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Criminal court reporting is not OO's wheelhouse, and for the most part this publication has left the reporting of the Thao/Jones/Duong trial to others. Having read the source motions myself, my personal opinion is that no local news agency is doing justice to the claims and
This is the last In the Details of the legislative cycle. There will be no Council meetings until mid September. OO will have direct reporting on several issues in the upcoming weeks, however, including a process at the Police Commission to create procedures for OPD's interaction with federal
It’s a dense agenda for the last meeting of the legislative session, but also a fairly light one in terms of controversial issues. The Non-Consent calendar has only three items, and almost half of the items on the Consent Calendar are second readings. Here’s the
1) OPD Bunts on ALPR Expansion At Public Safety Tuesday, OPD withdrew proposed changes to its Flock use policy embedded in its 2025 annual report. OPD generally presents all of the annual technology reports required by the City’s Surveillance Ordinance as a package to Council for block approval.
Pressed for time on this preview, unfortunately, so I will keep it to the items of most importance tomorrow. I’ll observe all of the meetings [except for Life Enrichment] tomorrow and will have live reports. Community and Economic Development Committee Seminary Point Loan Forgiveness, Line of Credit Forgiveness,
The City and Council are fast-tracking authorization of a second amendment to the Coliseum sale to Oakland Acquisition Company [OAC] , the collective corporation of financing behemoth Loop Capital and local developer AASEG at a special meeting Monday morning. The new amendment would bring the deal in line with the
An unprecedented Council push back against an Interim City Administrator [CA] appointment Tuesday night appears to be only the beginning of a still unfolding saga, records released to the public last week now confirm. A Mayor’s appointment of an Interim CA is not unusual in times when the
It’s a pretty packed agenda at Council in what will likely be the second to the last Council meeting before the end of the legislative cycle in late July. Because last Thursday's Rules Committee meeting was cancelled, a few issues will land on the agenda in
1) Jenkins Appears to Leverage $5 MM Bond Deadline for Interim CAO Appointment In a surprise dispute in the regular scheduling calendar last Thursday, CM Janani Ramachandran and Rules Chair Kevin Jenkins sought to prevent the scheduling of the Mayor’s interim City Administrator appointment of Elizabeth "Betsy&
OO's Committee and Council meeting previews got off track over the past month, mostly due to primacy of reporting on the mid-cycle budget and the "strong mayor" ballot measure. It's back for the rest of the 2026 term, hopefully, but will be scaling
