By Madison Forwood DAVIS — Upon reviewing the Davis Police Department’s 2020 Surveillance Technology report, the Police Accountability Commission found that the re...
By Stacy Hernandez Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill (AB) 376 on Friday, making California the first state to provide its student borrowers with a Bill of Right...
By David M. Greenwald We hear the term defund the police. It is easy to mistake it for another concept—abolish the police. But it’s not, and that’s part of the problem....
By Gloria Partida Summers can be transformative. We have had the summer of love and the summer of hate. The most growth and change for children often happens over summer....
By Don Saylor On September 29, 2020, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors will adopt our 2020-21 Budget. This will be an update of the June budget to reflect year end fun...
by Alan Pryor Citing grounds of “preservation of agricultural lands and open space, in-fill development and densification, and citizen oversight of sound land-use plannin...
“Looking back” will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The Westchester Guardian, which encompass topics that are app...
(This is the sixth in an 11-part series by The Vanguard reporting on a study of exonerations produced by Samuel R. Gross, Maurice J. Possley, Kaitlyn J. Roll, and Klara...
By Lauren Smith CHICAGO – The Chicago Sun Times (CST) Friday failed to support an “old guard” candidate and endorsed Kim Foxx, the current Cook County State’s Att...
By Fiona Deane-Grundman Kerry Abrams, the dean of Duke Law School, introduced the celebration of the renaming of the Center for Science at Justice at Duke Law, which incl...
By Susana Jurado SACRAMENTO – It’s a little like a higher math problem—the bottom line, as Assistant Public Defender Pamela Dominisse explained here in Sacramento County...
By Linhchi Nguyen SACRAMENTO – A defendant is charged with stealing alcohol from a local Target and throwing one of the glass beer bottles at an employee—the prosec...
By Emily Dill DAVIS —Mental health and systemic racism become highly contentious topics at the temporary joint subcommittee meeting on Wednesday evening. Discussio...
By Roula Allouch and Edward Ahmen Mitchell What was the demographic make-up of the grand jury that decided not to indict any police officers for killing Breonna Taylor? D...
by Patrick Huber Sprawl. If “sprawl” is simply defined as any development on the city’s periphery, then the term is applicable to DISC. However, it is more typically and...
(Editor’s note: this is the third of six candidate surveys of the Davis City Council, Yolo Supervisor, and Woodland Council Candidates). Yolo People Power 2020 Candidate...
By Tiffany Devlin As the Covid-19 pandemic heavily impacted jails, prisons, and courts across the United States, advocates have pointed towards structural change in the...
(This is the sixth in an 11-part series by The Vanguard reporting on a study of exonerations produced by Samuel R. Gross, Maurice J. Possley, Kaitlyn J. Roll, and Klara...
By Julian Verdon SAN FRANCISCO – Small business owners in San Francisco’s District 5 can now apply for a brand new and experimental assistance program to offs...
By Anais Cortes SACRAMENTO – Brock and Tiffany Erickson—each charged with one felony account of animal cruelty—did not receive the outcome they were hoping for in their p...