SF Daily Brief for October 31, 2026
Today on the SF Daily Brief: “Advocates Defend Noncitizen Voting in SF School Board Races as Trump Targets Voter Rolls,” plus “Caltrans warns Bay Bridge drivers of major delays during eastbound lane closures.”
- Advocates Defend Noncitizen Voting in SF School Board Races as Trump Targets Voter Rolls
- Caltrans warns Bay Bridge drivers of major delays during eastbound lane closures
- Lime’s AI-Powered Cameras Aim to Keep Scooters Off SF Sidewalks
- Brotherhood-Alemany Quick-Build Project Construction To Begin
- ICE vehicles parking in San Francisco-owned garage, possible violation of sanctuary law
- Chiu and FTC sue Toast over alleged hidden fees and unwanted paid services
- Mayor’s ‘strong’ policies let SFPD hold Flock data longer than other Bay Area cities
- New special education school opens in San Francisco Chinatown
- Saikat Chakrabarti files illegal-coordination complaint about Scott Wiener PAC
- Wong holds Sunset public safety town hall with DA and police chief
- ‘Here for the Valks’: Golden State and Atlanta Dream Return to SF for WNBA Finals Game 7
- Photos: At Balmy Alley vigil, friends of Dolores Huerta remember a tireless organizer
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Good morning. This is SF Daily Brief for Saturday, October 31, 2026. Here is what is happening in San Francisco. We'll take you through the day's local news across the city.
Advocates are urging San Francisco to keep allowing noncitizen parents to vote in school board elections. They are defending the program as the Trump administration presses California over its voter rolls, KQED reports. Voters approved the program as Measure N in 2016. A state appeals court upheld it in 2022.
The program lets noncitizen parents cast ballots in school board races. On the roads, Caltrans is warning drivers who are heading from San Francisco to Oakland on Friday night to expect major delays while crews paint the Bay Bridge. Up to four of the five eastbound lanes will close overnight. That will leave one lane open between 3 a.m. and 7 a.m. Saturday.
All lanes reopen at 7 a.m. The closures are for the bridge painting work. On city sidewalks, Lime has put AI-powered cameras on about 30 percent of its San Francisco scooters. The cameras are designed to detect sidewalk riding and alert riders.
Lime says it expects to outfit the whole fleet next year, according to KRON4. KRON4 also reports that the SFMTA counted 210 severe injuries involving e-scooters last year and 116 in the first six months of this year. Construction is set to begin in November on the SFMTA's Brotherhood-Alemany quick-build project. The work will restripe the roadway and add concrete islands, a speed hump and a rapid flashing beacon at Alemany Boulevard and Sagamore Street.
Most of the work will happen on weekdays between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. In another city matter, the SFMTA has confirmed that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has assigned parking spaces inside a city-owned garage a few blocks from the federal immigration office, Mission Local reports. The arrangement may violate San Francisco's sanctuary city law. The garage is owned by the city.
In legal news, City Attorney David Chiu, the Federal Trade Commission, Los Angeles County and seven states sued the restaurant software company Toast. The suit alleges that Toast hides fees, adds paid services without consent and makes subscriptions hard to cancel. Toast denies the claims and says it will defend itself. San Francisco police keep photos from Flock license plate readers longer than other Bay Area police departments, according to Mission Local.
The department says a 2023 ordinance approved by supervisors ties its hands. Supervisors could change that ordinance. The comparison comes from Mission Local. In education, San Francisco Unified opened a new public school at 657 Merchant Street in Chinatown.
It serves students in grades 5 through 12 with autism, intellectual disabilities and complex behavioral needs, Sing Tao reports. The school started with two classes of eight students and plans to grow to 32. In politics, Saikat Chakrabarti filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission. The complaint alleges that Scott Wiener's congressional campaign improperly coordinated with a political action committee.
The complaint is an allegation and has not been resolved. In the Sunset, Supervisor Alan Wong held a public safety town hall on Wednesday with District Attorney Brooke Jenkins and police Chief Derrick Lew. Residents asked about police staffing and response times, retail theft, car break-ins and traffic safety near schools. The town hall gave residents a chance to ask questions.
In sports, the Golden State Valkyries lost Game 6 of the WNBA Finals to the Atlanta Dream in Atlanta. The Valkyries will host Game 7 on Saturday at Chase Center. Either team would win its first championship. In the Mission, friends and fellow organizers remembered Dolores Huerta at a vigil at Balmy Alley.
Huerta died Wednesday at 96. The vigil was held in the Mission District. That is the news for today. That's all for this Saturday.
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