San Francisco lawmaker’s gender-affirming custody bill advances

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The legislation authored by California state Sen. Scott Wiener now heads to the governor’s desk. 

The board’s budget committee is expected to hear the bill on March 15 as moderate groups agitate in favor of the police funds. 

Bill Gene Hobbs, a 34-year-old man who’s allegedly terrorized women and girls around San Francisco for years can now be arrested.

Under a new law, California police departments have to submit new policies to better recognize, report and respond to hate crimes.

The Board of Supervisors failed to override Mayor Breed’s veto, but there’s another fourplex proposal waiting in the wings.
