width: 43%; So we could take advantage of that and, at the same time, keep a part of Oaklands culture that is controversial, but it shouldnt be so controversial when its just human nature. State and local courts | Seneca Scott, housing activist; Loren Taylor, city councilor from the 6th district } } In phase one, we send the Urban Compassion Project and other light-hearted organizations that arent going to waste money and know how to account for it, who have a work plan and accountability structures with the city with the money were paying them. I chatted with Seneca, who's 42 years old, recently. } Your support is powering our newsroom! This page was current at the end of the individual's last campaign covered by Ballotpedia. width: 100% !important; But we need business improvement districts that will support these things. Whats your plan? It is situated in the Silesian Voivodeship (administrative division) since 1999, and was previously the capital . $('.showResponses').show(); $('#' + "3" + s).show(); The neighbors speak. } 
   @media screen and (max-width: 411px) { He graduated from Oakland High in 1998. Political Candidate Make sure people can compete. 		line-height: 1.5em; Ten candidates will be on the November ballot for Oakland, California's mayoral race. 		padding-bottom: 7px; The average perpetrator of violent crime is under thirty now. }else{ $('.pastResponses').hide();    .inner_percentage.Green { This interview is with Seneca Scott, the founder of the nonprofit Neighbors Together Oakland, co-founder of the entertainment company Oakhella (which recently distanced itself from the candidate . 		margin-bottom:16px; Seneca Scott, a cousin of Martin Luther King Jr.'s wife, Coretta Scott King, criticized the newly unveiled statue of her family members in Boston. Read my statement here. .large-date { text-align: center; margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 20px; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 600;} In a phone interview with the Bay Area Reporter Wednesday, Scott said he would not wear the sandwich board again. Thats not enough for them. 		display: table; 		background-color: #6db24f; 	.race_header { . You want to stop it? There are several cases that have been solved very recently that I can point you to, including as recently as this week due to the use of license plate readers.    } Were hearing that you would address root causes, but you also just spent a long time talking about allowing the police to use surveillance and arrest a bunch of people. Weve had public engagements with the unhoused community, the activist community, shelters, and developers who were all on the same platform. We have an expert and we pay him: the police chief. 		position: relative; Thank you for supporting The Oaklandside and being a part of our community. Seneca Scott, the cousin of Martin Luther King Jr.'s wife, Coretta Scott King, has slammed the newly unveiled statue of his family members in Boston. Add more info.        position:absolute;        background-color: green;     } 	}    .mw-body #mw-content-text  h5.rcvrace_header {  	width: 250px; p.survey-response {white-space: pre-line;} 		let item = jQuery('.votebox .indicate_scroll').get(index); Its been how many years and $5 million [spent by the city] and they still havent on-boarded fire or the department of transportation [data into Accela]. I also like soccer. Seneca Scott   ran for election for Mayor of Oakland in California. Im not talking about expired tags. Los Angeles doesnt deal with that.  People crash into people at taco trucks and stuff. 		font-size: 0.9em; How safe is your neighborhood? When you have an independent office of the controller has a say in how the city is spending money. .widget-row.value-only.white {    } 	}        font-weight: 300; Second choice: Loren Taylor. 		width: 100%;        color:white; Just after 10 p.m. on Oct. 30, 2021, Oakland police officers were flagged down by a man at the corner of Peralta and 8th streets in West Oakland. RELATED: Activist Seneca Scott announces run for Oakland mayor.    .inner_percentage.CrossFiled {        position: relative; You want public schools to be reimagined or repurposed. 			} Would expanding affordable housing in Oakland be a goal of yours? They live the lifestyle they want to live. })     Everyone has a personal responsibility to be a good neighbor, housed or unhoused. Round 9 We know that public schools in Oakland are run by the Oakland Unified School District and charter school organizations, but Mayor Libby Schaaf has made education a big component of her tenure, spearheading efforts like Oakland Undivided, Oakland Promise, and the Oakland Teacher Residency Program. 	