#PublicPressLive: San Francisco’s FDR Democratic Club Talks Disability Issues

This year, the Public Press is visiting San Francisco neighborhood and community groups to talk about San Francisco civic issues that are overlooked in the press.

Publisher Lila LaHood visited the FDR Democratic Club on June 1.

Members discussed how data-driven policy-making impacts people with disabilities, who sometimes are not reflected in official recordkeeping. They also spoke about the death of Thu Phan, a disability rights advocate who used a wheelchair. Phan was killed in a traffic accident on Market Street in February. 

Member John Alex Lowell said he believed there was a flaw in how the city’s Vision Zero program counted traffic fatalities.

“Their definiton is only those people who died under 30 days,” Lowell said. 

Hear more thoughts from FDR Democratic Club members below.

Video edited by Hyunha Kim. 

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