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Great Plates Delivered, an emergency food assistance program for adults older than the age of 65, has been extended through Aug. 9.
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Berkeley City Council members will discuss and possibly approve a resolution that would allow people living in recreational vehicles to stay overnight in safe, city-owned parking lots at their Feb. 11 meeting.
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As another wildfire season looms over the Bay Area, the local homeless population remains uncertain of what services will be offered to them.
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The North Berkeley Senior Center will close in January — and will remain closed for the duration of 2019 — for seismic retrofitting and maintenance upgrades.
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The city of Berkeley held a public hearing Wednesday evening at the South Berkeley Senior Center, during which Berkeley community services specialist Rhianna Babka presented initiatives aimed at alleviating Berkeley’s housing crisis and heard community members’ concerns regarding homelessness, among other issues.
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The question of citizen privacy and the use of police recordings were central topics at the first Police Review Commission meeting of the year Wednesday. Commissioners discussed issues of privacy and policy regarding body-worn cameras in the police force as well as the department’s reaction to a protest Aug. 5.
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The Berkeley Police Review Commission discussed police stop data and the ongoing methods used to review this data at its Wednesday meeting.
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Berkeley Police Department data on police stops from January to April 2016 reinforce allegations of discriminatory practices by the police, with Black and Latino people stopped but not searched at more than double the rate of white people.
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The Berkeley City Council began looking into possibly retrofitting six community sites at a special meeting Tuesday, after a seismic evaluations report declared the buildings unfit in the event of a disaster.
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Berkeley citizens gathered at a town hall meeting at the South Berkeley Senior Center Wednesday to hear developments on plans to improve resilience in the city through emergency preparedness programs.
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