Jennifer Zilliac
@jennifer-zilliac.bsky.social
Wife, mom, sister, aunt, community volunteer, and proud Oaklander. I value caring and fairness for all. I'm trying to understand individuals and society. I keep learning the same thing: We are some mixed bag!
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Let's talk about collaborative justice courts: Collaborative justice courts combine judicial supervision with rehabilitation and treatment instead of detention.
#learn #info #criminaljusticereform
#learn #info #criminaljusticereform
December 16, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Let's talk about collaborative justice courts: Collaborative justice courts combine judicial supervision with rehabilitation and treatment instead of detention.
#learn #info #criminaljusticereform
#learn #info #criminaljusticereform
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News reporting that will get you through an unusually dense week of council meetings. Here's the rundown on budget and finance processes both today and tomorrow: oakland-observer.gho...
And the other legislation; some changes coming to Police Commission oakland-observer.gho...
And the other legislation; some changes coming to Police Commission oakland-observer.gho...
Oakland Budget Focus: Unusual Two Days of Council Meetings Will Introduce Far-Reaching Legislation This Week
An unusual double header of Monday and Tuesday City Council meetings will introduce wide-ranging legislation focused on budget-balancing, mayoral and council vacancies, and proposed parcel and sales taxes this week. Council will deliberate on several time-sensitive legislative items on both days. Some of those must be passed by the 17th;
oakland-observer.ghost.io
December 16, 2024 at 3:36 PM
News reporting that will get you through an unusually dense week of council meetings. Here's the rundown on budget and finance processes both today and tomorrow: oakland-observer.gho...
And the other legislation; some changes coming to Police Commission oakland-observer.gho...
And the other legislation; some changes coming to Police Commission oakland-observer.gho...
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It's more insidious when you look at the pernicious effect of police unions constantly pulling media levers, paid and coerced, to scare the public into ever higher police budgets---so they can keep doing it.
A damning new report finds San Francisco Police Department overtime wasteful, potentially fraudulent, cops are calling in sick to go work private security jobs, and all this spending has little impact on crime.
sfstandard.com/2024/12/12/s...
sfstandard.com/2024/12/12/s...
SFPD overtime: Waste, potential fraud and little impact on crime
A city audit chastises police for lax oversight and profligate spending often for special downtown initiatives at the expense of district stations.
sfstandard.com
December 15, 2024 at 11:13 PM
It's more insidious when you look at the pernicious effect of police unions constantly pulling media levers, paid and coerced, to scare the public into ever higher police budgets---so they can keep doing it.
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One cool thing if you’re in California - the state maintains a vaccination database and you can check your records. The record output tells your vaccinations that you seem to be missing.
Link here: myvaccinerecord.cdph.ca.gov/request
Link here: myvaccinerecord.cdph.ca.gov/request
I’m dead serious about this: between now and the commencement of the next congress, if you’ve got insurance or the spare cash, you and your family should be turning yourself into human pincushions: COVID, flu, TDAP, MMR, Polio, mpox, pneumonia. CVS has walk-in appointments for damn near everything.
If you’re old like me and not 100% sure you had chickenpox as a kid, get a blood test. You do not want it as an adult.
December 15, 2024 at 6:08 PM
One cool thing if you’re in California - the state maintains a vaccination database and you can check your records. The record output tells your vaccinations that you seem to be missing.
Link here: myvaccinerecord.cdph.ca.gov/request
Link here: myvaccinerecord.cdph.ca.gov/request
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We're investigating health insurance denials. If you want to share your insights, here's how:
Do You Have Insights Into Dental and Health Insurance Denials? Help Us Report on the System.
Insurers deny tens of millions of claims every year. ProPublica is investigating why claims are denied, what the consequences are for patients and how the appeal process really works.
propub.li
December 15, 2024 at 6:30 PM
We're investigating health insurance denials. If you want to share your insights, here's how:
“I live close to that school and am prepared to help ICE agents do their job,” said one commenter, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “We’ll be watching and taking pictures,” said another. A third noted: “This meeting sounds like a great place to start a roundup.”
December 14, 2024 at 6:05 PM
“I live close to that school and am prepared to help ICE agents do their job,” said one commenter, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “We’ll be watching and taking pictures,” said another. A third noted: “This meeting sounds like a great place to start a roundup.”
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The story of Jan 6 is like this now. Trump supporters throw out several different and sometimes contradictory explanations: that it was a just cause, that it wasn’t a big deal, that the FBI did it. The point isn’t to convince but to sow doubt in the truth… of an insurrection attempt incited by lies.
December 14, 2024 at 4:16 PM
The story of Jan 6 is like this now. Trump supporters throw out several different and sometimes contradictory explanations: that it was a just cause, that it wasn’t a big deal, that the FBI did it. The point isn’t to convince but to sow doubt in the truth… of an insurrection attempt incited by lies.
