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Elizabeth Warren Unveils Her Comprehensive Criminal Justice Reform Plan

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|Date: August 21, 2019
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Elizabeth Warren Unveils Her Comprehensive Criminal Justice Reform Plan

Last week Bernie Sanders published his criminal justice reform plan. On Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren publis ...

Last week Bernie Sanders published his criminal justice reform plan. On Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren published hers – on Medium. “The United States makes up 5% of the world’s population, but nearly 20% ...

August 21, 2019
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Governor Newsom Signed AB 392, Police Threaten Slowdown

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|Date: August 21, 2019
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Governor Newsom Signed AB 392, Police Threaten Slowdown

A good day for police accountability reveals the 'us vs. them' mentality rampant in law enforcement By Sa ...

A good day for police accountability reveals the 'us vs. them' mentality rampant in law enforcement By Sarah Lustbader Yesterday seemed by all accounts a good day for police accountability. Scholars r ...

August 21, 2019
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New Study Suggests California’s ‘Red Flag’ Law Prevents Mass Shootings

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|Date: August 21, 2019
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New Study Suggests California’s ‘Red Flag’ Law Prevents Mass Shootings

A new study released today by researchers at UC Davis School of Medicine suggests that California’s Gun V ...

A new study released today by researchers at UC Davis School of Medicine suggests that California’s Gun Violence Restraining Order law (GVRO), also known as a “red flag” law, has prevented mass shooti ...

August 21, 2019
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Governor Signs Use-of-Force Bill to Require Police Use Deadly Force Only When Necessary

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|Date: August 20, 2019
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Governor Signs Use-of-Force Bill to Require Police Use Deadly Force Only When Necessary

California Families Celebrate as Governor Signs One of the Strongest Police Use of Force Laws in the Coun ...

California Families Celebrate as Governor Signs One of the Strongest Police Use of Force Laws in the Country Special To the Vanguard On Monday, Governor Gavin Newsom, as expected, signed AB 392, autho ...

August 20, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Sanders Lays Out Plan for Massive Overhaul of Criminal Justice System

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|Date: August 19, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Sanders Lays Out Plan for Massive Overhaul of Criminal Justice System

It was one of the shortcomings of his 2016 campaign, but it is a shortcoming no more as Bernie Sanders on ...

It was one of the shortcomings of his 2016 campaign, but it is a shortcoming no more as Bernie Sanders on Sunday unveiled perhaps the most ambitious plan for overhauling the criminal justice system – ...

August 19, 2019
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Sacramento City Sues Homeless, Seeks to Ban Them from Part of Downtown Area – Civil Libertarians Balk

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|Date: August 19, 2019
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Sacramento City Sues Homeless, Seeks to Ban Them from Part of Downtown Area – Civil Libertarians Balk

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Remember the old television Westerns where ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Remember the old television Westerns where the Sheriff runs someone he doesn’t like out of town on a rail? (Wikipedia: Riding the rail was ...

August 19, 2019
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Corrections Officer Drives into Crowd of Protesters with Pickup Truck, Resigns

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|Date: August 18, 2019
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Corrections Officer Drives into Crowd of Protesters with Pickup Truck, Resigns

By Ashoka Mukpo A senior corrections officer at the Wyatt Detention Facility in Rhode Island has resigned ...

By Ashoka Mukpo A senior corrections officer at the Wyatt Detention Facility in Rhode Island has resigned after being placed on administrative leave for driving his pickup truck into a crowd of peacef ...

August 18, 2019
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Larry Krasner Helped to Defuse an Armed Standoff. Now a Trump Appointee Is Saying Krasner Caused It.

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|Date: August 17, 2019
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Larry Krasner Helped to Defuse an Armed Standoff. Now a Trump Appointee Is Saying Krasner Caused It.

By Sarah Lustbader At 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, while attempting to serve a warrant, Philadelphia police fo ...

By Sarah Lustbader At 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, while attempting to serve a warrant, Philadelphia police found themselves under fire. Six of them were shot, and although none were seriously injured, the ...

August 17, 2019
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Barr is Stuck in the ’90s on Criminal Justice Reform

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|Date: August 16, 2019
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Barr is Stuck in the ’90s on Criminal Justice Reform

By Udi Ofer Almost five years to the day of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Misso ...

By Udi Ofer Almost five years to the day of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, Attorney General William Barr descended on New Orleans to deliver a major policy address. ...

August 16, 2019
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Guest Commentary: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Prosecutors

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|Date: August 15, 2019
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Guest Commentary: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Prosecutors

Attorney General William Barr pushed back against reforms by progressive prosecutors—but perhaps his grea ...

Attorney General William Barr pushed back against reforms by progressive prosecutors—but perhaps his greatest vitriol was reserved for the Boston DA’s attempt to rein in police. By John Pfaff U.S. Att ...

