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Contra Costa leads the Bay Area for Secure Community deportations

Contra Costa County has deported more people than any other county in the Bay Area through Secure Communities, a partnership between Immigration and Customs Enforcement and local law enforcement agencies, according to data ICE released...
Pedro Gutierrez holds the ticket issued to him by the Richmond Police Department for driving a car with tinted windows. (Photo by Lexi Pandell)

Kicked to the curb: Undocumented residents’ struggle to stay behind the wheel

On Aug. 8, Pedro Gutierrez was driving to his job as a carpenter in his black 1992 Ford Mustang. He turned off Cutting Boulevard just a block away from his work when he spotted a...
Council members, including Gayle McLaughlin (from left), Jeff Ritterman, Nat Bates and Tom Butt (shown during a June 22 meeting), voted Tuesday to OK the purchase of $84,000 worth of Tasers for the Richmond Police Department during their weekly council meeting. The purchase violates the city council's own resolution calling for a ban on Arizona-based businesses, such as the Taser vendor. However police say the Arizona companty is simply the only place to get the devices. File photo by Ian A. Stewart.

Council OKs Taser purchase, breaks own resolution

Despite its own resolution banning doing business with companies in Arizona, Richmond City Council on Tuesday approved a $84,000 purchase of Tasers from an Arizona vendor during a wide-ranging council meeting.
Richmond Mayor Gayle McLaughlin at the offices for Richmond Progressive Alliance on Macdonald Avenue.

Richmond’s Green Party mayor: Still feeling like the underdog

Four years after her upset win vaulted Gayle McLaughlin to the pinnacle of local politics and into the national spotlight, the now more seasoned Green Party mayor says she still has what it takes to...