.Monday Must Reads: Complaints Against OPD Plummet; Sierra Snowpack at Record-Low Levels

Stories you shouldn’t miss:

1. The number of complaints filed against Oakland police officers plummeted by nearly one-third last year, dropping from 1,523 in 2013 to 1,040 in 2014 the Chron$ reports, citing new data reported to the federal judge overseeing OPD. The number of use-of-force cases also declined by nearly 30 percent — from 822 in 2013 to 582 in 2014. Civil rights attorney Jim Chanin, who keeps close tabs on the department, credited the declines to the use of body cameras by Oakland cops that record interactions with the public.

2. The Sierra snowpack has reached an unprecedented low of just 8 percent of normal for this time of year as the drought intensifies, the Chron reports. The 2014-15 winter is now the driest on record; the latest measurements broke the previous record set during the drought in 1977.

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3. Governor Jerry Brown and other top California public officials regularly use their private email accounts to conduct public business, the AP reports (via the SacBee$). The use of private email accounts for public business has come under increasing scrutiny since it was revealed that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton regularly used her private email account when she was US Secretary of State.

4. Doctors with serious illnesses in California are adding their support to the growing right-to-die movement in the state, the Chron reports.

5. And the San Francisco Police Department has been rocked by yet another scandal — this time involving potential fraud within its crime lab, the Chron$ reports. 

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