A new San Francisco program to get the worst drunks off the streets and away from the bottle was deemed illegal last week by a California appeals court. Mayor Ed Lee’s four-month-old program, known as “chronic inebriate court,” forced people into treatment if they had ignored dozens of “notice to appear” citations for infractions such as public drunkenness. Not only do these people need care, the mayor says, but they are a public nuisance and cost The City millions of dollars a year. Read More