August 8, 2018 Lawsuit alleges ankle monitoring practices are extortion A new class-action lawsuit accuses Alameda County of allowing a private company to charge excessive fees to people sentenced to electronic monitoring, telling them to pay up or go to jail.
August 1, 2018 A tale of two arrests The peaceful arrest of John Lee Cowell for the brutal murder of Nia Wilson was striking compared to BART’s past treatment of Black suspects.
July 11, 2018 Alameda County leads region in civil rights payouts There have been $15.5 million in civil rights settlements and judgments involving the sheriff’s office over the last three years.
July 2, 2018 Two inmates in Santa Rita Jail die in three days It’s unusual for two inmates to die in such close proximity, but sheriff’s officials say the deaths are unrelated.
June 19, 2018 Did race play a role in a Willard school incident? A March incident at Willard Middle School involving a white man attacking a Black student — and the Berkeley police’s handling of the incident — has concerned faculty and staff as well as witnesses of the incident.
June 9, 2018 Warriors win, Oakland celebrates The Golden State Warriors won their second straight NBA championship tonight, and their third in four years. A watch party in downtown Oakland tonight…
June 6, 2018 311 comes to Oakland The city finally added the widely adopted phone number for municipal complaints. But with rampant illegal dumping, Oakland’s complaint-driven approach has been criticized.
May 28, 2018 Tax time scammers return East Bay residents have been getting calls from aggressive scammers pretending to be IRS agents. Armed with personal information, they threaten victims with arrest unless they pay thousands of dollars.
May 7, 2018 Oakland loses a part of its history Neglected by the city for decades, the historic Miller Avenue library that first opened in 1918 was destroyed in a fire on Feb. 28 and is now gone forever.
April 18, 2018 Neighbor sues owner of demolished arts space, alleging toxic runoff Developer Danny Haber’s project to rebuild a red-tagged live-work warehouse has been stalled by environmental review and could be delayed further.
