Oakland City Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan is our choice in this race. First elected to the council in 2008, Kaplan is currently president of the eight-member body and has built a solid record not only on behalf of LGBTQ constituents, but all Oaklanders... Regarding...

ONN – Rebecca Kaplan Interview On Oakland City Council, Police De Funding Status, Homeless Policy (Oakland Defund Police), Other Matters The Oakland At-Large Councilmember and City Council President talks about the effort to rearrange social service activities away...

What if we sent mental health experts instead of police? We’ve seen it happen too many times. Someone calls 911 to report a disturbance next door or out in the street. The police show up. Things go awry, and the police shoot the person at the center of the disturbance...

At 29, Rebecca Kaplan decided to run for Oakland City Council. She was a Stanford Law graduate and had volunteered on Sen. Ted Kennedy’s re-election campaign in college, but still, she was an unconventional candidate for citywide office. She was an out lesbian, she...

Charter amendment proposed by City Council President Rebecca Kaplan would make body more independent of mayor and city administrator. After years of advocacy for independent police oversight in Oakland, residents overwhelmingly voted for the creation of a civilian...

Ever since the north bay fires killed many residents, ravaged thousands of structures and trees we have become more aware of the value of fresh air. We still see many wearing masks to help cope with their breathing. Those fires reminded us of our history of bad air...

Oakland Councilmembers Rebecca Kaplan, At-Large, and Dan Kalb, North Oakland, are scheduled to host a discussion on Monday about the city’s efforts to create a public bank. The proposal is designed to assist the region’s cannabis businesses, which struggle to find...

Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan nominated Smith for the post, saying that she thought he could turn the situation into something positive. She emphasized that she wanted to make "lemons out of lemonade" and that the public should start focusing its attention away from the...

The current complaint-based system for removing trash and illegal dumping is not effective. Kaplan and community members are advocating for pro-active cleanup! Then you go down a street, and you pick up everything in that street, instead of going through a checklist,...

Oakland Councilmember-at-large Rebecca Kaplan hosted a community meeting on homeless solutions Monday to address what she believes is the city’s number one concern: the number of unhoused people living on Oakland’s streets. According to Kaplan, the meeting...