San Francisco mayor proposes public safety ballot measure ahead of March 2024 election

by Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News October 18, 2023October 18, 2023

Former San Francisco mayor London Breed speaks during a news conference on Aug. 23, 2023. (Olivia Wynkoop/Bay City News)

San Francisco Mayor London Breed has announced she was introducing a public safety ballot measure, four days after publicizing her office’s record on anti-crime efforts.

She addressed the public and the press, standing against the backdrop of iconic Victorians at Alamo Square, flanked by political supporters.

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Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News

Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.

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