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Oakland’s 911 system was offline for nearly 36 hours: “I got 5” top headlines
Also: City council could get $108,000 pay raises; Disgraced mayor Sheng Thao’s alleged corruption revealed — and more local headlines
Oct 25
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Oakland Report
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Sean S. Reinhart
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I got 5: Oakland city public union votes to strike
Also: Reality star Kash (Mackayla Paige) was accidentally killed by her half-sister; Costco moves closer to opening its first warehouse in Oakland — and…
Oct 17
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Oakland Report
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Sean S. Reinhart
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I got 5: Oakland mayor Barbara Lee on the hot seat as city unions picket her speech and threaten to strike
Also: BART’s “manufactured” crisis; Oakland is far behind on maintaining storm drain system; judge denies Sheng Thao co-defendant’s request to see…
Oct 10
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Oakland Report
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Sean S. Reinhart
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As the NSA ends, the conversation returns to Oakland
After 23 years in federal court, the future of police accountability comes back home.
Sep 30
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Rajni Mandal
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Oakland moved abandoned auto enforcement out of the police department. What happened next?
Three years after transferring the work to OakDOT, the city is still sorting out the roles of transportation and police as service delivery has…
Sep 19
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Rajni Mandal
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Oakland’s police contract could raise pay 14%. Other city unions got bigger annual raises in the last round.
City council is set to vote on a contract that would make police pay a portion of their health premiums but would not cap overtime.
Sep 14
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Police commission: How to overturn a vote you couldn’t cast
Police commissioner Omar Farmer used an ethics complaint to nullify a police armored vehicle decision he had spent years opposing
Sep 13
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Rajni Mandal
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Oakland’s police commission broke open-meeting laws. The commission still hasn’t fixed it.
The public ethics commission hasn’t ruled on the matter yet — ten months after the incident — and its enforcement chief admits that they have no way to…
Sep 10
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Alex Montana
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Which violent crimes become news?
A review of one year of Oaklandside’s public safety coverage shows how a changing local news landscape can affect what readers see.
Sep 2
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Rajni Mandal
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Oakland’s Achilles heel — Letters to the editor
Wondering why a council member behaves like a nightclub act; who’s missing from the Sheng Thao witness list?; gross mismanagement at Oakland Unified …
Aug 25
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Oakland Report
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Sean S. Reinhart
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Oakland’s fire department is using GPS to improve emergency response. What about police?
The fire department’s implementation of GPS-based dispatch provides a possible model for a policy that remains unresolved at the police department.
Aug 23
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Rajni Mandal
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Oakland police could exit federal oversight soon. What comes after?
As Oakland approaches what could be the final court hearing in the longest-running federal police oversight case in the nation, a new city position is…
Aug 18
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Rajni Mandal
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