Oakland will have two more police academies over the next two fiscal years to hire more sworn officers into the Oakland Police Department, the City Council decided Tuesday.

The hiring would allow the city to meet the requirements of Measure Z, a parcel tax approved by voters in 2014, which helps fund other city services such as fire and violence prevention. It will also add 60 more officers to the force.

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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.