By Hannah Blome CALIFORNIA – California community members and judicial laborers led a virtual discussion last Friday entitled “How Public Defender Offices Implement Polic...
By William McCurry STATE CAPITOL – State Senator Maria Elena Durazo questioned officials from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) about the...
By Danae Snell & Sophia Barberini WOODLAND — Defendant Michael Glynn pleaded for Yolo County Superior Court Judge Peter M. Williams to release him on his own recogniz...
By Ramneet Singh SACRAMENTO – Not a big “score” by any means, but a man who allegedly stole $40 in merchandise from a liquor store and then used a firearm to convince emp...
By Lovepreet Dhinsa and Linhchi Nguyen SACRAMENTO – In Sacramento County Superior Court last Friday, Kira Collins pleaded guilty to an amended felony complaint that she...
By Dorrin Akbari and Sally Kim SACRAMENTO – Judge Patrick Marlette—citing COVID-19 as a factor in his decision—delivered a lenient ruling for a defendant here in Sa...
By Tiffany Devlin Davis Vanguard’s bi-weekly update from Santa Rita Jail’s COVID-19 crisis Overview COVID-19 cases have dropped significantly at Santa...
By Jacob Vito He is the richest man alive. He funds rocket ships and owns entire media operations. And with his company, Amazon, Jeff Bezos is easily one of the most infl...
By David M. Greenwald It looks increasingly like a recall effort will get the matter of Gavin Newsom on the ballot. But, while his standing has fallen from 64 percent ap...
Cristine Soto Deberry is former Chief of Staff under both SF District Attorney George Gascón and Chesa Boudin as well as Deputy Chief of Staff to Gavin Newsom when he was...
By Dalia Bautista Rodriguez STATE CAPITOL – State Senator Scott Wiener has authored the Sheriff Democracy and Diversity Act, SB 271, which would grant access to registere...
By Sally Kim NEW YORK – Manhattan District Attorney Candidate Lucy Lang has released a comprehensive plan to end human trafficking in Manhattan, prioritizing the he...
By Tanya Decendario WOODLAND – Rather than taking a plea offer as happens in most DUI (driving under the influence) cases, a woman late last week pleaded “not guilty” to...
By Derrick Pal SACRAMENTO — Supervising Public Defender Joe Cress argued here in Sacramento County Superior Court Friday that “words matter,” and the words his client tex...
By Jannat Alam SACRAMENTO — Exasperated Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Michael Savage publicly admonished quarrelling attorneys in his court last Thursday a...
By Mia Machado and Ella Jennings SACRAMENTO – When a convicted child molester came back to court here last week to be resentenced, Deputy District Attorney Nancy Cochrane...
By Naomi Cherone Students and professors of the University of California expressed concern with what they felt were “baseless” promises voiced at the UC Campus Saf...
By Rachel Kim LOS ANGELES — On Friday, February 5, LAUSD Superintendent Austin Beutner fired back at LA Councilman Joe Buscaino’s lawsuit to reopen schools in the LA Dist...
By Yazmeen Takaki DAVIS – At Thursday night’s Human Relations Commission (HRC) meeting, Yolo People Power (YPP) presented their new public outreach program c...
By Samantha Swank Utah’s state legislature introduced a bill last month that would allow students to take excused absences for matters related to mental and emotio...