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Community Members, Mothers of Gun Violence Victims and Leaders Speak Out at Capitol

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 01, 2022
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Community Members, Mothers of Gun Violence Victims and Leaders Speak Out at Capitol

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – A Capitol rally was held, by Organized Voices and ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – A Capitol rally was held, by Organized Voices and Voice of the Youth, to bring attention to gun violence in Sacramento, which has surged in rece ...

July 01, 2022
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Sac Sheriff refuses to disclose COVID vaccination rate for staff citing “medical privacy” reasons

Posted by Covid In-Custody Project
|Date: April 28, 2022
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Sac Sheriff refuses to disclose COVID vaccination rate for staff citing “medical privacy” reasons

This report is written by the Covid In-Custody Project — an independent journalism project that partners ...

This report is written by the Covid In-Custody Project — an independent journalism project that partners with the Davis Vanguard to report on the pandemic in California’s county jails and Department o ...

April 28, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Sacramento Shooting Devastates Unhoused Family

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 19, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Sacramento Shooting Devastates Unhoused Family

By Crystal Sanchez On Saturday April 16th 2022 a shooting took place. Inside the vehicle was an unhoused ...

By Crystal Sanchez On Saturday April 16th 2022 a shooting took place. Inside the vehicle was an unhoused family who was resting. During the shooting an 11-year-old male child was shot. He sustained a ...

April 19, 2022
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Commentary: Veteran Columnist Falsely Declares California Gun Restrictions Are a Failure; Data Say Otherwise

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 13, 2022
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Commentary: Veteran Columnist Falsely Declares California Gun Restrictions Are a Failure; Data Say Otherwise

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA - Truth be told I am not a huge backer of tough gun ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA - Truth be told I am not a huge backer of tough gun laws. I tend to favor gun control laws that treat guns more along the lines of driver’s licen ...

April 13, 2022
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Police Identify and Look for Another Suspect in Downtown Shooting

Posted by Robert JHansen
|Date: April 13, 2022
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Police Identify and Look for Another Suspect in Downtown Shooting

by Robert J. Hansen Sacramento, CA - Sacramento police have identified an additional suspect in last week ...

by Robert J. Hansen Sacramento, CA - Sacramento police have identified an additional suspect in last week’s K Street gunfight in Downtown Sacramento that left six dead and twelve injured. Based on the ...

April 13, 2022
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Commentary: As It Turns Out, Martin Was Not Early Released at All, Parole Had Nothing to Do with It, the Media Blew It

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 12, 2022
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Commentary: As It Turns Out, Martin Was Not Early Released at All, Parole Had Nothing to Do with It, the Media Blew It

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – It immediately set off a red flag when the Sacram ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – It immediately set off a red flag when the Sacramento Bee first reported that a suspect in the Sacramento mass shooting was out of prison despit ...

April 12, 2022
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My View: The Media Already Blames Early Release for the Sacramento Shooting

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 09, 2022
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My View: The Media Already Blames Early Release for the Sacramento Shooting

Media Narrative Always Tilts Away from Criminal Justice Reform By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sac ...

Media Narrative Always Tilts Away from Criminal Justice Reform By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – When Troy McAlister was released from custody and ended up committing a horrifyin ...

April 09, 2022
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Coalition Wants Governor to Invest Billions in Crime Prevention in Wake of Shooting

Posted by Robert JHansen
|Date: April 07, 2022
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Coalition Wants Governor to Invest Billions in Crime Prevention in Wake of Shooting

by Robert J. Hansen Sacramento, CA - A coalition of criminal justice organizations released a letter urgi ...

by Robert J. Hansen Sacramento, CA - A coalition of criminal justice organizations released a letter urging California Gov. Gavin Newsom to invest billions more in crime prevention to address the spik ...

April 07, 2022
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Sacramento DA Schubert on the Hot Seat after Mass Killing

Posted by Robert JHansen
|Date: April 06, 2022
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Sacramento DA Schubert on the Hot Seat after Mass Killing

By Robert H. Hansen In the wake of the shooting in Downtown Sacramento that claimed the lives of six and ...

By Robert H. Hansen In the wake of the shooting in Downtown Sacramento that claimed the lives of six and injured twelve others early Sunday morning, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schu ...

April 06, 2022
| by Robert JHansen

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Sacramento Police Chief Addresses the Mass Shooting

Posted by Robert JHansen
|Date: April 04, 2022
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Sacramento Police Chief Addresses the Mass Shooting

by Robert J. Hansen Sacramento, CA - Sacramento Police Chief Kathy Lester held a press conference earlier ...

by Robert J. Hansen Sacramento, CA - Sacramento Police Chief Kathy Lester held a press conference earlier today on the shooting that happened at around 2:30 a.m. near 10th Street and K Street in downt ...

