From the East Bay Express: 11/30/2017 by Darwin Bond Graham ** A controversial automated license plate reader camera that was installed at the driveway entrance of Oakland’s Highland Hospital in 2014 has been removed by the hospital. Director of Government…
Month: November 2017
Oakland Turns Out For Long-Delayed ICE Raid Hearing
2018 UASI Requests From Bay Area Law Enforcement
Make Sanctuary Real Videos
Mayoral Maneuvering On ICE Raid
Oakland and Berkeley Get More Oversight Of Policing
Oakland’s Communities Demand City Response on ICE Raid
Desley Brooks and Rebecca Kaplan Object To Removal of ICE Raid Report
Oakland City Council Pulls ICE Raid From Public Safety Agenda
Internal Affairs Complaint Alleges Oakland Police Chief Untruthful About ICE Raid
On November 7, 2017, an internal affairs complaint was filed by Privacy Advisory Commission Chair Brian Hofer and 7 fellow complainants (Attorney Margaret Cunningham, Wellstone Club Politics Chair Pamela Drake, Sanctuary Advocate Linda Olvera, Sharon Rose with Block By Block Organizing Network, Media Alliance ED and OP member Tracy Rosenberg, Reverend J. Alfred Smith Jr of Allen Temple Baptist Church, and Sociology Professor Judith Stacey) against Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick for false statements made to the public and Oakland’s City Council about the August 16 West Oakland ICE Raid.
5 additional individuals and two organizations joined on to the complaint on November 13. The additional signers are No Coal in Oakland activist Michael Kaufman, John Jones III of Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice (CURYJ), Rebecca Merton with CIVIC, attorneys Mary Vail and Alan Brill, and organzational support from the California Sanctuary Campaign and Citizens Initiating Visits with Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC).
Oakland’s Public Safety Committee will have a hearing with OPD Chief Anne Kirkpatrick in attendance on November 14 at 6pm at City Hall. The public is encouraged to attend.
A copy of the complaint is below.
Univision Coverage (with Santos, the 25 year old in deportation proceedings due to the raid)
San Francisco Chronicle coverage
KPIX-TV Coverage