Public Safety Concerns at Santa Monica Public Librar
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“PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERNS AT SANTA MONICA PUBLIC LIBRAR”
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Topic poll · all networksHow should public libraries handle safety and drug use?
Topic poll · all networksWhat will Santa Monica do about its contaminated library first?
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SF libraries spent ~$500K/year on social workers for safety crises.
San Francisco's public library hired the first full-time library social worker in the U.S. in 2009. By 2016, the program expanded to a team — a model now adopted by cities nationwide facing similar drug use and safety complaints.
E. coli as a contamination red flag dates back to the 1890s!
Bacteriologist Theobald Smith identified E. coli as a fecal contamination indicator in 1892. His method — still the global standard — is exactly what flagged the Santa Monica library's keyboards as unsafe.
