Amid a police texting scandal, the Berkeley City Council has voted to make interim Police Chief Jennifer Louis’ job permanent.

Jennifer Louis has been named permanent chief of the Berkeley Police Department. (Berkeley Police Department via Bay City News)

Louis, a 23-year veteran of the department, is the first female chief, the first openly gay chief and the first Asian-American chief in Berkeley.

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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.