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1) Four Months after Authorization, OPD Still Hasn't Executed a Contract with Flock, Has no Additional Video Surveillance Inquiries by the Oakland Observer confirmed this month that the City of Oakland has still not signed a contract with Flock, over four months after the City Council initially authorized

A note on publishing timelines. Over the past several weeks OO got a little behind keeping up with city happenings and did not publish an “In the Details”. The ITD will be back in the coming weeks, hopefully with some catch up. Two Back to Back Council Meetings In keeping

Ken Houston’s Encampment Abatement Policy [EAP] proposal is back on Tuesday—again at an unusual time, 9:30 am. Houston’s attempts to change the policy and polarity of the City’s current Encampment Management Plan[EMP] have been in free fall for months, as his bombastic soliloquies and

1) Second Highest OPD Attrition Report in 5 Years as Public Safety Committee Continues to Focus on Marketing to Dwindling Applicant Pool Faced with an unusually dire report on police staffing on Tuesday, the Public Safety Committee largely stressed redoubled recruiting and personnel marketing as a solution, despite clear evidence

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’

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,