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Amid the shelter-in-place order, the Berkeley City Council held its weekly meeting Tuesday over Zoom and unanimously approved a resolution to give voters an option to create a police accountability board and director of police accountability position with a ballot measure in November.
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Berkeley City Council members will vote Tuesday on whether to place a City Charter amendment measure from the Police Review Commission on the Nov. 3 general municipal election ballot.
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Thanksgiving Day is around the corner and UC Berkeley, the city of Berkeley and students are getting into the Thanksgiving spirit with food drives, dinners and other events focused on community and food.
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Efforts to restore some of the commission’s original power have been ongoing, as city officials and local activists examine civilian oversight agencies in neighboring Bay Area jurisdictions to see which models might best suit Berkeley.
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The documents released this week about Kayla Moore’s death in 2013 merely reminded Berkeley community members — once again — of the complete lack of power that police oversight commissions have.
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In 2014, Berkeley’s Police Review Commission found that one officer involved in the 2013 in-custody death of Kayla Moore exercised improper police procedure. But documents recently obtained by The Daily Californian through a Public Records Act request show that a judge disagreed with the commission’s findings months later, calling its logic “fallacious.”
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The complaint, sent to the Fair Campaign Practices Commission, or FCPC, was lodged against District 1 candidate Rashi Kesarwani, District 4 candidates Ben Gould and Gregory Magofña, District 8 candidate Lori Droste, the Berkeley Democratic Club, or BDC, and the Berkeley Police Association, or BPA.
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The Berkeley Police Association, or BPA, has spent more than $15,000 campaigning against City Council candidate Kate Harrison — more than twice as much as the association has spent in support of candidates Lori Droste and Rashi Kesarwani, combined.
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Berkeley residents have been receiving advertisements — which state that they were paid for by the Berkeley Police Association, or BPA — criticizing City Council District 4 candidate Kate Harrison’s record of handling homeless encampments.
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Dozens of community members, several Berkeley Police Department officers and a UCPD officer gathered outside the Royal Ground Coffee House on Thursday morning for a monthly Coffee with a Cop event hosted by the nonprofit organization of the same name.
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