TBS Today, Oct. 28
Still no response from BPD to our weekend request for information about Friday's arrest of a gunfire suspect. We'll keep asking.
In a few minutes, we'll head to tonight's Berkeley City Council meeting, where officials are expected to approve the full encryption of BPD radio transmissions.
This afternoon, we published an op-ed about the subject (written by yours truly) — and mistakenly also sent it by email. We apologize for the double intrusion on your inbox today.
We also spoke with ABC7 for a 6-minute live segment on police encryption. We'll share a link if it gets posted online.
To be clear: Berkeley police encryption will affect our news coverage.
But we are confident our readers will keep sharing tips about incidents of concern, which will give us a leg up.
Other news outlets may be less fortunate, and the broader public will still be left out in the cold.
Our position, in the end: This is simply not the time to restrict access to public information.
Emilie Raguso
Emilie Raguso
In other news
Community members will have a chance Wednesday (tomorrow) to meet and chat with Berkeley police.
BPD's latest "Coffee with a Cop" takes place Oct. 29 from 10 a.m. to noon in the REI parking lot, at 1338 San Pablo Ave.
"Enjoy some coffee and great conversations with members of our department," the department says.
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