NAACP calls on SF Board of Supervisors to halt plan to close Juvenile Hall before meeting with black community leaders

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                   Contact: Rev. Dr. Amos C. Brown Tuesday, June 11, 2019                                              Phone: (415) 559-2978                                                                                         Email: dramoscbrown@thirdbaptist.org   San Francisco, Calif. — While African Americans make up about 65 percent of the population at San Francisco Juvenile Hall, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is set today to cast a second and final vote on a hastily-crafted plan to close the jail facility by 2021 without having once met with representatives of the city’s African American community. Today at 1:30 p.m. at San Francisco City Hall, Rev. Amos Brown, president of the...

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