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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday listened to city homelessness officials explain why they could not eliminate unsheltered homelessness in the city even if they had $1.45 billion and three years to work with. The occasion was a…
March 23, 2023
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The city is taking the wrong approach to getting unsheltered people off San Francisco streets, according to a citizen group that believes an alternative approach would shave $1 billion from the projected price tag. The group filed detailed comments…
March 21, 2023
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IN THE DRY and colorless world of municipal ordinances, San Francisco Ordinance 92-22 stands out like it was written in purple. Passed unanimously by the Board of Supervisors on June 14, 2022, and signed by Mayor London Breed 10 days later, the…
March 18, 2023
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A SAN FRANCISCO-BASED company that fights parking tickets by using artificial intelligence and automated processes has been sued for the unauthorized practice of law. In a lawsuit filed against DoNotPay Inc. in San Francisco Superior Court on…
March 12, 2023
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A class action transferred to federal court in San Francisco alleges that the Plenty of Fish dating site unfairly discriminates against its users based on age and gender. POF is a dating site for adults, founded in Vancouver in 2003, and, according…
March 09, 2023
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One feels that we stand on the edge of colossal changes in the way we interact with the world. Advances in AI are changing the idea of “search” from a hunt for sources that can provide the answer to our question, to a bot that simply tells us the…
March 07, 2023
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When U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick issued a temporary restraining order on Jan. 6, 2023, forbidding the city of Oakland from closing a homeless encampment at 1707 Wood St., he told the parties he suspected the order would be “brief.” On…
March 04, 2023
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A community organization has challenged the issuance of a permit that would allow installation of two large portable diesel generators at the Bayview Vehicle Triage Center, a “safe parking” site created by the city of San Francisco for people living…
March 01, 2023
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IN THE LONG-WINDED world of city council meetings, the time for a speaker to read a 3-minute statement would seem trivial, but the city of Cotati will have to pay $80,000 to settle the civil rights claims that resulted from refusing to allow a…
February 24, 2023
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ON VALENTINE’S DAY, a bevy of new cases — 15 in all — were filed in federal court in San Francisco. They all involved pornography. The cases, all brought Tuesday by Strike 3 Holdings LLC, were another’s day work in the cottage industry of federal…
February 19, 2023
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IN JANUARY 2022, when the city announced a new program in Bayview with the opaque title “vehicle triage center,” it seemed a rare win-win in the world of big city homelessness strategy. The Bayview VTC would offer a “safe parking” area where people…
February 15, 2023
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February 15, 2023
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Two environmental groups have sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in federal court in San Francisco for failing to do what Congress told them to do with respect to “ballast water.” The Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the…
February 12, 2023
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