San Francisco supervisors are likely to approve a resolution in the coming weeks urging Mayor London Breed to declare the city's overdose crisis a local emergency.
We think Supervisor Matt Haney's planned hearing on the matter is long overdue and that Breed should have been proactive earlier and declared the emergency on her own.
Once the board passes the resolution, the mayor should act on it.We and many other local outlets have covered the city's overdose epidemic for some time.