By The Vanguard Staff SACRAMENTO, CA – Earlonne Woods, a well-known podcaster formerly incarcerated at San Quentin who recently agreed to do a documentary with actor Morg...
By Madison Whittemore OAKLAND, CA – Dozens of community advocates stood on the steps of the René C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland last Tuesday to show support for...
By Vy Tran LOS ANGELES, CA — Turning Point officially opened its newest installation of the Sisterhood Alliance for Freedom and Equality (SAFE) home this past week, a SAF...
By Yana Singhal OAKLAND, CA – Months before the mid-cycle budget decisions, “(C)ity Administrator has reported that the city is facing a $177 million dollar budget...
By Tim Kingston Dear City of Davis Police Commission, I am extremely heartened to see that the City of Davis is considering protecting our constitutional right to privacy...
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Oakland, CA- Governor Newsom announced on Friday that California is installing a network of 480 high-tech cameras in Oakland and th...
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor The California Second District Court of Appeal, affirming a lower court opinion, found that Senate Bill 10 (SB 10) was constitution...
By Cindy Chen NEW YORK, NY – A New Yorker shared—in an opinion piece in the City Limits weekly in New York—a troubling encounter in 2021 she claims changed her life...
By Mark Dempsey Editor David Greenwald’s recent Davis Vanguard commentary “Housing Production Continues to Fall Well Short” is critical of Davis, but—bi...
By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Cooley LLP’ San Francisco office Friday announced it has joined the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and ACLU of Idaho in t...
By Praniti Gulyani NEW YORK, NY— Black and Hispanic residents were the subject of higher rates of criminal summons enforcement, and the “over-enforcement of low-level off...
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor A new report from Data for Progress —which surveyed nearly 900 LGBTQ+ adults, including an oversample of transgender adults—found p...
Special to the Vanguard McAlester, OK – After conducting a competency hearing, a district court judge in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, has ruled that James Ryder is n...
By Susan Bassi and Fred Johnson Jose “Chille” DeCastro is a journalist known for his controversial approach to watchdogging police. He hosts a popular YouTube...
By Praniti Gulyani NEW YORK, NY – In a recent op-ed published by the Scientific American Journal, entitled “Evidence Does Not Support the Use of the Death Penalty,...
By The Vanguard Staff SAN RAFAEL, CA – The First Amendment Coalition this week released details of several recent battles it’s waged to retain protections for people and...
By Darlin Navarrete WOODLAND, CA- Yolo County Superior Court Judge Stephen L Mock rescheduled a preliminary hearing—intended to move forward this Thursday morning—for th...
By Gabriela Rose and Audrey Sawyer MODESTO, CA – A motion to dismiss criminal charges in Stanislaus County Superior Court Wednesday for a man in custody accused of...
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – The Sacramento City Council unanimously passed a resolution proposed by Councilmember Katie Valenzuela, making Sac...
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor In the final recall tally, the voters in the Second District for WJUSD voted 63.65 to 36.35 to recall Emily MacDonald. Last year, M...