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San Francisco committee backs ordinance to curb vehicle "sideshows" after SFPD testimony
Summary
The Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee voted 3-0 to amend and forward an ordinance (Article 56) that criminalizes promoting, assembling for, and participating in vehicle sideshows and allows seizure of vehicles; the measure will go to the full Board on Oct. 1, 2024.
The Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee on Sept. 20 voted 3-0 to amend and forward an ordinance aimed at curbing vehicle "sideshows," after testimony from San Francisco police that the events pose escalating public-safety risks.
Commander Nicole Jones of the San Francisco Police Department's Special Operations Bureau, Traffic Division, told the committee that sideshows and related dirt-bike gatherings have grown since 2020 and that the proposed changes give law enforcement "much needed tools and consequences that have been lacking to deal with this problem for the police department." Jones added, "Both of these events should be described as nothing other than vehicle insurrections." The ordinance as introduced would prohibit promoting sideshows, assembling to obstruct streets or other public ways in connection with sideshows, knowingly being present…
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