San Jose Police Chief Weighs In On Proposed Department Reforms
The San Jose City Council is considering a sweeping package of reforms aimed at re-writing the rules of engagement between police officers and protesters.
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The San Jose City Council is considering a sweeping package of reforms aimed at re-writing the rules of engagement between police officers and protesters.
A battle over a rock and an art space ended in an apology and a promise on Tuesday, after someone -- this time a worker on San Francisco's graffiti abatement crew -- painted over a Black Lives Matter mural on a boulder in Bernal Heights for the fifth time.
City officials including Mayor London Breed on Tuesday announced plans for a financial relief package to help San Francisco crabbers impacted by the massive fire at Pier 45 last month.
A group of Democratic Bay Area lawmakers were among 35 members of Congress demanding Tuesday that federal agencies stop all illegal surveillance of peaceful protesters across the United States.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Monday warned residents to be on guard against scammers pretending to be coronavirus contact tracers.
Muni service across San Francisco will pause for eight minutes and 46 seconds on Tuesday, at noon, to honor George Floyd, according to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency.
California's Assembly speaker and other key lawmakers on Monday backed making it illegal statewide for police to use a type of neck hold that blocks the flow of blood to the brain, as Gov. Newsom proposed last week.
Public defenders around the Bay Area held protests on Monday, as part of a nationwide day of solidarity involving at least 70 other public defender offices in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Mayor Sam Liccardo has rejected calls to defund his city's Police Department, insisting that it would "undermine substantive efforts at police reform" and harm the very communities who most need protection.
Global opinion about former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has shifted so much that more people are now vilifying those who attack him or misrepresent the meaning of his silent, kneeling national-anthem protests.
California will allow schools, day camps, bars, gyms, campgrounds and professional sports to begin reopening with modifications starting next Friday.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Shamann Walton announced Friday efforts to redirect city funding from the city's police department to the city's African American community in the city's upcoming budget.
Gov. Gavin Newsom spoke Friday about the enormous amount of work that the state has to do to address the systemic inequalities that fueled the past week's protests and demonstrations.
Lawmakers from the Bay Area have joined a push at the State Capitol for legislation on the use of rubber bullets by law enforcement amid ongoing protests in the death of George Floyd.
Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday California should prepare for higher rates of positive tests because of both the ongoing protests and the reopening of businesses now underway.
