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Supervisors approve SRO visitor policy changes aimed to ease get-out-the-vote outreach
Summary
The Board passed an ordinance requiring single-room occupancy (SRO) properties to adopt visitor policies that facilitate voter-registration and GOTV efforts. The measure drew extended debate over access rights, privacy and potential city involvement in campaign activities.
The Board of Supervisors on Aug. 14 passed on first reading an ordinance changing visitor-access rules for single-room occupancy (SRO) properties to make it easier for voter-registration and get-out-the-vote (GOTV) activities to reach SRO residents.
The ordinance amends the San Francisco Administrative Code to require SROs to adopt visitor policies that permit occupants and their guests to bring in people conducting voter registration and outreach. Supporters said the change will remove barriers that have long kept many SRO residents — a population estimated in the hearing to number roughly 30,000 across some 500 facilities — from participating fully in civic life. Opponents warned the change could create a slippery slope that lets…
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