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Strong winds expected tonight, Dec 13, from 10 PM to 7 AM, Dec 14.
Stay safe:
🌬️ Watch for debris and fallen tree limbs.
⚠️ Call 911 for downed power lines—never touch or drive over them.
🌳 Report fallen trees to (510) 981-6660.
#NWSBayArea: www.weather.gov/mtr/
Stay safe:
🌬️ Watch for debris and fallen tree limbs.
⚠️ Call 911 for downed power lines—never touch or drive over them.
🌳 Report fallen trees to (510) 981-6660.
#NWSBayArea: www.weather.gov/mtr/
December 13, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Strong winds expected tonight, Dec 13, from 10 PM to 7 AM, Dec 14.
Stay safe:
🌬️ Watch for debris and fallen tree limbs.
⚠️ Call 911 for downed power lines—never touch or drive over them.
🌳 Report fallen trees to (510) 981-6660.
#NWSBayArea: www.weather.gov/mtr/
Stay safe:
🌬️ Watch for debris and fallen tree limbs.
⚠️ Call 911 for downed power lines—never touch or drive over them.
🌳 Report fallen trees to (510) 981-6660.
#NWSBayArea: www.weather.gov/mtr/
What we animals won't do for love.
December 13, 2024 at 10:23 PM
What we animals won't do for love.
I worked hard to prevent this (in my opinion) nonsensical recall that was based on a mountain of false narratives.
But here we are. Let's do our best to hold on to as much of the reform DA Price achieved during her short term.
But here we are. Let's do our best to hold on to as much of the reform DA Price achieved during her short term.
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors adopted a new process for the selection of the DA this week. We've summarized the process into this table. For more info on the process, visit: bos.acgov.org/wp-content/u...
December 13, 2024 at 10:09 PM
I worked hard to prevent this (in my opinion) nonsensical recall that was based on a mountain of false narratives.
But here we are. Let's do our best to hold on to as much of the reform DA Price achieved during her short term.
But here we are. Let's do our best to hold on to as much of the reform DA Price achieved during her short term.
Ugh. Just experienced my first lock down. At an elementary school in East Oakland. I was there to tutor a second grader, which I didn't get to do because of the lockdown (she hadn't been pulled out of class yet), but I witnessed a fourth grade classroom during lockdown.
December 13, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Ugh. Just experienced my first lock down. At an elementary school in East Oakland. I was there to tutor a second grader, which I didn't get to do because of the lockdown (she hadn't been pulled out of class yet), but I witnessed a fourth grade classroom during lockdown.
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Can't recommend this report on the city's revenue and expenditure imbalance highly enough, cuts through the dishonest misinformation of Empower Oakland quite neatly oakland.legistar.com...
December 13, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Can't recommend this report on the city's revenue and expenditure imbalance highly enough, cuts through the dishonest misinformation of Empower Oakland quite neatly oakland.legistar.com...
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Well this is strange. Yesterday, the agendas for the 12/17 and 12/16 meetings were updates with 12/12 timestamp, and now they're missing from the city legistar site.
December 13, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Well this is strange. Yesterday, the agendas for the 12/17 and 12/16 meetings were updates with 12/12 timestamp, and now they're missing from the city legistar site.
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If you design a road that launches 23 cars into the same house then you designed your road very wrong
Also, ban cars!
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTY9uDsUA/
Also, ban cars!
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTY9uDsUA/
December 13, 2024 at 3:51 AM
If you design a road that launches 23 cars into the same house then you designed your road very wrong
Also, ban cars!
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTY9uDsUA/
Also, ban cars!
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTY9uDsUA/
Emeryville needs public ethics oversight, and Kalimah @Priforce needs to eat!!
You can help on both counts even if you don't live in Emeryville by signing his Change.org petition.
You can help on both counts even if you don't live in Emeryville by signing his Change.org petition.
December 13, 2024 at 5:21 AM
Emeryville needs public ethics oversight, and Kalimah @Priforce needs to eat!!
You can help on both counts even if you don't live in Emeryville by signing his Change.org petition.
You can help on both counts even if you don't live in Emeryville by signing his Change.org petition.
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NEW: The Biden administration has separated around 300 children from their parents or legal guardians — most at the southwestern border — in the past year, according to government sources.
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By @micarosenberg.bsky.social
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By @micarosenberg.bsky.social
She Was Separated From Her 1-Year-Old at the Border. The Government Wouldn’t Tell Her Why.
U.S. officials can withhold their rationale in family separation cases that relate to national security. There have been about 80 children separated for these reasons this year, with an estimated 50 of them Russian.
propub.li
December 12, 2024 at 1:00 PM
NEW: The Biden administration has separated around 300 children from their parents or legal guardians — most at the southwestern border — in the past year, according to government sources.
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By @micarosenberg.bsky.social
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By @micarosenberg.bsky.social
This is such a great point! We don't ask highways to fund themselves.
