the passage of Senate Bill 331, aka Piqui’s ...
SF Advances Racial Reparations Plan, but Funding Not Yet Secure
May 26, 2023 · The recommendations, released only in draft form, number more than 100 and tackle disparities in educational achievement for Black students, differences in the median life expectancy for Black San Franciscans and the overrepresentation of Black people experiencing homelessness and incarceration.. In a March meeting, supervisors voiced support for reparations, unanimously voting to accept the ...
November 2024 SF Voter Guide
Oct 7, 2024 · This is a nonpartisan analysis of the local measures on the San Francisco ballot for the Nov. 5, 2024, election. Short on time? The team at “Civic,” our flagship radio program and podcast, provides brief rundowns of all the local measures:
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Children Violently Removed by Court Order Report Traumatic …
Jun 3, 2023 · It has been seven months since Maya Laing and her brother Sebastian, who were 15 and 11 at the time, were violently taken from their grandmother’s Santa Cruz home by court order.. Judge Rebecca Connelly, who oversaw their custody case, rejected the siblings’ claims that their mother abused them, and last October she ordered them into reunification training to repair their fractured ...