Ella Carter-Klauschie

Public Works director Liam Garland resigned Thursday, and deputy city manager LaTanya Bellow is currently overseeing the public works department as they look for a replacement.

Following a two-month-long trial, former Berkeley mayoral candidate and Direct Action Everywhere, or DxE, co-founder Wayne Hsiung has been charged with misdemeanor trespass with intent to interfere with a lawful business for unlawfully entering Sunrise and Reichardt Farms in Sonoma County in 2018 and 2019.

Direct Action Everywhere affiliated activists facing felony and misdemeanor charges for animal rescues are still under a gag order from the judge after calls to vacate the order from the ACLU and Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.

Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, held a meeting Thursday to review a mental health assessment conducted as a step in a four year mental health improvement plan. 

Activists from the Care First Community Coalition, Restore Oakland, and the Interfaith Coalition for Justice in our Jails have expressed concern over the $81 million allocation of spending for mental health expansions at Santa Rita jail.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Sept. 6 addressing the state’s approach to artificial intelligence technologies going forward.

Defendants Cassandra King, Wayne Hsiung, and Priya Sawhney have recently received adjusted charges and been issued a gag order by the court.

Activists affiliated with animal rights group Direct Action Everywhere, or DxE, are facing felony and misdemeanor charges for allegedly trespassing on the land of farms in Petaluma, California and removing several chickens and ducks from the facilities. Their trial will begin Sept. 8 at the Santa Rosa Courthouse.

Berkeley Unified School District’s first meeting of the year was held on Wednesday, marked by continued debate over the future of the District’s 1130 Oxford Street property, formerly Oxford Elementary, closed due to its high risk in the event of an earthquake.

The Student Borrower Protection Center and several UC professors delivered a letter to the UC Office of the President on Thursday, demanding that the university end online non-degree programs run by third-party companies that are affiliated with the UC system.