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Committee recommends SFPD study to modernize 1972 Article 25 and oversee private security
Summary
The San Francisco Public Safety committee voted Jan. 13 to send an ordinance to the full Board directing the SFPD, with the Controller, to conduct a six-month gap analysis on implementing Article 25 of the police code to register and oversee private security firms after complaints of harassment in District 2.
The Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee voted Jan. 13 to send to the full Board of Supervisors an ordinance asking the San Francisco Police Department, in consultation with the Controller’s Office, to conduct a gap analysis of Article 25 of the police code and recommend how the city might implement registration and oversight of private security firms.
Supervisor Catherine Stephanie, sponsor of the ordinance, told the committee that residents in District 2 reported “troubling allegations” of private security officers harassing people — including young people of color — and cited a high-profile Castro Safeway incident as a catalyst for the…
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