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The Oakland Police Department will conduct DUI Checkpoints on the weekend of July 4^th, at undisclosed locations within the City of Oakland.

As we approach the 4^th of July holiday, the Oakland Police Department encourages the public to be responsible and safe over Independence Day Weekend by not driving impaired.

The City is waiving fees and streamlined the permitting process for use of sidewalk space and parking areas for businesses to expand while complying with revised Alameda County shelter-in-place order

Stay Safe During 4^th of July Celebrations: Avoid Illegal Fireworks and Celebratory Gunfire

On June 18, 2020, at 8:20 AM, a community member called the Oakland Police Department’s Communications Center to report a “fake body hanging from a noose.” The caller said they removed it from a tree in the 2100 block of Lakeshore Avenue, next to Lake Merritt. Patrol officers, their Supervisor, and the Public Information Officer responded to the scene and observed material stuffed in the shape of a human body with a rope tied around the torso and neck, laying on the ground next to a tree with an American flag laying next to it.

On June 16, 2020, at approximately 3:30 PM, a social media post identified a rope as a noose and suggested this to be a hate crime in the area of Lake Merritt. The Watch Commander, Patrol officers, and the Public Information Officer responded to the area of Staten/Bellevue. Officers conducted a search of the area and observed five ropes attached to various trees.

$10 million commitment will support government, business, faith-based, nonprofit partners in 10 places with two goals: protecting communities from displacement and eliminating barriers to access capital and credit

The City Council has modified its meeting schedule for the remainder of 2020. All Council and Committee meetings will be via teleconference (Zoom).

The new multi-year program will fund Oakland’s cultural practitioners of color to radically imagine a racially just city

Resources and updates from Oakland's Human Services Department, June 2020.