Oakland police Chief Anne Kirkpatrick was fired from her job late Thursday, according to the mayor and the Oakland Police Commission.

Kirkpatrick was terminated without cause by the Oakland Police Commission and Mayor Libby Schaaf during a special closed session meeting at City Hall. Darren Allison will step in as acting chief until an interim chief is appointed.

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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.