Elizabeth Beckman "Libby" Schaaf (born November 12, 1965) is an American
politician and a member of the Democratic Party. She is the mayor of Oakland, California and a former member of the Oakland City Council. Schaaf won the November 4, 2014, Oakland mayoral election in the 14th round in ranked choice voting with 62.79% of the vote.
Schaaf holds a B.A. in political science from Rollins College and a J.D. from Loyola Law School. In the race for Oakland mayor, Schaaf was endorsed by Governor of California Jerry Brown and US Senator Barbara Boxer. She was inaugurated on January 5, 2015.
Prior to her term as mayor, Schaaf was elected in 2010 to represent District 4 on the Oakland City Council. She served one term. Before that she was an aide to former Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown and Public Affairs Director for the Port of Oakland,
Schaaf's years of public service began while she was a young attorney leading volunteer efforts in Oakland. She left her legal career to build and run the first centralized volunteer program for Oakland public schools at the Marcus Foster Institute.
Schaaf is Jewish. She lives in Oakland with her husband, Salvatore Fahey, and her children, Dominic and Lena.
On May 25, a follow-up march was held, organized by the women who organized the May 21 march. By the end of the march, 47 protestors were detained and cited for violating state Penal Code 409: unlawful assembly, and five were arrested. At least one was arrested after refusing a police order to move on to the sidewalk. Other protestors were arrested at a police blockade at the intersection between 3rd and Washington after attempting to push through the blockade. Police detonated at least two teargas canisters behind police lines “to deter the demonstrators from continuing to physically push or assault officers,” according to Oakland Police Officer Johnna Watson. Members of the Oakland Police Department, California Highway Patrol, and Alameda County Sheriff's Deputies ran behind protestors in an apparent move to trap and mass arrest them. In response, demonstrators sat down on the street. Some protestors were led away on their feet, while others were carried by officers. Local attorney, journalist, and UC Berkeley lecturer Geoffrey King reported in a tweet[ that several city police officers appeared to defy the department's policy of wearing body cameras, and that some did not activate the cameras they did wear. He also tweeted that he'd witnessed police officers threaten to arrest journalists.
Enactment of this policy brought harsh criticism and allegations of illegality from some constitutional lawyers, including civil rights attorney and one of the co-authors of Oakland Police Department's Crowd Control and Crowd Management Policy, Rachel Lederman: "My general impression is the police took an unduly aggressive approach that not only violated their own crowd control policy, but also the First Amendment... This was an unreasonable interference with the demonstration given that there had been no serious crimes committed." Other legal experts pointed to similar policies in cities like New York, which have been ruled constitutional.
Oakland
Oakland, is a major West Coast port city in the U.S. state of California. Oakland is the third largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, the eighth-largest city in California, and the 45th-largest city in the U.S., with a population of 413,775 as of 2014. It serves as a trade center for the San Francisco Bay Area; its Port of Oakland is the busiest port for San Francisco Bay, all of Northern California, and fifth busiest in the United States. Incorporated in 1852, Oakland is the county seat of Alameda County. It is also the principal city of the Bay Area Region known as the East Bay. The city is situated directly across the bay, six miles (9.7 km) east of San Francisco.
Oakland's territory covers what was once a mosaic of California coastal terrace prairie, oak woodland, and north coastal scrub. Its land served as a rich resource when its hillside oak and redwood timber were logged to build San Francisco, and Oakland's fertile flatland soils helped it become a prolific agricultural region. In the late 1860s, Oakland was selected as the western terminal of the Transcontinental Railroad. Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, many San Franciscans relocated to Oakland, enlarging the city's population, increasing its housing stock and improving its infrastructure. It continued to grow in the 20th century with its busy port, shipyards, and a thriving automobile manufacturing industry.
Oakland is known for its sustainability practices, including a top ranking for usage of electricity from renewable resources. Oakland is also known for its history of political activism, as well as its professional sports franchises and major corporations, which include health care, dot-com companies and manufacturers of household products. In addition, due to a steady influx of immigrants during the 20th century, along with thousands of African-American war-industry workers who relocated from the Deep South during the 1940s, Oakland is one of the most ethnically diverse major cities in the country.
