People using drugs on Caledonia Street, an alley in the Mission District of San Francisco, on Tuesday, March 11, 2025. (Alise Maripuu/Bay City News)

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie on Tuesday will sign legislation to open a Rapid Enforcement, Support, Evaluation, and Triage or RESET Center to expand supports for people with substance use disorders. 

The center will open this spring at 444 Sixth St. in the city’s South of Market neighborhood and will act as an alternative to jail or hospitalization for individuals arrested for public intoxication. RESET will provide more mental health and substance use treatment services than what nurses in the jails are able to provide.  

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Katy St. Clair got her start in journalism by working in the classifieds department at the East Bay Express during the height of alt weeklies, then sweet talked her way into becoming staff writer, submissions editor, and music editor. She has been a columnist in the East Bay Express, SF Weekly, and the San Francisco Examiner. Starting in 2015, she begrudgingly scaled the inverted pyramid at dailies such as the Vallejo Times-Herald, The Vacaville Reporter, and the Daily Republic. She has her own independent news site and blog that covers the delightfully dysfunctional town of Vallejo, California, where she also collaborates with the investigative team at Open Vallejo. A passionate advocate for people with developmental disabilities, she serves on both the Board of the Arc of Solano and the Arc of California. She lives in Vallejo.