What you missed over the weekend. —A Saturday deadline for Occupy the Farm protesters to leave a tract of land owned by UC Berkeley has come and gone. University officials are now weighing their options. Last week, the UC Office of the President issued a new report recommending changes to the way campus officials respond to demonstrations. UC President Mark Yudof commissioned the report after clashes between campus police and Occupy ......

Embed:http://youtu.be/6AdDLhPwpp4 A report released this morning makes 50 recommendations for improving the University of California system’s response to demonstrations, following widespread outrage over the treatment of Occupy protesters at UC Berkeley and UC Davis in November 2011. Videotapes of police wrenching UC Berkeley protesters to the ground by their hair and pepper-spraying seated UC Davis demonstrators were posted online, drawing condemnation from around the globe. (The officer involved in the UC ......

The Oakland Police Department's crowd control policies are likely to come under even more scrutiny after yesterday's Occupy protests. As my colleague, Shoshana Walter, reported, federal monitors are "thoroughly dismayed" by the department's response to last fall's Occupy protest. The city is paying the monitors millions of dollars to oversee the department's compliance with court ordered reforms.  The department has a backlog of citizen complaints from last fall's protests, and this ......

KQED has compiled a nifty Storify following the day's May Day protest events, embedded below. They'll be updating throughout the day, so check back for more news....

A group of Occupy San Francisco protesters remain camped out in a church-owned building with plans to create a community center there to serve the homeless, Occupy SF representatives said this morning. After taking over the two-story building at 888 Turk St. following a late-afternoon rally and march in downtown San Francisco on Sunday, protesters settled into the building, which Occupy SF representatives said once housed a mental health clinic. Occupy ......