Shamann Walton

Walton was the only San Francisco Board of Supervisors member to explicitly reject a potential plan to allow fourplexes in San Francisco in areas previously restricted to single-family housing (which had been implemented in the neighbouring city of Sacramento).[7] He stated that the Sacramento bill "would speed up the gentrification" and "this policy is bad for San Francisco."[7]

In December 2018, Walton and supervisor Hillary Ronen put forth legislation calling to close San Francisco's youth detention center by December 2021.[3]

In June 2020, during the nationwide George Floyd protests, he introduced a resolution to ban the San Francisco Police Department and Sheriff's Department from hiring officers with a history of serious misconduct.[8] In October, he introduced the CAREN act, which would make fraudulent emergency telephone calls motivated by racism illegal.[9]

In February 2020, Walton put forth a resolution calling for reparations for the city's African American population. The resolution itself forms a working group that will further develop the plan.[10]

In July 2020, Walton and supervisor Aaron Peskin opted to not introduce a $100 million sales tax measure into the November 2020 ballots to finance Caltrain, which has seen a 95% reduction in ridership due to the COVID-19 pandemic in California. Ride fares account for 70% of the service's operating budget. The supervisors cite the lack of shared authority on the Joint Powers Board over the train line's management, which is currently operated by the SamTrans, and the regressive nature of the sales tax to fund operations for a service whose customer base has a mean income of $120,000 as pain points to supporting the measure. However, Peskin mentioned that the measure can still be introduced by the mayor or other supervisors if they wanted to.[11][12] The supervisors later changed their minds when Caltrain pledged to make changes to its structure, making it more independent from SamTrans.[13]