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City Council Updates   -   Sep 11, 2026 Richmond council to weigh replacing Flock license plate readers with Axon
Richmond council to weigh replacing Flock license plate readers with Axon

Richmond police want to replace the city's Flock Safety license plate readers with a new system from Axon, citing problems with Flock's equipment, repairs, and data-sharing practices. The Richmond City Council will consider the change Tuesday, along with a $3.5 million increase to Richmond&

City Council Updates   -   Jul 31, 2026 The candy gauntlet shrinks: 33 Richmond retailers to face healthy checkout rules
The candy gauntlet shrinks: 33 Richmond retailers to face healthy checkout rules

About 33 Richmond businesses will have to change what they sell at the checkout counter after the City Council voted Tuesday to align its healthy checkout ordinance with a Contra Costa County measure. The Healthy Options at Point of Sale ordinance, first introduced in 2022, sets nutrition standards for food

'No Data Centers' posters on a mural wall at South 6th Street in Richmond
City Council Updates   -   Sep 14, 2026 On the agenda: a data center ban, Polluters Pay funds and new police cameras

The Richmond City Council's first regular meeting after summer vacation has a full agenda Tuesday, with a temporary ban on new data centers at the top. The council will discuss how to spend money from the Polluters Pay settlement. Police want to replace the city's Flock

by Soren Hemmila
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City Council Updates   -   Sep 14, 2026 On the agenda: a data center ban, Polluters Pay funds and new police cameras
'No Data Centers' posters on a mural wall at South 6th Street in Richmond

The Richmond City Council's first regular meeting after summer vacation has a full agenda Tuesday, with a temporary ban on new data centers at the top. The council will discuss how to spend money from the Polluters Pay settlement. Police want to replace the city's Flock

by Soren Hemmila
City Council Updates   -   Sep 11, 2026 Richmond council to weigh replacing Flock license plate readers with Axon
Richmond council to weigh replacing Flock license plate readers with Axon

Richmond police want to replace the city's Flock Safety license plate readers with a new system from Axon, citing problems with Flock's equipment, repairs, and data-sharing practices. The Richmond City Council will consider the change Tuesday, along with a $3.5 million increase to Richmond&

by Soren Hemmila
City Council Updates   -   Jul 31, 2026 The candy gauntlet shrinks: 33 Richmond retailers to face healthy checkout rules
The candy gauntlet shrinks: 33 Richmond retailers to face healthy checkout rules

About 33 Richmond businesses will have to change what they sell at the checkout counter after the City Council voted Tuesday to align its healthy checkout ordinance with a Contra Costa County measure. The Healthy Options at Point of Sale ordinance, first introduced in 2022, sets nutrition standards for food

by Soren Hemmila
City Council Updates   -   Jul 29, 2026 Chevron settlement emerges as city's 'plan B' for fire station upgrades
Richmond Fire Station 67,

Richmond City Council voted Tuesday to place a $120 million fire station bond on the November ballot. City officials also said that if voters reject it, the city could fall back on Chevron settlement money to pay for the same upgrades. The admission came only after a councilmember asked directly.

by Soren Hemmila
City Council Updates   -   Jul 25, 2026 On the agenda: AC Transit budget deficit, homeless outreach and policing proposals
On the agenda: AC Transit budget deficit, homeless outreach and policing proposals

Richmond City Council will weigh a wide-ranging agenda Tuesday that includes a warning about looming AC Transit service cuts, a $1.66 million expansion of homeless outreach services, an independent fiscal review of a proposed police funding charter amendment and a $120 million fire station bond headed for the

by Soren Hemmila
City Council Updates   -   Jul 22, 2026 Richmond council advances fire station bond toward November ballot, rejects ethics commission measure
Richmond council advances fire station bond toward November ballot, rejects ethics commission measure

The Richmond City Council voted Tuesday to move forward with a $120 million fire station bond measure headed for the November ballot, then fell one vote short of doing the same for a measure that would have created an independent ethics commission. Tuesday's vote was a first reading.

by Soren Hemmila
City Council Updates   -   Jul 17, 2026 On the agenda: $120 million fire bond, ethics measure again pushed to the end, and a full slate of new business
Richmond Fire Station 66 on Clinton Avenue

Richmond City Council faces its largest new business agenda of the summer on Tuesday, with six discussion items on the table. Two of the biggest, a $120 million fire station bond and a ballot measure creating an independent ethics commission, are both racing the same deadline to make the November

by Soren Hemmila
City Council Updates   -   Jul 08, 2026 Richmond council leaves police equipment report unresolved after meeting
military equipment report

Richmond City Councilmembers spent more than two hours Tuesday night hearing a detailed report on the police department's rifles, drones, and other specialized gear, but time ran out before they could vote on it. Councilmember Cesar Zepeda asked the council to schedule a follow-up meeting next week

by Soren Hemmila
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