Law & Justice

A man was fatally shot in the 1100 block of Channing Way Tuesday night, as first reported by Berkeleyside.

Johnny Dunbar may receive 24 years in state prison after allegedly sexually assaulting three women from Berkeley and breaking into their homes in 2008.

Leonard Brown, an inmate at Santa Rita Jail, died March 15 at a Pleasanton hospital — one week after attempting suicide in his cell.

Berkeley High School’s mountain bike team was robbed at gunpoint last Saturday. 

Two years, one month and 11 days after the Superior Court of Alameda County announced it would be closing its courtrooms because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the court will reopen its doors to the public for proceedings open to the general public on Apr. 25. 

The Berkeley Police Accountability Board, or PAB, met Wednesday to review materials being used to recruit the permanent director of police accountability and the police accountability investigator for the PAB.

The Berkeley City Council met in a special meeting Thursday evening to discuss suggestions from the National Institute of Criminal Justice Reform for “reimagining” the city’s public safety. 

Members of the Berkeley Mental Health Commission presented plans to divert mental health crisis responses away from Santa Rita Jail and the John George Psychiatric Hospital at Wednesday’s Police Accountability Board meeting.

As a result of a false report, Berkeley Drop-In Center director Jorge Colon was detained at gunpoint by Berkeley police in early February.

A city audit published Thursday outlined Berkeley Police Department’s use of overtime, increased work with outside entities and its impacts on the department’s budget.