On January 11, 2023, after a months-long campaign to address the obvious racial disparities in the San Francisco police department’s (“SFPD”) stop data, the San Francisco Police Commission voted 4-2 to approve a measure that will limit pretextual traffic stops in an effort to help reduce racial bias in policing.

We barely survived the mad dash to the end of 2021. This year isn’t starting off any easier.

The Los Angeles Planning and Land Use Committee is considering whether to designate my family’s former boarding house and its next-door extension, the Obayashi Employment Agency — as historic cultural monuments (HCMs).

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