float: right; 	} } Too few. }        background-color: #ccc;  		};    .outer_percentage { .widget-row.Independent, .widget-row.Nonpartisan, .widget-row.Constitution {        letter-spacing: 0.03em; ul.key-messages {list-style-type: none; margin-left:10px; } He went on to earn a diploma in journalism from the United States Defense . The numbers are always changing and I dont want to use outdated numbers, but a good chunk of [weapons] now are found to be ghost guns. p.survey-question {font-weight:bold;} Explaining our support for Seneca Scott. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) announced a new bill on Friday to increase funding for Social Security and Medicare and institute a higher standard for making cuts to the entitlement programs, following President Biden's pointed accusations during his annual address before Congress on Tuesday. Sheng Thao is the Mayor of Oakland in California.        color: #888; Tasneem Raja, editor-in-chief, The Oaklandside. If you take Soldier Field over there by the Lake Merritt Lodge, thats a great example. $(document).ready(function(){ 	color: white; 	} Her donors include general contractors, non-profit workers, pastors, attorneys, Blue Shield workers and AB&I Foundry workers.    } People are changing their behavior the moment they leave Oakland to [go to] Albany, to Emeryville, to anywhere else, because they know that law enforcement is going to pull them over and theyre going to have to give up their vehicle.        font-size: 20px; We have people out there like the Urban Compassion Project who have already shown proof of concept in their ability to holistically abate camps and get the large majority of people to actually accept the services offered. 		margin-bottom: 4px; 	} Because its a very common occurrence.        display: inline; 		display: block;        display: inline-block; 	background-color: #f9f9f9; 		z-index:1; a.communitylink { color:black; font-weight:bold; } And I love that we now have grants for people to have block parties. So just to be clear, are you saying you feel like the police department financially hasnt been supported enough, and you would provide more support? This is just not an honest conversation [happening currently] about the nuances of homelessness, about the new face of homelessness, [the] 24% growth during an eviction moratorium [from 2019 to 2022], that suggests that now youre importing people. 		margin-top: 1em; He also said he is not dropping out of the mayor's race. Is that too few or too many?        margin-top: 0px;       /* Show the tooltip text when you mouse over the tooltip container */ But its obvious. Despite the Silesian Voivodeship's name, most of the historic . You have to let the Department of Violence Prevention show that theyre not wasting the money. [Editors note: There is no objective number for how many officers a city should have, but policymakers often aim to provide a certain number of officers per every 100,000 people, and they adjust this further based on a citys rate of crime, assuming that more officers are needed to respond to more crime. 	.mw-content-ltr td.votebox-results-cell--text, 		left: 0; OAKLAND, Calif. - Oakland's City Attorney has given the approval to add a 10th person to the November ballot for Mayor. 	.race_header.democratic { OAKLAND, CALIF.  (KGO) -- Community activist Seneca Scott is the founder of grass roots organization that sued the City of Oakland over its homelessness policies. width: 250px; Second, we need more California Highway Patrol. 			.votebox-scroll-container { Seneca Scott IS Running For Mayor of Oakland CA Extra Connections. Youre probably the most vocal candidate about your criticism of the citys current approach to homelessness and encampments. Seneca Scott Since moving to Oakland a decade ago, former labor organizer Scott, 43, has founded local entertainment company Oakhella and co-founded the Bottoms Up Community Garden with a.           width: 95% !important;         height: 100%;    } Especially if you look at the wealth disparity. });  } Can we ask you a quick question about license plate readers? })     We're back in Jack London Square, this time with Oakland mayoral candidate Seneca Scott, who minces no words about the state of his city and why labor is backing an . 		font-size: 1.25em; Scott,. 	.inner_percentage.Green { a[aria-expanded=false] .fa-chevron-down { display: none; }        display: inline-block; We can now make [guns] like Legos in the trailers and encampments.        display:inline-block; 	} 	} If you go back to that report, the footage of people shooting up vehicles with assault rifles and setting them on fire, my neighbors sent me that. I will advocate that we do that every single time. }) There are studies that show the opposite. Oakland mayoral candidate Seneca Scott was arrested last year near a community garden he co-founded in West Oakland for allegedly brandishing a firearm at two people, according to police records.      } He says he'll be tackling issues like homelessness and crime.        color: #0645ad; })(); See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection. $('#emessage640055b6cc5e4').html(' Total : ' + ex_votes.toLocaleString()); } if (typeof $  !