A broken conduit has left all four emergency blue phones in Laney College’s parking lot out of order for nearly three years. On Sep. 25, Peralta’s current Associate Director of Public Safety...

A disposition hearing is set for Tim Thomas, Peralta Community College District’s (PCCD’s) Executive Director of Public Safety, regarding his misdemeanor charges of battery, elder abuse, and grand...

Peralta Community College District (PCCD) officials hosted a virtual Public Safety Town Hall this Monday, presenting the results of a recent survey on campus safety and security results and answering questions...

Update 9/21/2023: The pretrial hearing has been rescheduled. On Sep. 20, The Superior Court of Alameda County informed The Citizen that the "there is a Pretrial Hearing on 10/03/2023 at 9:00 am for...

Update as of 6/18/2023: On June 15, the pre-trial hearing was rescheduled, and will now take place Aug. 3 at 9 am. Correction 5/18/2023: An earlier version of this story named Clifford Blakely as...

Appointment of Royl Roberts Creates a Potential Conflict By David Rowe, Associate Editor February 18, 2023 Correction 5/18/2023: An earlier version of this story named Clifford Blakely as the...

During meetings held by the Laney Career Technical Education Advisory Committee (LCTEAC) and the Laney College Faculty Senate on Nov. 14 and 15, respectively, both shared governance bodies passed resolutions...

By David Rowe, Associate Editor, with additional reporting and photography by Ken Lester, Staff Writer The Oakland Police Department (OPD), responding to a public records act request from The Citizen,...

By David Rowe, Associate Editor, with additional reporting by Leticia Luna, Editor in Chief Tim Thomas, the Director of Public Safety for the Peralta Community College District (PCCD) since last...

Seven months after Peralta Community College District (PCCD) officials declared Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with local law enforcement as a top-priority component of PCCD’s new safety plan,...

Timothy Thomas’ interest in law enforcement began at an early age. He became a police cadet in San Leandro at age 14, according to his profile on the Carrington College website, where, until recently,...

The unarmed security guards at the Peralta campuses interviewed by The Citizen lack basic two-way communication devices and must rely on their personal cell phones to report incidents. Interviews with...