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San Francisco Supervisor Matt Dorsey proposes ‘drug enforcement priority zones’
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SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco’s new District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey proposed laws Tuesday that might set up “drug enforcement precedence zones” close to town’s amenities that serve these recovering from substance or alcohol habit.
The coverage wouldn’t change penalties for unlawful drug use or gross sales, however would as a substitute create “Proper to Restoration Zones” through which legislation enforcement officers may instantly arrest and take into custody anybody concerned in medication gross sales in addition to confiscate unlawful medication and paraphernalia.
The scale of those metropolis zones and the way they are going to be recognized are nonetheless to be decided.
“That is about higher defending those that take the courageous first step of searching for restoration from habit or alcoholism from the harmful influences of open-air drug scenes and predatory drug sellers,” Dorsey stated.
Open about his private struggles with substance abuse and restoration, Dorsey has been vocal about tackling town’s rise in drug overdose deaths.
“After many conversations with neighborhood residents, I’m satisfied that is the easiest way for us to incentivize public assist for extra therapy amenities, sober residing environments, and supervised consumption websites,” Dorsey stated.
Chief Cristel Tullock of the San Francisco Grownup Probation Division additionally famous the division’s institution of drug-free applications and restoration initiatives lately.
“The ‘Proper to Restoration’ initiative will make sure that people who find themselves striving to stay a drug-free life may have a protected house to get well and a ‘non-triggering’ surroundings to rebuild their life,” Tullock stated.
Dorsey was appointed District 6 supervisor final month by Mayor London Breed. He beforehand served because the strategic communications director for the San Francisco Police Division and press secretary for former Metropolis Legal professional Dennis Herrera.
This proposal arrives as considered one of different potential laws proposals as a part of Dorsey’s “Proper to Restoration” plan, which the supervisor stated goals to “encourage and higher assist these fighting substance and alcohol use dysfunction who search restoration.”