On March 7, the San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs' Association had endorsed the San Francisco Police Officers Association's Safer Policing ballot measure. The San Francisco Deputy Sheriffs' Association supports efforts to empower San Francisco police officers to carry conducted energy devices, commonly referred to as tasers.

According to SFDSA, the Hall of Justice Criminal Courthouse is also dangerously insecure, due to the lack of sworn security staff at some points of entry and lack of secure areas in courtrooms for inmates. These problems require immediate changes to staffing and a new facility for which the state must immediately make funds available, SFDSA says.

San Francisco Sheriff's Department enacted a policy requiring unwarranted, invasive and humiliating strip searches of transgender inmates. The Deputy Sheriff's Association (DSA) decries this intrusive policy and calls for the immediate transition to body scanners for all initial contraband interception.