Earlier in the week, we criticized West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon for his lack of leadership in the gang injunction case by failing to appear at a town meeting to discuss the subject.The W ...

This week, Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced that he was refiling for a gang injunction in West Sacramento.Mr. Reisig told the Sacramento Bee earlier this week:"They overturned it on ...

Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig made a decision at some point that he could gain an injunction against the Broderick Boys simply by noticing one alleged gang member. To make matters worse, t ...

This is my weekly column of thoughts and tidbits from the week that has passed. A little bit lighter and more playful than the usual serious and hard-hitting coverage.Reisig will bring back the Gang I ...

The County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will have a seconding reading on a county ordinance that would set a curfew on Yolo County Juveniles. This after the Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention ...

The decision by California's 3rd District Court of Appeal struck down an overly broad injunction against a West Sacramento Gang this week. This is not generally a court known for its activism or its l ...

We have spent much time talking about both the Davis Police Department and Yolo County District Attorney's Office's over-pursuit of relatively minor cases and prosecution to the point of almost absurd ...

One of the most frequent complaints about the Yolo County District Attorney's Office under former District Attorney David Henderson had been the intractability of their prosecutions. Far too many mino ...

Josh Fernandez of the Woodland Daily Democrat perhaps had the line of week in his opener to the article on a proposed reality television show that will cover Yolo County Law Enforcement. Fernandez wro ...

(Cue up "Cops" theme song)It seems like sometimes the best stories are the ones that are almost accidental. I was at the Yolo County Board of Supervisor's Meeting yesterday for the Medical Marijuana i ...

The ACLU is taking on Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig before a three judge panel at the Sacramento 3rd District Court of Appeal over the issue of two year old gang injunction.At issue are tw ...

Saturday's Woodland Daily Democrat reports that the man suspected of killing a retired UC Davis professor will attempt to remove Judge Stephen Mock from hearing further proceedings.Public defender, Ri ...

Part of the current controversy swirling around Michael Nifong and his prosecution of the Duke lacrosse players on what now appears to be trumped up charges of rape, was his failure to disclose exculp ...

For the second time in three weeks, the Woodland Daily Democrat has chosen a blog entry from the People's Vanguard of Davis as one of the top blogs in the county.Admirably, this was a piece that was c ...

On January 3, 2007, we reported on the prosecution of Khalid Berny. There was another part to the story that we were informed of at the time of the original interview that could not be run until it wa ...

The Sacramento Bee reports this morning that a Federal Judge threw out a lawsuit challenging the recruitment and selection process for Yolo County grand juries. Former Director of the Yolo County Hous ...

A recent article that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on December 26, 2006 (and reprinted in the Davis Enterprise shortly thereafter) brings the issue of the gang injunction back to the public ...

Monica Krauth of the Woodland Daily Democrat writes a story today on District Attorney elect Jeff Reisig taking office. Apparently the biggest challenges that the DA's office will face are the murder ...

On July 26, 2006, Lauren Keene of the Davis Enterprise wrote a story about a Clarksburg farmer who was accused by the Yolo County District Attorney’s office of allowing his goats to roam “at large.” T ...

Last June, Jeff Reisig was elected Yolo County District Attorney with strong support from the current employees of the district attorney’s office. As he is about to take office, he faces a number of v ...