Advocacy with local government

Better Neighborhood Security Through Effective Local Government

Make Our Voices Heard

We vote, we pay taxes - and we can get our local government to provide good security for our neighborhood, our community, and everyone in our city. But we must make our voices heard by our local elected officials, primarily city but county as well.

Email Local Officials

The GANC local-government project gives neighbors suggestions for contacting their city and county officials on matters of neighborhood and civic security, by letters and emails with effective messaging.

Comment at Meetings, and Report Back to Neighbors

We encourage neighbors to attend local community meetings so that our voices - our needs for concrete neighborhood and city security improvements - are heard and so that officials are accountable for meeting those needs. Neighbors can also email the GANC community on the outcomes of the meeting.

Perhaps you saw this survey that one of our GANC members sent in email:

OAKLAND SURVEY | the-mcconnell-group

In essence it says that the overwhelming majority of residents consider crime to be the number one problem in our city and want public officials to focus their energies on ameliorating the crime problem before any other issue is addressed.

Individual Action Plan:

Read the Survey
Draft an email that clearly, professionally, and politely expresses your opinion on the issue of crime and crime prevention. Include in your email a link to the survey.
Send your email to the public officials whose email addresses are listed here on this web site.

Sample letter

Madam Mayor-

I am familiar with the below listed citizen survey. I think it important that you and your staff review it as well.

OAKLAND SURVEY | the-mcconnell-group

https://www.themcconnellgroup.com/oaklandsurvey

Clearly, the overwhelming majority of Oakland residents are in favor of elected officials focusing on the issue of crime and crime prevention in our city. I stand with you and our police in your efforts to make our city safer for all citizens.

Thank you.

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Email or call local government:

Note also that the mayor and our councilmember are active on social media: X/Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and maybe some other platforms where you can comment to them.

Emails for City Council District 4:

Nathan Stalnaker – community liaison in the Councilmember’s office

nstalnaker@oaklandca.gov

Janani Ramachandran – our Councilmember

jramachandran@oaklandca.gov

District 4 (our district) general email address: district4@oaklandca.gov
Angela Moore - Neighborhood Service Coordinator for Beat 13Y AMoore@oaklandca.gov

The Mayor’s Office:

Mayor Sheng Thao

Phone: 510-238-3141

officeofthemayor@oaklandca.gov

Councilmember At Large:

Rebecca Kaplan

510-238-7008

atlarge@oaklandca.gov

City Police: