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New Bill Limits When California Police Can Use Deadly Force

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|Date: February 09, 2019
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New Bill Limits When California Police Can Use Deadly Force

By Lizzy Buchen As a nation, we must address the brutal reality and deadly consequences of police violenc ...

By Lizzy Buchen As a nation, we must address the brutal reality and deadly consequences of police violence. We have seen far too many people, particularly Black and brown people, killed by police. We ...

February 09, 2019
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Pennsylvania Can’t Be a Model for Reform if We Undermine People’s Rights

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|Date: February 08, 2019
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Pennsylvania Can’t Be a Model for Reform if We Undermine People’s Rights

By Andy Hoover Elected officials and corrections administrators in Pennsylvania have been doing a bit of ...

By Andy Hoover Elected officials and corrections administrators in Pennsylvania have been doing a bit of a victory lap after the recent announcement that our state prison population dropped by 1,000 p ...

February 08, 2019
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Lawmakers Bring Back Bill to Stop Deadly Police Shootings

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|Date: February 07, 2019
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Lawmakers Bring Back Bill to Stop Deadly Police Shootings

Photo courtesy of the LA Times The California Act to Save Lives aligns closely with both California and O ...

Photo courtesy of the LA Times The California Act to Save Lives aligns closely with both California and Obama departments of justice recommendations on police use of force; will update California law ...

February 07, 2019
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Sacramento City Council Committee Shoots Down Proposed Protest Law

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|Date: February 06, 2019
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Sacramento City Council Committee Shoots Down Proposed Protest Law

By Crescenzo VellucciVanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Several Sacramento City Council members buck ...

By Crescenzo VellucciVanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Several Sacramento City Council members bucked the wishes of their police department Tuesday – something you don’t see every day – and vote ...

February 06, 2019
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Vanguard Sues West Sacramento for Release of Galvan Police Records

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|Date: February 04, 2019
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Vanguard Sues West Sacramento for Release of Galvan Police Records

A 2011 Press Conference showed a poster with the extent of Ernesto Galvan's injury In the early morning h ...

A 2011 Press Conference showed a poster with the extent of Ernesto Galvan's injury In the early morning hours of June 14, 2005, officers from the West Sacramento Police Department spotted two individu ...

February 04, 2019
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ICE Partners Again with a Sheriff It Once Severed Ties with Because of Racial Profiling

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|Date: February 03, 2019
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ICE Partners Again with a Sheriff It Once Severed Ties with Because of Racial Profiling

By Alissa Ellis Whether it’s Jeff Sessions, Stephen Miller, or Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the Trump administrati ...

By Alissa Ellis Whether it’s Jeff Sessions, Stephen Miller, or Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the Trump administration has a real knack for empowering and absolving people who push discriminatory law enforcement ...

February 03, 2019
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ACLU-NC Calls on DA’s to Comply with Law and Reject Treating Children as Adults

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|Date: February 02, 2019
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ACLU-NC Calls on DA’s to Comply with Law and Reject Treating Children as Adults

(From Press Release) - Before 1995, the state of California considered young people under the age of 16 a ...

(From Press Release) - Before 1995, the state of California considered young people under the age of 16 as children by law. With the advent of the “tough on crime” era of the late 1990s, the law chang ...

February 02, 2019
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Black Lives Matter Sacramento Activists Sue Sheriff after He Bans Them from Social Media Pages

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|Date: February 01, 2019
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Black Lives Matter Sacramento Activists Sue Sheriff after He Bans Them from Social Media Pages

Tanya Faison of Black Lives Matter By Crescenzo VellucciVanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – Now, Preside ...

Tanya Faison of Black Lives Matter By Crescenzo VellucciVanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – Now, President Donald Trump and Sacramento Sheriff Scott Jones have more in common – both have been sued fo ...

February 01, 2019
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Skepticism Over DOJ Report on Use-of-Force Policies of Sacramento Police

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|Date: January 31, 2019
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Skepticism Over DOJ Report on Use-of-Force Policies of Sacramento Police

Photo courtesy of the LA Times By Crescenzo VellucciVanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – A CA Dept. of Ju ...

Photo courtesy of the LA Times By Crescenzo VellucciVanguard Capitol Bureau SACRAMENTO – A CA Dept. of Justice report released this week on use of force policies within the Sacramento Police Dept. – d ...

January 31, 2019
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Racial Profiling Report of LAPD Prompts Audit and Questions about Policing Tactics

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|Date: January 29, 2019
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Racial Profiling Report of LAPD Prompts Audit and Questions about Policing Tactics

Times are changing, as once upon a time a report like the one last week in the LA Times about an elite LA ...

Times are changing, as once upon a time a report like the one last week in the LA Times about an elite LAPD unit disproportionately stopping black motorists would have resulted in a shrug. Instead, on ...

