THREE MEMBERS of the Berkeley Commission on Disability have filed suit against the city of Berkeley, alleging discrimination regarding the rules for attending commission meetings. 

Rena Fischer, Helen Walsh and Kathi Pugh filed suit on Aug. 22 in federal court over allegations that the city will not grant them accommodations for attending commission meetings, according to Disability Rights Advocates, a nonprofit law center advocating for people with disabilities that represents the three.

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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.