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# TBS Today, May 29
- URL: https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/05/29/newsletters/tbs-today-may-29-2025/
- Published: 2025-05-29T23:29:21.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-29T23:29:21.000Z
- Description: Private school teacher charged with sex crimes; whale update.
- Author: Editor's desk
- Tags: Newsletters, #newsletters

A teacher at a private Berkeley high school for students with learning differences has been charged with more than 20 felonies stemming from a sex crime investigation that began last week, court records show.

The Scanner has the scoop.

[Berkeley private school teacher charged with sex crimesA principal who learned of “a series of explicit communications” between Jason Hoopes and an underage student reported it to police, BPD said.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/icon/The-Berkeley-Scanner_Icon_Color-1-801.jpg)The Berkeley ScannerEmilie Raguso![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/thumbnail/berkeley-police-cruiser-IMG_4397-1-1.jpg)](https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/05/29/arrests/berkeley-private-school-teacher-charged-with-sex-crimes/)

[5 gray whales found dead in the Bay Area in just a weekExperts are urging boaters of all sizes to be “whale aware” and slow down in the San Francisco Bay due to a “massive spike” in whale sightings.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/icon/The-Berkeley-Scanner_Icon_Color-1-802.jpg)The Berkeley ScannerEmilie Raguso![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/thumbnail/C.-Gray-whale_Berkeley_5.24.25_Photo-Kate-High----California-Academy-of-Sciences-1.jpg)](https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/05/29/community/san-francisco-bay-5-gray-whales-found-dead/)

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