About the Campaign

When City Attorney Dennis Herrera started obtaining the gang injunctions in 2007, the community courageously fought the injunctions and ignited Oakland residents to organize against injunctions across the bay. However, the injunctions were still imposed in San Francisco.

In early 2018, the San Francisco No Injunctions Coalition (SF NIC) formed when a diverse group of concerned community members, activists, and organizations came together to renew this fight against the gang injunctions.

Our campaign put the injunctions back into the public eye. SF NIC’s strong and successful campaign garnered grassroots support as well as the attention of the media and decision makers. At the beginning of our campaign, there were 139 people named on the injunctions. Six months later, SF NIC’s campaign led to 86 people being removed from the injunctions. Despite this substantial success, 53 people remain on the injunctions today and their families continue to be impacted.

Campaign Highlights

Vigil for fallen brothers outside the civil courthouse (June 28, 2018). On the date that the City Attorney’s office was in court to remove names from one of the injunctions, we held a vigil outside the courthouse for the numerous young men who had been enjoined on the injunctions but who had been deceased for years – and only now were being removed from the injunctions. On this date, Mario Woods was finally removed from the injunction – 2.5 years after he was murdered by SFPD and weeks after the SF District Attorney’s office cleared the cops of his murder. His mother, Gwen Woods, joined us.

SF Board of Supervisors’ hearing (June 13, 2018). The Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee held a hearing on the injunctions. The City Attorney’s office came away from the hearing looking weak; they made numerous contradicting statements, presented no evidence that they had conducted the 3-year reviews, and were unable to answer some basic – yet important – questions from the Supervisors. The community packed the room and the public comment line. Not a single public comment was made in support of the injunctions.

Rally and press conference in front of SF City Hall (May 30, 2018). The community came out to demand an end to the injunctions and highlight the major racial justice, civil rights, and due process issues with the injunctions. We then went to City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s office to hand deliver the letter from the SF Reentry Council.

San Francisco Reentry Council (April 26, 2018). We brought the issue of the injunctions to the Reentry Council, which voted in support of the campaign and sent a letter to to City Attorney Dennis Herrera urging him to end the injunctions.

Community meeting in the Bayview (March 7, 2018). We held a well-attended community meeting to discuss the injunctions and their impacts on affected neighborhoods. Speakers included representatives from the SF Public Defender’s Office and Young Women’s Freedom Center, as well as Gwen Woods (mother of Mario Woods).