George Lippman

Berkeley City Council approved nearly all Berkeley Police Department mutual aid agreements with military, law enforcement and private security entities at a Tuesday meeting.

In the next month, Berkeley Police Department aims to completely implement a policy to reduce police bias, as part of a push by multiple city organizations to promote more impartial policing.

At its first meeting since July, the city’s Police Review Commission convened Wednesday night to deliberate the status of Berkeley Police Department’s mutual aid agreements and hear a report from the chief of police on crime data and department staffing.

The Peace and Justice Commission reignited a years-long conversation on the city’s approach to DUIs Tuesday in a City Council meeting.

The Berkeley City Council approved a letter Tuesday evening requesting that the University of California cease operating the national weapons labs in Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories.

The Berkeley City Council is expected to vote Tuesday on a recommendation to adopt a resolution proclaiming Berkeley a “No Drone Zone.”

The Berkeley City Council revoked a policy requiring the Berkeley Police Department to hold undocumented immigrants in the local jail by request of the federal government at its Tuesday meeting.

Berkeley community organizations have had unusual difficulty scheduling candidate forums this election cycle.

The Berkeley City Council adopted the majority of the policies regarding the city’s set of mutual aid agreements with outside law enforcement agencies at their meeting Tuesday night.