{"id":348006,"date":"2026-06-05T13:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/348006\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:44:10","slug":"oakland-police-commission-sends-chief-finalist-names-to-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/348006\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Police Commission sends chief finalist names to mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; The Oakland Police Commission announced on Thursday that it has officially sent a list of final candidates for the city&#8217;s next police chief to Mayor Barbara Lee.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The submission follows a public feedback process that included six community meetings and an online survey conducted to gather resident input on the selection.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Commission officials have not released the names or the total number of candidates included on the submitted list. The Oakland Police Department has been without a permanent chief since Floyd Mitchell&#8217;s resignation became official in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Oakland Police Commission<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/organization\/opd\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland Police Department<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; The Oakland Police Commission announced on Thursday that it has officially sent a list of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[100,143,145,144,4310,1768],"class_list":["post-348006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-opd","tag-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}