Four Oakland city leaders are sponsoring a resolution that will mean city laws, communications and policies have language that is gender-neutral and gender-inclusive, the city attorney’s office said.

Mayor Libby Schaaf, Councilmembers Rebecca Kaplan and Sheng Thao along with City Attorney Barbara Parker will introduce the resolution at the City Council meeting Oct. 6.

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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.