This is a forum to alert neighbors of criminal activity in the Montclair area of Oakland, CA, and for traffic and pedestrian safety, emergency preparedness, and other safety and improvement issues. See http://www.montclairsic.org for details.

This Group's area is bounded by Rt 24 on the north, Castle Dr on the south, the Contra Costa line on the east, and City of Piedmont on the west (OPD Beat 13Z and part of 13Y.) See http://www.montclairsic.org/images/PoliceBeat13ZMap.jpg

Subscribing to this Group requires acceptance of the Group’s guidelines. Failure to adhere to these guidelines will result in removal. Detailed guidelines are under Files/Guidelines. An abbreviated list follows:

* All Yahoo! Group guidelines apply. See http://groups.yahoo.com/local/guidelines.html.

* Only Montclair area residents, businesses, and city agents may join.
* Restrict your comments to crime, traffic and pedestrian, emergency preparedness and safety and improvement issues in the Montclair area.
* Messages should be timely. Please refrain from discussions of non-urgent events.
* Keep messages short and factual. When replying to a message, delete any prior posts that are not necessary.
* When you start a new topic, be sure to change the Subject line. Starting a new topic as a reply to an existing message is misleading and makes it hard to follow threads.
* When replying to a message, consider whether or not your reply should go to the whole Group. Please be considerate and recognize that "Reply to All" will send your message to hundreds of people. Consider if your message is appropriate for a large audience.
* This is a neighborhood mailing list. Please be as courteous in email as you would be in person.
* Posters should identify themselves by their full name and if identifying crime, include street/location.
* Absolutely no commercial advertising.
* For discussion of other topics, please join the MontclairDisc group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MontclairDisc/)