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Board permits unscheduled question; supervisors press mayor on preparations for possible National Guard deployment
Summary
After an 8- to 10-vote procedural motion, Supervisor Fielder questioned Mayor Daniel Lurie about steps to protect civil liberties if federal forces, including the National Guard, were sent to San Francisco; the mayor described cross-departmental coordination and a policy barring SFPD from assisting federal immigration enforcement.
The Board of Supervisors allowed a rare unscheduled question on Oct. 21 and then heard a sustained exchange about the possibility that federal forces could be deployed to San Francisco.
Supervisor Fielder invoked administrative code section 2.11 to ask an unscheduled question after national media reports that President Trump had publicly committed to sending the National Guard to the city. After a roll call to approve the procedural motion, which passed with 10 ayes, Supervisor Fielder asked the mayor what directions he had given to prepare the city to…
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