Soon, civilians with the Oakland Fire Department may respond to mental health crises instead of police.
The Oakland City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to consider in two weeks an amended ordinance that would create a Civilian Crisis Response Division in the Fire Department.
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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.
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