Jaime Omar Yassin

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

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’

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'