Jaime Omar Yassin

Finance Committee Cooperative Agreements Authorization This legislation authorizing the City's Cooperative Agreements with other jurisdictions would normally pass unnoticed, but it may get some added scrutiny due to a recent contracting disparity report that highlighted cooperative agreements as a vector for discriminatory contracting processes. In her presentation several

1) Skelly Process Delays Reduce OPD Operational Strength—and Could be Systemically Aiding in Exonerating Officers After Salaried “Vacations” CM Rowena Brown has asked for a report on the OPD and City’s Skelly hearing process—the state mandated due process requirement for discipline cases in government employment. That report,

1) A Public Safety Drama in Two Acts [a,b] a) Wang Pulls Scheduling Request for Report on Overtime Abuses, Suggests the OT-Curious Attend Finance Committee for a Regularly Scheduled Quarterly Report on OPD Overtime As Oaklandside’s reporting of alarmingly high overtime by an Oakland Police Officer'

--it isn't easy putting this preview together every week without fail, but OO is the only publication even trying to keep you informed about what Council gets up to before the legislation hits the full meetings. In five years of doing this work, it's never been

1) Council Approves Local Citation/Administrative Fines for Sex Work Solicitation City Council unanimously approved new legislation last week that will create an “administrative” process akin to illegal dumping citations for “loitering” with intent to purchase sexual services on Oakland’s infamous, but ever-shifting, “Blade”. The new law will