Jonathan Simon

The impending launch of UC Berkeley’s Police Accountability Board, or PAB, will mark the first time in recent history that misconduct allegations will be processed outside of the UCPD.

Conversations around police brutality and its impact on marginalized communities have been occurring in Berkeley for a while, but the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020 sparked more conversation regarding police brutality and its impact on marginalized communities.

The Student Policy Institute at Berkeley, or SPIB, hosted a panel Wednesday at campus' Goldman School of Public Policy to discuss policing in the East Bay. Organized by SPIB’s advocacy department, the panel featured Berkeley Law criminal justice professor Jonathan Simon, Underground Scholars Initiative member Cesar Garcia and campus legal studies major Spring Keosoupha.

Alameda County district attorney Pamela Price released a policy Wednesday directing her deputies to reduce charges to the minimum sentence and remove sentencing enhancements.

Formerly incarcerated students at UC Berkeley face barriers to education. A majority of them are Latine, who are overrepresented in California prisons. 

President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he planned to pardon simple marijuana possession and urged local governors to do the same.

California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have reformed solitary confinement within California prisons on Thursday.

32 years after the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA, UC Berkeley has repatriated 1,000 of approximately 10,000 Indigenous remains.

Members of the Berkeley community expressed overwhelming relief in response to the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the US Supreme Court Thursday.

Community organizations representing incarcerated people in Babu v. County of Alameda held a press conference Wednesday to discuss objections to a proposed settlement.