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Supporters of AB 931 Block Hallways to Counter Law Enforcement Influence

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|Date: August 14, 2018
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Supporters of AB 931 Block Hallways to Counter Law Enforcement Influence

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – While law enforcement lobbyists troll lawma ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – While law enforcement lobbyists troll lawmakers here and entice legislators with campaign contributions in an attempt to bury a measure de ...

August 14, 2018
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Court Rules on Killing People across the Border

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|Date: August 14, 2018
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Court Rules on Killing People across the Border

By David Hausman On Oct. 10, 2012, José Antonio Elena Rodriguez, a 16-year-old boy, was shot and killed o ...

By David Hausman On Oct. 10, 2012, José Antonio Elena Rodriguez, a 16-year-old boy, was shot and killed on Calle Internacional, a street in his hometown of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico by a U.S. Border Pat ...

August 14, 2018
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The Ferguson Effect: Why Wesley Bell’s Primary Victory in St. Louis Matters

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|Date: August 13, 2018
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The Ferguson Effect: Why Wesley Bell’s Primary Victory in St. Louis Matters

By Frank Leon Roberts On Tuesday, in what will go down as one of the most stunning political upsets in St ...

By Frank Leon Roberts On Tuesday, in what will go down as one of the most stunning political upsets in St. Louis County history, Wesley Bell, a criminal justice reform advocate, unseated Bob McCulloc ...

August 13, 2018
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Voters Hold Bob McCulloch Accountable in St. Louis County

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|Date: August 12, 2018
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Voters Hold Bob McCulloch Accountable in St. Louis County

By Brian Tashman and Sara Baker This week, voters in St. Louis County sent a clear message of support for ...

By Brian Tashman and Sara Baker This week, voters in St. Louis County sent a clear message of support for the creation of a smarter justice system. In the race for St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorne ...

August 12, 2018
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Attacks on Press Pose Danger to Journalists, Democracy

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|Date: August 11, 2018
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Attacks on Press Pose Danger to Journalists, Democracy

By June Speakman On Aug. 5, Brian Stelter, anchor of CNN’s Reliable Sources, shared with viewers an audio ...

By June Speakman On Aug. 5, Brian Stelter, anchor of CNN’s Reliable Sources, shared with viewers an audiotape of a call to a CSPAN political show in which the caller said that if he ran into Stelter a ...

August 11, 2018
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The Emerging Abolish ICE Movement

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|Date: August 10, 2018
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The Emerging Abolish ICE Movement

The movement to abolish ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has been growing for months, but it has ...

The movement to abolish ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has been growing for months, but it has recently been injected with life when in June, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stunned many by unseat ...

August 10, 2018
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Commentary: Down Goes Another Prosecutor

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|Date: August 09, 2018
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Commentary: Down Goes Another Prosecutor

Conventional wisdom has been turned on its head. Prosecutors who seek reelection are usually unopposed a ...

Conventional wisdom has been turned on its head. Prosecutors who seek reelection are usually unopposed and, even when they are challenged, they almost always win reelection. But that conventional wi ...

August 09, 2018
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Police Are Acquiring Surveillance Tech in Secret, Bill Would Give the Public a Say

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|Date: August 09, 2018
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Police Are Acquiring Surveillance Tech in Secret, Bill Would Give the Public a Say

By Chloe Triplett Recent stories about Amazon’s invasive face scanning surveillance technology and Cambri ...

By Chloe Triplett Recent stories about Amazon’s invasive face scanning surveillance technology and Cambridge Analytica’s exploitation of Facebook data have brought the impact of surveillance and data ...

August 09, 2018
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Occupy ICE Encampment, Hunger Strike Spring Up at Sacramento ICE HQ After Thousands of Children Separated from Parents, Put in Cages

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|Date: August 08, 2018
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Occupy ICE Encampment, Hunger Strike Spring Up at Sacramento ICE HQ After Thousands of Children Separated from Parents, Put in Cages

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Some laws may be made to be broken – and th ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Some laws may be made to be broken – and that’s essentially what groups like Occupy ICE and NorCal Resist are saying here about federal im ...

August 08, 2018
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Police Groups Object to Police Reforms Monday at State Capitol

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|Date: August 07, 2018
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Police Groups Object to Police Reforms Monday at State Capitol

Opposition Focuses on Cost of Solving Police Violence, While Proponents Focus on Saving Lives By Crescenz ...

