Civil-rights advocates concerned about “domestic spying” on San Francisco’s Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian (AMEMSA) communities are celebrating new legislation signed into law, May 9.

Ed Lee won the Mayoral election by a large margin—roughly 60 percent of voters listed him as their first choice—but District 11 Supervisor John Avalos won the Mission vote by a landslide, earning 4,439 votes of the 9,726 ballots cast in the district.

While on his way out, Gavin Newsom influenced the Board of Supervisors to name Ed Lee the interim mayor.