Note that we do not ask highways to meet tollbox recovery rates, we expand highways to meet demand using income, property, and sales taxes regardless of toll revenue collected
December 13, 2024 at 5:05 AM
This is such a great point! We don't ask highways to fund themselves.
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The sick leave practice, calling out sick on a certain day so another officer can get overtime and then getting overtime to fill in another officers sick leave on a sick day.
Sounds like that might be what is happening in Oakland as well. What a scam. What are they doing? It's a small percentage.
Sounds like that might be what is happening in Oakland as well. What a scam. What are they doing? It's a small percentage.
SFPD overtime has more than doubled to $108M, according to a city audit released this morning.
Officers routinely blow through overtime limits, the audit found, w/little consequence, & SFPD has poor controls in place to stop abuse.
via @jrivanob.bsky.social
missionlocal.org/2024/12/sfpd...
Officers routinely blow through overtime limits, the audit found, w/little consequence, & SFPD has poor controls in place to stop abuse.
via @jrivanob.bsky.social
missionlocal.org/2024/12/sfpd...
SFPD overtime has more than doubled to $108M, city audit finds
City audit finds SFPD has "poor internal control" of overtime, but SFPD chief argues it's tied to understaffing.
missionlocal.org
December 12, 2024 at 7:06 PM
The sick leave practice, calling out sick on a certain day so another officer can get overtime and then getting overtime to fill in another officers sick leave on a sick day.
Sounds like that might be what is happening in Oakland as well. What a scam. What are they doing? It's a small percentage.
Sounds like that might be what is happening in Oakland as well. What a scam. What are they doing? It's a small percentage.
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At Rules, Fife also asked OPD to include in the OPD's crime data report why the OPOA puts out public claims about crime that conflict with the OPD's actual crime data
December 12, 2024 at 7:38 PM
At Rules, Fife also asked OPD to include in the OPD's crime data report why the OPOA puts out public claims about crime that conflict with the OPD's actual crime data
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Bas got a standing ovation from staff and members as she announced her last Rules Committee as a CM and Chair. [but she was actually noting the difference between a fiscal emergency and the Ca state emergency declaration]
December 12, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Bas got a standing ovation from staff and members as she announced her last Rules Committee as a CM and Chair. [but she was actually noting the difference between a fiscal emergency and the Ca state emergency declaration]
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“We are decades into the golden age of scam culture. Decades of failing systems and institutions that don’t live up to their end of the bargain created the legitimacy crisis that Trump exploits. And, it has created a perverse set of incentives for rectifying that crisis.
December 12, 2024 at 5:40 PM
“We are decades into the golden age of scam culture. Decades of failing systems and institutions that don’t live up to their end of the bargain created the legitimacy crisis that Trump exploits. And, it has created a perverse set of incentives for rectifying that crisis.
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Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 6/20
#Albums #MusicSky 💙📚 #AlbumChalleng #MusicChallenge
#Albums #MusicSky 💙📚 #AlbumChalleng #MusicChallenge
December 12, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. 6/20
#Albums #MusicSky 💙📚 #AlbumChalleng #MusicChallenge
#Albums #MusicSky 💙📚 #AlbumChalleng #MusicChallenge
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96% of children in Gaza feel that their death is imminent and almost half want to die as a result of trauma. 92% of the children in the survey were “not accepting of reality”, 79% suffer from nightmares and 73% exhibit symptoms of aggression.
Death feels imminent for 96% of children in Gaza, study finds
Needs assessment by NGO reveals the huge psychological impact of the war with Israel on young people
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2024 at 12:51 AM
96% of children in Gaza feel that their death is imminent and almost half want to die as a result of trauma. 92% of the children in the survey were “not accepting of reality”, 79% suffer from nightmares and 73% exhibit symptoms of aggression.
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Free money for transit specifically “was extremely helpful to people. People really appreciated it,” said Angela Sanguinetti, the lead researcher on the East Oakland pilot.
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Free money for transit specifically “was extremely helpful to people. People really appreciated it,” said Angela Sanguinetti, the lead researcher on the East Oakland pilot.
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A free transit program for low-income Oakland residents has shown some positive results, but there are some bugs to work out.
@fermoso.bsky.social with the details 👇
oaklandside.org/2024/12/11/t...
@fermoso.bsky.social with the details 👇
oaklandside.org/2024/12/11/t...
The initial verdict is in for Oakland’s Universal Basic Mobility program: ‘extremely helpful’
The city’s second UBM program, in West Oakland, is underway.
oaklandside.org
December 11, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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Free money for transit specifically “was extremely helpful to people. People really appreciated it,” said Angela Sanguinetti, the lead researcher on the East Oakland pilot.
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Free money for transit specifically “was extremely helpful to people. People really appreciated it,” said Angela Sanguinetti, the lead researcher on the East Oakland pilot.
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Today is full of wins!!!
December 11, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Today is full of wins!!!