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Ceasefire Audit Finds Failures in Previous Admin; Mayor to Cast Tie-Breaking Vote on Geoffrey's Inner Circle Appeal; AC Transit Failed to Observe its Own Tempo Surveillance Policy

Ceasefire Audit Finds Failures in Previous Admin; Mayor to Cast Tie-Breaking Vote on Geoffrey's Inner Circle Appeal; AC Transit Failed to Observe its Own Tempo Surveillance Policy

Independent Ceasefire Audit Finds Failures in Schaaf Direction and Armstrong Strategy Decisions An independent audit completed last month finds critical failures in the City’s Ceasefire program. The timeline of the program’s worst failures parallel with increases in Oakland’s gun violence that began in 2019. Completing the audit

Oakland Observer Winter Break

Oakland Observer Winter Break

Oakland Observer will be on winter break for the remainder of December; OO will still have important breaking news as warranted, with Twitter-live reporting for important events as always, but the OO publication will be mostly offline until early January.

Leaked Document Reveals Big Money PAC is Controlled by the Price-Recall Campaign; OPC Sends Chief Candidates to Mayor; OPD Releases Video of Shooting; Council Preview

Leaked Document Reveals Big Money PAC is Controlled by the Price-Recall Campaign; OPC Sends Chief Candidates to Mayor; OPD Releases Video of Shooting; Council Preview

Leaked DA Recall Document Reveals Mega-Donor Committee “Reviving the Bay Area” is Subordinate “Team” of SAFE Recall Campaign A leaked SAFE campaign strategy document was made public Friday by “Protect the Win”, the campaign opposing the recall of District Attorney Pamela Price. Brenda Grisham, the ostensible principal officer of

Schaaf-Era 911 Hiring Failures Revealed Months After Resolution; "Safe Work Zones" Unlikely to Reduce Crime for Workers; Council Committees Digest

Schaaf-Era 911 Hiring Failures Revealed Months After Resolution; "Safe Work Zones" Unlikely to Reduce Crime for Workers; Council Committees Digest

Schaaf-Era 9-1-1 Hiring Fail Revealed Months After Resolution A Schaaf administration hiring failure with serious repercussions for Oakland’s 9-1-1 staffing was the focus of a report initially requested by Janani Ramachandran at a December 5th City Council meeting. Ramachandran had requested the report as

Price Recall Could Cost $20 MM as Signature Gathering Triggers Legal Concerns; Oakland Ceasefire Reso Spurs Right Wing Backlash & More...

Price Recall Could Cost $20 MM as Signature Gathering Triggers Legal Concerns; Oakland Ceasefire Reso Spurs Right Wing Backlash & More...

Also: Fixed Wing Aircraft Surveillance Cams; Safe Work Zone Ordinance at Council; 1st Q Projections Show Oakland Under Water, Lower Revenue, OPD-Driven Expenditure Overage; OPD Has Same Number of Cops After Academy Graduation as Before it Started

This Week at Oakland City Council: Gaza Ceasefire Resolution; Good and Bad News at Finance Committee

This Week at Oakland City Council: Gaza Ceasefire Resolution; Good and Bad News at Finance Committee

It’s an outlier week for Council. Normally there’d be only a designated required Council meeting with the public safety boards and commissions on Tuesday. But because of a special meeting scheduled to hear a ceasefire resolution and a Special Finance Committee meeting on Monday there’s actually three

Another Step Toward a Recall Changing ALCO Ballot Measure; Price Recall Effort Closing in on $1 MM; Police Commission on Shaky Brown Act Ground w/Teleconferencing Move; Gaza Ceasefire Reso on Way to Council

Another Step Toward a Recall Changing ALCO Ballot Measure; Price Recall Effort Closing in on $1 MM; Police Commission on Shaky Brown Act Ground w/Teleconferencing Move; Gaza Ceasefire Reso on Way to Council

Delay on Recall-Changing Ballot Measure as BOS Votes For Alternate Version Which Requires Second Reading Yet another pause has been added to an Alameda County Board of Supervisors [BOS] proposed ballot measure that would, if passed in March by voters, delete the County’s century old archaic text on