SF News Supreme Court Lets Stand Ninth Circuit Ruling Permitting Homeless To Sleep Outside The Supreme Court has refused to hear a case that originated in Boise, Idaho several years ago concerning the constitutionality of laws that prohibit sleeping or camping in parks or on public streets when no shelter space is available.
SF News City Report: 'Quality Of Life' Laws Are Costly, Ineffective So called "Quality of life" laws like the controversial sit/lie law are costly and ineffective, according to a new report issued by the city's Budget Analyst Wednesday. The Examiner picked up the
SF News Alleged Killer Drifters Spark Heightened Outrage Against Haight Street Vagrants A community meeting last week in the Upper Haight may have marked just the beginning of a new wave of anger about the homeless youth who have been a constant sight in the
SF News Justice Department Says Homeless Shouldn't Be Cited, Sit/Lie Laws Unconstitutional A recent statement by the U.S. Department of Justice regarding a little-known local ordinance in Boise, Idaho could have broad-ranging impacts on ordinances elsewhere pertaining to homeless people's right to exist in
Arts & Entertainment Video: Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom Debate Legal Weed, Homelessness With A 26-Year-Old Alleged Sinatra progeny and 26-year-old MSNBC on-air personality Ronan Farrow is tackling some tough issues on his recently launched talk show Ronan Farrow Daily. He's already asked Kenyans what they think of President
SF News Berkeley's Sit/Lie Measure Fails Berkeley's Measure S, the liberal city's sit/lie measure that would've barred sitting on sidewalks in commercial areas between of 7 a.m. and 10 p.m., tanked by a slim margin last
SF News This Sit/Lie Ban Is Hurting Haight-Ashbury's Sidewalk Alcoholic Tourism Business As we've noted before, the Sit-Lie ban that went in to effect last year has had negligible effects on the Upper Haight. According to the Chronicle's latest Sit/Lie report, the ban might
SF News The State of Sit/Lie A new report reveals that the sit/lie ban that went into effect in 2011 has had negligible effects in Upper Haight, the area where it was meant to effect the most change.
SF News Free Puppies Used To Stop Panhandling In San Francisco With sit-lie proving more or less ineffective at curbing the city's panhandling problem, San Francisco's Homeless Czar Bevan Dufty launched a new program that he hopes will get beggars off sidewalks and into
SF News Berkeley Mayor Wants His Own Sit-Lie Ordinance Even the hippies in Berkeley want the hippies to stop plopping themselves down all day on Telegraph Avenue! Berkeley mayor Tom Bates is asking the City Council to consider putting a sit-lie ordinance
SF News Advertising Student Puts Bed in Haight Street Parking Space In a new turnabout for the city's Sit/Lie ordinance, parklets and wayward youth, a local advertising student has found yet another use for a Haight Street parking space: put a bed on
SF News Nevius Goes After the Haight Again, This Time Over High Rents? Chuck Nevius continues his tour of the slowly gentrifying corners of the city this week, now focusing on the Haight. He devoted his Saturday column to acting shocked that there were any decent,
SF News A Handful of People Have Received Sit-Lie Citations Thus Far We're sure many of you have been idly wondering what's been going on up in the Upper Haight with regard to the Sit/Lie ordinance. And perhaps those of you who don't live
SF News Sit-Lie Ordinance Useless, Says SF Police San Francisco's controversial sit-lie ordinance, which passed in November by a narrow margin, has accomplished what many predicted: nothing. The law, making it verboten to sit or lie on public sidewalks between 7
SF News Semi-Monthly Sit/Lie Update: Still Not Enforced in the Haight When we last checked in on the Upper Haight to see if the sidewalks were finally free from reclining nuisances, the Examiner made it seem like the idea of enforcing Proposition L was
SF News Sit/Lie Law, Not Yet Enforced, Already Changing the Upper Haight? The controversial Sit/Lie law, a.k.a. Prop L, won't be enforced until mid-February, but it already has had a chilling/gloriously cleansing effect on Haight Street, depending on how you see
SF News Nevius Says 'It's About Time' In Re: Proposal to Deal With Quality-of-Life Offenders On the subject of Sit/Lie and Stand/Snack [Hat tip: Demogreen], Chuck Nevius for one is *very encouraged* by a recent shift he's seeing in cracking down on chronic inebriates, repeatedly offending
SF News Sit/Lie in Effect, Not to Be Enforced Until February The Sit/Lie ordinance went into effect on Saturday, but Bay City News reports (via SF Appeal) that SFPD won't begin enforcing it until February after its officers have gone through training in
SF News Haight Voters Rejected Sit/Lie: But Money and Votes from City's Richest Hoods Made for Successful Measure L While Haight residents rejected Measure L -- election 2010's divisive sit/lie law that, after passing, will now keep city sidewalks sparkling clean, or whatever -- loads of cash and plenty of votes
SF News The Sit/Lie Proponents Win, Prop L Passes; Prop G, Changing the Way Muni Drivers Are Paid, Also Passes Measure L, the Sit/Lie law, looks to have passed with 53% of the city voting yes to outlaw sitting or lying on sidewalks between the hours of 7 a.m. and 11
SF News Who Is and Isn't Endorsing Sit/Lie? Here's some succulent comment bait for your Thursday morning: Matt Baume, in a Spot.us pitch, culled some impressive endorsement data about Measure L, the city's sit/lie law on the November ballot.
SF News Battling Video Arguments For and Against Sit/Lie The Civil Sidewalks folks have put together a little YouTube vid to support Prop L, the Sit/Lie orginance, featuring police chief George Gascon as well as a number of store owners and
SF News Haight McDonald's Nixes Dollar Menu Well, this seems downright mean, depriving someone of a $1 McDouble. And that, dear readers, is just what the Haight and Stanyan McDonald's has done. See, according to the Chronicle, the store "eliminated
misc Read SF Public Press Funnies! SF Public Press, an online site that's also a $2 newspaper, recently featured a full page comic strip from artist Andrew Goldfarb and writer Shawn Gaynor about sit-lie law. It's like Garfield, but
SF News North Beach Bogeymen Intimidate North Beach Residents (Or Not) Don't blame it on the sunshine. Don't blame it on the moonlight. Blame it on the Bogeyman. The North Beach Bogeymen, that is. New San Francisco resident C.W. Nevius yanks his hair
