(a) The Task Force shall identify and assess the nature and magnitude of harms related to street-level drug distribution, including the costs and benefits of criminalization and its alternatives, and shall evaluate options for effectively addressing negative impacts of street-level drug distribution in the Tenderloin, South of Market, Civic Center, and Mid-Market neighborhoods. The Task Force shall make public recommendations to the Board of Supervisors, the Mayor, and appropriate City departments, commissions, boards, and agencies regarding:
(1) Strategies, programs and policies focused on addressing street-level drug dealing in the Tenderloin, Civic Center, Mid-Market, and South of Market neighborhoods;
(2) Safety, crime prevention, recidivism, outreach programs, and alternatives to incarceration in those neighborhoods; and
(3) The development of a Citywide, coordinated evidence-based strategy to address and reduce street-level drug dealing.
(b) Beginning March 31, 2020 and every three months thereafter, the Task Force shall submit to the Board of Supervisors and the Mayor a report summarizing data regarding harms related to street-level drug dealing in the Tenderloin, Civic Center, Mid-Market, and South of Market neighborhoods, and making recommendations regarding policies, funding levels and sources, enforcement strategies, and other pertinent matters, with the goal of addressing harms related to street-level drug dealing in those neighborhoods.
(c) In collaboration with City departments and taking into account community input at public meetings, the Task Force shall prepare and submit to the Board of Supervisors and the Mayor by December 2, 2020, a Plan for the Tenderloin, Civic Center, Mid-Market, and South of Market neighborhoods. The Plan shall include a comprehensive review of the City’s policies, procedures, and practices that involve harms related to street-level drug dealing, and recommendations on options to address the prevalence of harms related to street-level drug dealing in the Tenderloin, Civic Center, Mid-Market, and South of Market neighborhoods.
(d) In conducting the assessments and making the recommendations required under this Section
5.22-4, the Task Force shall consider best practices and approaches from other jurisdictions. The Task Force shall also consider the perspectives of those most deeply affected by the harms associated with street-level drug dealing. In soliciting these perspectives, the Task Force should recognize that many people within the neighborhood, including housed and unhoused residents, business owners, youth, families, seniors, pedestrians, commuters, service providers, and consumers, interact with people who use and deal drugs. In making its recommendations, the Task Force shall consider strategies beyond street level enforcement, including intelligence-led and high-visibility policing. The Task Force shall seek to recommend achievable, systems-level, trauma-informed, data- and evidence-based policy and administrative solutions through a racial and economic equity lens that will have a short-term and long-term impact on the community.
(e) To assist the Task Force, all City departments, including but not limited to the Police Department, District Attorney, Public Defender, Sherriff, Department of Emergency Management, and Department of Public Health, shall provide data and statistics upon request from the Task Force, to the extent permitted under federal, state and local law. The Task Force may request, and the departments shall provide the following types of information:
(1) Historical data and law enforcement strategies, and outcomes;
(2) Calls for police, fire or medical services, and outcomes;
(3) Calls for 311 service connection, and outcomes;
(4) Measures of community strengths including commercial activity and civic engagement;
(5) Measures of community well-being, including essential needs, services and cleanliness;
(6) Community safety measures as determined by the Controller’s Office; and
(7) Success rate of diversion and workforce development programs aimed at people involved in street-level drug dealing.
For each quarterly report, if the Board of Supervisors or a committee of the Board does not schedule a hearing regarding the report within 30 days of its receipt, the Office of Economic and Workforce Development shall schedule a special meeting of the Task Force to receive additional public input and feedback.
(Added by Ord. , File No. 190840, App. 10/11/2019, Eff. 11/11/2019)
(Former Sec. 5.22-4 added by Ord. , File No. 150431, App. 6/18/2015, Eff. 7/18/2015; expired 1/18/2016)
