The BART Police Department on Thursday unveiled plans to begin collecting racial data during each and every police stop throughout the transit system.
The final report on what triggered last year’s massive power outages acknowledges that state energy “market practices” allowed thousands of megawatts of desperately needed power to be exported out of state at the peak of the mid-August heatwave.
On Thursday, BART will unveil a plan to hire 20 new employees trained in social work who will ride the trains and respond to problems of homelessness, substance abuse and mental illness with an armed police officer. NBC Bay Area Senior Investigative Reporter Bigad Shaban will report on that story.
Frustration is mounting among families and industry watchdogs who say elderly residents in nursing homes and assisted living facilities are slipping through the cracks during California’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout and not receiving their shots as quickly as promised by state officials.
NBC Bay Area Senior Investigative Reporter dug through more than a thousand pages of newly-released grand jury testimony from the Santa Clara County Sheriff pay-to-play gun permit scandal.
A Bay Area family is dealing with the pain of learning the man who participated in the murder of their young son, or brother, is being released from prison early. Investigative Reporter Jaxon Van Derbeken found it’s all the result of a change in state law that occurred a decade after the killing.
San Francisco’s controversial sentencing policies may end up getting caught in an unusual legal battle that pits Los Angeles county prosecutors against their new boss – former SF District Attorney George Gascon – over his newly adopted policies against pursuing cases under the state’s Three Strikes law.
The 45-year-old parolee held for the New Year’s Eve hit-and-run deaths of two pedestrians had been facing a Three-Strikes life prison term until he was freed last year under San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, documents obtained by NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit show.
San Francisco-based businessman and entrepreneur Dwayne Jones has made quite a living over the last decade, consulting on a unique city program he himself helped create.
Among the paramedics, firefighters and other first responders lined up to receive the COVID-19 vaccine last Friday at Hayward’s St. Rose Hospital, was one person whom you likely wouldn’t expect to see, according to state guidelines governing vaccine distribution.
After a storm of criticism, the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission this month abandoned its proposed rule “reinterpretation” that would have allowed commercial landfills to start accepting low level radioactive waste in lieu of the nation’s four licensed facilities.
A decades-old crime can bar someone from housing, even if they are reformed, gainfully employed and a father with children depending on him. NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit confronts one city official about a housing program that calls people with criminal pasts “weeds” and “two-legged predators” that need to be eliminated.
On top of losing his job and home, Mike has to raise his baby daughter on his own. After homeless shelters reject him because he has a child, he gets a surprising phone call with an offer to help.
Sitting in jail, not knowing where his kids are, Brandon hits rock bottom. When he resolves to get clean and be a father, no one will rent him an apartment. NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit exposes the housing program that keeps people like Brandon out on the streets.
As Mike and John hang on by a thread, a child care crisis and the pandemic threaten to drive the single fathers back to the streets. NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit exposes social stigmas that make it harder for single dads to get essential services.
Single dads meet to talk about the “absent black father” myth and its damaging effects. One university study finds most children’s books about African-American families perpetuate the stigma.
