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On Tuesday, District Attorney of Alameda County Nancy O’Malley declined to charge a driver who ran over a person lying on the sidewalk during a protest near People’s Park on Jan. 22, as first reported by Berkeleyside.
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The California Senate Public Safety Committee passed SB 22 — also known as the “Sexual Assault Victims’ DNA Bill of Rights” — on Tuesday, according to a press release by District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, who co-sponsored the legislation.
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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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Chin, a longtime Alameda County resident, filled the seat that was vacant after the retirement of former judge Vernon Nakahara. Since 2004, Chin worked as the deputy district attorney at the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office.
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Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Sunday that mandates a statewide audit of all untested sexual assault evidence kits, commonly referred to as “rape kits.” Yet on the same day, he vetoed another bill that passed unanimously through the state Senate and Assembly, and would have mandated that rape kits be processed within 120 days.
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The interest groups met to address future opportunities and remaining shortcomings of Berkeley’s cannabis regulation, such as the competitiveness of legally licensed businesses with the black market. Other concerns persist over public safety, youth access to marijuana and the hurdles cannabis distributors and cultivators face in setting up shop in the city.
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California may begin the process of systematically erasing and reducing sentences for marijuana possession through a bill now on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk for signing.
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About 30 years ago, Berkeley City Council voted to make marijuana convictions a low priority for local law enforcement — the Berkeley Police Department, however, has issued more than 140 citations for marijuana law violations since 2013.
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In the year since the “Ghost Ship” fire, Christopher Morris has heard new songs that he knows his sister Jenny Morris would have enjoyed.
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