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Mayor’s Budget Proposal Sparks Outcry Over Cuts to Police Oversight Amid Law Enforcement Spending Boost
Mayor Daniel Lurie is facing backlash over cutting police oversight while boosting funding for the Police Department and ...
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Evidence That Humans Changed the Climate is Being Erased
The data sources that trace humanity’s effect on the climate are under threat. Under the Trump administration, publication of scientific reports is being frozen and some records risk being removed ...
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Destroyed Records, Dying Witnesses Obscure SF Radiation Lab
Our investigative series, “Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point," details how the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, based at a shipyard in San Francisco, exposed at ...
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After Renovations, Violations Rise in Subsidized Housing
In February 2021, a tenant in a Tenderloin subsidized housing complex for seniors and disabled people phoned the Department of Building Inspection with an urgent message: Her toilet had been leaking ...
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Hundreds of SF Buildings Behind on Quake Retrofits, Though Few Show Gas Leak Risk - San Francisco Public Press
UPDATE 12/20/2021 12:37 p.m. This post has been updated to reference additional coverage of the gas line audit. UPDATE 12/17/2021 3:15 p.m. Scroll to the end of this article to find a list of ...
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CA Court Reporter Shortage Limits Justice in Domestic Violence Cases - San Francisco Public Press
Advocates for women’s and children’s rights say providing free or low-cost access to transcripts in hearings is key to equal justice. Unlike many states, California has in recent years repeatedly ...
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They Saved Girls and Women in Chinatown From Slavery
Donaldina Cameron captured the nation’s imagination at the turn of the 20th century. She was an early anti-human trafficking pioneer who ran a safe house for vulnerable girls and young women on the ...
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Radiation Studies Targeted Servicemen, Dockworkers and the 49ers
Our investigative series, “Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point," details how the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, based at a shipyard in San Francisco, exposed at ...
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Toxic Waste Cleanups Take Longer in Marginalized Communities
Toxic site cleanups take longer in marginalized communities, according to a new Public Press analysis of more than 20,000 sites of varying size across the nine-county Bay Area. In areas that scored ...
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San Francisco Rations Housing by Scoring Homeless People’s Trauma. By Design, Most Fail to Qualify. - San Francisco Public Press
Co-published with ProPublica. Tabitha Davis had just lost twins in childbirth and was facing homelessness. The 23-year-old had slept on friends’ floors for the first seven months of her pregnancy, ...
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Navy Lab in SF Became Hub for Human Radiation Experiments
Our investigative series, “Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point," details how the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, based at a shipyard in San Francisco, exposed at ...
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SF to Briefly House Some Homeless Migrant Families, as the Rest Languish
Faced with an influx of unhoused migrant families into San Francisco, the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing will offer between 100 and 150 households temporary stays in hotels in the ...