April 04, 2022
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$100 Million Dollar Lawsuit Following Fatal Shooting of Kershawn Geyger

Posted by Jordan
|Date: January 31, 2022
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$100 Million Dollar Lawsuit Following Fatal Shooting of Kershawn Geyger

By: Nicole Knauer SACRAMENTO, CA – On January 15, 2021, Kershawn Geyger was shot and killed by a S ...

By: Nicole Knauer SACRAMENTO, CA – On January 15, 2021, Kershawn Geyger was shot and killed by a Sacramento County sheriff's gang unit detective outside the Crestview North Apartments at a traf ...

January 31, 2022
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Newsom Resists Federal Judge, Lets Prison Staff Go Unvaccinated

Posted by Jordan
|Date: January 24, 2022
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Newsom Resists Federal Judge, Lets Prison Staff Go Unvaccinated

By Jose Cruz Roa SACRAMENTO, CA - As COVID-19 cases are drastically rising daily, states ac ...

By Jose Cruz Roa SACRAMENTO, CA - As COVID-19 cases are drastically rising daily, states across the nation have begun requiring in-person workers to show proof of receiving the COVID-19 ...

January 24, 2022
| by Jordan

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Sacramento Jails Cover-up COVID-19 Data And Violate Public Information Doctrine

Posted by Covid In-Custody Project
|Date: August 17, 2020
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Sacramento Jails Cover-up COVID-19 Data And Violate Public Information Doctrine

This report is written by the Covid In-Custody Project — an independent journalism project that partners ...

This report is written by the Covid In-Custody Project — an independent journalism project that partners with the Davis Vanguard to bring reporting on the pandemic in California’s county jails and Dep ...

August 17, 2020
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Doomsday Author, Wife Set for Trial for Murder of 2 Idaho ‘Zombie’ Children

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: August 06, 2020
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Doomsday Author, Wife Set for Trial for Murder of 2 Idaho ‘Zombie’ Children

By Elizabeth Cho and Sahar Swaleh BOISE, ID – Doomsday author Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow were arraigned ...

By Elizabeth Cho and Sahar Swaleh BOISE, ID – Doomsday author Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow were arraigned for murder today after a preliminary hearing in connection with the deaths of two children, wh ...

August 06, 2020
| by Vanguard Court Watch Interns

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No Body, No Weapon, No Crime Scene – How Disappearance Led to Guilty Conviction

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: August 05, 2020
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No Body, No Weapon, No Crime Scene – How Disappearance Led to Guilty Conviction

By Elizabeth Cho SANTA CLARA – More than five years after Morgan Hill teenager Sierra LaMar went missin ...

By Elizabeth Cho SANTA CLARA – More than five years after Morgan Hill teenager Sierra LaMar went missing in 2012, Antolin Garcia-Torres was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of par ...

August 05, 2020
| by Vanguard Court Watch Interns

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Commentary: Should Barr Step Down? 1100 Former Prosecutors Think So

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: February 18, 2020
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Commentary: Should Barr Step Down? 1100 Former Prosecutors Think So

Over the weekend, more than 1100 former prosecutors and officials who served in both Republican and Democ ...

Over the weekend, more than 1100 former prosecutors and officials who served in both Republican and Democratic administrations, signed onto an open letter that condemned the president and the attorney ...

February 18, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Crashes, Injuries, Deaths: The Dangers of Police Chases

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 19, 2020
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Crashes, Injuries, Deaths: The Dangers of Police Chases

By Vaidya Gullapalli Two recent investigative reporting series focus on the dangers of police vehicle pur ...

By Vaidya Gullapalli Two recent investigative reporting series focus on the dangers of police vehicle pursuits. Last month, the Asbury Park Press and USA Today Network looked at police chases in New J ...

January 19, 2020
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Vallejo: Police Kill With Near Impunity

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 19, 2019
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Vallejo: Police Kill With Near Impunity

By Darwin BondGraham Since 2010, no Vallejo officer has been disciplined for using deadly force, despite ...

By Darwin BondGraham Since 2010, no Vallejo officer has been disciplined for using deadly force, despite multiple shootings of unarmed people—including a man holding a can of beer. And active police u ...

December 19, 2019
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Sacramento Sheriff’s Dept. Scores ‘F’ in Police Violence Scorecard

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: December 17, 2019
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Sacramento Sheriff’s Dept. Scores ‘F’ in Police Violence Scorecard

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The new Inspector General just hired by the ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – The new Inspector General just hired by the Sacramento County of Supervisors to oversee the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Dept. may not know ...

December 17, 2019
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California to Become First State to Stop Charging Copays in Jails and Prisons after Governor Signs New Law

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: October 13, 2019
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California to Become First State to Stop Charging Copays in Jails and Prisons after Governor Signs New Law

California to Become First State to Stop Charging Copays in Jails and Prisons After Governor Signs New La ...

California to Become First State to Stop Charging Copays in Jails and Prisons After Governor Signs New Law AB 45 will eliminate medical and dental copays for people incarcerated in California jails an ...

October 13, 2019
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