Critics Question the Use of Police Bill of Rights in This Case An Alameda County judge has ordered the University of California to withhold a UC Davis task force report on the pepper-spraying incident ...

The university was all set for the Tuesday release of the report from Kroll and the Task Force, however late yesterday UC Davis and the University of California Office of the President announced that ...

The twice pushed-back report will finally be released at noon on March 6. Downloadable task force findings, recommendations and background documents will be available on the UC Davis home page. Former ...

Frankly, I was unprepared for the level of cynicism engendered by the lawsuit filed by the ACLU and two other civil rights attorneys, on behalf of the pepper-sprayed protesters at UC Davis. It is one ...

On Wednesday, the ACLU announced that nineteen students and alumni filed a federal lawsuit in the Eastern District against UC Davis, over the university's treatment of protesters during a Nov. 18 demo ...

Written by the UC Davis Dateline Staff Top UC officials at a UC Davis town hall last Friday on systemwide police practices heard suggestions to disarm campus police units or even disband them altogeth ...

Supporters of  the chancellor will point to the final vote on a motion of "non-confidence" in UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi's leadership. 697 votes were against the motion with 312 votes for the mo ...

In late January, the Vanguard reported on a letter from former Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso sent to UC President Mark Yudof, indicating there will be delays in the original timeline of the repor ...

On January 24, a small group of UC Davis Occupy protesters moved into the vacated Cross Cultural Center building.  It was a move that would divide the movement, in part because it was not sanctioned b ...

The events at UC Riverside, like those in many in the Occupy Movement, caught the attention of the public after police fired rubber bullets and paint ball rounds at the crowd as the students chanted " ...

A letter from former Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso sent to UC President Mark Yudof indicates there will be delays in the original timeline. The delay means that Justice Reynoso is now "targeting ...

A group called Occupy Colleges, fashioning themselves after Occupy Wall Street, has issued a statement denouncing what they are calling the "police shooting and beating of students at UC Riverside." I ...

After weeks of quiet, student demonstrations re-emerged in the news.  On the local front came the not-unexpected news that the Yolo District Attorney had declined to file charges against the UCD prote ...

Chancellor Katehi Issues Another Message on Pepper-Spraying Incident A group of students from UC Riverside attempted to storm the UC Regents meeting on Thursday, and were confronted by riot police. Nu ...

According to a letter from former California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso, the report from the independent investigation led by former LA Police Chief William Bratton, and his private company Kr ...

I note another Op-Ed, written this time by entomology professors Walter Leal and James Carey.  Their central argument that the faculty should speak for themselves and that we ought to "abide by the vo ...

One of the lesser-known features of the Occupy movement is that attorneys from the National Lawyers Guild have embedded themselves with protesters as observers for the next stage of the fight. And so, ...

It has now been over a month since the initial pepper-spraying incident that caught the attention of the region, the state, the nation and even the world.  In the aftermath of that event, the Vanguard ...

A few weeks ago, a version of the pepper spraying was posted on YouTube by "UCDCollegeRepublican" which purports to show a different vantage point of the incident than what was previously aired.  I wa ...

I could not believe when I saw the release from UC Davis: "Occupy's aftermath: 8,500 for cleanup and repair," my thought was, really?  That is what you are going to complain about? More remarkable sti ...