In a release yesterday afternoon, Yolo County announced that at a September 9 meeting, the Yolo County Board of Supervisors will consider three potential ites for a secure community reentry facility.T ...

On Friday, the Vanguard covered a proposed Re-entry facility that was approved by the County Board of Supervisors and funded by state money from Assembly Bill 900. Part of the discussion that emerged ...

Those who read the Davis Enterprise might have noticed a joint letter to the editor by Davis' County Supervisors Helen Thomson (District 2-Davis) and Mariko Yamada (District 4-Davis). They were writin ...

Public Defender Barry Melton officially removed himself yesterday from the case of accused Sheriff's Deputy killer, Marco Topete. Officially it appears we do not know the nature of the conflict of int ...

The official report by Deputy Coroner James Andrade characterized the death of Ricardo Abrahams as accidental. He found no evidence of homicidal intent by the police.Of course, that was not really a p ...

Just as you want to believe things will return to a more routine level in case of Marco Topete who is accused of killing Deputy Sheriff Jose Diaz on June 15, 2008, things get even more bizarre.Suddenl ...

The recent problems in the Yolo County Courtroom have led one of the foremost legislative advocates for open government, State Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero (D-East Los Angeles) to call for the ...

It was not surprising that a Sacramento court of appeal rejected the petition from the Yolo County Public Defender's Office. The public defender had asked the court to order the response of seven Yolo ...

Many who read the Davis Enterprise on Sunday, undoubtedly saw the story that the Yolo County Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union called "upon the Yolo County Court to quickly secure a change ...

California's Chief Justice Ronald George has been asked to intervene in the Yolo Superior Court's handling of the case against a man who has been accused of killing a Yolo County Sheriff's Deputy. Jus ...

Just when we thought things would slowly return to some semblance of normal, Assistant Public Defender Dean Johansson makes a surprising motion.Johansson called for Rosenberg and every other judge in ...

On Monday, a report was released that attempted to explain how it came to be that the Yolo County court building's doors were locked in an apparent effort to keep media and the general public from wit ...

I keep coming back to this case from the Yolo County Courts mainly because there is more and more to talk about--and it becomes more alarming each time. We talked about the Davis Enterprise Op-Ed on F ...

It is one thing to see the Davis Vanguard complain about the conduct of public officials something that is in many ways our raison d'être. It is another thing when the Davis Enterprise does it.Yesterd ...

In a bizarre series of events on Wednesday, the man accused of killing Yolo County Sheriff's Deputy Jose "Tony" Diaz was arraigned and the media and public was locked out of the courtroom.Later Sherif ...

Matt Rexroad's blog drew my attention this morning to a letter to the editor in the Woodland Daily Democrat. The letter was critical of the police's handling of the incident that led to the death of R ...