Antioch police have pledged to support a civil investigation into their department by the state attorney general’s office, following allegations that officers there shared bigoted text messages and engaged in other misconduct. 

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the investigation Wednesday in Oakland. The texting allegations involve 17 officers who sent messages and about half that number who received them, Bonta said.

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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.