Task Force

The White House COVID-19 Response Taskforce held a briefing Friday morning to discuss President Joe Biden’s new vaccination mandate for all workplaces with over 100 employees.

Dr. Anthony Fauci laid out the timeline for COVID-19 vaccine test results that are currently being conducted on school-age children.

Last week’s attacks on the Capitol didn’t just prompt law enforcement in D.C. to beef up security. It triggered changes for law enforcement nationwide, and on Wednesday, the Santa Clara County’s Sheriff’s Office says it’s one of the agencies making a change to better protect the community. Anoushah Rasta reports.

The Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday said it is assembling a special task force to “investigate any right-wing terrorists or terrorist groups that have any intention of harming public officials, destroying government facilities or putting our community at-risk.”

President-elect Joe Biden is already moving forward with one of his priorities: assembling a pandemic task force, which includes Bay Area connections at UCSF. Cierra Johnson reports.

Oakland city leaders Tuesday night voted unanimously to create a public safety task force that would ultimately cut the police department budget by 50% within the next two years. Bob Redell reports.

Santa Clara County could establish a homeless task force to address housing and homelessness concerns in the region.

Rescue crews out of Menlo Park and Oakland were among several California search and rescue teams sent to the southern Atlantic Coast on Tuesday to aid in the response to Hurricane Dorian.

Los Angeles Police confiscate various illegal drugs and weapons while on the job, but it’s not every day that they come across “super cute” and furry contraband.

A 32-year-old San Jose martial arts instructor was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of molesting two of his female students, according to San Jose police.

Court documents reveal a popular social media influencer and comedian arrested this summer in San Diego County may have supplied the drugs that led to a Ramona woman’s suspected fatal overdose.

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Friday announced charges of violations of human rights, worker rights, tax evasion and possession of illegal weapons against owners and operators of daycare facilities in the Bay Area. Fifty-nine criminal charges were filed against four members of the Gamos family who owned and operated Rainbow Bright, which has four adult care facilities and two...

A group of teenagers crashed a stolen vehicle while on the run from police in San Jose Monday night. The incident comes in the midst of growing concern over a spike in juvenile crime in the Bay Area.

As high-profile police shootings continue to shake the United States, a growing number of black police chiefs are struggling to deal with the way their officers treat young men of color, NBC News reported. Daniel Hahn, police chief of Sacramento where Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old black man, was killed in March, is among the officers trying to deal with this...

On Thursday, a special task force confiscated counterfeit cosmetics known to contain high levels of bacteria and feces retailing for approximately $700,000

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new opioid task force to target drug manufacturers.

Oakland law enforcement is putting together a task force in an effort to prevent sideshows from happening in the Bay Area.

Puerto Rico’s governor on Thursday announced the creation of a task force that will examine the number of deaths related to Hurricane Maria, NBC News reported. The task force is expected to release its findings in 90 days. The death toll is over 60 but the issue of the death count has been controversial. Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism...

The U.S. Navy has called off search and rescue operations for three sailors not immediately recovered after a C2-A Greyhound plane crashed into the Philipine Sea, the 7th fleet said in a statement. Search and rescue efforts from the crash of the transport aircraft on Wednesday afternoon Japan time were suspended at 10:00 a.m. local time Friday (8 p.m. Thursday...

Two Bay Area rescue teams were on their way to Houston on Sunday to help people in flooded areas ravaged by Hurricane Harvey.