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Board upholds 15-day suspension of Liberty Market tobacco permit after decoy sale to minor
Summary
San Francisco’s Board of Appeals on March 7 upheld a 15‑day suspension of a tobacco‑sales permit for Liberty Market after the Department of Public Health presented evidence that a minor decoy successfully purchased cigarettes. The board voted 5–0 to sustain the suspension; the permittee acknowledged the sale and said a pending business sale could be affected.
San Francisco’s Board of Appeals on March 7 sustained a 15‑day suspension of the tobacco‑sales permit for Liberty Market, finding the Department of Public Health’s enforcement record sufficient to uphold the penalty. The action followed testimony that a marked‑money decoy purchased cigarettes at the store during a police monitoring operation.
Johnson Ojo, representing the Department of Public Health, told the board the department determined that the Liberty Market permittee…
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