The long AB trial is over. Everyone was convicted of everything: mercurynews.com/2024/04/30/thr…

Mercury News and other papers sue Microsoft, OpenAI over the new artificial intelligence mercurynews.com/2024/04/30/mer…

New from Darwin BondGraham & I on Oakland PD's metastasizing command staff scandal: EIGHT officers, most of them brass, disciplined by independent oversight agency for derailing IAD investigation into Sgt Phong Tran's alleged bribery of murder witnesses oaklandside.org/2024/04/30/oak…

Editorial: Dublin women's prison closure rife with abuse and court secrecy mercurynews.com/2024/04/28/edi…

Civil rights attorneys representing a woman who was Tased by Vallejo police during a traffic stop in 2019 are seeking to depose a Solano County judge, alleging that during her previous job in Vallejo she worked to conceal evidence of police misconduct.
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In February, a Vallejo police officer was arrested on suspicion of domsetic violence, threats and stalking. the victim obtained a restraining order and the officer had to give up his guns.

Last week, the department gave him a 'life saving' medal. vallejosun.com/vallejo-police…

When an agency shows you it’s transparent, believe it. When they tell you transparency is important, you might as well just start cc’ing your lawyer on everything then and there.

1/4 George Gascon's Assistant District Attorney of Ethics and Integrity Operations, Diana Teran, has just been charged with 11 felonies by Rob Bonta for illegally accessing confidential police officer files. Teran, a former public defender hired by Gascon, ....

A Nashville mother of 5 reported a sexual assault during her massage at ritzy Sonoma spa. She told Sonoma County sheriff deputies she wanted to prosecute. But by time she finished talking to them, she decided not to move forward. Here’s what happened:

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An absolute bombshell. Alameda County prosecutors allegedly kept Black people and Jews off juries in murder cases, believing they would not convict if the death penalty was in play.

Now dozens of capital cases from prior decades must be reviewed.

oaklandside.org/2024/04/22/ala…

This blatant evidence of misconduct was available in internal case files for 30 years but we’re only hearing about it now…. eastbaytimes.com/2024/04/22/fed…

An engineer at San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection was busted by the feds for his part in an international prostitution ring.

He kept his job.

He got a raise.

From @esksf

missionlocal.org/2024/04/feds-b…

I think it is safe to assume by now that this business has accepted police raids as part of the cost of doing business: mercurynews.com/2024/04/21/el-…

Alameda County Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez tells her staff that she is disappointed with the DA’s decision to charge Alameda police officers in the death of Mario Gonzalez.

READ:

Here it is: city of Alameda police officers James Fisher, Eric McKinley, and Cameron Leahy are going to be arraigned on May 30 at 9AM.

Don't have the exact charges yet, but they're related to the officers use of force against Mario Gonzalez, which led to Gonzalez's death in 2021

New: Google is paying a group of nonprofit organizations representing about 250 million people $62 million, ending six years of litigating claims that it tracked people's location data even when they asked it not to. Courthouse News courthousenews.com/google-to-pay-…

NEW: The Benicia school district was sued last week over allegations of sexual abuse by a former elementary school teacher. The teacher, Matthew Shelton, previously faced similar charges and got another job at a nearby school amid a criminal investigation.
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Oakland Coliseum concession workers have been warned in a letter from Aramark that they could be fired for speaking publicly about business operations. This comes as the Oakland A's have already announced layoffs ahead of their temporary move to Sacramento. abc7ne.ws/2Lu50ZT

Richmond, California man ‘ranted’ that hospital favored non-whites, threatened staff before police found hundreds of guns, 11,000 pounds of ammo at his home.

Story by Nate Gartrell

mercurynews.com/2024/04/15/ric…

Feds recommend no prison time for SF developer who bribed officials sfstandard.com/2024/04/15/sia…