A new facility presented as an alternative to jail for those arrested for public intoxication or drug use is getting ready to start operations Monday in San Francisco.

The RESET Center, or Rapid Enforcement, Support, Evaluation, and Triage Center, is a small building next to San Francisco County Jail established as part of a new approach Mayor Daniel Lurie is trying to take to address the overdose crisis and open-air drug use on San Francisco streets.

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.