August 15, 2019
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Lawmakers Warn of Dangers of Using Face-Recognition with Police Body Cameras – Lawmakers ‘Flagged’ as Criminals in Test

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|Date: August 14, 2019
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Lawmakers Warn of Dangers of Using Face-Recognition with Police Body Cameras – Lawmakers ‘Flagged’ as Criminals in Test

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Police body cameras – increasingly deployed ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Police body cameras – increasingly deployed the past few years in the wake of police shootings and designed to monitor law enforcement mis ...

August 14, 2019
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Another Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed against Sac County Stemming from Brutal May Raid on Homeless Encampment

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|Date: August 13, 2019
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Another Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed against Sac County Stemming from Brutal May Raid on Homeless Encampment

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO - An advocate for the homeless filed a civil ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO - An advocate for the homeless filed a civil rights suit here Monday in U.S. District Court, naming Sacramento County, the Sheriff’s Dept an ...

August 13, 2019
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California Governor and Attorney General Oppose Administrations Public Charge Rule

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|Date: August 13, 2019
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California Governor and Attorney General Oppose Administrations Public Charge Rule

Special To the Vanguard The Trump administration is considering changes to the public charge rule – a ter ...

Special To the Vanguard The Trump administration is considering changes to the public charge rule – a term used in immigration law to refer to a person who is primarily dependent on the government for ...

August 13, 2019
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A Federal Court Sounds the Alarm on the Privacy Harms of Face Recognition Technology

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|Date: August 10, 2019
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A Federal Court Sounds the Alarm on the Privacy Harms of Face Recognition Technology

By Nathan Freed Wessler On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit became the first app ...

By Nathan Freed Wessler On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit became the first appellate court in the nation to directly address the privacy harms posed by face recognition tech ...

August 10, 2019
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The First Beneficiary of a Sentence Review Unit Walks Free

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|Date: August 09, 2019
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The First Beneficiary of a Sentence Review Unit Walks Free

By Sarah Lustbader Last week, San Diego District Attorney Summer Stephan reported that a 57-year-old man ...

By Sarah Lustbader Last week, San Diego District Attorney Summer Stephan reported that a 57-year-old man has become the first person freed under a new law that lets prosecutors review and revise old s ...

August 09, 2019
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Study Finds That Over a 10-year Period, 34 States Reduced Both Crime and Incarceration

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|Date: August 08, 2019
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Study Finds That Over a 10-year Period, 34 States Reduced Both Crime and Incarceration

Some still argue that increasing imprisonment is necessary to reduce crime. Data show otherwise. By Camer ...

Some still argue that increasing imprisonment is necessary to reduce crime. Data show otherwise. By Cameron Kimble and Ames Grawert It’s now been several decades since states around the country began ...

August 08, 2019
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Commentary: Documentary Reveals Frustration and Tears of the Homeless Crisis

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|Date: August 07, 2019
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Commentary: Documentary Reveals Frustration and Tears of the Homeless Crisis

By Crystal Rose Sanchez Special to the Vanguard SACRAMENTO – The parcel of land at 5700 Stockton Blvd – t ...

By Crystal Rose Sanchez Special to the Vanguard SACRAMENTO – The parcel of land at 5700 Stockton Blvd – the subject of Part 3 of “Where’s the Housing” - had approximately 200 unhomed long term residen ...

August 07, 2019
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School of Law Receives $1.15M for Immigration Law Clinic

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|Date: August 07, 2019
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School of Law Receives $1.15M for Immigration Law Clinic

UC Davis Will Use Money to Help Migrant Children in Detention By Carla Meyer Two nonprofit organizations ...

UC Davis Will Use Money to Help Migrant Children in Detention By Carla Meyer Two nonprofit organizations have given University of California, Davis, School of Law a total of $1.15 million to help fund ...

August 07, 2019
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Cyntoia Brown Expected to Be Released from Prison Tomorrow

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|Date: August 07, 2019
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Cyntoia Brown Expected to Be Released from Prison Tomorrow

On Wednesday, Cyntoia Brown will be released from her life sentence and walk free thanks to a commutation ...

On Wednesday, Cyntoia Brown will be released from her life sentence and walk free thanks to a commutation granted by former Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam. She was a 16-year-old sex trafficking victim ...

August 07, 2019
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California’s Justice System Is a Debt Trap

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|Date: August 06, 2019
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California’s Justice System Is a Debt Trap

By Adrienna Wong Erica Smith was making a fresh start. After being forced out of her home by domestic vio ...

By Adrienna Wong Erica Smith was making a fresh start. After being forced out of her home by domestic violence, she had spent the last three years cycling between homelessness and jail for petty offen ...

August 06, 2019
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