Natasha Kaye

The Alameda County district attorney’s office will soon receive up to $2,050,000 from the Board of State and Community Corrections, or BSCC, to combat organized retail theft.

Encampment residents at Harrison and Eighth Street were granted a temporary restraining order against the city of Berkeley on Sept. 5, momentarily preventing the city from clearing the encampment. 

Berkeley researchers are launching a multidisciplinary training program that combines data science, the criminal justice system and AI to tackle some of the long-standing issues surrounding the criminal justice system.

In 2022, seven of the ten highest paid public officials in the city of Berkeley were members of the police department, according to data from the California state controller's Government Compensation in California database. 

The Police Accountability Board, or PAB, held a thorough discussion on security technology and the Berkeley Police Department’s proposed acquisition of Automated License Plate Readers, or ALPRs, during their July 12 meeting.

Researchers from UC Berkeley partnered with East Bay Municipal Utility District, or EBMUD, in using a robot dog named Spot to assist with water tunnel inspections in the Bay Area.

Berkeley Law’s Asylum Law Practicum students are working with refugees to navigate the convoluted and backlogged process that is the American asylum system.

Researchers from the Sky Computing lab and the Berkeley AI Research, or BAIR, Lab recently released Gorilla, a large language model, or LLM, designed to revolutionize the way AI algorithms function, according to Shishir Patil, campus computer science doctoral student and project lead.

The chicks of UC Berkeley’s resident peregrine falcon Annie have all successfully passed flight school, according to Mary Malec, a volunteer with Cal Falcons.