S.F. supervisors vote to implement mental health conservatorship program

Authorities in San Francisco may soon be able to take people suffering from mental illness off the city’s streets and into treatment and housing after the Board of Supervisors on June 4 passed an ordinance to implement the state’s Senate Bill 1045.

The bill, which passed and was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown last year, allows the city to create a new conservatorship program for severely mentally ill people who can’t care for themselves and provide housing and treatment.