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Supervisors urge mayor to declare overdose emergency, call for immediate overdose‑prevention sites
Summary
San Francisco supervisors unanimously passed a resolution on Oct. 26 urging the mayor to declare a local emergency over the city’s overdose crisis and to implement overdose‑prevention sites immediately.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Oct. 26 unanimously adopted a resolution urging the mayor and city agencies to declare a local emergency around the overdose crisis and to immediately implement overdose prevention sites.
Supervisor Matt Haney, sponsor of the resolution, told the board the city faces a public‑health emergency: “Last year we lost over 700 people to drug overdose. We are on pace, sadly, to reach a similar death toll this year,” he said, urging “bolder steps” including immediate opening of supervised consumption sites. Haney thanked the Department of Public Health and the mayor’s office for work so far and said the board should stand united in pressing for more urgent action to save lives.
Supervisor Safai added his name as a co‑sponsor during the meeting. The board took up the resolution and adopted it without objection. The resolution requests a mayoral proclamation of a local emergency and calls on city agencies to prioritize implementation actions related to overdose prevention sites.
(Reporting note: figures and direct quotes are from the Oct. 26, 2021 meeting transcript.)
