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DPH—s Prop J security proposal prompts safety debate and request for data
Summary
The Department of Public Health proposed contracting hospital security (Prop J) to replace deployed sheriff deputies, citing patient-safety incidents that law-enforcement models cannot address; the committee requested incident logs, county comparisons and legal/operational details before further action.
The San Francisco Department of Public Health this week urged the Budget and Finance Committee to approve a short-term contracting approach for hospital security (referred to in committee as the Prop J proposal), saying the sheriff-deputy model is limited in responding to noncriminal, medically driven disruptive behavior and daily patient-safety incidents.
Hospital clinicians described frequent episodes in which delirious or intoxicated patients—who do not meet criteria for psychiatric holds—engage in dangerous behavior that jeopardizes staff, other patients and their own care. DPH and San Francisco General Hospital leaders argued that private security personnel, trained to operate…
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