A judge has placed the Oakland Police Department on a one-year probationary period before he makes a decision on whether to release the department from nearly 20 years of federal oversight, court records show.

U.S. District Judge William Orrick issued the order Thursday in the case of Delphine Allen et al vs. city of Oakland et al after determining police achieved “substantial compliance” with reforms.

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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.