A ho-hum item on Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors agenda has turned into a full-blown witch-hunt for Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who says he’s launching an investigation into some fellow supe he claims leaked confidential info.
A very humdrum item on this week’s SF Board of Supervisors agenda was approving $14.5 million for some kind of new tactic to fight public fentanyl use, something called the RESET Center, which would basically be 25 so-called “sobering beds” run by the sheriff’s office. People busted high on fentanyl would simply be given the change to sober up on a bed and then hopefully seek drug treatment. The program would be run by some outfit called ConnectionsCA, which despite the name, appears to be based in Phoenix, Arizona.
Supervisor Matt Dorsey is behind the proposal, and spoke of it in very lionizing terms. “This is the single most important drug policy innovation San Francisco has offered since the advent of the fentanyl crisis,” he declared. (Note: This is exactly how Dorsey talks every time he’s asking for law enforcement to be showered with more money.)…