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# TBS Today, July 23
- URL: https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/07/24/newsletters/tbs-today-july-23-2025/
- Published: 2025-07-24T00:44:58.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-24T00:44:58.000Z
- Description: New approach to encampment closure?
- Author: Editor's desk
- Tags: Newsletters, #newsletters

Berkeley officials voted Tuesday night to give a dead-end street to one of the city's largest taxpayers in response to concerns about a sprawling homeless encampment there.

Here's what happened.

[Berkeley to close homeless camp by giving street to BayerCiting public safety concerns, including repeated fires, Bayer said it plans to close the street to the public and build a stormwater treatment feature.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/icon/The-Berkeley-Scanner_Icon_Color-1-969.jpg)The Berkeley ScannerEmilie Raguso![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/thumbnail/IMG_3525.jpg)](https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/07/24/community/berkeley-homeless-camp-closure-bayer-carleton/)

[Wildfire season: How UC Berkeley scholars are helping Bay Area communities prepareUC Berkeley Professor Michael Gollner and his students are using advanced wildfire simulation tools to help neighborhoods understand local risks.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/icon/The-Berkeley-Scanner_Icon_Color-1-970.jpg)The Berkeley ScannerGuest Contributor![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/thumbnail/BFSC-Fuel-Removal-Hidden-Canyon-2021-09-26-11.jpg)](https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/07/23/community/wildfire-season-how-uc-berkeley-scholars-are-helping-bay-area-communities-prepare/)

### In other news

We were at City Council past midnight and broke the news late last night that officials had approved a set of new Flock surveillance cameras — with what most officials described as appropriate safeguards and audits in place. 

The program had been approved already, but police asked to make some changes before installing the cameras.

A story is forthcoming. 

### In case you missed it

[Berkeley woman, 81, punched amid downtown disturbancePolice called for emergency backup and asked BART to hold all trains for several minutes until they could arrest suspect Floydie Atkins.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/icon/The-Berkeley-Scanner_Icon_Color-1-971.jpg)The Berkeley ScannerEmilie Raguso![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/thumbnail/Screenshot-2025-07-21-at-7.15.34---PM-1.jpg)](https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/07/22/arrests/berkeley-woman-81-punched-downtown-disturbance/)

[Amid rising antisemitism, Berkeley Jews hold safety forum″ We know what’s happening. We all feel it,” said Teresa Drenick of American Jewish Committee, an organizer of the event.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/icon/The-Berkeley-Scanner_Icon_Color-1-972.jpg)The Berkeley ScannerEmilie Raguso![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/thumbnail/IMG_3373-1.jpg)](https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/07/22/community/amid-rising-antisemitism-jews-in-berkeley-hold-forum-on-safety/)

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