Schaaf holds a B.A. in political science from Rollins College and a J.D. from Loyola Law School. In the race for Oakland mayor, Schaaf was endorsed by Governor of California Jerry Brown and US Senator Barbara Boxer. She was inaugurated on January 5, 2015.
Prior to her term as mayor, Schaaf was elected in 2010 to represent District 4 on the Oakland City Council. She served one term. Before that she was an aide to former Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown and Public Affairs Director for the Port of Oakland,
Schaaf's years of public service began while she was a young attorney leading volunteer efforts in Oakland. She left her legal career to build and run the first centralized volunteer program for Oakland public schools at the Marcus Foster Institute.
Schaaf is Jewish. She lives in Oakland with her husband, Salvatore Fahey, and her children, Dominic and Lena.
On May 25, a follow-up march was held, organized by the women who organized the May 21 march. By the end of the march, 47 protestors were detained and cited for violating state Penal Code 409: unlawful assembly, and five were arrested. At least one was arrested after refusing a police order to move on to the sidewalk. Other protestors were arrested at a police blockade at the intersection between 3rd and Washington after attempting to push through the blockade. Police detonated at least two teargas canisters behind police lines “to deter the demonstrators from continuing to physically push or assault officers,” according to Oakland Police Officer Johnna Watson. Members of the Oakland Police Department, California Highway Patrol, and Alameda County Sheriff's Deputies ran behind protestors in an apparent move to trap and mass arrest them. In response, demonstrators sat down on the street. Some protestors were led away on their feet, while others were carried by officers. Local attorney, journalist, and UC Berkeley lecturer Geoffrey King reported in a tweet[ that several city police officers appeared to defy the department's policy of wearing body cameras, and that some did not activate the cameras they did wear. He also tweeted that he'd witnessed police officers threaten to arrest journalists.
Enactment of this policy brought harsh criticism and allegations of illegality from some constitutional lawyers, including civil rights attorney and one of the co-authors of Oakland Police Department's Crowd Control and Crowd Management Policy, Rachel Lederman: "My general impression is the police took an unduly aggressive approach that not only violated their own crowd control policy, but also the First Amendment... This was an unreasonable interference with the demonstration given that there had been no serious crimes committed." Other legal experts pointed to similar policies in cities like New York, which have been ruled constitutional.
Oakland
Oakland, is a major West Coast port city in the U.S. state of California. Oakland is the third largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area, the eighth-largest city in California, and the 45th-largest city in the U.S., with a population of 413,775 as of 2014. It serves as a trade center for the San Francisco Bay Area; its Port of Oakland is the busiest port for San Francisco Bay, all of Northern California, and fifth busiest in the United States. Incorporated in 1852, Oakland is the county seat of Alameda County. It is also the principal city of the Bay Area Region known as the East Bay. The city is situated directly across the bay, six miles (9.7 km) east of San Francisco.
Oakland's territory covers what was once a mosaic of California coastal terrace prairie, oak woodland, and north coastal scrub. Its land served as a rich resource when its hillside oak and redwood timber were logged to build San Francisco, and Oakland's fertile flatland soils helped it become a prolific agricultural region. In the late 1860s, Oakland was selected as the western terminal of the Transcontinental Railroad. Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, many San Franciscans relocated to Oakland, enlarging the city's population, increasing its housing stock and improving its infrastructure. It continued to grow in the 20th century with its busy port, shipyards, and a thriving automobile manufacturing industry.
Oakland is known for its sustainability practices, including a top ranking for usage of electricity from renewable resources. Oakland is also known for its history of political activism, as well as its professional sports franchises and major corporations, which include health care, dot-com companies and manufacturers of household products. In addition, due to a steady influx of immigrants during the 20th century, along with thousands of African-American war-industry workers who relocated from the Deep South during the 1940s, Oakland is one of the most ethnically diverse major cities in the country.
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