Radioactive waste, toxic chemicals and plans for major development. The unsettling saga of the effort to clean up toxic former Navy sites around San Francisco Bay.

Berkeley Police Department is under fire after releasing the names and pictures of protesters arrested at an Aug. 5 rally where “alt-right” and “antifa,” a term for anti-fascist, groups clashed. The arrests took place during a “No to Marxism” demonstration organized by alt-right protesters, and most of those arrested were counterprotesters. Though the BPD later took down the mugshots it posted, BPD left the names of the arrestees up on Twitter. BPD claims that it released information that is already public — information that would help increase public safety and deter crime.

BALTIMORE — A healthy dose of job growth has long been seen as a likely cure for poverty. But new research suggests that poor Americans are frequently left behind even when their cities or communities benefit from hiring booms. When such cities as Atlanta and Charlotte, N.C., enjoyed a job surge in the 20 years that began in 1990, for example, the job gains mostly bypassed residents — often African American — who had been born into poverty.

A man killed after sheriff’s deputies south of San Francisco Tasered him earlier this month was the third such death in the county at the hands of law enforcement officers using the electric-shock weapon in the past 10 months. The series of killings in San Mateo county has law enforcement officials reconsidering the value of a weapon used by police agencies worldwide as a less-lethal alternative to a gun while attorneys for the families of two of the men killed are calling for a moratorium on the use of Tasers in the county until a thorough study on the department’s policies and training is completed.

“Food is a basic human right.” That was part of a resolution passed in 2013 by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors which pledged to end hunger in the city by 2020. Five years later, food insecurity has only gotten worse in San Francisco, according to a 200-page report released by the city’s Food Security Task Force Thursday. The city has increased spending on nutrition programs by $48 million in that time period; yet the extra meals and groceries are still not enough to meet the needs of the estimated 227,000 San Franciscans who are at high risk of food insecurity, according to the report.

The Alameda County Sheriff’s Office illegally recorded at least one confidential conversation between a juvenile crime suspect and his attorney, the county public defender’s office said Monday, and an exchange between two sheriff’s officials captured on video suggests that the practice may have been routine.

The San Francisco Police Department is infected with a culture of racism, the American Civil Liberties Union charged in a lawsuit over undercover police drug buys in the Tenderloin that led to the arrests of 37 people, all of them African American. Evidence from the 2013-15 arrests, including video footage, shows that police targeted blacks for selling small amounts of drugs while ignoring dealers of other races, the ACLU and private attorneys said in a suit to be filed Thursday in federal court.

A former Santa Rita Jail inmate filed a lawsuit Monday alleging that the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office and four former deputies had repeatedly assaulted him with feces and urine and broke his arm. Fernando Miguel Soria accused the deputies of excessive force, denial of medical attention and a conspiracy to violate his civil rights.

A video posted on Facebook that shows a Vallejo police officer repeatedly hitting a man who’s being restrained by another officer outside a restaurant is drawing hundreds of thousands of views and a flood of criticism of police. The video, slightly longer than a minute and shot from inside a Mod Pizza restaurant on Plaza Drive in Vallejo on Friday night, shows a man face down on a sidewalk with one police officer straddling him near the waist, and apparently trying to handcuff him. Another officer, wielding what appears to be a baton or flashlight, strikes him about nine times in the back and shoulder areas. A third officer restrains the man’s legs.

The mother of a man shot to death behind the wheel of his car by Danville police has filed a claim against the city that alleges “his only crime was being the wrong skin color in Danville.” Attorney John Burris made that statement in a claim his office filed Friday with the Danville city attorney’s office. The claim, which California requires to be filed and denied before a lawsuit can be filed against a government agency, seeks in excess of $25,000; it was filed on behalf of Jeannie Atienza, the mother of Laudemer Arboleda.

ADELANTO — Federal inspectors found nooses made from bedsheets hanging in more than a dozen cells at an immigration detention facility in Southern California, according to a government report. The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General issued a scathing report after visiting the privately-run detention facility in the remote, desert city of Adelanto in May, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.