"Surveillance technology has been used repeatedly in the Castro to target and harass the LGBTQ community," the club's executive board wrote in the October 8 letter.Andrea Aiello, a lesbian who is the executive director of the CBD, responded to the letter in a statement to the Bay Area Reporter October 9 in which she wrote "as frontline stewards for our neighborhood, Castro CBD welcomes stakeholder input from everyone in our community.
Consideration of the SafeCity camera program came from concerned residents and a real need to address public safety issues in our district."As the B.A.R.
previously reported, the Castro neighborhood has been plagued by petty crime in recent months, from break-ins to window vandalism. "Since COVID we've seen a.