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Oakland, Ca
Joined June 2024
New Improved In the Details is a week-end legislative wrap up, combined with links to the week's focused reporting on larger city and legislative issues. Some other very important stuff happened aside from the Data Center Moratorium and only OO caught it oakland-observer.ghost.io/in…
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Coming soon to Public Safety Committee, "Drone as First Responder" program-drones sited on rooftops, piloted remotely from HQ, responding to calls, streaming surveillance before deploying police. Use Policy approved by PAC, use policy and acquisition approved by OPC last night.
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A city wide strike looms after several ill-fated decisions on city labor contracts by Mayor and Council. Should the City finally concede to fair contracts and COLAs for civilian unions, that will drive up costs, thanks to an incomprehensible decision on "me too" for OPOA
The other shoe has dropped. Oakland's other major civilian union voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike this week, joining SEIU 1021s also overwhelming strike vote. City's intransigence to workers after giving the store away to OPOA will now have consequences if it continues
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Sitting in on Rules today. It's very svelte, but two big things: considering how to schedule a ballot measure on the 30 dollar minimum wage; and the scheduling of the mandatory 30 day report for Data Center moratorium, which would also set stage for an extension of moratorium
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These are both just scheduling items, so probably won't be much discussion about the individual items
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May be the fastest meeting on record.
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Took a break and Gallo is still talking
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Jesse Rosemoore notes that Smith was Harmeet Dhillon's former law partner. Asks Council about Dhillon
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It is a pretty glaring thing to have on resume
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