Posts Tagged ‘Alameda County Board of Supervisors’
Oakland grapples with tenant protections and pitfalls
Housing advocates in Oakland are warning that the current tenant protections enacted and expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic contain loopholes that leave renters vulnerable to evictions and even lawsuits. The Alameda County Board of Supervisors issued a temporary eviction ban to protect residents from being evicted in March. It covered renters, homeowners and those living…
Read MoreHighland Hospital nurses go on strike during long-running labor dispute
Nurses and healthcare workers at Highland Hospital in Oakland, joined by nurses at two other hospitals in Alameda county, will go on strike for five days beginning Wednesday, Oct. 7 to protest what they’re calling unfair labor practices by the Alameda Health System (AHS) management.
Read MoreFormer inmates face delay in Medi-Cal benefits after release from jail
Activists and Alameda County representatives want people held in Santa Rita Jail to be able to get Medi-Cal coverage prior to their release.
Read MoreOakland considers jail conversion for homeless housing
A closed downtown Oakland jail could become a new homeless shelter.
Read MoreAlameda County supervisors vote to to scale back, shift focus of Urban Shield
After more than five hours of public comment and heated debate, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to approve nearly all of an ad hoc committee’s recommendations to demilitarize the county’s controversial Urban Shield annual training program. They voted 4-0 to eliminate SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) deployment exercises and the event’s…
Read MoreProtesters call for audit of Alameda County Sheriff’s Office
Protesters marched from Glenn Dyer jail to the Alameda County Administration Building to advocate for an audit of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office.
Read MoreOakland and Alameda County officials try to jump-start solutions to homelessness
A new city-county collaboration has been put forward by Oakland City Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan, along with Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley, in an effort to grapple with the East Bay’s increasing homelessness crisis.
Read MoreSandra Johnson needs a job: Finding work after incarceration
Sandra Johnson needs a job, desperately. The formerly incarcerated 59-year-old Oakland woman is now a City College of San Francisco student, but needs to find work as well.
In June, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously in favor of establishing a new re-entry hiring program that aims to create 1,400 county job opportunities for the formerly incarcerated.
Read MoreAlameda County to designate 1,400 county jobs for the formerly incarcerated
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors approved a program to create 1,400 county jobs for formerly incarcerated residents.
Read MoreAlameda County becomes first in state to regulate cellphone surveillance tool
On Tuesday, Alameda County became the first county in California to implement new regulations on controversial spying devices used by police.
Read MoreAlameda County supervisors vote to boost funds for post-incarceration services
For several months, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights has urged the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to allocate 50 percent of their public safety funds to community organizations that assist people who have recently been released from incarceration. Their campaign is called “Jobs Not Jails.” Their effort paid off Tuesday, when the board…
Read MoreCounty Board of Supervisors approve placing $7.8 billion transportation plan on November ballot
Alameda County voters will get to decide in November if the transportation sales tax should be doubled in order to fund nearly $8 billion in transportation improvements and a return of some transit services in the county.
Read MoreCounty Board of Supervisors interviews candidates for vacant District 2 seat
Four candidates went before the Alameda County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday afternoon to argue their cases for why they should be named the interim supervisor for District 2 after Nadia Lockyer stepped down. Now the four remaining board members have a week to decide who will join them for the next five months before standing for election this November.
Read MoreCounty officials discuss how state budget cuts will affect local services
A variety of programs that the state once funded—focusing on, among other things, criminal justice, mental health and social services—will now be the responsibility of local jurisdictions, usually the county, because of state budget cuts. Just how these cuts will play out in Alameda County, and what to do about the “financial tsunami that is coming our way,” as County Supervisor Keith Carson called it, was the topic of a budget forum hosted by the county supervisors on Tuesday morning in downtown Oakland.
Read MoreCounty mental health funds increase as other departments face cuts
While the Board of Supervisors were preparing for cutbacks at Tuesday’s meeting, their most spirited debate focused on a department that actually has more money this year—the Health Care Services Agency.
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