The Facts

Mayor Daniel Lurie says the city will open a SoMa “Rapid Enforcement, Support, Evaluation, and Triage” (RESET center) at 444 6th St., next to the Hall of Justice. The site is intended for people arrested for public intoxication, as an alternative to jail booking or ER transport.

The Sheriff’s Office will oversee RESET with Department of Public Health support, and the contractor running day-to-day operations will be Connections Health Solutions.

The Context

San Francisco already opened a 24/7 “police-friendly” behavioral-health stabilization site at 822 Geary in April 2025—designed for urgent mental-health crises and to reduce ER overload.

RESET is different: it’s built around a custodial intervention (arrest first), focused on hotspots near Sixth Street. The city’s earlier Sixth Street triage center pilot showed how hard it is to change street conditions without faster, more accountable pathways into care.

The GrowSF Take

This is a promising shift: compassion has to include getting people indoors, stabilized, and connected to treatment—not left unconscious on the sidewalk.

But success can’t be vibes. The city should publish clear metrics: officer time saved, repeat bookings, overdoses near Sixth Street, and how many people actually enter treatment after RESET. And if the center creates spillover disorder, the city must adjust operations quickly—because SoMa residents and businesses deserve clean, safe streets.