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Marijuana Legalization Has a Racial Component

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|Date: April 22, 2019
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Marijuana Legalization Has a Racial Component

By Charlotte Resing Marijuana has been a key driver of mass criminalization in this country and hundreds ...

By Charlotte Resing Marijuana has been a key driver of mass criminalization in this country and hundreds of thousands of people, the majority of whom are Black or Latinx, have their lives impacted by ...

April 22, 2019
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ACLU Sues to End Cash Bail

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|Date: April 20, 2019
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ACLU Sues to End Cash Bail

By Twyla Carter and Philip Mayor Imagine being poor and being arrested by the police in Detroit. You are ...

By Twyla Carter and Philip Mayor Imagine being poor and being arrested by the police in Detroit. You are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, but with no money, you will remain in jail for up ...

April 20, 2019
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EXCLUSIVE: Vanguard Learns Mass Student Walkout Set in May to Push for Police Gun Reform

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|Date: April 19, 2019
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EXCLUSIVE: Vanguard Learns Mass Student Walkout Set in May to Push for Police Gun Reform

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – A coalition of Black Students has revealed ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – A coalition of Black Students has revealed to the Davis Vanguard that it is organizing – along with students groups throughout the state a ...

April 19, 2019
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The Assange Indictment and Press Freedoms

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|Date: April 16, 2019
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The Assange Indictment and Press Freedoms

By Ben Wizner and Jameel Jaffer What to make of the indictment of Julian Assange? The Justice Department ...

By Ben Wizner and Jameel Jaffer What to make of the indictment of Julian Assange? The Justice Department hasn’t crossed the line that many feared it would: It hasn’t charged Julian Assange for publish ...

April 16, 2019
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Family Separation Advocate Named As Acting Secretary of Homeland Security

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|Date: April 14, 2019
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Family Separation Advocate Named As Acting Secretary of Homeland Security

By Brian Tashman With his selection of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan t ...

By Brian Tashman With his selection of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan to serve as acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), President Trump has o ...

April 14, 2019
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Sacramento-based Sutter Health will ‘Cough-Up’ $30 Million to Settle Fraud Claims

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|Date: April 13, 2019
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Sacramento-based Sutter Health will ‘Cough-Up’ $30 Million to Settle Fraud Claims

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Sacramento-based Sutter Health has agreed t ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Sacramento-based Sutter Health has agreed to cough-up $30 million to settle alleged Medicare fraud, according to a statement by the U.S. J ...

April 13, 2019
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Poignant Testimony Sways Vote – Police Use of Force Bill, AB 392, Passes First Hurdle

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|Date: April 10, 2019
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Poignant Testimony Sways Vote – Police Use of Force Bill, AB 392, Passes First Hurdle

By Raquel Victoria Navarro Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – After the deaths of unarmed Brandon Sm ...

By Raquel Victoria Navarro Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – After the deaths of unarmed Brandon Smith, Darrell Richards, Marshall Miles and Stephon Clark at the hands of law enforcement in Sacr ...

April 10, 2019
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Exonerees in 2018 Lost a Record Number of Years to Wrongful Imprisonment

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|Date: April 10, 2019
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Exonerees in 2018 Lost a Record Number of Years to Wrongful Imprisonment

Conviction Integrity Units in prosecutors’ offices have tripled since 2013 (From Press Release) - In 2018 ...

Conviction Integrity Units in prosecutors’ offices have tripled since 2013 (From Press Release) - In 2018, the National Registry of Exonerations recorded 151 exonerations, setting a record for the num ...

April 10, 2019
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Raucous Rally at Capitol for Curbing Premature Lethal Force by Law Enforcement Precedes Important Assembly Vote

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|Date: April 09, 2019
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Raucous Rally at Capitol for Curbing Premature Lethal Force by Law Enforcement Precedes Important Assembly Vote

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Several hundred people – including lawmaker ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Several hundred people – including lawmakers, family of victims killed by police and celebrities – rallied for passage at the State Capito ...

April 09, 2019
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Kirstjen Nielsen Implemented Trump’s Most Brutal Policies – Now She’s Gone

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|Date: April 09, 2019
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Kirstjen Nielsen Implemented Trump’s Most Brutal Policies – Now She’s Gone

By Brian Tashman Late yesterday, President Trump announced that Kirstjen Nielsen has resigned as the Secr ...

By Brian Tashman Late yesterday, President Trump announced that Kirstjen Nielsen has resigned as the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Trump said that Kevin McAleenan, the commis ...

