The city of Berkeley says it has no records of sexual assault or dishonesty-related police misconduct from the past five years and does not have to release use-of-force records from incidents before 2019.
Berkeley isn’t cleaning it up because it says the land belongs to Caltrans, and the trash is the state’s responsibility. Caltrans says it regularly cleans up the area.
Drawing on her mother’s Native American heritage and her father’s African-American culture, Martha Redbone is one of the most powerful voices in American music. She performs in Berkeley on Wednesday.
By Ben Gerhardstein, Liza Lutzker, Jacqueline Erbe, Barnali Ghosh, Nick Swanson-Hysell, Michael Hyatt, Jonathan Walden, Tom Lent, Bentham Paulos and Karen Parolek