Opposition Focuses on Cost of Solving Police Violence, While Proponents Focus on Saving Lives By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Police groups representing sheriffs to cops ...

August 07, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: The Death Penalty is Almost Gone…

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|Date: August 06, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: The Death Penalty is Almost Gone…

I have to admit that I was surprised, both in 2012 and 2016, that the death penalty was allowed to remain ...

I have to admit that I was surprised, both in 2012 and 2016, that the death penalty was allowed to remain intact by California voters. After all, we don't really have a death penalty in California – ...

August 06, 2018
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Elementary School Kids Don’t Belong in Handcuffs

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|Date: August 05, 2018
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Elementary School Kids Don’t Belong in Handcuffs

By Mark Fancher Chrystal McCadden thought she had done everything necessary to ensure an appropriate, saf ...

By Mark Fancher Chrystal McCadden thought she had done everything necessary to ensure an appropriate, safe educational environment for Cameron, her 7-year-old son who has attention deficit hyperactivi ...

August 05, 2018
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Texas Executed Despite Opposition from Victim’s Son

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|Date: August 03, 2018
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Texas Executed Despite Opposition from Victim’s Son

By Anna Arceneaux (Editor's note: This article was written the week after Young's July 17 execution) Four ...

By Anna Arceneaux (Editor's note: This article was written the week after Young's July 17 execution) Fourteen years ago, Mitesh Patel lost his father Hasmukh in a robbery-murder at the family’s store ...

August 03, 2018
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Have Conservatives Hijacked The First Amendment?

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|Date: August 02, 2018
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Have Conservatives Hijacked The First Amendment?

By David Cole Have conservatives hijacked the First Amendment? Critics are increasingly making this claim ...

By David Cole Have conservatives hijacked the First Amendment? Critics are increasingly making this claim, maintaining that under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., the First Amendment, once an import ...

August 02, 2018
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Electric Scooters Are Racing to Collect Your Data

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|Date: July 29, 2018
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Electric Scooters Are Racing to Collect Your Data

By Nomi Conway As scooter companies Spin, Bird, and Lime scramble to get scooters on the street, they are ...

By Nomi Conway As scooter companies Spin, Bird, and Lime scramble to get scooters on the street, they are also racing to gather data, and have failed to take the time and steps necessary to properly a ...

July 29, 2018
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The Government Failed to Meet the Reunification Deadline

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|Date: July 28, 2018
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The Government Failed to Meet the Reunification Deadline

By Stacy Sullivan The Trump administration claimed in court filings Thursday evening that it had met the ...

By Stacy Sullivan The Trump administration claimed in court filings Thursday evening that it had met the court-ordered July 26 deadline to reunite the children it wrongfully separated from their paren ...

July 28, 2018
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The Rush to Deport Reunited Families

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|Date: July 27, 2018
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The Rush to Deport Reunited Families

By Amrit Cheng The family separation crisis took a turn yesterday, when the Trump administration revealed ...

By Amrit Cheng The family separation crisis took a turn yesterday, when the Trump administration revealed in a federal court filing its intention to deport families immediately upon reunifying them. T ...

July 27, 2018
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Community Files Complaint against Sac City Council Alleging Violations of California Open Meeting Law

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|Date: July 26, 2018
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Community Files Complaint against Sac City Council Alleging Violations of California Open Meeting Law

By Crescenzo Vellucci Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The Sacramento City Council – its weekly meetings un ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The Sacramento City Council – its weekly meetings under fire and under siege for more than a year by frustrated community members because of civili ...

July 26, 2018
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Suit Documents Violations under Stop-and-Frisk

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|Date: July 25, 2018
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Suit Documents Violations under Stop-and-Frisk

By Scott Michelman Late one September afternoon in 2017, on an ordinary residential street in a predomina ...

By Scott Michelman Late one September afternoon in 2017, on an ordinary residential street in a predominantly African-African neighborhood of the nation’s capital, M.B. Cottingham and his friends had ...

July 25, 2018
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The Power of the Prosecutor: A Personal Account

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|Date: July 24, 2018
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The Power of the Prosecutor: A Personal Account

By Ashley Sawyer Have you ever watched an episode of “Law & Order”? The creators do an amazing job of ...

By Ashley Sawyer Have you ever watched an episode of “Law & Order”? The creators do an amazing job of dramatizing the court process. The characters playing the prosecutors are always eloquent and ...

July 24, 2018
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