The closed Glenn Dyer Jail in Oakland. (Photo courtesy of Jail Exchange)

Alameda County supervisors have made an offer to lease the Glenn E. Dyer Jail to the city of Oakland, county officials said July 31.

The idea to lease the jail to the city of Oakland was brought up on July 22 when the supervisors hosted the mayors of the 14 cities in the county to address the homeless crisis, according to county officials.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.