The pandemic. Resources are clearly not social distancing and the suit claims the de facto policy using the tender city as a ton trainment zone in a dramatic decline in livability and savety for those with and without homes and the plaintiffs want the city taking actions leaving tents in front of door ways and giving the homeless access to hotels and immediate enforcement of drug dealing laws that Many Police Officers just let happen out in the open. They want action not in month but days or weeks. Back to you. New at noon, mayor london breed announced all essential workers in San Francisco are eligible for covid19 testing effective today. The expanded testing criteria was another step toward the goal of universal access of testing and anyone that must work during the stay at home order is eligible for free testing with or without symptoms and more for the mayor at 1 this afternoon and watch that live here on kpix5 and streams on cbsn bay area. Senate bay area is coming back to life to
Dive into our witness testimony as well. Since 1999 more than 700,000 people have died from a Drug Overdose in the United States. Increased opioid addiction and the production of deadly synthetic opioids have exasperated americans staggering death rate. In 2017 more than 70,000 people died from Drug Overdoses making it the leading cause of death in the United States. Of those 60 involved prescription opioids such as fentanyl. American. Up better against the Opioid Epidemic in 2018 when more than 10 Million People aged 12 or older abuse to opioids. 2 Million People suffered from an opioid use disorder and on average 130 americans die each day from an opioid overdose. We know the untimely death from widespread abuse of prescription and nonprescription opioids but they know from our familys neighbors and friends of the Opioid Crisis is not over. We must continue contending with this crisis. That being said we have made Great Strides in the past three years to help combat this crippling ep
Been supportive of Mental Health sf. So lets just know that they have been supporting us from the getgo on this initiative, because they know what it means when Mental Illness goes un treated. So thank you to them and thank you to huey sf, 2121 and i said that the San Francisco labor council, the consumers and the families, most recently Zach Williams who made a beautiful video and tribute to his father, robin williams, who battled and struggled with Mental Illness in his lifetime and has been a huge supporter of Mental Health sf. Weve had so much incredible imput from all of our communitybased organizations from the getgo, Community Housing partnerships, tenderloin development, coalition on homelessness, senior and disability action, Mental Health association of San Francisco, taxpayers for public safety, st. Anthonys glide, the support of Housing Providers network, Human Services network, Progress Foundation, the National Alliance of Mental Illness, the direct policy alliance and so
Public comment. Please come forward feel free to line up and every speaker will have two minutes. Feel free to get us started. Im a me member of a volunter organization of psychiatrists, therapists, attorneys, family members and others on behalf the severely mentally ill. Demanding treatment before tragedy and i find it encouraging that attention is finally focused on improvement but both bills right now failed to tang int take into accounts y aspects of why our system is dysfunctional. Theres less visible severely mentally ill who live with family members and attempt to ward off disaster for their loved ones and bear the brunts of death threats, visible and physical abuse and disruption of their entire lives attempting to protect their family members. Yet, we have advised by representatives of the department of health to let our loved ones to be destitute to they qualify for services, that is evident. In the 1990s, there were over 100 beds in sanfrancisco and now there are 22. There w
And really make sure that people have the care that we need. I also want to mention that them being arrested was not ok. That was stupid. No warning about know chance and they arrested them and ive been here in a lot of protests and ive never seen that. Good afternoon, supervisors. The reality is clear that when you see on the street and theyre screaming and they need Health Treatment you get arrested and that is the response and if you are in city hall and you are treatmenting and chanting we need healthcare, you get arrested. Thats why its so important because we dont need changes because if the system is broken and you are telling the people who are effected by the system the most, that we just need a little tweak here and a little change there, then that is a slap in the face. And the only way that we can fix this system is through a vision where the system functioned for the people that it serves. And so i really just want to thank supervisor haney and supervisor ronen for having