UC Davis Agrees to Formally Apologize to Students and Implement Reforms Ten months after the November 18, 2011, pepper spray incident, attorneys for 21 UC Davis students and recent alumni announced th ...

For the second time in a month, the Sacramento Bee beat everyone to the punch, publishing what seemed to be internal emails.  This time highlights, among other things, documents the university has att ...

Agreement Expected to Be Publicly Released in Two Weeks - The Vanguard has confirmed that the UC Board of Regents in closed session approved the financial details of a settlement agreement with the pr ...

After the Vanguard broke the story about the pepper-spray suit's settlement on Tuesday, we were taken aback by some of comments, and not just on the Vanguard, that assumed that this suit was just abou ...

The Vanguard has learned that a settlement agreement is in place for the pepper spray lawsuit that was filed in late February following the November 18, 2011 incident on the Quad at UC Davis.  However ...

Vanguard Finds UCD Internal Investigation Decisions Coming Back to Bite Them While the open letter from the Executive Board of UC Davis Police Officers Association (UCDPOA) is mainly self-serving and ...

In late July, we finally learned the fates of Lt. John Pike and Officer Alexander Lee, as the university acknowledged that they were no longer on payroll.  A week later, we learned that in fact, as su ...

The Davis Enterprise last week reported that the internal investigators were paid over a quarter million dollars to conduct the internal review that was leaked to the Sacramento Bee a few weeks ago. U ...

The Vanguard has learned that UC Davis is investigating the source of the recent leak regarding the status of UC Davis Police Department personnel, to determine if the leak came from the UC Davis side ...

For those of you who do not like speculation, this is your warning, this column is partly about speculation, but that is almost by design and indeed part of the problem.  Last spring, as we attempted ...

When UC President Mark Yudof named former LA Police Chief William Bratton to head up the public portion of the investigation into the pepper-spray incident that occurred November 18, 2011 at the UC Da ...

University sources, citing privacy and personnel issues, are declining to comment on a report in the Sacramento Bee this morning that the UC Davis Police Chief overruled two internal investigations in ...

It has been over 8 months since the November 18 incident at the UC Davis Quad made national news when seated protesters were pepper sprayed by the UC Davis police.  The officers at the center of the c ...

Does Case Have Any Implications for Davis? A federal judge sentenced former Desert Hot Springs Police Sgt. Anthony Sclafani to four years behind bars for abusing his powers by using a stun gun and pep ...

Is the FBI performing espionage against Occupy UC Davis students?  That is the question that the ACLU of Northern California wants answers to, as they have filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) la ...

The Vanguard turned some eyes this week when it announced that the students pepper sprayed and arrested on the UC Davis Quad on November 18, 2011 would be honored with a Vanguard Award.  The announcem ...

Vanguard Plays Huge Role in Order, Stayed Until Late July Pending Appeal On Tuesday, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo handed the LA Times and Sacramento Bee, as well as advocates for ...

Judge Will Hear Evidence to See if Public Records Act Compels University to Release Officer Names - When the University of California was attempting to release the Reynoso Task Force and the Kroll Rep ...

This week, a report released on the police handling of the October 2011 occupation of an encampment in front of Oakland City Hall in Frank Ogawa Plaza Park became the third major report from last fall ...

On April 26, the Vanguard ran a second article removing any doubt that the second officer involved in the pepper spray incident was Alexander Lee, recently promoted from security guard in the UC Davis ...