In Spring 2002, Alameda County successfully completed the fourth largest solar electric system in the world atop the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California. The Santa Rita Jail is the largest energy user of Alameda County's government buildings. This solar installation, the nation's largest rooftop system, was commissioned to help...
Home to over 1.3 million people, Alameda County, California encompass a land area of 738 square miles on the east side of San Francisco Bay. Alameda County has been a leader in smart energy strategies for years. The Santa Rita Jail is the largest energy user of all the Alameda...
FREMONT -- Alameda County's library director, Jean Hofacket, is the 2008 Outstanding Librarian in Support of Literacy, a title bestowed upon one individual a year by the California Library Association. A librarian since 1978 and the county's library director the past two years, Hofacket has advocated for...
SAN LEANDRO -- Police have nabbed a second man in an Oct. 29 credit union robbery that netted the suspects $4,600. Reamel Curtis, 22, of Oakland was arrested Nov. 6 while leaving a Sacramento home, San Leandro police Lt. Tom Overton said Friday. Curtis,...
FREMONT -- A 43-year-old motorcyclist who was shocked with a stun gun could face felony charges this week for assaulting a police officer who initially pursued the rider only to speak with him about his illegal helmet, authorities said. Castro Valley resident Joseph Harry McBeth was being...
CHERRYLAND -- Deputies are searching for a Bay Area man who is considered a suspect in an Oct. 30 shooting in unincorporated Cherryland. Tavake Uasike, 25 -- a transient with ties to East Palo Alto, Redwood City, Newark, Fremont and the Hayward area -- is wanted on...
PLEASANTON -- A new job re-entry program for youths being released from jail has started up in Alameda County. The Deputy Sheriff's Association of Alameda County has launched a program it hopes will help reduce crime and the number of youths and young adults caught up in...
DUBLIN -- A religious revival returned to Santa Rita Jail this week, bringing music and Bible teachings to the inmates. God's Love Outreach Ministries, which provides chaplaincy services for the Alameda County jails, hosted the revival. From Tuesday through Thursday, choirs and religious...
FREMONT -- A 19-year-old man who was stabbed in the back this week during a gang-related altercation in Centerville has been released from the hospital but was arrested because of a no-bail felony warrant, police said. Javier Lara Mosqueda, who was wanted in connection with a burglary...
BERKELEY -- Homicide detectives have arrested the adult son of a Berkeley slaying victim and booked him into Santa Rita Jail in Dublin as an accessory to the June homicide. On Monday morning, police arrested Deontae Faison, 20, of Berkeley, while serving a search warrant on...
FREMONT -- A cell phone left in a burglarized car Wednesday night led to the arrest of two brothers who now are being investigated in connection with burglaries in Fremont and San Jose, police said. Trong Phan, 25, and Cuong Phan, 31, both of San Jose, were...
LIVERMORE -- A Livermore woman faces 58 counts of forgery and two other charges, which accuse her of embezzling money from her former employer. According to court documents, investigators believe she took more than $286,000 in the past five years from Livermore-based RGW Construction, where she worked...
BERKELEY -- Homicide detectives have arrested the adult son of a Berkeley slaying victim and booked him into Santa Rita Jail in Dublin as an accessory to the June homicide. On Monday morning, police arrested Deontae Faison, 20, of Berkeley, while serving a search warrant on...
A nonprofit group organizing voter registration for the incarcerated is making a plea to county officials to let them come to the county jail, but they're being met with resistance from the sheriff's department. The group All of Us or None, made up of formerly incarcerated people,...
PLEASANTON -- Another charge has been brought against a veteran tennis instructor accused of molesting some of his young female students. Henry John Germain, 62, of Dublin, had been released on $1.08 million bail Wednesday. But he was rearrested Friday afternoon at the Berkeley Police Department after...
DUBLIN -- The former owner of a Dublin luxury car consignment business and one of his former employees are scheduled to enter pleas in court today on nine counts each of embezzlement and grand theft. Dublin police arrested Shoayb "Shawn" Akbarpour, the owner of Engima Motors, at...
OAKLAND -- A suspected member of a West Oakland drug gang is scheduled to enter a plea today to felony charges he fatally shot an innocent bystander March 31 during a failed attempt to kill a rival, authorities said Tuesday. Bryant "Mook Mook" Walton, 23, who police...
A country club tennis instructor accused of child molestation was charged with additional counts of sexual abuse Friday after two more people came forward with allegations against him. Investigators say five accusers say Henry John Germain, 62, of Dublin, molested them. He faces 15...
Alameda County Sheriff's deputies on Monday arrested a Castro Valley man on suspicion of murder in the shooting death of a San Francisco man earlier this year, authorities said. Douglas Anthony Evans Jr., 29, is accused of shooting 27-year- old Lonnie Lee Morris on May 5 and...
DUBLIN -- Capt. Carla Kennedy is about to assume a new and groundbreaking role: the first female commanding officer at Santa Rita Jail. Kennedy will oversee the fifth-largest county jail in the country beginning Monday. She replaces Capt. Bert Wilkinson, a 37-year Alameda County Sheriff's Department veteran,...
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