San Francisco judge denies city s request to bar alleged drug dealers from Tenderloin, SOMA neighborhoods
By Daniel Montes article
City Attorney Dennis Herrera listens to a staff discussion on e-cigarettes on Tuesday, March 19, 2019, in San Francisco, Calif. (Photo by Liz Hafalia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge on Friday denied a request for a preliminary injunction from the city that would have barred four people previously arrested for selling drugs from entering the city s Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods.
Back in September 2020, City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed civil lawsuits against each of the defendants, seeking to bar them from entering a 50-square-block area in an effort to break the supply chain for addicts who congregate in the Tenderloin.
Despite drug crisis, San Francisco can t ban alleged dealers from Tenderloin, court rules
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A homeless man named Garrett (no last name given) smokes Fentanyl while sitting along Turk Street in San Francisco, Calif. Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020. A San Francisco Superior Court judge denied motions by City Attorney Dennis Herrera Friday attempting to ban four alleged drug dealers from a roughly 50-square-block area of the Tenderloin.Jessica Christian/The Chronicle
A San Francisco Superior Court judge denied motions by City Attorney Dennis Herrera Friday attempting to ban four alleged drug dealers from a roughly 50-square-block area of the Tenderloin.
Herrera sued 28 alleged drug dealers last year under public nuisance laws to keep them out of the neighborhood plagued by open-air drug use. Friday’s court decision concerned the first four cases.
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In June last year, the San Francisco school board rejected a plan to hire a reopening consultant to help get kids safely back in class
M
embers then described a firm recommended by Superintendent Vince Matthews as a crime syndicate because it had worked with charter schools
After overseeing one of the slowest school reopenings in the country, the board has now reversed its decision and agreed to hire outside help
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City Attorney Herrera dishes on City Hall scandal, schools lawsuit, Tenderloin drug dealers and more
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Dennis Herrera on major school districts’ reopening efforts: “I think what’s going on here in San Francisco is an abomination.”Gabrielle Lurie / The Chronicle
City Attorney Dennis Herrera has fought for gun control, same-sex marriage rights, universal health care and climate change protections. He’s taken on everyone from President Trump to bad landlords.
But after 20 busy years, Herrera is leaving his job if Mayor London Breed’s nomination of him to lead the city’s troubled Public Utilities Commission wins approval. The FBI in November charged the agency’s previous general manager, Harlan Kelly, with accepting bribes from a city contractor and permit consultant.
Faced with a lawsuit and an unfavorable ruling from a Superior Court judge, the San Francisco school board voted on Tuesday to rescind a controversial January resolution approving the renaming of 44 district schools.
The reversal, approved 6-0 at a regular board meeting conducted on Zoom, means that Dianne Feinstein Elementary School, Abraham Lincoln High School and others that had attracted considerable controversy during the renaming process will remain unchanged for now. The board said it would revisit the renaming effort only after students returned to school five days a week, likely in the fall.
Some Jewish groups, including a collection of parents at Feinstein Elementary, expressed opposition specifically to the renaming of that school, which was proposed because of an incident involving the then–San Francisco mayor in 1984 (Feinstein defended the inclusion of a Confederate battle flag in a historical display outside City Hall).