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Oakland Observer News Analysis: In the past months, it's been difficult to ignore efforts by CMs that curtail public participation in important Oakland legislation. OO drills down on a Council practice which may only get worse with new Rules of Procedure
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In October, public participation in legislative processes, and the lack of it, became an over-riding theme at the Oakland City Council's scheduling meetings. Three issues of significant importance to...
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Police Commission Selection Panel met last week for the 1st time since Council's unprecedented rejection of their appointment slate & voted to submit same slate again. Panelists did not hold back about Council actions/treatment. It's an OO exclusive report
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On Thursday, the Oakland Police Commission Selection Panel* had its first meeting since the City Council rejected their latest appointments for the Oakland Police Commission and voted by a majority...
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Amid furor over Flock and the national laughingstock Houston Made of Oakland, Council Passed Significant Legislation That Could Affect Revenues, Public Participation and Campaign Finance Practices https://t.co/tLhOuJMLpk
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In what appeared to almost be a parodic performance of untransparent governance, the City Council’s last meeting of the Calendar year passed a multitude of significant legislation—too much in one...
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Contrary to Council attitudes about public participation, institutionally, the public are viewed as participants in the legislative process, not bothersome nobodies and weird freaks that have to be interpolated as unrepresentative of general views
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None of the Brown or Wang/Unger amendments to Flock address the biggest problem-that in state agencies don't have to be honest about what they are looking for, and OPD lacks a process to know. OPD has stated it can't even do comprehensive periodic audits, but only samples.
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Singer, Grisham and Chan could soon be under Federal investigation. Recall that Singer is also the OPOA's spokesperson and Grisham is a principal in the organization that made the video shown by Ken Houston at Council Tuesday. https://t.co/LW3vzu0Mbn
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Rashida Grinage points out that the Council's actions rejecting the appointments of Farmer/Acosta should be considered null and void, says shes disappointed in OCA not catching that, and insists that SP send the appointments to both City Council and CAO at the same time
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Mary Vail, who was one of the original selection panel members
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Herron says that she "had to put her foot down" about the Assistant City Administrator trying to write their agenda.
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Herron: "The issue [with recruitment] is again, the turn off from all of the politics that have been inserted into our process and the police Commission's process and the back door deals that are starting"
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Chair Herron again: "the narrative that the recruitment process was not done well is a false narrative, and it is a narrative to cover for the real reason why those appointments were not pushed through".
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Millie Cleveland of CPA notes the CPA's reading of charter that the SP must send the slate to the Council, and that the 60 day notice only begins after the background checks are complete.
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Staying on until open forum to hear feedback about the move today.
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Rivera nominated Clewis as Vice Chair and he won unanimously
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Rivera: "I did hear that police, what do they call them the police ...were against the two of them. And I heard the same thing against them, that they had some kind of issue with [appointments], and that was one of the things that was part of it"
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It looks like they're going to continue to funnel new applicants to reserve pool
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Eddy says that they should not be adversarial, and perhaps not even include one that includes complaints: "if we try to go to war with them and try to piss them off the way they pissed us off...we're never going to win, we're volunteers"
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They're now discussing whether to add commentary in the report about the disrespectful treatment of SP and appointees.
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SP is about to take the vote on resubmitting slate of Farmer and Acosta, 5 votes, Smith abstained because he had not actually interviewed the other candidates.
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