San Francisco supervisors have voted in favor of closing the city’s juvenile hall, a bold move that would make San Francisco one of the first cities in the nation to do so.
The controversial ordinance, crafted by supervisors Shamann Walton, Hillary Ronen and Matt Haney, seeks to shutter the facility at 375 Woodside Ave., by the end of 2021. The supervisors and their supporters have cited a citywide decrease in youth crime resulting in an underused facility.
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