Former Oakley Mayor Kevin Romick noted Thursday, Video conferencing apps all have the same inherent issue, Are we live? The unfortunate incident involving the Oakley school board dramatically illustrated this issue. It s obviously important to know when you re live. Fortunately in the many video meetings I ve been involved in, there hasn t been such an O-s - moment.
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Danville rep appointed to Oakley school board as county takes over temporarily after hot mic scandal resignations
“Uh-oh.”
That was what one member of the board in charge of elementary and middle schools in Oakley, Calif., uttered Wednesday afternoon when she realized her online conversation with other members had been broadcast to the public.
The members had spent two minutes mocking parents, suggesting they wanted teachers back in school so they could have “their babysitters back” and go back to smoking marijuana.
The entire time, parents who had logged in for the regular twice-monthly meeting of the board had been listening. The response to the board members’ comments was swift and furious another reminder of the rage and anguish many parents are feeling as school closures drag into the spring.
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600 gallons of oil pour into San Francisco Bay from leak at Chevron refinery
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A spill at the Chevron Richmond Refinery dumped 600 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay Tuesday before it was stopped.Courtesy KTVU
An oil spill at the Chevron Richmond Refinery that was leaking into San Francisco Bay was stopped late Tuesday afternoon, and the cleanup is underway, the energy company said in a statement.
Chevron first noticed the sheen on the water near the refinery at 3 p.m., and approximately 600 gallons of a petroleum and water mixture seeped into the bay before the leak was stopped.
Photo: Contra Costa County Office of the Sheriff
The death of a man in a North Richmond house fire has been ruled a homicide, according to the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office.
An autopsy determined that Virillio Patino-Cruz, 23, of North Richmond, died from carbon dioxide intoxication due to smoke inhalation due to the fire, which occurred Tuesday morning at a home in the 1800 block of Giaramita Street, the sheriff’s office said Wednesday.
Patino-Cruz was found unresponsive in the home and was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced deceased, the sheriff’s office said.
Even before the autopsy was done, Patino-Cruz’s death was deemed suspicious. Arson investigators joined Sheriff’s Office detectives in probing the incident.