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17 hours agoSan Francisco to open RESET Center as mayor shifts drug policy toward enforcement, treatment
San Francisco opens the RESET Center to provide treatment for drug and alcohol users instead of jail.
SF's 30-year-old Drug Court was intended for non-violent drug offenders to avoid jail for low-level drug crimes. But now people with pretty violent charges are sneaking in, and Supervisor Matt Dorsey ain't happy about it. San Francisco's Drug Court was established in 1995, and is meant as a diversion program so that low-level drug offenders can avoid normal court and jail, and instead get "services in the community designed to get them out of their drug and crime situations.
Saying no, Angel's attorney said after his hearing, was in part an act of "petty empowerment." In custody for over four months, the teenager was told what to eat, when to wake up, and where to go. "He wanted something to control."