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SAFE Recall Committee Issues First Funding Report; but Majority of Recall Funds Hidden from Public Scrutiny Through Use of General Committee The SAFE campaign finance committee this week met its legal obligations to produce a quarterly 460 report—which details donations and spending from July 1, to September 30. Recalls

The measure would delete the text of ALCO’s archaic 98 year old Charter Section 62 on recalls, written at a time when the State of California had different recall rules, and before the advent of many state and federal election laws.

A published Oakland Police Commission [OPC] special meeting agenda was removed from the City’s website and replaced by a special meeting on a different day with a different agenda by direction of a Commissioner who apparently had no authority to do so last week.

Last Meeting for Chair and Vice Chair of Police Commission Fails Without Quorum as Commissioner Boycott Continues The last functional meeting on the Police Commission for Chair Tyfahra Milele and Vice Chair David Jordan passed Thursday without quorum, as the Commission again failed an attendance roll call. The meeting was

PAC Approves OPD ALPR Use Policy In a brief meeting that lasted under an hour, the Oakland Privacy Advisory Commission [PAC] approved OPD’s use policy for a new Flock Automated License Plate Reader [ALPR] system last Thursday. As substitute Chair Henry Gage* and other Commissioners noted, the speed of

Nearly a year after shutting down its own Automated License Plate Reader [ALPR] system, OPD returns to the Privacy Advisory Commission [PAC] Thursday with a new proposed ALPR use policy–for a new ALPR system. OPD now appears intent on acquiring an expanded city-wide stationary ALPR system. Documents included in

Oakland Police Commission Enters Uncharted Territory, Upcoming Meetings in Question After months of infighting, the Oakland Police Commission [OPC] entered a new phase of instability this week as a showdown between current leadership–Chair Tyfahra Milele and Vice Chair David Jordan–and several other Commissioners seeped into the Oakland Police