Federal HHS asks its San Francisco workers to stay home for their safety

A federal Cabinet agency wants people to avoid the Nancy Pelosi Building. It’s too unsafe.

The Department of Health and Human Services recently warned its San Francisco staff, which is housed in that building named for the former House speaker, to work from home due to unsafe, high-crime conditions in nearby neighborhoods.

On Aug. 4, HHS Assistant Secretary for Administration Cheryl Campbell sent out a memo addressing all agency employees in “Region IX,” an appellation that includes California and other states in the Western U.S. “The building is a safe and secure space for federal employees and the visiting public. There are a number of security controls GSA employs to make sure the building is safe including Federal Protective Services officers at the building and secure checkpoints,” GSA Public Affairs Officer Richard Stebbins told the Chronicle.The unsafe conditions alluded to in the HHS memo include the activity of a large open-air drug market near the federal building.

“They shared with me that they are doing everything they can to hire people to do child-care work and among 18-19 applications, a large majority of them decided they had no interest in working there once they found out where the location was,” Mr. DorseyMaintaining the levels of police necessary to mitigate the drug, crime and homelessness issues had also proven difficult, Mr. Dorsey elaborated.

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