- Veto also stops planned programs in Oakland.
- Federal law prohibits such sites and state law doesn’t protect nonprofits, medical providers running them.
- San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said after veto he’d still support nonprofit immediately opening site.
- “To save lives, I fully support a non-profit moving forward now with New York’s model of overdose prevention programs,” Chiu said.
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Newsom Says No To Supervised Drug Consumption Sites in SF, LA
The California Democrat governor's veto blow to those who though proposed pilot project was key to tackling cities’ overdose crises.
