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Woodland Police Denied Qualified Immunity in Michael Barrera Wrongful Death Lawsuit

Posted by Robert JHansen
|Date: February 22, 2023
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Woodland Police Denied Qualified Immunity in Michael Barrera Wrongful Death Lawsuit

By Robert J Hansen Woodland, CA - The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that the Woodland Po ...

By Robert J Hansen Woodland, CA - The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that the Woodland Police Department and five officers who killed Micheal Barrera in 2017 were properly denied quali ...

February 22, 2023
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Bonta Announces First State Post-Conviction Unit; Yolo’s About to Turn a Decade Old

Posted by Robert JHansen
|Date: February 21, 2023
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Bonta Announces First State Post-Conviction Unit; Yolo’s About to Turn a Decade Old

Up to 5,700 Wrongful Convictions in California, Experts Estimate By Robert J Hansen California Attorney G ...

Up to 5,700 Wrongful Convictions in California, Experts Estimate By Robert J Hansen California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office announced the first-ever Post-Conviction Justice Unit (PCJU), to cond ...

February 21, 2023
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Commentary: Why DA Reisig’s Zero Bail Study Is Flawed and Uncompelling

Posted by Robert JHansen
|Date: February 16, 2023
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Commentary: Why DA Reisig’s Zero Bail Study Is Flawed and Uncompelling

By Robert J Hansen Woodland, CA - The Yolo County District Attorney’s office released an expanded study o ...

By Robert J Hansen Woodland, CA - The Yolo County District Attorney’s office released an expanded study on Zero Bail on Tuesday which claims the policy resulted in 163 percent more crime and 200 perce ...

February 16, 2023
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Yolo County DA Discusses Resentencing Unit

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 18, 2023
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Yolo County DA Discusses Resentencing Unit

By Robert J Hansen Woodland, CA - The Yolo District Attorney’s office through its Conviction and Sentence ...

By Robert J Hansen Woodland, CA - The Yolo District Attorney’s office through its Conviction and Sentence Review unit has reviewed and modified 15 state prison sentences since 2019. Since 2019, AB 294 ...

January 18, 2023
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Commentary: The Problem of Local Hate Crimes Echoes The National Rise

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 27, 2022
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Commentary: The Problem of Local Hate Crimes Echoes The National Rise

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – Let me start by giving some praise to Yolo Chief De ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – Let me start by giving some praise to Yolo Chief Deputy DA Jonathan Raven who did an excellent job of explaining, two weeks ago, hate crimes and t ...

December 27, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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DA and Others Discuss the Rising Problem of Hate Crimes Locally and Beyond

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 20, 2022
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DA and Others Discuss the Rising Problem of Hate Crimes Locally and Beyond

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – There has been a rise in hate crimes recently acros ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – There has been a rise in hate crimes recently across the country, and that has extended into Yolo County. Last week, the Yolo County DA’s office ...

December 20, 2022
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My View: A Big Focus Figures to Be on Affordable Housing

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 12, 2022
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My View: A Big Focus Figures to Be on Affordable Housing

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – If there is a consensus at least on a problem in Davis ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – If there is a consensus at least on a problem in Davis, affordable housing seems to be there. A survey from the spring found it was by far the top i ...

November 12, 2022
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My View: Resentencing Could Provide a Conservative Path For Decarceration

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 12, 2022
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My View: Resentencing Could Provide a Conservative Path For Decarceration

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor One of the most powerful tools to undo injustice and get people wh ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor One of the most powerful tools to undo injustice and get people who no longer need to be incarcerated is prosecutor-initiated resentencing. California has a law ...

November 12, 2022
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DA’s Office Appears to Be Papering the Only Latina Judge in Yolo County

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 08, 2022
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DA’s Office Appears to Be Papering the Only Latina Judge in Yolo County

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – Judge Sonia Cortes is the only person of color sitt ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – Judge Sonia Cortes is the only person of color sitting on the bench in Yolo County. She has not had a criminal calendar since prior to the pandem ...

November 08, 2022
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Criminal Justice Partners Engage in Voter Education & Outreach

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|Date: September 17, 2022
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Criminal Justice Partners Engage in Voter Education & Outreach

Special to the Vanguard Woodland, CA – In partnership with the Yolo County Elections Office, the Yolo Co ...

Special to the Vanguard Woodland, CA – In partnership with the Yolo County Elections Office, the Yolo County Public Defender’s Office and the Yolo County Probation Department will conduct voter educa ...

