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Ricardo Garcia Acosta

Commission chair, Selection Panel Appointee, Oakland Police Commission

Raised ICE and immigration enforcement at six meetings.

16 of 17transcribed meetings with their voice identified

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Next Police Commission meeting: Thu, Nov 12, 5:30 pm · Clerk’s calendar

Talk time, and Acosta’s other bodies
  • Police Commission: talk time not compared. Presides over its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
Neighborhoods Acosta named

2 places Acosta named in meetings

Lines where Acosta named the place, read by two AI readers that both agree it means that place. Each dot plays the newest one; brighter means named more often.

Oakland
  • North Oakland 1 time
  • West Oakland 1 time

Places are drawn at the centre of their own boundary in the city’s neighborhoods (CEDA) file (City of Oakland Open Data Portal); a well-known area with no boundary of its own sits at its OpenStreetMap point. A dot says the place was named, not where Acosta was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Acosta’s voice

16, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Acosta’s first remark.

  1. Oct 8, 2026Police Commission35.8 min18:29
  2. Sep 24, 2026Police Commission23.3 min13:56
  3. Sep 10, 2026Police Commission24.0 min34:29
  4. Aug 13, 2026Police Commission21.3 min48:44
  5. Jul 23, 2026Police Commission29.7 min32:22
  6. Jun 25, 2026Police Commission32.4 min1:18:44
  7. Jun 18, 2026Police Commission28.3 min1:06:44
  8. May 28, 2026Police Commission20.8 min18:44
  9. May 14, 2026Police Commission30.3 min31:29
  10. Mar 12, 2026Police Commission9.1 min12:46
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  1. Feb 26, 2026Police Commission20.8 min14:40
  2. Feb 12, 2026Police Commission34.9 min11:34
  3. Jan 22, 2026Police Commission20.6 min15:42
  4. Jan 8, 2026Police Commission20.0 min13:49
  5. Dec 11, 2025Police Commission2.0 min17:51
  6. Nov 20, 2025Police Commission29.6 min12:42
How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 340 commission lines drawn, 260 right, 4 wrong, 1 unclear, 75 couldn’t be judged

We identified Acosta’s voice at 16 meetings. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Acosta was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Ricardo Garcia Acosta’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Acosta said. For commissions, of 340 lines drawn, 260 were right, 4 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 75. We have since removed the voices behind 64 of those lines (3 wrong, 0 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 276 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 228: 226 right, 1 wrong and 1 unclear (90% lower bound 0.97). They couldn’t judge the other 48. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Acosta or of Oakland alone.