Is your Oakland City Council member showing up?

City Hall reporters Eli Wolfe and Natalie Orenstein tracked every Oakland City Council vote in 2025 — all 138 of them at full council meetings, plus 519 more at committee meetings — to find out how your representative is doing the most basic part of the job.Plus: a deeply sad update on the mass shooting at a downtown Oakland nightclub, one in five funded city jobs sitting vacant, a push to raise Oakland's minimum wage to $30 an hour, how license plate thieves are gaming the Flock camera system, ICE agents at airports across the country but not yet at OAK, and Oakland high schoolers are about to start publishing stories with our newsroom.Stories we cover in this episode:City Council voting recordsWhich Oakland councilmember had the best voting record in 2025?Public safetyWeekend mass shooting in Oakland: What we knowOakland nightclub shooting: Family of teacher says her story 'cannot be ignored'Did a modified gun make the Oakland nightclub mass shooting deadlier?City HallOakland is struggling to hire city workersEconomy and laborA $30 minimum wage for Oakland?Transportation and public safetySheriff's deputies thought they'd stopped a criminal. But license plate cameras led them to the wrong personAre ICE agents coming to Oakland's airport?EducationOakland classrooms reached scorching temperatures last week. Parents are demanding actionWe're working with Oakland students to deepen our schools coverageFind all these stories and more at oaklandside.org. Have feedback or story ideas? Email us at [email protected].