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The Sheriff's Office (SFSO), Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) and the San Francisco Conservation Corps announced they will host Summer Youth Eco-Jobs on Monday, June 15, providing horticulture training and work for city youth. 

• COVID-19 accelerates County Jail #4 closure
• Sheriff's Deputies safely resolve critical incident
• SFSO City Hall Patrol Unit "Flattens the Curve"
• Sheriff Miyamoto recognizes nurses on National Nurse Day
• Public safety agencies honor health care workers
• Learn about Five Keys' navigation centers for unsheltered persons 
• Sheriff launches video visits for moms on Mother's Day
• Celebrate Asian Pacific American month
  
   

San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto said that a fourth person has tested positive at the San Francisco County Jail’s intake and release facility. The individual was tested this morning prior to being booked using a COVID-19 rapid test, which produced a positive result within four hours.

San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto today announced a new program which will give justice-involved mothers free video visits with their children beginning Sunday, May 10 -- Mother’s Day. 

San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto said today that a person who had previously tested negative for COVID-19, and was released to the community in April, has returned to jail less than two weeks later on separate charges and has now tested positive. This is the fourth time since January 2020 that the subject has been booked into custody. 

Before the global pandemic set in, San Francisco already had one of the lowest incarceration rates in the nation. 

San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto confirmed today that a second asymptomatic person who has been in custody since Saturday, April 18, 2020, and isolated from the general population, tested positive for COVID-19.

Sheriff Paul Miyamoto today said that a person who had been in custody 24 hours and had been isolated from the general population tested positive for COVID-19. This is the first known case among the in-custody population in SF County Jail.

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• SFSO domestic violence video PSA
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• SFSO honors emergency dispatchers