A two-hour town hall about a proposal to place 125 security cameras in San Francisco's Castro district yielded no clear consensus April 27 — except, that is, that there will be more discussions going forward.
The meeting was hosted by the Castro/Upper Market Community Benefit District, which was going to vote last year on accepting some $695,000 from tech mogul Chris Larsen to pay for the security camera network.
Larsen has funded CBDs to install cameras around San Francisco, as the New York Times reported in July 2020, in such neighborhoods as Fisherman's Wharf, Lower Polk, Mid-Market, Tenderloin, Union Square, and Japantown.