Opening day blues with the public defender say say its a massive failure on multiple ends. Reporter presiding judge Morris Jacobson said that incustody arraignments may have remained in oakland in the jailhoused more local prisoners. He says most of the beds there are reserved for federal prisoners. Vic lee, abc 7 news. What is the presiding judge mean when he says they house federal prisoners and not local prisoners. Can you explain that . Reporter yeah, the presiding judge is saying that at the north county jail, which is the oakland jail that the Sheriffs Office is leasing, that the Sheriffs Office is leasing most of the beds to the federal government for federal inmates because they want to balance their budget. The judge says that if they were to reverse that and put more of the local prisoners in the north county jail, the oakland jail they may have maintained the arraignments at that jail for north county prisoners. It makes more sense to arraign them here. All right. Vic lee re
Asking for the release of Surveillance Video capturing the young people who attacked him and his family. Abc 7 News Reporter Laura Anthony is live at the station tonight. Reporter bart installed new cameras in the car to either deter crime or capture it when it happens. Now, with some crimes on the increase, the district is trying to decide when or whether to release that video. Im here to encourage you to really take safety on bart seriously. Reporter rusty and his family were victims of a mob robbery at the coliseum bart station in april. A crime captured by the district new surveillance cameras. Images he wants released to the public. Its my understanding as bart police and the algt si dont have a policy for releasing video. They knew all these cameras were coming online this summer. How can you not have a policy in place for something thats coming online . We dont want to jeopardize the prosecution of an individual who did something horrible to a victim or one of our riders. Its a