Jaime Omar Yassin

Tuesday a mysterious organization’s Oakland attitudes poll was promoted across a spectrum of center-right sources, with several of its marquee findings used to argue that Oaklanders want more policing, surveillance and homeless displacement. But any civic-minded Oakland resident following links to the website of the prestigious-sounding East Bay Polling

CED and Life Enrichment are pretty impacted and there’s a lot of reports here, OO can’t go through all of them unfortunately, but I’ll at least list everything of public interest here, with drill downs on some exceptionally noteworthy items: Finance OPD Overtime Report While its not

1) The EAP Could be on its Way Back After Jenkins Promises a Special Meeting for it, Again With No Firm Date In what has become a familiar cycle, CM Ken Houston again returned to the speakers podium of the Rules Committee on Thursday urging Rules members to schedule his

Near-Empty Non Consent Calendar It's worth noting that the only items on the Non Consent Calendar are required to be there due to statutes requiring public hearings. Everything else is on the Consent Calendar, including, inscrutably, legislation to ratify the recently qualified union-backed parcel tax ballot measure. Since

1) Council Public Safety Committee Chair Rushes Independent Police Oversight Director as He Presents Evidence OPD Skelly Presentation Was Flawed Oakland Public Safety Committee Chair Charlene Wang set up an awkward juxtaposition for the Community Police Review Agency [CPRA] and the OPD on the issue of Skelly process at Tuesday’