Author: Tracy Rosenberg

Taser Forum: San Mateo County

Following community pressure after the October 3 death of Chinedu Okobi a 36 year old Black man who was tasered by San Mateo County Sheriffs after being stopped for “walking erratically”, San Mateo’s Board of Supervisors is convening a community…

Surveillance and Secrets

Type Investigations, formerly the Investigative Fund, looked into what happens when a city goes ahead and builds a Domain Awareness Center without a transparency ordinance in place. St Louis did that with their “Real Time Crime Center”. Here is what…

Oakland Formalizes No Cooperation With ICE

On January 22, 2019, the Oakland City Council passed on second reading an ordinance that ends any and all municipal cooperation with ICE, including traffic assistance. The ordinance, which makes permanent the policy of total non-cooperation, stems from the citywide…

RIP East Bay Express

January 11 brought the sad news that East Bay alternative weekly the East Bay Express, which had been under financial duress for a while, would be laying off its entire editorial staff and greatly reducing operations. The newspaper’s demise as…