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A six-month pilot program where Oakland police officers would knock on doors and ask permission to search homes for guns got the green light from the City Council.
Similar efforts have been launched in St. Louis, Boston and Washington.
Consent-to-search programs are not without controversy. Oakland civil-rights attorney John Burris criticized the idea when asked about it in February. And the American Civil Liberties Union has protested programs in other cities.