April 09, 2019
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America’s Pretrial System Is Broken

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|Date: April 06, 2019
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America’s Pretrial System Is Broken

By Andrea Woods and Portia Allen-Kyle Every year, millions of people are arrested, required to pay money ...

By Andrea Woods and Portia Allen-Kyle Every year, millions of people are arrested, required to pay money bail they cannot afford, separated from their families and loved ones, or subjected to long per ...

April 06, 2019
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Poor People’s Campaign Bus Tour in Capitol – Calls Stephon Clark Killing ‘Lynching’

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|Date: April 05, 2019
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Poor People’s Campaign Bus Tour in Capitol – Calls Stephon Clark Killing ‘Lynching’

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The Poor People’s Campaign – a national org ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The Poor People’s Campaign – a national organization dedicated to continuing the work of Martin Luther King Jr. and that last summer stage ...

April 05, 2019
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Sacramento Sheriff Reluctantly Agrees to Give Up Internal Documents After Court Decision – Activists Have Doubts

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|Date: April 05, 2019
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Sacramento Sheriff Reluctantly Agrees to Give Up Internal Documents After Court Decision – Activists Have Doubts

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones – who ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones – who has a deserved reputation of refusing to provide information to the public and news media – wa ...

April 05, 2019
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State of Civil Rights in Sacramento Panel Paints Dismal Picture

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|Date: April 02, 2019
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State of Civil Rights in Sacramento Panel Paints Dismal Picture

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Social justice leaders and civil rights law ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Social justice leaders and civil rights lawyers didn’t try to put a positive spin on the state of police shootings here at a “State of Civ ...

April 02, 2019
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The Next Step in Criminal Justice Reform: Ending Excessive Punishment for Violent Crimes

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|Date: April 02, 2019
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The Next Step in Criminal Justice Reform: Ending Excessive Punishment for Violent Crimes

Half of U.S. prison population serving time for a violent offense Report features reforms in 19 states ov ...

Half of U.S. prison population serving time for a violent offense Report features reforms in 19 states over 20 years with more effective responses to violent crime (From Press Release) – As the White ...

April 02, 2019
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Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Front and Center in the 2020 Presidential Race

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|Date: April 01, 2019
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Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Front and Center in the 2020 Presidential Race

By Ronald Newman Jose Ivan Parga is a member of a multi-status, Mexican-immigrant family in Minnesota. Ev ...

By Ronald Newman Jose Ivan Parga is a member of a multi-status, Mexican-immigrant family in Minnesota. Even though he is a citizen, every day he witnesses the fear and uncertainty that his extended fa ...

April 01, 2019
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Judge Authorizes San Francisco to Release Records in Police Killings and Misconduct cases

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|Date: March 31, 2019
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Judge Authorizes San Francisco to Release Records in Police Killings and Misconduct cases

(From Press Release) - Today, a judge authorized the release of all records of San Francisco police offic ...

(From Press Release) - Today, a judge authorized the release of all records of San Francisco police officers involved in shootings, killings and other serious misconduct, as legally required under SB ...

March 31, 2019
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Dolores Huerta Draws Attention to Latinos Killed by the Police in Pushing For AB 392

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|Date: March 30, 2019
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Dolores Huerta Draws Attention to Latinos Killed by the Police in Pushing For AB 392

While much of the attention in recent years has focused on African Americans killed in disproportionate n ...

While much of the attention in recent years has focused on African Americans killed in disproportionate numbers by the police, longtime civil rights leader Dolores Huerta, in a recent op-ed in the Sac ...

March 30, 2019
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Opinion on the Death Penalty Shifting; Two California Supreme Court Justices Slam the State of the Death Penalty

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|Date: March 29, 2019
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Opinion on the Death Penalty Shifting; Two California Supreme Court Justices Slam the State of the Death Penalty

A few weeks after Governor Gavin Newsom put a moratorium on the death penalty, there are signs that publi ...

A few weeks after Governor Gavin Newsom put a moratorium on the death penalty, there are signs that public opinion is starting to shift. A poll by the Public Policy Institute of California was just r ...

March 29, 2019
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California Voters Overwhelmingly Support Stronger Consumer Privacy Protections, New Data Shows

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|Date: March 29, 2019
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California Voters Overwhelmingly Support Stronger Consumer Privacy Protections, New Data Shows

(From Press Release) - New polling released today shows that Californians from all walks of life and all ...

(From Press Release) - New polling released today shows that Californians from all walks of life and all parts of the state support legislation to strengthen consumer privacy protections. Across race, ...

March 29, 2019
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