Jaime Omar Yassin [TNH]

The final costs will likely be hidden, because Council also inflated the OPD's budget with salaries for 60 police positions OPD had no hope of creating. Knowing that this was millions in overbudgeting that would then be used to hide heinous overtime abuses.

The report is alarming all by itself anyway. Halfway through the Fiscal Year, which is the most recent data available, OPD has burned through 75% of its OT budget and will almost certainly overspend it by at least $16 MM.

Public Safety Committee Chair Charlene Wang evaded any oversight on overtime scandal revealed by Oaklandside. She allowed City to present its regular OT report to Finance instead of a drilled down one on abuse in her own committee. Current report w/no info about individual abuses

The public will have to find out some time late next week what's on the agenda for what should have been a regular city council meeting on 3/17, but was cancelled and re-scheduled as a special meeting on 3/16. This has been a constant feature of Jenkins tenure

CM Houston gave a 5 minute address to Rules today demanding an agendizing of EAP. Houston said he'll schedule a special full Council mtg with only the EAP and the City's Action Plan, "could be in 6 six weeks, could be in six days". Special Mtgs require little notice so be aware

Searching the California Post for this one but for some reason no one leaked it to them

It technically is correct...City has still not signed its direct contract with Flock, so the actual contract is in CHP's name, but with Oakland in nominal control of the details and usage

My assumption is that the Flock contract is still under CHP, and they are technically still CHP owned, but with asterisk

Hope I'm not stating what you already know, but Oakland's Flock started out under CHP, with an MOU between OPD and CHP and Flock that Oakland would have usage and its own use policy. Council authorized a direct contract in December...still not executed

Here's the Oakland Observer's reporting from earlier this week oakland-observer.ghost.io/in-the-detai...

Cut homelessness by 50% in Oakland? A new plan says it’s possible Mayor Lee’s homelessness office has issued a bold report. But funding is short, and there’s a different plan already on the table.

As first reported by the Oakland Observer, the City's plan is so sensible and data-driven that it's on it's face a rebuttal to Houston's EAP even if City Homelessness Solutions stresses it isn't intended to be

CHP can have them on the freeways, but not on city streets, except for the possible exception of those that are marked as state highways, like INternational

I think Brown brought up a lot of interesting questions about the fact that amendments are being added to SB79 right now anyway to align with the fact the market has cooled and none of this housing will likely be built anyway

Some pretty clear signs Flock is in trouble in the Bay Area, and all the paid grassroots campaigns available may not be enough to save it.

Confirmed with Oak-spox today that Oakland has still not executed a contract with Flock, nearly three months after receiving Council authorization to do so. To secure authorization, OPD argued that OPD would lose Flock services if no contract was signed by early January

Relief to hear Chris Moore attacking Mayor's landlord-slot appointment for RAP board last night because she cares about tenants. For too long, EBRHA, an org run by a lifetime-board of white non-Oakland residing males, held on to an annoyingly false pretense it cares about tenants

Relief to hear Chris Moore attacking Mayor's landlord-slot appointment for RAP board last night because she cares about tenants. For too long, EBRHA, an org run by a lifetime-board of white non-Oakland residing males, held on to an annoyingly false pretense it cares about tenants

Neither Jenkins nor City would tell me rationale for moving 3/17 council meeting to 3/16, where it will have shorter noticing requirements--but it looks like Jenkins and Ramachandran scheduled travel to Washington on a Council mtg day and don't want the Council to meet w/out them

At Council tomorrow, the only items that are not on the Consent Calendar are statutorily required to have public hearings. Everything else is on consent, including ratifying the union-sponsored parcel tax ballot measure for placement on ballot.

Yeah, unfortunately, the reason MAGA are successful is copious help from Dem party

The most likely of Hauswald's statements that persuaded onlookers and Homeless Commissioners that the Homeless Solutions Strategic Action Plan is in part a rebuttal to Houston's EAP---including Houston. Hauswald stressed it isn't, but... oakland-observer.gho...

In the Details: happenings, findings, discoveries and observations at City Hall, Week Ending 3/1/2026 (3) 1) Council Public Safety Committee Chair Rushes Independent Police Oversight Director as He Presents Evidence OPD Skelly Presentation Was Flawed Oakland Public Safety Committee Chair Charlene Wang set up an awkward juxtaposition for the Community Police Review Agency [CPRA] and the OPD on the issue of Skelly process at Tuesday’

Tough to keep focused on Details this weekend. This week: EAP contrasts negatively with Lee admin's future homelessness plans, & everyone noticed; Did City Use Flock illegally for over 6 months?; if you thought Wang was rude to Lawson, you aren't alone

The Democrats are disgusting warmongers. The fact that they stood by and even cheered for this to happen is why the world's human beings have been plunged into another devastating cycle of global war. But MAGA are most responsible for this, including every dipshit unit of it

When people scoff at the idea media, almost alone, shapes political realities, I have to think about moments like these. Invented tales of Hamas killing kids are the vector for counteracting horror of Israel's attacks on Gaza. But US bombing a girls school is not headline worthy

Yeah, I think even the correction doesn't stick the landing. It's coming back to Council on Tuesday, I'll have a better report about it in the preview I publish Monday. Thanks for being patient

After a 40 minute OPD Skelly presentation, PSC Chair Wang chatted w/OPD for 11 more minutes, keeping CPRA Director Lawson waiting for his presentation. Wang was 2x reminded Lawson was waiting but continued. Then as Lawson spoke, Wang interrupted repeatedly, urging him to hurry up

I will say in my defense that it was the City's construction of what it was doing "excluding from the exclusion, including in the exclusion" is what made it pretty hard to follow. As chagrined as I am, the City needs to endeavor to make these reports readable

You're right that it's inaccurate. I followed up with a correction. I didn't have time to familiarize myself with the city's position before writing and should have just abstained from making a comment before doing so

As another commenter mentioned this is really inaccurate and I am pretty embarrassed and I apologize to my readers. I posted a correction and sent one out to subscribers. I really got this wrong. It's actually a very complicated scenario.

thanks so much!