#canton-police-department

#canton-police-department

There are almost 600 fewer frontline gardaí than there were six years ago, and a record number of stations have no dedicated garda assigned to them.

The new role was prompted in part by a disturbing case last year involving a dog that had been stabbed by her guardian live on social media. The dog's former guardian was ultimately sentenced to two to seven years in prison, and the dog has since been placed with a new family.

John Kaehny has written and successfully lobbied for the passage of state and New York City laws related to government transparency and accountability, including the first open data law in the world in 2012.

Davis allegedly directed more than $4.5 million to Collective Impact from the Dream Keeper Initiative, a city program that distributes arts and culture grants to the Black community, the DA said.

The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office must comply with subpoenas issued by the county's civilian oversight board as part of a whistleblower investigation into alleged misconduct, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.

According to a statement later released by Columbia, the agents had gained access to the building by posing as police in search of a 5-year-old - going so far as to present a flyer of the "missing child" to a campus safety officer. The ruse allowed them to make their way to the apartment of Ellie Aghayeva, an international student from Azerbaijan who immigration officials claim overstayed her visa.

I live here, I'm raising my kids here. I'm a taxpayer, so it affects me. I want to have the best systems online for our department to be successful so we can properly track it.

The Police Commission, the civilian agency overseeing the Oakland Police Department, is inviting the public to weigh in on the search for the department's leader at six upcoming community forums. All forums are free and open to all. Meetings will also be broadcast via Zoom for those who cannot attend in person, though it will be listen-only.

Oakland's Community Police Review Agency - a civilian-run bureau that investigates allegations of police misconduct - has appointed a new executive director. Antonio Lawson, who most recently served as the agency's interim executive director, officially assumed the role on Feb. 17, Police Commission Chair Ricardo Garcia-Acosta announced in a press release Thursday. The Community Police Review Agency, widely known as CPRA (pronounced "sip-ruh"), is the investigative arm of the Police Commission, a civilian and volunteer body tasked with overseeing the Oakland Police Department.

I am new to the East Bay Times branch of Bay Area news. God bless it. You cover local news. You inform us of state news. You pull strong, relevant pieces from the Los Angeles Times and other papers. You still have comics. The op-ed by Mark Barabak should be read by all. I taught at California community colleges for 40 years and used good journalism as writing models, points of discussion and assignments.

It was nearly a decade ago that Oakland voters overwhelmingly agreed in the ballot boxes that the city needed citizen oversight of the police department. Many hoped at the time that the newly established watchdog body would eventually take the reins from federal officials who have maintained control of the Oakland Police Department for now over two decades. But the commission comprised of seven volunteer members still seems to be struggling to gain footing within Oakland's complex bureaucratic tangles.