Oakland Officers Again Ordered To Report Unauthorized Parties

Oakland’s assistant police chief ordered officers Friday to immediately begin reporting unpermitted events up the chain of command — a policy developed in response to the Ghost Ship warehouse fire in December. Officers must now inform their beat’s commanders as well as the special events unit of the police department when they come across unauthorized parties. Oakland police officers had been called to the Ghost Ship warehouse on many occasions, public records show, before the art collective burned Dec.