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Raising barrier to move a consent item to non-consent by a CM means that it will be harder for CMs to move a non consent item to consent to give public a chance to weigh in.
October 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Raising barrier to move a consent item to non-consent by a CM means that it will be harder for CMs to move a non consent item to consent to give public a chance to weigh in.
Removing the req that committee split votes send the item to non consent means that with current leadership at Rules and Council, controversial items will lack debate, opportunity for community to contest
October 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Removing the req that committee split votes send the item to non consent means that with current leadership at Rules and Council, controversial items will lack debate, opportunity for community to contest
Removing the 5pm barrier for non consent, running non consent first, means that most working people will have limited opportunity of interacting with legislation at Council meetings. 5 is already too early, but at least public has a shot of making it
October 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Removing the 5pm barrier for non consent, running non consent first, means that most working people will have limited opportunity of interacting with legislation at Council meetings. 5 is already too early, but at least public has a shot of making it
It's also worrisome to see her and other CMs again attack Oakland's volunteer led commissions on issues they know are fallacious rhetoric from those that support breaking the budget for useless public safety theater and disinformation.
October 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
It's also worrisome to see her and other CMs again attack Oakland's volunteer led commissions on issues they know are fallacious rhetoric from those that support breaking the budget for useless public safety theater and disinformation.
Wang is Chair of Public Safety, with the entire legislative database and department directors she can query about anything. But she's made a habit out of referring to half-remembered news articles that themselves are often flawed, instead of using the source at her workplace
October 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Wang is Chair of Public Safety, with the entire legislative database and department directors she can query about anything. But she's made a habit out of referring to half-remembered news articles that themselves are often flawed, instead of using the source at her workplace
During this time, OPD/Armstrong was never blamed for flubbing ALPR. Local corporate media simply moved on from the issue of ALPR, after helping police-focused CMs and OPD argue PAC was standing in the way of the difference between life and death for crime-fighting
October 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
During this time, OPD/Armstrong was never blamed for flubbing ALPR. Local corporate media simply moved on from the issue of ALPR, after helping police-focused CMs and OPD argue PAC was standing in the way of the difference between life and death for crime-fighting
In the last ALPR fight, OPD enthusiastically signed on to poorly conceived patchwork fix for vehicle mounted ALPR. It failed during ransomware---OPD turned off vehicle-mounted ALPR and left it off. For more than a year, OPD had no ALPR, OPD's choice
Oakland Observer Week Ending 7/9/2023: OPD's License Plate Readers Went Down During Ransomware Attack, Then Stayed Down Due to OPD Decision to Keep Them Offline; Last Committees Before Summer Recess: Update 7/27/2023
OPD License Plate Reader System Has Been Inactive Since February
Oakland Police representatives revealed that the OPD's license plate reader system has been offline since February’s ransomware attack at a Privacy Advisory Commission [PAC] meeting Thursday. The February ransomware attack was responsible for shutting down the department's Automated License
oakland-observer.ghost.io
October 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
In the last ALPR fight, OPD enthusiastically signed on to poorly conceived patchwork fix for vehicle mounted ALPR. It failed during ransomware---OPD turned off vehicle-mounted ALPR and left it off. For more than a year, OPD had no ALPR, OPD's choice
Why didn't OPD ask for Flock? Because they were involved in a years-long ALPR battle premised on the idea that their decrepit vehicle-mounted ALPR was wonderful, & their use policy superb, instead of admitting both were useless and asking to move to another system completely.
October 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Why didn't OPD ask for Flock? Because they were involved in a years-long ALPR battle premised on the idea that their decrepit vehicle-mounted ALPR was wonderful, & their use policy superb, instead of admitting both were useless and asking to move to another system completely.
When Flock finally came to Oakland, it sailed through PAC because the OPD worked with PAC to create on paper good use/retention policy [which we now know OPD haven't followed]. The reason it took OPD so long to turn to Flock has nothing to do w/PAC: OPD they didn't ask for Flock
October 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
When Flock finally came to Oakland, it sailed through PAC because the OPD worked with PAC to create on paper good use/retention policy [which we now know OPD haven't followed]. The reason it took OPD so long to turn to Flock has nothing to do w/PAC: OPD they didn't ask for Flock
I suspect Wang was struggling unsuccessfully to recall an Oaklandside story in which a HOA that already had FLOCK wanted OPD to have it too, to upload specific plate captures to OPD easily. But OPD didn't have Flock yet, so couldn't upload it directly.
Oakland HOAs are quietly installing surveillance cameras to watch public roads
To fight crime, private neighborhoods are using license plate readers to track cars on city streets. One is already sharing data with police.
oaklandside.org
October 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I suspect Wang was struggling unsuccessfully to recall an Oaklandside story in which a HOA that already had FLOCK wanted OPD to have it too, to upload specific plate captures to OPD easily. But OPD didn't have Flock yet, so couldn't upload it directly.