By Laura Wenus, Mission Local
San Francisco’s Civil Grand Jury, a volunteer citizen oversight body, issued a report this month that found that the Department of Building Inspections and Fire Department sometimes take too long to correct fire safety code violations.
According to the Civil Grand Jury — 19 volunteers who serve for a year before a new group is selected — buildings go uninspected for longer than the city code requires and fire hazards persist because of inefficiencies in the two departments’ protocols.
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