Posts Tagged ‘Jean Quan’
Oakland’s Financial Planning Day offers free advice to the public
The annual event offers the public a chance to sit down with a financial advisor at no charge, no strings attached.
Read MoreGovernor Brown signs law to raise minimum wage
Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 10 today, which will increase minimum wage in California from the current $8 floor wage to $10 by 2016 – one of the highest rates in America.
Read MoreNew police academy graduates join Oakland Police Department
Proud family members filled the Scottish Rite Center on Friday morning to cheer for 36 new graduates joining the Oakland Police Department. This marks the 167th academy to graduate with OPD.
Read MoreFew answers about Jordan’s medical retirement at press conference
City and police officials expressed their surprise at Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan’s abrupt resignation, but had few details about what prompted the Wednesday morning announcement.
Read MoreThomas Frazier, lead investigator of Occupy Oakland response, named OPD compliance director
Federal Judge Thelton Henderson named former Baltimore Police Commissioner Thomas C. Frazier as the new compliance director of the Oakland Police Department on Monday.
Read MoreCity Council OK’s hiring law enforcement consultants including ex-LAPD chief William Bratton
The City Council on Tuesday night voted in a slew of programs aimed at reducing violent crime in Oakland, including hiring a police consulting firm for $250,000, contracting with the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, hiring 20 civilians to assist police, and funding a third police academy in two years.
Read MoreNewly sworn-in Oakland City Council says resources should be shifted to public safety
Oakland’s new city council members, who were inaugurated at a ceremony at City Hall Monday, set the stage for the elected body’s biggest policy focus of the next four years—public safety. While it’s no secret that crime is Oakland’s number one problem, with the city’s homicide rate reaching 131 on the last day of 2012,…
Read MoreOakland’s Municipal ID, debit card program to launch February 1
Oakland officials have announced a launch date for the city’s new Municipal ID program, which would allow Oakland residents to apply for a city-issued identification card that can also be used as a debit card. Oakland studied other cities that have implemented similar programs, including New Haven, Connecticut, and San Francisco, said Mayor Jean Quan,…
Read MoreOakland North’s biggest news stories of 2012
2012 was a year of big changes for Oakland, as the city dealt with its struggling finances, a possible federal takeover of its police department, multiple petitions to recall the mayor and the closure of several elementary schools.
Read MoreJudge approves settlement agreement, new compliance director in OPD takeover dispute
Nine years after the Oakland Police Department was ordered to comply with a series of court orders or be put into receivership, a federal judge approved a settlement agreement Wednesday between city officials and civil rights attorneys that avoids a takeover of the department by a federal monitor.
Read MoreCity Council poised to vote on two ideas aimed at combating foreclosures in Oakland
The City Council is slated Tuesday to vote on two different approaches to the problem of multiple property foreclosures in Oakland. One tries to help homeowners threatened with foreclosure in the city’s hardest-hit neighborhoods, while the other would require investors who snatch up properties under foreclosure to fix them up, both inside and out. The…
Read MorePossible Oakland Police Department receivership raises many unanswered questions
The Oakland Police Department has operated under the threat of federal receivership for nine years.
Read MoreWith shooting deaths up, Oakland to give violence reduction program a second try
A rise in shootings has prompted Oakland city officials and community members to revisit Operation Ceasefire, a violence prevention program the city tried before but failed to sustain, one that specifically targets offenders with known track records of gun violence.
Read MoreAt press conference, Jordan addresses new programs, homicides
After a week in which five homicides were reported within an 18-hour period, Oakland police touted new crime-fighting programs and several successful arrests in other cases at a press conference Thursday morning at police headquarters.
Read MoreStepping down as Mayor Quan’s spokesperson, Sue Piper reflects on challenging years
For the two years since Jean Quan was elected mayor in Oakland’s first ranked-choice voting election, the voice of her administration—through multiple turbulent situations—has been Susan Piper, who retired last month as Quan’s official spokesperson.
Read MoreMonths after son was killed by Oakland police, Bluefords seek answers in police report
Adam and Jeralynn Blueford have been searching since late spring for details surrounding the killing of their son Alan, whose death in May—the 18-year-old was shot to death in East Oakland by a city police officer—was at the heart of the controversy that broke up the Oakland City Council meeting Tuesday night. Blueford, a senior at…
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