September 17, 2022
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Yolo DA Discusses Racial Blind Charging in Yolo County and Beyond

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 15, 2022
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Yolo DA Discusses Racial Blind Charging in Yolo County and Beyond

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – The Yolo County District Attorney’s Office has tout ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – The Yolo County District Attorney’s Office has touted their racial blind charging project as a reform mechanism to create greater equity in chargi ...

September 15, 2022
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Why Yolo County Needs to Improve COVID Data Reporting in its Local Jails

Posted by Covid In-Custody Project
|Date: August 30, 2022
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Why Yolo County Needs to Improve COVID Data Reporting in its Local Jails

This report is written by the Covid In-Custody Project which partners with the Davis Vanguard to report o ...

This report is written by the Covid In-Custody Project which partners with the Davis Vanguard to report on the pandemic in California’s county jails and Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (C ...

August 30, 2022
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Sunday Commentary: Yolo DA Says He Supports Conviction Review Unit, but Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 07, 2022
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Sunday Commentary: Yolo DA Says He Supports Conviction Review Unit, but Actions Speak Louder Than Words

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – Earlier this week, the Yolo County DA’ s Office put ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – Earlier this week, the Yolo County DA’ s Office put out a tweet that stated, “A prosecutor’s role is to ensure that our system achieves justice wh ...

August 07, 2022
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DA Raven Discusses Racial Disparities in Yolo County

Posted by Robert JHansen
|Date: July 13, 2022
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DA Raven Discusses Racial Disparities in Yolo County

By Robert J Hansen Woodland, CA - Racial Disparity was the subject of this month’s Commons Town Hall whic ...

By Robert J Hansen Woodland, CA - Racial Disparity was the subject of this month’s Commons Town Hall which was hosted by the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office in partnership with Measures for Jus ...

July 13, 2022
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Judge Agrees with Plaintiffs Not to Divide Broderick/Bryte in West Sacramento Redistricting

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 08, 2022
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Judge Agrees with Plaintiffs Not to Divide Broderick/Bryte in West Sacramento Redistricting

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – A judge agreed with plaintiffs on a challenge to We ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – A judge agreed with plaintiffs on a challenge to West Sacramento Redistricting not to divide the Broderick/Bryte neighborhood into separate city c ...

July 08, 2022
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Woodland PD Fails to Protect LGBTQ Event from Proud Boys

Posted by Robert JHansen
|Date: July 06, 2022
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Woodland PD Fails to Protect LGBTQ Event from Proud Boys

by Robert J Hansen Woodland, CA - A drag show planned at Mojo’s Lounge & Kitchen428 Restaurant in Woo ...

by Robert J Hansen Woodland, CA - A drag show planned at Mojo’s Lounge & Kitchen428 Restaurant in Woodland was disrupted by Sacramento Proud Boys last Thursday. The Woodland Police Department coul ...

July 06, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Inequitable and Unfair Redistricting in West Sacramento

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: July 01, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Inequitable and Unfair Redistricting in West Sacramento

By Carlos Alcala Over one-quarter of the population of West Sacramento lives in Broderick/Bryte. The Brod ...

By Carlos Alcala Over one-quarter of the population of West Sacramento lives in Broderick/Bryte. The Broderick/ Bryte community continues to fight for one of the four seats on the City Council in redi ...

July 01, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Finding Humanity with Project Free Write

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|Date: June 29, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Finding Humanity with Project Free Write

By John Fout The Yolo County Public Defender’s Office introduces you to Project Free Write, an eight-wee ...

By John Fout The Yolo County Public Defender’s Office introduces you to Project Free Write, an eight-week storytelling workshop created for system-impacted persons with a mission to bear witness to t ...

June 29, 2022
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Sunday Commentary: DA Reisig Has Turned the Dev Case into a Political Football – That’s Unfortunate

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 19, 2022
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Sunday Commentary: DA Reisig Has Turned the Dev Case into a Political Football – That’s Unfortunate

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – A few weeks ago, Ajay Dev’s attorney, Jennifer Mouz ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Woodland, CA – A few weeks ago, Ajay Dev’s attorney, Jennifer Mouzis, was ill and had to postpone a hearing. The petitioners asked for and were granted a contin ...

June 19, 2022
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: White Privilege

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: June 06, 2022
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Guest Commentary: White Privilege

Written by: Anonymous Throughout my incarceration in the Yolo County Jail I have witnessed case after cas ...

Written by: Anonymous Throughout my incarceration in the Yolo County Jail I have witnessed case after case of unfair treatment towards Hispanics & African Americans via the Yolo County District At ...

June 06, 2022
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