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Oakland Public Safety Committee Receives Update On Moving Special Events From Oakland Police Department To Civilians

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Rebecca Kaplan Oakland City Council

Oakland, CA – Today, October 12, 2021, the City of Oakland’s Public Safety Committee will receive an informational report from the City Administrator regarding the status of implementing the July 2020 Council directive, introduced by Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan,  to transfer Special Events Permitting out of the Oakland Police Department (“OPD”) to be handled by … Read more

Rebecca Kaplan 9/21 Oakland City Council Meeting: Important Community Grants Updates & Supporting Right to Reproductive Freedom

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Rebecca Kaplan Asks Oakland City Council To Back Macro, Wnba Coliseum Lease

At the Tuesday, September 21, 2021, 1pm Oakland City Council meeting, Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan has asked for the City Administration to share an important informational report on the status of several vital community grants that she and her council colleagues advocated for and successfully approved, many since early spring. These grants include:   COVID-19 … Read more

Oakland Vice-Mayor Rebecca Kaplan’s Housing And Homelessness Plan For Action

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Rebecca Kaplan Oakland City Council

Oakland Vice-Mayor Rebecca Kaplan Of The Oakland City Council Has Housing and Homelessness Plan for Action Oakland, CA — Today, March 22, 2021, Oakland Vice-Mayor Rebecca Kaplan is presenting her “Housing and Homelessness Plan for Action” at the 1PM Special Life Enrichment Committee (“LEC”) meeting. The Vice-Mayor has continuously called on the City of Oakland … Read more

March 16,2021 Oakland City Council Meeting: Discussing Oakland Recovery Plan & MACRO

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Rebecca Kaplan Oakland City Council At-Large

March 16,2021 Oakland Council Meeting: Discussing Oakland’s Steps to Recovery & MACRO March 15, 2021 At Today’s, March 16, 2021, Oakland Council meeting, I am introducing my proposed budget allocations to close the City’s short fall and restore vital community services — allowing for a just and healthy recovery. My colleagues, Council president Nikki Bas … Read more

Rebecca Kaplan Denounces Plan To Cut Oakland Fire Services

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Rebecca Kaplan Oakland City Council At-Large

Oakland’s Vice Mayor Kaplan Denounces Dangerous Plan to Cut Fire Services, Finds Millions of Dollars to Save Vital Services Oakland – Oakland Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan has identified an additional $10 million to help save vital services in Oakland, in the face of proposed budget cuts and threats to public safety. In recent days, numerous … Read more

Rebecca Kaplan Oakland Councilmember Presents Ideas To Generate Budget Revenue – On Twitter

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Rebecca Kaplan Oakland Councilmember Presents Ideas To Generate Budget Revenue – On Twitter ONN – Rebecca Kaplan Oakland Councilmember Presents Ideas To Generate Budget Revenue – On Twitter – vlog by Zennie62 YouTube Oakland City Council President Rebecca Kaplan presented this text on Twitter about 35 minutes ago to this point: Closing the budget gap … Read more

Will Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Join Councilmembers Kaplan, Gallo, Thao In Barbara Lee For Senator?

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On Monday, Oakland City Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan was joined by colleagues Noel Gallo and Sheng Thao, and the trio issued a short press release via her amazing Chief of Staff Kimberly Jones that went like this: OAKLAND, CA (November 23, 2020) — Today, Oakland Councilmembers Rebecca Kaplan, Noel Gallo, and Sheng Thao wrote an open … Read more

Oakland Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan Urges No Vote On Proposition 22

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Rebecca Kaplan Oakland City Council At-Large

Oakland – Amid the $200 million in expenditures to pass Proposition 22 and the $400,000 to defeat her by Lyft, Rebecca Kaplan is urging voters to vote No on Proposition 22. Large corporations, including Lyft and Uber, are spending big in this election, seeking to undermine our democracy, harm workers, and undermine our communities, while … Read more

Rebecca Kaplan Oakland Councilmember At-Large Blasts Warriors Appeal of Arena Bond Debt

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Rebecca Kaplan Oakland City Council At-Large

Oakland — The Golden State Warriors have filed for a hearing with the California Supreme Court to overturn the California District Court’s April 2020 decision in favor of the Oakland – Alameda County Coliseum Authority, ruling the Warriors’ responsible for the over $40 million of outstanding debt. This puts the people of Oakland and Alameda … Read more

Oakland City Council Special Council Meeting: Approval To Buy Clifton Hall For Affordable Housing

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Oakland Clifton Hall Dorm In Rockridge

Oakland – Oakland City Council President Rebecca Kaplan has been urging the City to take action to acquire available buildings, such as SROs, hotels, and dormitories, to help house the homeless. The Council unanimously passed Kaplan’s resolution on March 27, 2020, urging rapid action on this due to the growing COVID-19 crisis, and to protect those most vulnerable in our community.

(March 27th Resolution: https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4406723&GUID=A7FFA7BB-F313-4D65-9223-686B5985123A&Options=&Search=)

Rebecca Kaplan Oakland City Council President
Rebecca Kaplan Oakland City Council President

Today, the Oakland City Council held a Special Council Meeting to approve the acquisition of a dormitory to help house those in need, and to apply for the State of California’s Homekey grant program. Council President Kaplan is pleased to announce that she and her colleagues unanimously voted to send applications to the state and to authorize a deal to purchase the California College of the Arts (CCA) Clifton Hall dormitory.

