Proposed layoffs condemned during public comment at 2/11 Peralta trustee meeting
District Chancellor Gilkerson called the reductions in force a “survival strategy.”
A warning from the Peralta Community College District reported an “active shooter” at the Laney Fieldhouse at 12:17 p.m Thursday, triggering a campus-wide lockdown. Laney was closed for the rest of the day following the shooting.
Over the summer, the board of trustees approved multi-year contracts for two new security companies to operate across the district.
Florida-based private prison operators GEO Group were called to answer to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for alleged sexual violence, carceral conditions, and the death of former San Francisco resident Melvin Bulauan while under their care at their Taylor Street reentry facility -- a building historic for housing the one of the earliest recorded transgender riots against police brutality in the nation.
Four long-awaited construction projects commenced at Laney College on Tuesday.