Lateefah Simon

District 7 BART Board of Directors member Lateefah Simon was recently asked to leave her position due to discrepancies about her home residence.

In a joint press conference with several community leaders Friday, BART announced the launch of Not One More Girl, an initiative to re-imagine safety on public transit and end gender-based violence.

Students from Black Pine Circle School, led by seventh-grader Mina Fedor, hosted a protest against Asian American and Pacific Islander, or AAPI, hate on Sunday afternoon at the Berkeley Marina.

In response to the death of George Floyd and the protests that followed, California Gov. Gavin Newsom directed the statewide Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, or POST, to update law enforcement training and guidance in California.

Hosted by Berkeley City Council over Zoom, the first of three sessions aiming to “re-imagine” the Ashby and North Berkeley BART stations in a community-lead effort was held Monday.

In light of the national Black Lives Matter movement, the BART Police Department introduced policy reforms Friday, expanding training and creating new initiatives.

BART has temporarily reduced service hours and is requesting emergency funds after seeing an immediate loss in ridership in the wake of the "shelter in place" order initiated across the Bay Area.

The city of Berkeley is formally committing to work with BART to prepare the North Berkeley and Ashby BART stations for housing development, a topic that has moved to the forefront of housing discourse in the city.

Officials from the city of Berkeley and BART listened as community members voiced their concerns about building housing around the Ashby BART station during a public meeting at Longfellow Middle School on Thursday.

The budget allocates $1.6 million to increase security measures and reduce encampments on BART properties, and $300,000 to hire two additional BART police dispatchers.