THE PREVIOUSLY EMPANELED Alameda County Civil Grand Jury was in disarray and was unable to complete two investigations before it ended its work this year. 

The turmoil began last year when the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office under former District Attorney Nancy O’Malley withdrew its usual assistance for the jury for an investigation into the District Attorney’s Office, according to the final report by the jury.

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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.