02 Sep Yet Another Antioch Police Oversight Commissioner Resigns

Treva Hadden at March 17 Antioch Police Oversight Commission meeting. (Screenshot captured by Samantha Kennedy / The CC Pulse file)

By Samantha Kennedy

A fourth Antioch Police Oversight commissioner has resigned in under two years. This time, it came only a day after members voted to remove her. 

In her letter of resignation, Commissioner Treva Hadden said Chair Porshe Taylor had placed “limitations” on her that she said prevented her from applying her skills on the commission. 

“As a result, I do not feel I am able to contribute at the level I had intended, and I believe it is best for me to step aside,” wrote Hadden. 

Her letter was dated the day before the other commissioners unanimously recommended the removal of Hadden for being absent more than three times in the last calendar year and submitted the day after. At the time of the commission’s Aug. 18 meeting, Hadden had missed seven of the 13 meetings held this year. 

If Hadden hadn’t resigned, City Council members would have received the commission’s recommendations and made the final decision. 

Council member Tamisha Torres-Walker, who shared Hadden’s letter on social media days after it was sent to the city clerk, said Hadden told her that she had been considering leaving the commission since her last “health scare” earlier in the year. 

“However, she stayed because being a part of helping the community heal and rebuilding the police department was at the top of her list of priorities,” Torres-Walker said on social media. 

Hadden previously tried to resign before for unknown reasons, according to comments made by Taylor at the Aug. 18 commission meeting. But Taylor said Hadden rescinded her resignation after concerns were raised about some of the language in the letter. 

Taylor said at the meeting that commissioners had to be “careful about setting precedents” for other commissioners. 

Taylor and Hadden, who have not responded to previous requests for comment on Hadden’s potential removal, have not publicly said what alleged precedents or limitations they each were referring to. 

Hadden, an ethics analyst for the city of Oakland, came on the commission as one of its inaugural members in March 2024. Then-Mayor Lamar Hernandez-Thorpe appointed Hadden to a three-year term. 

The commission is named in the city’s agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, calling for it to maintain at least five members to remain in compliance. 

Hadden’s resignation will drop the commission to six members.