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Neighborhood Protection

Herrera files 28 civil lawsuits to keep known drug dealers out of the Tenderloin

September 25, 2020September 24, 2020 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Innovative step seeks court orders prohibiting 28 active drug dealers from preying on residents in historic neighborhood at the center of SF’s opioid crisis

Categories Neighborhood Protection, News, Opioids, Public Safety

Herrera uncovers $420,000 in check fraud by former building commission president

March 12, 2020 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Forged permit scandal at Santos & Urrutia Associates grows to nine properties

Categories Code Enforcement, Defending S.F. Laws, Neighborhood Protection, News

Herrera shuts down illegal, nuisance nightclub that endangered Bayview community

December 23, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Illegal club had been a magnet for crime

Categories Neighborhood Protection, News, Public Safety

Herrera secures $1.2 million from rogue developer for gaming permit system

June 30, 2022July 29, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Settlement with real estate developer Ashok Gujral is a warning to other house flippers tempted to flout the law

Categories Affordable Housing, Housing & Tenant Rights, Illegal Businesses, Land Use, Neighborhood Protection, News Tags Ashok Gujral, developer, house flip, permits

Herrera statement on California Supreme Court upholding San Francisco’s wireless regulations

April 10, 2019April 4, 2019 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
San Francisco’s approach strikes the right balance

Categories Defending S.F. Laws, Land Use, Neighborhood Protection, News Tags T-Mobile

Herrera urges HUD to reconsider

June 30, 2022August 25, 2016 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney Dennis Herrera has urged HUD Secretary Julián Castro to reverse its disapproval of of San Francisco's Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing Plan.
S.F. City Attorney contends that the federal housing agency was “wrong as a matter of law and public policy” to reject San Francisco’s Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing Plan

Categories Affordable Housing, Defending S.F. Laws, Housing & Tenant Rights, Land Use, Neighborhood Protection, News, Tenants

‘Extremely litigious’ AHF misses deadline in latest meritless lawsuit

April 29, 2016 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera said today's ruling "goes to the heart of CEC's predatory business model, which is predicated on threats, deception and falsehoods."
In its second lawsuit over a proposed formula retail pharmacy on Castro Street, AHF is ‘mistaken that the U.S. Constitution allows it to put chain stores wherever it wants’

Categories Defending Public Funds, Land Use, Neighborhood Protection, News

‘Ruthless predator’ Kihagi faces injunction bid by Herrera to halt evictions, code violations

June 30, 2022December 4, 2015 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Notorious landlord and real estate investor’s harassment of rent-controlled tenants, refusal to obey housing laws force City Attorney to seek extraordinary relief

Categories Code Enforcement, Housing & Tenant Rights, Illegal Businesses, Kihagi, Neighborhood Protection, News, Tenants

Herrera’s agreement with Haight-Ashbury McDonald’s will enhance security

October 13, 2015October 13, 2015 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Haight-Asbury McDonald's will enhance security.
City Attorney credits McDonald’s corporate counsel and franchisee for cooperation to help eliminate drug activity, nuisances

Categories Neighborhood Protection, News, Public Safety

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