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Contact the Mayor and Board of Supervisors: Oppose Removal of the Private Right of Action

Sup. Dorsey—with Sups. Mandelman and Sherill cosponsoring—are seeking to remove the 2019 Anti-Surveillance Law’s private right of action, which allows people to sue the Department after it violates their privacy. In other words: Removing the one lever we have to enforce this law when our leaders fail to do so.

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Tell Your Supervisors: Protect Our vote "No" on both of the Ethics Commission’s “streamlining proposals” that would weaken our nation‑leading campaign finance and disclosure laws.”

There's a BOS Rules Committee "streamlining" proposal to completely remove spending limits for all candidates when there is significant outside spending — allowing unlimited spending even by the candidates whose SuperPAC funders blew through the limits! Protect Qualified Candidates From Big Money!

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Thank City Hall for Voting to Fund $3.5 Million for Immigration Legal Defense Services and the City’s Rapid-Response Network

Thank your mayor and supervisor for supporting the Board’s recommendation for a $3.5 million supplemental budget and asking Board President Mandelman to fast-track it.  The lives of our neighbors are on the line, and we are thankful that the city government is taking this seriously.

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Help Fund Immigrant Services

As harrowing as last week was for all of us, it was particularly terrifying for our city’s immigrant community, many of whom are still so traumatized that they are afraid to leave their homes.  San Francisco needs to do everything it can to protect its immigrant community  Two of the most important services for immigrants facing ICE raids are San Francisco’s Rapid Response Hotline and legal organizations that defend immigrants.

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Tell Mayor Lurie: House Samara, a 7‑Year‑Old With Serious Medical Needs

Samara is a 7‑year‑old San Franciscan with serious medical needs who has spent the past two years living in shelters with her family. After undergoing multiple surgeries this month, she is preparing to leave the hospital—but the City has told her parents they don’t qualify for housing assistance because, according to a computer system, they are “not homeless enough.”

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Tell Mayor Lurie and BoS: End Child Homelessness in San Francisco

San Francisco has reinstated a controversial 90-day policy limiting family stays in homeless shelters, which has sparked widespread concern among immigrant families and advocates. Demand that Mayor Lurie overturn the 90-day Homeless Shelter Eviction policy. 

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