Civil rights lawyers say the Oakland Police Department’s reluctance to investigate troubling social media posts with suspected links to its officers represents a “cataclysmic failure of judgment and leadership.”
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An Alameda County judge ruled California Governor Gavin Newsom has the authority to certify plans to build a new stadium for the Oakland A’s baseball team.
Read moreThe city of Oakland, California, will settle claims it has allowed rental scooters to run amok on the city’s sidewalks and driveways by requiring the scooter operators to respond to complaints of dumped scooters and riders to take photos of properly parked scooters as part of closing their ticket.
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Derick Almena, a man who converted an Oakland warehouse into an artist collective where a 2016 fire killed 36, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter Friday.
Read moreA federal court in California certified a class of disabled, low-income renters who say they were unable to participate in Oakland’s rent control program because many of the residential units are not accessible for them.
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A California judge on Tuesday approved a settlement that calls for the city of Oakland to pay $32.7 million to the families of 32 of the 36 people who died in a fire at a music party at the Ghost Ship warehouse in Oakland four years ago.
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Putting a cap on what amounts to a total $33 million in settlements, the Oakland City Council agreed to pay $399,000 to the 12 remaining plaintiffs in the Ghost Ship warehouse fire.
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A federal judge offered to tweak an injunction against the Oakland Police Department Tuesday after the city’s policing partners refused to provide aid during protests unless restrictions on tear gas and rubber bullets were lifted.
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Three Ninth Circuit judges heard arguments Tuesday over the constitutionality of an Oakland ordinance requiring landlords to pay relocation costs for tenants displaced by evictions when property owners move back in.
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You can’t sit back and wait for things to happen. That’s the advice offered by retired U.S. District Judge Thelton E. Henderson, who oversaw a series of pivotal cases that helped improve conditions in California state prisons and combat racial bias in the Oakland police force.
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Months after a federal judge ordered police to issue vocal warnings before deploying tear gas at protests, a new motion for sanctions says the directive has gone ignored at recent demonstrations.
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A state appellate court chided the city of Oakland Thursday for bringing an anti-SLAPP motion against developers of what stands to be the largest coal export terminal on the West Coast on the site of a decommissioned army base in West Oakland.
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Citing a pattern of consistent stonewalling, investigative journalists have taken the Oakland Police Department to court to force it to comply with state public records laws.
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Wells Fargo cannot dodge claims that its allegedly racist lending practices caused Oakland to lose millions of dollars in property taxes resulting from widespread foreclosures and a steep decline in home values, the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday.
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Fired Oakland Police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick followed through on a promise to sue the city of Oakland for retaliation, filing a federal lawsuit Wednesday that claims she was booted from the job for reporting corruption and misconduct in the police commission.
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The Oakland Police Department and its former chief handled the 2018 death of a homeless man in a hail of police gunfire with “an appalling measure of incompetence, deception, and indifference,” the department’s independent monitor said in a withering report released Monday.
Read morePolice in Oakland, California, may not use stinger grenades, wooden bullets, rubber or rubber-coated bullets, pepper balls and similar munitions against demonstrators, a federal court in California ruled, finding that many of the items are already prohibited by the city’s Crowd Control Policy. But banning chemical agents, flashbang grenades and foam projectiles outright could “endanger public safety” and “increase the dangers faced by protestors,” the court added.
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The Oakland A’s baseball team sued California’s toxic waste department Wednesday, claiming it has failed to rein in pollution generated by Schnitzer Steel — a multinational company operating the largest metal-shredding facility in the state next to the team’s proposed future waterfront home.
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Despite claims that using tear gas and other non-lethal weapons on protesters violates the First Amendment, a federal judge indicated Tuesday he would not outright ban the Oakland Police Department from deploying those tools when demonstrations turn violent or destructive.
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In a settlement announced late Thursday, the City of Oakland has agreed to pay $32.7 million to families with loved ones who perished in the 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire, along with one survivor who continues to battle with severe lifelong injuries.
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