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Posts Tagged ‘gun control’

City council unanimously passes ordinance declaring a shelter crisis in Oakland

By Alondra De La Cruz | October 4, 2017 | 1

During the City Council meeting, the council members discussed Oakland’s shelter crisis, the federal legislation of California firearms laws and the state of the city address.

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After her own tragic loss, Lorrain Taylor charts a path for mothers who have lost children to gun violence

By Libby Leyden | December 8, 2015 | 3

In 2006, Taylor founded 1,000 Mothers to Prevent Violence as an organization to provide practical support to families who have lost someone to homicide. “Someone one day asked me: ‘What is it that you do?’” said Taylor. “It is not an ‘it.’ It all depends on the family’s needs.”

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Oakland Public Safety Committee discusses how to spend its $1 million gun tracing budget

By Melissa Batchelor Warnke | November 12, 2015 | 3

Department officials believe that, with more personnel and better equipment, they will be able to streamline their workflow and stay on top of which guns need to be traced.

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Cops and community search for trust in Oakland’s most violent neighborhoods

By Nailah Morgan | October 19, 2015 | 2

The Oakland Police Department (OPD) was granted $1.875 million for creating and preserving 15 community-policing law enforcement jobs.

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Community mourns loss of Oakland artist, shot dead while painting a peace mural

By Melissa Batchelor Warnke | October 1, 2015 | 5

Around 200 people gathered at a vigil Wednesday morning to honor the life of Antonio Ramos. Ramos, a West Oakland-based artist employed by the nonprofit Attitudinal Healing Connection (AHC), was shot and killed Tuesday while working on a mural on West Street between 35th and 36th Streets, under the 580 freeway.

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Assembly Bill 180 looks to tighten gun regulation in Oakland

By Jake Nicol | September 23, 2013 | 5
Assemblyman Rob Bonta (D-Oakland) sponsored AB180. Photo courtesy of East Bay Regional Park District

If signed into law, AB 180 would take the historic step of making Oakland the first city in the state to regulate the registration or licensing of firearms on a local level.

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