The Clifton Hall dorm is a four story building, with 63 units, in the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland. On the top two floors of the building, Clifton Hall will provide 42 units of permanent housing for seniors experiencing homelessness and at high risk of contracting COVID-19. The second floor will become the permanent home for a 20-household family shelter. On the ground floor, the building will house the offices of Family Front Door, which serves as the hub for the Coordinated Entry System (CES) for homeless families in Northern Alameda County.

Kaplan stated: “It is vital that we take action to respond to the homelessness crisis, prevent the spread of disease, and protect our community, including vulnerable seniors. I am pleased that we were able to work together to pass vital actions, to make it possible to acquire this dorm, and other properties, to help those in need.”

Link to the Item on the August 28th Council Agenda, to acquire this dorm:

https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4623763&GUID=D81CFF5A-CEBC-4DA5-B931-02896A1988AB&Options=&Search=

See this tweet:

Link to prior resolution to acquire SRO’s, etc:

https://oakland.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3461300&GUID=721740F1-C88A-483E-8385-CFD766C5CDAC&Options=ID|Text|&Search=homeless

Monitor Warshaw’s Report On Oakland Police Chief Kirkpatrick False Statement; Need For Oversight

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Oakland – This week, Robert Warshaw, The Federal Monitor over the Oakland Police Department released a new report, detailing deception and cover-up at the top of OPD. As many in Oakland’s communities work against police misconduct, we face the institutional leaders that cover-up those actions.

NEWS: Read about Former Oakland Police Chief Kirkpatrick’s lawsuit against the City of Oakland, here.
Compliance Monitor, Robert Warshaw, released this week his report on the shooting of Joshua Pawlik, and the subsequent investigation and public statements by OPD Chief and Mayor which sought to justify the shooting and avoid fully investigating it, stating:

“OPD’s initial press releases and our early conversations with Chief Kirkpatrick and others raised serious concerns that the Department had concluded that the shooting was justified even before its investigations were complete.”

Mr. Warshaw’s report shines a light on OPD, former Chief of Police Anne Kirkpatrick, and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf for failing to properly investigate the shooting. According to the report, former Chief Kirkpatrick displayed bias from the start of the investigation, rather than the appropriate objectivity required of her, stating the night that Mr. Pawlik was killed, the shooting “looked good.” In OPD’s investigation, they failed to look at the video evidence and relied heavily on the officers’ account of the events. The Oakland Police Commission was the only aspect of the investigation process that functioned as designed, bringing objectivity and professionalism into the proceedings.

Oakland has had a long history of police misconduct and failure to properly investigate. This has caused the Oakland community to demand that there be greater police accountability. The Compliance Monitor’s report on the Pawlik killing and OPD’s unprofessional investigation that followed such a significant use of force highlights the need for the Oakland Police Commission to be independent and effective, as a civilian oversight body, that is separate from the police chain of command. Oakland voters will have the opportunity to support this independence with the Police Commission ballot measure on the November ballot.

Several months ago, former OPD Chief Kirkpatrick denounced the independent Police Commission, which had disagreed with her handling of the Pawlik investigation. This Federal Monitor report shows that Kirkpatrick’s statements were incorrect, and the Police Commission’s efforts to seek a full and fair investigation are vindicated.

Link to Shooting of Joshua Pawlik by Oakland Police Officers: A Report of the Monitor/Compliance Director:

Oakland City Council Passes Police Commission Ballot Measure For November 2020 Ballot

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Rebecca Kaplan Oakland City Council At-Large

Oakland, CA (July 23, 2020)- Today, The Police Commission Ballot measure resolution that Oakland Councilmember Dan Kalb and I, Oakland At-Large Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan, introduced, which was co-sponsored by Oakland Councilmembers Noel Gallo and Loren Taylor, was unanimously passed by Council. It will now go on the November 3, 2020 Ballot for Oakland voters to … Read more

Oakland City Council’s Equity Caucus Redirects $150 Million From Oakland Police To Black Community

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Oakland – Tuesday, July 21, 2020, the Oakland City Council Equity Caucus (Vice Mayor Larry Reid, Councilmembers Lynette Gibson McElhaney, Noel Gallo,and Loren Taylor) ushered a unanimous vote to immediately begin the effort to redirect $150 Million from police to fund Oakland’s Black community, improve public safety and meet other critical community needs.“Yesterday’s debate provided … Read more

Oakland City Council President Kaplan Proposes Budget Funding For Fire Works Response, More

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Rebecca Kaplan Oakland City Council At-Large

Proposing Budget Funding To Provide Fire Works Response, Fire Safety, Education, Drive-In Theater and More Oakland, CA – In recent weeks, there has been an increase of people setting off fireworks throughout our community, often late at night, and extensively. Fireworks are not permitted, they are disrupting our community, and also create a growing risk … Read more

Time For Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, Council President Rebecca Kaplan To Lead: Phil Tagami Files

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Rebecca Kaplan and Libby Schaaf

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and Oakland City Council President Rebecca Kaplan must put aside their differences and collaborate to save our City of Oakland. Word is they have not spoken in weeks – what a shame two smart progressive Democrats that can’t have a conversation if that doesn’t size up the problem with our country … Read more

Rebecca Kaplan Oakland Council President’s Agenda For A Healthy Transition & Just Recovery Plan

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Rebecca Kaplan: Oakland City Council President Releases Video On Covid 19 And Oaklanders

Oakland, CA: (May 18, 2020) – Today, Oakland Council President Rebecca Kaplan, who serves as Oakland’s Council Member At-Large, announced a bold “Agenda for Healthy Transition and a Just Recovery Plan.” The City of Oakland remains in the local State of Emergency that the City Administrator declared on March 9, 2020 due to the COVID-19 … Read more