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Health Commission backs Vision Zero resolution urging state permission for automated speed enforcement pilots
Summary
The Health Commission unanimously adopted a revised resolution supporting Vision Zero and urging state action to allow automated speed‑enforcement pilots; staff added language limiting camera data use to address privacy concerns.
The San Francisco Health Commission voted unanimously to adopt a revised resolution supporting Vision Zero and urging action to permit local pilots of automated speed enforcement, staff said.
Anna Velizic of the department's Community Health Equity and Promotion Branch told commissioners the city is seeking local support to ask Sacramento to change the California Vehicle Code so automated speed‑enforcement pilots could be tried in San Francisco.
"We are asking for local support to urge Sacramento to make a change in that law in order for us to pilot this," Velizic said during her presentation. Staff said the revised resolution included four major changes, added data about local traffic injuries, strengthened language on speeding in San Francisco and included a clause limiting camera data use to the program to address privacy concerns.
Commissioners discussed that there was not yet sponsored legislation at the state level but that local groundwork would begin in the fall to seek sponsors for the next legislative cycle. With no public comment requests, a motion was made, seconded and the commission adopted the resolution unanimously.
Next steps: staff said the resolution would be forwarded to the city's government affairs office to pursue sponsorship and legislative outreach at the state level.
