Overview

• On June 17, San Francisco joined Chicago, Boston, Denver and Seattle in filing suit in U.S. District Court in Illinois, alleging the Trump administration overstepped by pausing Securing the Cities program funding
• The Securing the Cities program, established under the 2018 Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Act, has provided roughly $10 million through 2029 for detection equipment, exercises and training in high-risk urban areas
• A Department of Homeland Security reimbursement request of $412,083 submitted in April remains unpaid after the agency paused funding in May due to “federal funding constraints,” according to the lawsuit
• San Francisco administers an annual allocation exceeding $1 million that supports 17 cities and counties in Northern California and western Nevada, City Attorney David Chiu said
• The lawsuit states the funding pause has forced cities to halt vendor contracts for detection systems and cancel counterterrorism training months before Super Bowl LX and FIFA World Cup security preparations