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Daily Report: Money and Politics

SF supervisor seeks more privacy for Clipper card users

October 25, 2012, 12:05 AM
San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos has introduced a resolution urging the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and state Legislature to strengthen privacy protections for Clipper card users. The transportation commission, which administers the transit card, also has begun re-examining why... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

Treasure Island sites safe from radiation, health officials say

October 25, 2012, 12:05 AM
State health officials have declared day care and youth centers, ballfields, some residential backyards and other sites on Treasure Island safe from radiation in response to fears about the area’s nuclear past. The surveys taken from 24 publically accessible locations were not part of... + read more
Daily Report: General Assignment

Plans for busy SF bus line catch many riders unawares

October 22, 2012, 12:05 AM
 Big changes are coming to San Francisco’s most heavily traveled and historic bus line – but few people know about them, according to a new survey of transit passengers. Plans to install two separated bus-only lanes on Geary Boulevard to speed up the 38-Geary line have been in... + read more
Daily Report: General Assignment

Historic SF law library in jeopardy if city can’t find new site

October 19, 2012, 12:05 AM
Robert L. Ferris, an estate-planning attorney, says the documents he has accessed through the San Francisco Law Library have helped him handle cases for nearly two decades. But he might be on his own next year when the War Memorial Veterans Building, which houses the historic... + read more
Daily Report: K–12

State to investigate SF’s handling of special education services

October 18, 2012, 12:05 AM
The California Department of Education said it would investigate whether the San Francisco Unified School District violated federal regulations by improperly denying summer school services to students with special needs in order to cut costs. The state investigation follows a report ... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

Few subpoenas, warrants seek Clipper card travelers' data

October 16, 2012, 12:05 AM
San Francisco police arrested Marcel Largaespada on April 30 after a gunpoint robbery at a Lombard Street business, but they couldn’t catch his alleged accomplice, Alan McCahill. McCahill gave officers the slip, investigators believed, by hopping on a Muni bus. He was caught days... + read more
Daily Report: K–12

School official targeted special education program to cut costs

October 15, 2012, 12:05 AM
A San Francisco Unified School District administrator urged teachers to re-evaluate whether to offer summer school to special education students as a way to cut costs, a move that special education teachers and attorneys say violates federal regulations. Lisa Miller, the district’s head... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

SF police told to follow law on entering residences

October 8, 2012, 12:05 AM
After a mentally ill man was shot and killed by a police officer inside his residential hotel room, the San Francisco Police Department has clarified its policy on entering homes: All residents, including those living in hotels, have the same privacy rights. Amid little fanfare, Police Chief... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

Navy's Treasure Island radiation report found wanting

October 5, 2012, 6:51 PM
Recent U.S. Navy explanations for widespread readings of radioactivity on the former Treasure Island Naval Station don’t adequately explore the possibility that the base might have been dusted for years with radioactive ash, soaked with radioactive sewage and contaminated by radioactive... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

SF juvenile detainees prefer to stay indoors, survey finds

October 4, 2012, 12:05 AM
Boys and girls confined in San Francisco’s juvenile hall might rather be elsewhere, but most aren’t in a hurry to go outside. That is according to an anonymous survey of detainees at the city’s Juvenile Justice Center, where almost two-thirds of the young offenders said they... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare, Public Safety

SF's most dangerous intersection was paved with good intentions

October 3, 2012, 12:05 AM
Hayes Valley was best known for the hooker haven beneath the Central Freeway when Greg Foss moved to the San Francisco neighborhood in 1982. The area was transformed when the city tore down the 1.2-mile double-deck structure and replaced it with Octavia Boulevard, a ground-level thoroughfare... + read more
Daily Report: Public Safety

SF police list arrested Asians as 'Chinese'

September 26, 2012, 12:05 AM
The San Francisco Police Department, relying on antiquated computer technology, routinely recorded nearly all Asians who were arrested in the city as “Chinese” until this month, department officials said. Arrest data that included the “Chinese” numbers was released to... + read more
Daily Report: General Assignment

Tenderloin playground named SF's worst

September 25, 2012, 12:05 AM
It was recess in the Tenderloin, and students from San Francisco City Academy swarmed the playground at Father Alfred E. Boeddeker Park.  They slid down the rusting slide and hung from monkey bars held aloft by old beams that shed slivers of wood and green paint chips. After... + read more
Daily Report: General Assignment

Muni issues accurate on-time report

September 17, 2012, 12:05 AM
For the first time in more than a decade, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency released a report on the on-time arrival rate of its buses and trains without inflating the numbers. Muni’s vehicles were on time 57.2 percent of the time in August, leaving passengers waiting,... + read more
Daily Report: Health and Welfare

SF wants state to conduct new study of Treasure Island cleanup

September 11, 2012, 12:05 AM
San Francisco will ask the state to conduct its own investigation of the cleanup of radioactive waste on Treasure Island, after receiving complaints that contractors hired by the U.S. Navy might have mishandled contaminated material. “We would like (state officials) to go out and... + read more
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