Roselyn Romero
Public Safety and Small Business Reporter at The Oaklandside
Pronounced ROSE-lin, not RAWZ-lin. Reporting on public safety @Oaklandside. DMs are off the record. She/her. @aaja 🇵🇭
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5 days ago |
oaklandside.org | Roselyn Romero
Oakland has settled a lawsuit with a former Department of Violence Prevention employee for $1 million. Candace Reese Walters, a public information officer for the DVP from April 2022 to April 2023, filed a lawsuit against the city last year, accusing the city and 10 other defendants of discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, unequal pay, and other allegations.
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1 week ago |
oaklandside.org | Roselyn Romero
Several violence prevention organizations gathered in Oakland Wednesday afternoon to call on the Trump administration to restore $811 million in federal grants for programs nationwide like the ones they run in the East Bay.
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1 week ago |
oaklandside.org | Darwin BondGraham |Roselyn Romero
In 2016, when Oakland voters created one of the nation’s strongest civilian police commissions, there was one person very much at the center of the campaign: a volunteer activist who helped envision the watchdog board’s form and powers, win over powerful allies, and explain to everyday residents why it was so badly needed.
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1 week ago |
oaklandside.org | Roselyn Romero
In the video, he sports a Western-style suede bomber jacket, a white V-neck, and slim army-green pants — not the typical garb of an elected official ready for a day’s work. Sitting behind the dais in Oakland’s echoey City Council Chamber, he gives the camera a fed-up look.
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2 weeks ago |
oaklandside.org | Roselyn Romero
Violence prevention and intervention programs, resources for crime victims, opioid addiction treatment, and other public safety initiatives are being slashed in Oakland and Alameda County following an announcement last Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Justice that it is reducing $811 million in grants across the nation for community groups.
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Leaders of Youth Alive, the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform, and the Health Alliance for Violence Intervention gathered in Oakland today to call on the Trump administration to restore grants for public safety initiatives. My latest: https://t.co/7eJmJhYynQ https://t.co/Fqfrywjoqs
RT @latguild: Statement from the leadership of the @latguild, the union for @latimes journalists, on today's layoffs: https://t.co/GgvBao6d…
RT @APTPaction: “We don’t actually have a shortage of officers — we have a crisis of misplaced priorities and a police budget that is so bl…