=  'undefined') { $('#candidate-connection-email-92743').on('click', () => { ga('send', 'event', 'surveycta', 'surveycta-click-email'); }); Thats why theyre always so late to report.    }    }    } 	margin-bottom: 1px; 		font-weight: 100;        text-align: left !important; And right now, unless those policies are supported by a majority of the City Council, the answer is no. The citys website itself says that the budget was cut.        background-color: #6db24f;    } She says it's not only property crime, which used to be the biggest issue prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, but now violent crime, including the increased shootings in Oakland neighborhoods and freeways. $("#round640055b6cc5e4").val($("#round640055b6cc5e4").children('option').length).change(); Do you know how many hits those things get on Youtube?        max-height: 355px; Liu wrote about the incident in one of the emails he recently sent to dozens of journalists and other mayoral candidates: My gun, Glock19, was taken away by Alameda County Sheriff in 2020. He also says there needs to be a focus on drug access and addiction within Oakland's unhoused community.    } We did not find any criminal cases involving any other candidates running for mayor this year.    .rcvresults_table_container { 	font-weight: bold; $('#selected_round' +s).html("9");
.rcvrace_header.Democratic { Regarding the last budget written by the mayor and approved by the City Council with amendments, was there anything in that budget that you objected to or would have cut? padding-left: 10px; The number by formula is 1100. .votebox_legend { Recently it was made law that you need to give at least 30-days notice [to clean or close an encampment], thankfully, because it was inhumane to keep giving people short notice and then not following through like the MLK and Grand encampment, where theyve told them every day for the last six months theyre going to evict them and it never actually happens. Seneca Scott - Candidate for Oakland Mayor (@Seneca4Mayor) June 30, 2022 The allegations weren't the topic of public discussion again until Abraham released his video interview with Powell, which was posted to Youtube on Oct. 25. Seneca Scott faces unresolved criminal charges, reported by The Oaklandside, for carrying a concealed gun and exhibiting the weapon in a threatening manner. [Editors note: Scott is referring to the kind of charter amendment he mentioned at the beginning of this interview, one that would give the mayor more power to set city policies.]. Im a long-shot candidate and everyone knows it. Its a combination of waste and corruption if you ask me. Seneca Scott speaking at a mayoral candidates forum at Laney College. So this is how it needs to work. } Experts say they constitute mass surveillance and that typically less than 1% of scans by law enforcement lead to an arrest and conviction. The Oaklandside relies on reader support to remain free for everyone in our community. font-weight: bold; He holds a doctorate in sociology from UC Santa Barbara and was the co-recipient of the George Polk Award for local reporting in 2017. padding-bottom: 7px; More than 35% of her contributions are from Oakland. Hi! Sign up for The Oaklandsides free daily newsletter. div.survey-scrollbox { height:400px; overflow:scroll; margin:20px; padding:10px; border:1px solid gray; } .rcvtooltip { Loren Taylor According to him, her grandfather was one of the 25 children of Jeff Scott, one of . .results_row td:first-child { Small Business Owner. I dont use affordable as many of you know because [that term has] been weaponized and politicized. Elections Click on the tabs below to show more information about those topics. Oakland mayoral candidate Seneca Scott was arrested last year near a community garden he co-founded in West Oakland for allegedly brandishing a firearm at two people, according to police. .results_row { } Thank you. I think that is a better solution. } Seneca Scott, Oakhella & Bottoms-Up Community Garden Loren Taylor, Oakland City Council, District 6 Sheng Thao, Oakland City Council District 4 All qualified candidates at the close of the City of Oakland filing deadline on August 12 will be invited to participate. Are we kidding ourselves now? font-size: 0.9em; .votebox-results-cell--check { }) Sep. 4, 2022 6 UPDATE: Mayors Libby Schaaf and London Breed have picked a candidate in the Oakland mayor's race. .inner_percentage { margin-bottom: -2px !important; border: 1px solid #999; $('.showResponses').on('click', () => { .contact_entity {font-size: 1.0em ;margin-top: 0.6em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-right: 0.5em;} Sounds like you would continue that involvement that Mayor Schaaf has shown in public schools. .inner_percentage, .inner_percentage.Nonpartisan, .inner_percentage.Independent, .inner_percentage.Constitution, .inner_percentage.unknown {

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