Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland Police Investigate Possible 911 Tampering
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Jay Barmann (via SFist)
The Oakland Police Department is looking into whether the city's still-disabled 911 system was intentionally compromised. At a press conference Thursday, OPD Chief James Beere said the level of disruption in the system was "not normal," and they were investigating a potential criminal act. [KTVU]
Two people were killed in a five-car pileup on southbound I-280 in Los Altos around 5 pm Thursday, after a vehicle traveling in the northbound lanes reportedly moved into the southbound lanes. [KTVU]
A small group of parents in Potrero Hill helped take Daniel Webster Elementary School from one of the city's worst to one of the city's most in-demand public schools 20 years ago, and they say today's parents should see it as an example as the lottery system is going away. [Chronicle]
Immigration attorneys warn that there's been an uptick in aggressive, violent ICE arrests around the Bay Area, which may be a new pattern. [Berkeleyside]
A progressive group has put out a video in which three men admit to being paid to have sex with the late Senator Lindsey Graham, who remained closeted until his dying day — and one of the men says he was only 17 at the time. [Thought Catalog]
Trump is suing the BBC for defamation, for $10 billion, in a Florida court for a January 6th documentary they made, and now a judge has ordered him to sit for a deposition before December 10 after he skipped an earlier date to attend a campaign rally in Georgia. [New York Times]
Military boards, in the Navy and Marines at least, have been rejecting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's orders to dismiss trans troops, voting instead to keep them when their cases come before the board's review. [New York Times]
