On Friday, the Berkeley Unified School District publicly denied a recent claim by a student that a Berkeley High staff member failed to tell police about her sexual assault report.
Campus culture and safety issues have bubbled to the surface at Berkeley High School this week, with students publicly accusing their classmates of sexual assault and their administration of failing to prevent it.
A female student at Berkeley High School has sued the Berkeley Unified School District over how administrators handled her attempted rape on campus last year, new records show.
Authorities announced the arrest Thursday of a San Pablo man they say shot an innocent bystander in a crowd after a dispute near Telegraph earlier this month.
Police are investigating a shooting near UC Berkeley early Sunday morning that sent one person to the hospital, authorities report. There have been at least 26 confirmed gunfire incidents in Berkeley in 2019.
Officers investigated the sound of gunfire Monday night near the UC Berkeley campus, authorities report.
Police increased patrols near Emerson Elementary School in Berkeley on Wednesday morning after a man approached a child to ask for sex at a nearby coffee shop, according to the school principal.
Four girls who walked off with a UC Berkeley student’s cellphone when she let them borrow it were arrested downtown Wednesday morning near Berkeley City College, authorities report.
UC Berkeley police are investigating allegations of a sexual assault in UC Berkeley housing Sunday, the agency reported late Wednesday night. The report is described as the rape of a drugged victim, according to UCPD.
A UC Berkeley student charged with raping one young woman at his former fraternity in 2017 and forcing another to perform oral sex on him earlier this year must stand trial, a judge ruled Monday.
Berkeley High School went on “high alert” on Thursday afternoon after a former student threatened to “come to BHS with the intent to do harm,” according to a message from the principal.
Multiple teenagers were pepper-sprayed during a fight at downtown Berkeley’s Civic Center Park on Thursday afternoon, authorities report.
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