Alameda County Board of Supervisors

The sheriff’s office received a 5 percent budget increase for the 2018-19 fiscal year, according to Jose Bernal, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights senior organizer and advocate. Bernal argued that the money would be more effective if it went toward youth programs and solving homelessness and poverty.

The Alameda County Board of Supervisors unanimously voted Tuesday to approve the child care and early education tax ordinance, taking it one step closer to being placed on the June 2018 ballot.

The Stop Urban Shield Coalition released a 2017 Report Card on Friday alleging that militarization, racism and surveillance are the core issues plaguing the responder training program known as Urban Shield.

The Alameda County Board of Supervisors approved a $1.5 million allocation in support of immigrants and refugees Tuesday.

After 14 years as mayor of Berkeley — the longest tenure in the city’s history — and 38 years of public office, Tom Bates, age 78, has decided to retire. It marks the end of a long career of public service that was punctuated with significant accomplishments that benefited many, from people with disabilities to Berkeley youth to local breweries and sports fanatics.

On Friday, activists disrupted a Pleasanton weapons exposition associated with Urban Shield, a Bay Area disaster training program that holds crisis simulations.

On July 19, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to ban fracking in the county — the first county in the Bay Area to pass an ordinance to do so.

Alameda County received seven awards from the National Association of Counties, or NACo, last Wednesday for its work in programs ranging from environmental sustainability to increasing school attendance.

On Tuesday, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the Alameda County Re-Entry Hiring Program, designed to allot 1,400 county jobs for formerly incarcerated people.

In all but a few California counties, the families of youths in the juvenile justice system are charged juvenile probation and public defender fees — for everything from a court-appointed attorney to GPS monitoring. On March 29, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted to suspend these fees for county residents.