About 20 people demonstrated in San Leandro recently to demand more hospital beds rather than jail cells and homeless tents for the seriously mentally ill.

The demonstration Friday afternoon started at Foothill Boulevard and Fairmont Drive near Fairmont Hospital by the group Alameda County Families Advocating for the Seriously Mentally Ill.

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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.