Jaime Omar Yassin

The Committee meetings this week are designated as “special”—meaning they do not need the same kinds of advanced noticing that a committee would usually require. The meetings would have happened last week, but were bumped for Rosh Hoshana in the original schedule prepared at the beginning of the year.

Statements captured in notes from meetings between D6 CM Kevin Jenkins’ Chief of Staff and City Council members suggest that Jenkins has had a substantive role in encampment management policy amendments currently sponsored by D7 CM Kevin Houston—and that the amendments evolved from a proposal Jenkins had initially co-

Here's the live reporting thread of the "Abatement" policy deliberation at the Special Public Safety Committee meeting on Wednesday, September 10. Though the deliberations were important and reported in the very long searchable thread, the video clips of homeless Oakland residents speaking on their own experience

After an all too-short break, the OO will be back early this week. At issue, what appears to be a joint proposal to turn an already questionable rubric that guides the City's actions on homeless dwellings and encampments into a more visibly vituperative policy—the proposal would