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Shawana Booker

Vice chair, Mayoral Appointee, Oakland Police Commission

Raised ICE and immigration enforcement at four meetings.

14 of 17transcribed meetings with their voice identified

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

Talk time, and Booker’s other bodies
  • Police Commission: talk time not compared. Ran some of its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Booker’s voice

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

  1. Oct 8, 2026Police Commission16.0 min1:39:11
  2. Sep 10, 2026Police Commission24.8 min1:41:52
  3. Aug 13, 2026Police Commission3.2 min1:17:38
  4. Jul 23, 2026Police Commission0.7 min3:53:41
  5. Jun 25, 2026Police Commission1.6 min10:47
  6. Jun 18, 2026Police Commission0.1 min2:51:59
  7. May 28, 2026Police Commission0.8 min2:34:22
  8. May 14, 2026Police Commission3.5 min3:01:22
  9. Mar 26, 2026Police Commission5.7 min24:11
  10. Feb 26, 2026Police Commission5.7 min3:12:28
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  1. Feb 12, 2026Police Commission2.4 min1:49:48
  2. Jan 22, 2026Police Commission5.2 min2:48:31
  3. Dec 11, 2025Police Commission1.1 min1:15:55
  4. Nov 20, 2025Police Commission3.6 min1:42:44
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 Booker’s voice at 14 meetings. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Booker was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Shawana Booker’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 Booker 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 Booker or of Oakland alone.