MEET MATT

Supervisor Matt Dorsey was elected in 2022 against the backdrop of a record-shattering crisis in accidental drug overdose deaths in San Francisco. Matt is the first self-identified member of the substance use recovery community to serve on the Board of Supervisors in a generation.

Matt Dorsey serves as the Supervisor of San Francisco’s District 6, consisting of SoMa, Mission Bay, East Cut, and Treasure Island. A daily cyclist and Muni-rider, Matt is also a Member of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority and President of the Treasure Island Mobility Management Agency.

Since his election, Matt has been a relentless force for a safer, healthier San Francisco. Drawing on his own lived experience, he championed and passed landmark “Recovery First” legislation, which enshrines long-term remission through recovery as San Francisco’s primary substance use disorder policy goal — a historic shift away from the failed harm-reduction-only status quo.

Matt has fought to expand drug-free supportive housing, introducing legislation to address the alarming reality that 26% of overdose deaths in San Francisco occur inside permanent supportive housing, and championed the creation of new sober living environments where residents have a genuine chance to rebuild their lives.

Matt has been a consistent, relentless fighter to bring San Francisco’s Police Department up to full staffing levels. He has supported funding for police overtime, voted to allow SFPD to use security camera footage to help prevent and solve crimes, and championed a ballot measure to establish mandated police staffing levels.

He has also championed the RESET sobering center, which he called “the single most important drug process innovation San Francisco has made since the start of the fentanyl crisis.”

Matt is a City government veteran who most recently served on the command staff of the SFPD as the department’s communications director. Under the leadership of San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott, Matt worked with the SFPD in partnership with the California Department of Justice since 2018 to implement some 272 recommendations that aspire to make SFPD a national model of 21st-century policing.

Previously, Matt served for fourteen years in the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office, where he worked to support groundbreaking cases around marriage equality, education access, public health, tenant rights, and worker protections.