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Each issue's share of the 229 meetings transcribed, counting a meeting where an identified official raised it · Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 8, 2026

Officials raised city budget and Measure E at 44 meetings, more than any other issue we track.

The issues Oakland officials raised, by share of meetings

City budget and Measure E19.2%of meetings where an official raised it44 meetings · 11 boards and committeesBudget Advisory Commission100%Finance and Management66%Public Safety46%Each body's share · top 3 of 11Budget Advisory Commission: 6 of 6 transcribed meetings; Finance and Management Committee: 10 of 15 transcribed meetings; Public Safety Committee: 7 of 15 transcribed meetingsSee all 44 meetings
ICE and immigration enforcement7.9%of meetings where an official raised it18 meetings · 6 boards and committeesPolice Commission35%City Council25%Public Safety13%Each body's share · top 3 of 6Police Commission: 6 of 17 transcribed meetings; City Council: 5 of 20 transcribed meetings; Public Safety Committee: 2 of 15 transcribed meetingsSee all 18 meetings
License-plate cameras (Flock)6.6%of meetings where an official raised it15 meetings · 5 boards and committeesPrivacy Advisory Commission50%Public Safety40%City Council15%Each body's share · top 3 of 5Privacy Advisory Commission: 3 of 6 transcribed meetings; Public Safety Committee: 6 of 15 transcribed meetings; City Council: 3 of 20 transcribed meetingsSee all 15 meetings
Homelessness and encampments5.7%of meetings where an official raised it13 meetings · 4 boards and committeesCity Council30%Public Works and Transportation25%Rules and Legislation6%Each body's share · top 3 of 4City Council: 6 of 20 transcribed meetings; Public Works and Transportation Committee: 4 of 16 transcribed meetings; Rules and Legislation Committee: 2 of 29 transcribed meetingsSee all 13 meetings
Police chief search3.1%of meetings where an official raised it7 meetings · 2 boards and committeesPolice Commission35%Rules and Legislation3%Each body's share · all 2 bodiesPolice Commission: 6 of 17 transcribed meetings; Rules and Legislation Committee: 1 of 29 transcribed meetingsSee all 7 meetings
How we count

Two AI models read each issue mention; a third checks a sample. A meeting counts when an identified official raised the issue. Shares are at least this high; shares within about a point of each other are a tie. More on how we know

Oakland officials on the issues

1:38:08
City budget and Measure EI said when we had our, our last council meeting that I was going to try to add back the $50 million that I heard so many of our public speakers ask for. And I did that in my budget amendments to the mayor’s budget.Carroll FifeMember · Community and Economic Development Committee · Jun 9, 2026Open the meeting at 1:38:08
  • License-plate cameras (Flock)I know also of high interest from the general public is these every 6-month audit around the flock camera usage.Charlene WangCouncil member · City Council · Oct 6, 2026 1:49:01Open the meeting at 1:49:01
  • 3:26:30
    City budget and Measure EI hear your frustrations, but respectfully, this is under fifty million dollars we’re talking about, and we have a two billion dollar budget.Janani RamachandranMember · City Council · Jun 2, 2026Open the meeting at 3:26:30
  • 18:35
    City budget and Measure ECouncilmember— so this sort of, um, percentage-based budgeting strikes me as trying to meet a moving target because the amounts of revenues are, are changing year to year.Zac UngerMember · Finance and Management Committee · Dec 9, 2025Open the meeting at 18:35
How we count

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named. More on how we know

Policing and public safety: 119 local news articles in 12 months, and at least 20 meetings that took it up.

Articles we found in Oakland's local outlets, Oct 24, 2025 – Oct 23, 2026 · meetings transcribed through Oct 8, 2026, where an official raised the issue, or where the topic was on the agenda · counts of articles we found, not all coverage

Policing and public safetyTopic119at least 20
Development and land useTopic55at least 18
Homelessness and encampmentsIssue2213
City budget and Measure EIssue1644
License-plate cameras (Flock)Issue1515
ICE and immigration enforcementIssue1118
Police chief searchIssue77

* At least: Counted at the bodies whose agenda items the clerk indexes; not counted: Oakland Unified School District Board of Education, Police Commission, Public Safety Planning and Oversight Commission (Measure NN), Public Ethics Commission, Planning Commission, Budget Advisory Commission and 4 more (110 meetings).

How we count

We searched each city's local outlets month by month for each issue and topic. An article counts when two AI readers agree it is about that issue in the city's government, and a third read a sample of what they kept. Paywalled outlets and some papers show fewer pages, so these are the articles we found. More on how we know