Judge Ends Federal Monitoring Of Oakland Police Department After A Record 23 Years

CBS Bay Area

September 30, 2026

A federal judge on Tuesday ended a 23-year court monitoring of the Oakland Police Department, the longest federal oversight of a police department in the nation's history.

At a hearing on Tuesday at U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco, Judge William Orrick ended the monitorship, saying that the decision brings oversight of the department "back where it belongs."

"The oversight never showed us what the police department is lacking on it," said Ali Alvasiery, an Oakland resident and business owner. "Everything is just paperwork between him (federal monitor Robert Warshaw) and the police department. But there's nothing that's affecting the residents of Oakland."

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