Santa Rita Jail

U.S. Magistrate Judge Nathanael Cousins preliminarily approved a settlement in a federal class action lawsuit against Alameda County over mental health care at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin and at any other Alameda County jail.

COVID-19 cases spiked recently at the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, an Alameda County sheriff’s spokesman said Tuesday.

A man suspected of being cruising around the Bay Area in the backseat of a driverless Tesla has been arrested, the California Highway Patrol said Tuesday, noting that he had also been cited late last month.

A man suspected of being cruising around the Bay Area in the backseat of a driverless Tesla has been arrested, the CHP said Tuesday.

A federal report stated that Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County violated civil rights by failing to provide mental health services to inmates.

A new federal report says Alameda County in Northern California violated civil rights by failing to provide proper mental health services, especially in a jail where 19 people have committed suicide since 2014

Nearly 90 cases of coronavirus remain active at Santa Rita Jail among the facility’s inmates and staff members.

Forty Santa Rita Jail inmates have tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus since Wednesday, sheriff’s officials said Thursday.

Authorities have confirmed there are a total of 13 positive novel coronavirus cases among inmates at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin.

Police departments around the Bay Area have been issuing public service announcements warning against driving impaired after Super Bowl LIV celebrations on Sunday, but the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office quashed an apparent party planned by a group that is unable to drive – inmates at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin. The sheriff’s office on Saturday posted a photo on...

A lawsuit is being filed on behalf of the family of a former Alameda County Jail inmate who died while in custody in 2018.

A group of activists called the Housing Justice Village gathered Monday to allow people arrested in a recent homelessness protest to speak about their experiences.

The man accused of fatally stabbing an Oakland man on a BART train was recently released from jail in San Francisco, awaiting trial on weapons charges, according to the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office.

A good Samaritan was fatally stabbed on a BART train after he allegedly attempted to stop a man from stealing another rider’s shoes.

A 22-year-old homeless man from Albany has been arrested on suspicion of two counts of attempted murder for allegedly wounding two other homeless men by firing arrows at them at a camp near the Bay Trail in Albany early Saturday morning, police said.

A 22-year-old Albany man who had been experiencing homelessness has been arrested on suspicion of two counts of attempted murder for allegedly wounding two other men by firing arrows at them at a camp near the Bay Trail in Albany early Saturday morning, police said.

An Alameda County sheriff’s deputy is back on active duty after allegedly crashing his car into a Livermore home while driving drunk in May and punching the home’s owner – a retired Oakland police sergeant – in the face.

A suspect has been arrested in connection with an incident Thrusday in which a Dublin woman awoke just before midnight to find a stranger in her bedroom groping her.

Four suspects have been arrested in connection with a laptop robbery and car crash earlier this week at a Starbucks in San Leandro, police said Friday.

The California Legislature has approved a bill authored by state Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, that’s designed to end what she says is the dangerous practice of county jails releasing people in the middle of the night.