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Oakland Council Ignores Warning from City Administrator and Votes for 'Strong' Police Commission Ordinance

July 13, 2018

City officials in Oakland have been engaged in a power struggle for months now over the question of who will control key staff of the new police commission created by voters in 2016 through a ballot measure. Last night, the city council voted to finalize an enabling ordinance that puts the issue of who's in charge to rest, for now. But the vote was not without one final and highly unusual display of division.

Oakland Council Ignores Warning from City Administrator and Votes for 'Strong' Police Commission Ordinance
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