January 29, 2019
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Man Arrested For CHWB: Come Home While Black

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|Date: January 26, 2019
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Man Arrested For CHWB: Come Home While Black

(From Press Release) - A person of color who was prosecuted after he was barred entry to his own apartmen ...

(From Press Release) - A person of color who was prosecuted after he was barred entry to his own apartment building by a security guard that didn’t believe that he lived there has been acquitted of al ...

January 26, 2019
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Proposed Protest Law in Sacramento Results in Opposition from Civil Liberties and Community Groups

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|Date: January 24, 2019
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Proposed Protest Law in Sacramento Results in Opposition from Civil Liberties and Community Groups

By Crescenzo VellucciVanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – An emergency proposal by the Sacramento City ...

By Crescenzo VellucciVanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – An emergency proposal by the Sacramento City Council this week that would restrict what protestors can take to a public demonstrations was ...

January 24, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Critics Are Right, Kamala Harris Not a Reformer

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|Date: January 21, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Critics Are Right, Kamala Harris Not a Reformer

Ironically, a few moments ago the news came out – that Kamala Harris, California Senator and the second b ...

Ironically, a few moments ago the news came out – that Kamala Harris, California Senator and the second black woman to serve in the US Senate, will run for President in 2020. The NY Times said this m ...

January 21, 2019
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The FBI ‘Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny’ That It Monitors Your Social Media Posts

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|Date: January 20, 2019
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The FBI ‘Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny’ That It Monitors Your Social Media Posts

By Matt Cagle and Hugh Handeyside In recent years, the federal government has significantly ramped up its ...

By Matt Cagle and Hugh Handeyside In recent years, the federal government has significantly ramped up its efforts to monitor people on social media. The FBI, for one, has repeatedly acknowledged that ...

January 20, 2019
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Steve King Isn’t Alone on White Supremacy

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|Date: January 19, 2019
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Steve King Isn’t Alone on White Supremacy

By Jeffery Robinson Last week, U.S. Rep. Steve King, Republican from Iowa, posed a question to a New York ...

By Jeffery Robinson Last week, U.S. Rep. Steve King, Republican from Iowa, posed a question to a New York Times reporter that laid bare his racist ideology: “White nationalist, white supremacist, west ...

January 19, 2019
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Bail Reform on Hold; Progressives with Mixed Feelings

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|Date: January 18, 2019
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Bail Reform on Hold; Progressives with Mixed Feelings

Governor Brown signs SB 10 last August with Assembly Speaker Rendon, Senate President pro Tempore Atkins, ...

Governor Brown signs SB 10 last August with Assembly Speaker Rendon, Senate President pro Tempore Atkins, Governor Brown (seated), Senator Hertzberg, Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye and Assemblymember Bo ...

January 18, 2019
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Barr’s History on Civil Rights and Liberties Concerns Critics

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|Date: January 15, 2019
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Barr’s History on Civil Rights and Liberties Concerns Critics

William Barr was appointed by President Trump to be the next attorney general of the US. By Manar Waheed ...

William Barr was appointed by President Trump to be the next attorney general of the US. By Manar Waheed and Brian Tashman On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will begin hearings on William Bar ...

January 15, 2019
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What the Government Shutdown Really Means for Federal Prisoners

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|Date: January 14, 2019
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What the Government Shutdown Really Means for Federal Prisoners

By Daniel McGowan Last week, USA Today ran a hit piece on federal prisoners with the tabloid headline, “G ...

By Daniel McGowan Last week, USA Today ran a hit piece on federal prisoners with the tabloid headline, “Government shutdown: Federal inmates feast on Cornish hens, steak as prison guards labor without ...

January 14, 2019
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William Barr Was an Ardent Champion of Mass Incarceration

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|Date: January 13, 2019
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William Barr Was an Ardent Champion of Mass Incarceration

By Sagiv Galai In 1992, a little less than a year into his new job, Attorney General William P. Barr adde ...

By Sagiv Galai In 1992, a little less than a year into his new job, Attorney General William P. Barr added to the zeitgeist of “tough-on-crime” policies when he issued the Bush administration’s “24 Re ...

January 13, 2019
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Guest Commentary: U.S. Imperialism Creates Asylum Seekers Only to Then Turn Them Away

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|Date: January 12, 2019
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Guest Commentary: U.S. Imperialism Creates Asylum Seekers Only to Then Turn Them Away

By Connor Gorman, David Salkoff, KateMarie Boccone, Morganne Blais-McPherson and members of the Young Dem ...

By Connor Gorman, David Salkoff, KateMarie Boccone, Morganne Blais-McPherson and members of the Young Democratic Socialists of America at UC Davis The arrival of the much mediatized “migrant caravan” ...

January 12, 2019
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