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A two-hour town hall about a proposal to place 125 security cameras in San Francisco s Castro district yielded no clear consensus April 27 — except, that is, that there will be more discussions going forward. ....
S.F. billionaire funds controversial plan to create surveillance camera network in Castro FacebookTwitterEmail Additional security cameras could be installed in the Castro district as part of a controversial crime-fighting proposal.Yalonda M. James / The Chronicle 2020 Dozens of additional security cameras could be installed in San Francisco’s Castro district as part of a controversial crime-fighting proposal that’s been criticized by several neighborhood groups on privacy grounds. The proposal, financed by a $700,000 donation from tech billionaire and prolific political donor Chris Larsen, would install a linked network of video cameras in public areas. The Castro Upper Market Community Benefit District, a business group, presented the plan which has been discussed for about a year once again at an online meeting this week, drawing renewed opposition from people concerned that the cameras constitute a perilous privacy invasion. ....
Ahead of a town hall set for Tuesday night about a proposal to place 125 security cameras in San Francisco s Castro district, a second main LGBTQ political club in the city came out in opposition to the plan. In a statement it posted to its Facebook page April 27, the Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Democratic Club announced it strongly object(s) to the placement of the cameras in the city s LGBTQ neighborhood and urged people to express their opposition to what it deemed a dangerous plan during the community forum being held Tuesday at 6 p.m. by the Castro/Upper Market Community Benefit District. ....
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Neighborhood merchants are reeling from the effects of lockdowns such as an ongoing spate of window-breaking and other vandalism even while the Castro joins the rest of San Francisco in moving into the less restrictive red tier of COVID-19 reopenings. That and updates from gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman and bisexual Assistant District Attorney Matt Donahue, his office s liaison to the neighborhood, were the focus of the virtual Thursday meeting of the Castro Merchants. Dave Karraker, a gay man who is a spokesperson for, and board member of, Castro Merchants, told the B.A.R. late last week that the association is launching the Castro Window Recovery Initiative. ....