By Tim Redmond
In the wake of a storm of criticism, here and elsewhere, the BART Board’s police oversight committee has finally started holding open, publicly noticed meetings.
At the first meeting, this morning in Oakland, “they tried to take credit for the public notice, but I reminded them that the only reason they issued a notice is that we’d already emailed it out,” Quintin Mecke, communications director for Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, told me.
So now it’s on the record: Every monday morning, 10 a.m., at BART’s headquarters at 300 Lakeside, Oakland. Feel free to show up and ask why it’s taken 17 years for the board to even begin talking about police oversight.