San Francisco could be saying goodbye to civilian oversight of the city’s Sheriff’s Department, as an efficiency task force considers wiping out a voter-approved watchdog.

Voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition D in 2020, creating the Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board to field complaints and recommend policy changes for the Sheriff’s Department.

Proposition D followed years of reports that San Francisco County jails were understaffed, overcrowded and in poor condition.

The Sheriff’s Department Oversight Board also appoints an inspector general, tasked with overseeing investigations into misconduct within the sheriff’s office.

That board now faces possible permanent elimination by the city’s Commission Streamlining Task Force, a group created by Mayor Daniel Lurie to consoli

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