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San Leandro City Council To Vote Tonight to Spy on School Children

San Leandro City Council To Vote Tonight to Spy on School Children Police, Schools No Responses »

Dec 152014

SAFE Asks City Council to Vote Against COPS Grant Update: The City Council voted to accept the COPS grant. All but one of the speakers spoke against having SROs in Schools. Last week, Students And Families for Education (SAFE) helped defeat the proposal to spend $1.7 of the San Leandro School District’s education fund on police in schools. Tonight, the San Leandro City Council votes on accepting the COPS Grant. In addition to requiring the city spend money on new police positions, the grant proposal lays out Police Chief Sandra Spagnoli‘s plan to use the grant money to start a [Continue Reading]

Information from the SLPD Forum on Broadmoor Ave. Shooting

Information from the SLPD Forum on Broadmoor Ave. Shooting Police 6 Responses »

Dec 112014

On Thursday, Dec. 11, the San Leandro Police Department had an hour-long community meeting to address the shooting that took place on Broadmoor Ave. Mike Katz-Lacabe attended, filmed and tweeted from the meeting. The SLPD did not call on him, so he was unable to ask any questions. The following are his tweets, in chronological order followed by the video of the meeting. The meeting concerns the December 4 shooting in San Leandro’s Broadmoor neighborhood. In response to a question from the audience, SLPD Officer Robert McManus says Oct. 5 Woodland Ave. officer-involved shooting is not related. San Leandro police [Continue Reading]

SLT Facebook Page Has Moved

SLT Facebook Page Has Moved Admin No Responses »

Dec 112014

If you are one of our faithful Facebook friends, you may have noticed that the San Leandro Talk account has disappeared off the face of the earth – or at least off Facebook. For years, people who objected to the views I express there, have complained to Facebook about the name of the account. Facebook requires real names of people to have a usual “friends” account, and requires that organizations, companies or even artists who perform under a pseudonym, set up a “page” or a “group” instead of a regular account. When I first set up SLT’s FB account there [Continue Reading]

SLPD Shoot at Fleeing Suspects Twice in 3 Days

SLPD Shoot at Fleeing Suspects Twice in 3 Days City Hall, Civil Liberties, Police 1 Response »

Dec 082014

Over the last three days, we’ve had two shootings of women driving allegedly stolen cars by San Leandro Police Department officers. One of them is in critical condition. Police missed the other, a 16 year-old girl, though one bullet wheezed past a bystander and another hit a parked car a block away. Fortunately, nobody was reportedly injured in that incident. Shooting at a fleeing subject who is not a threat to the life of others is against the law. There is no doubt that moral blame lies on the officers who did shoot. But the real culprits, the ones [Continue Reading]

Students, Parents to Hold Rally Opposing COPS

Students, Parents to Hold Rally Opposing COPS Community, Event, Schools No Responses »

Dec 052014

Students And Families for Education (SAFE), a newly-formed coalition of San Leandro parents, students and community members, will hold a rally on Tuesday, December 9th at 6pm, outside San Leandro City Hall. The rally will take place before the San Leandro School Board meeting at which the Board will vote on whether to divert hundreds of thousands of dollars from school classrooms towards paying police officers’ salaries. SAFE opposes the use of any school funds to pay for law enforcement. “San Leandro schools have been underfunded for years, class sizes have gone from 20 students to 28, and school counselors [Continue Reading]

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