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Posts Tagged ‘NSA’

DAC foes vow to keep ‘watching’ surveillance plan

By Becca Andrews | March 10, 2014 | 1
Mayoral candidate and civil rights lawyer Dan Seigel speaks out against the DAC: "This is not for Oakland." Photo by Becca Andrews.

The Oakland community filled City Hall last week to speak out against the Domain Awareness Center, a surveillance center that has been a source of controversy since July.

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Thomas Frazier, lead investigator of Occupy Oakland response, named OPD compliance director

By Samantha Masunaga | March 5, 2013 | 4

Federal Judge Thelton Henderson named former Baltimore Police Commissioner Thomas C. Frazier as the new compliance director of the Oakland Police Department on Monday.

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Judge orders stricter oversight for Oakland Police Department

By Megan Molteni | January 25, 2012

Following a federal judge’s decision on Tuesday, the Oakland Police Department must now relinquish some of its executive powers to the monitor in charge of overseeing court-ordered reforms within the department.

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Twelve years after the Riders, a long legal process is reaching its final stage

By Monica Cruz-Rosas | December 20, 2011 | 17

Twelve years ago, the arrest of four police officers known as the “Riders” who were accused of planting evidence and making false arrests, shocked Oakland residents and prompted a civil lawsuit against the city. Now, the long legal process that the case set in motion is reaching its final stages.

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