By Elina Lingappa SAN FRANCISCO – A petition—“Recalling Chesa Boudin with Richie Greenberg”—has been circulating since February and now has around 15,000 signatures...
By Natasha Feuerstein SAN DIEGO, CA – Associated Students of UC San Diego (ASUCSD) held a webinar last week in which Black Student Union panelists discussed civil e...
By Lovepreet Dhinsa & Layla Mustafa SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco Public Defender’s Office was founded in 1921 with one attorney—former police Officer Fran...
By Derrick Pal SACRAMENTO, CA — Deputy District Attorney Casey Newton argued in a settlement conference Monday here in Sacramento County Superior County that bail of up t...
By Dorrin Akbari SACRAMENTO, CA – Defendant Mya Montgomery struggled to understand the terms and implication of her plea, turning to her interpreter and Judge Micha...
By Samara Yarnes and Ankita Joshi SACRAMENTO, CA – Sacramento County Superior Court Dept. 60 was very slow Monday afternoon—the majority of cases heard resulted in the ma...
By Avalon Amaral MARTINEZ, CA – Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Christopher Brown here was delicate and thorough as he assessed the safety and well-being of a vi...
By Lovepreet Dhinsa SAN FRANCISCO – Progressive San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin said he supports Supervisor Connie Chan and the structural reforms towa...
By Rachel Kim LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Country struggles to distribute the vaccine to the homeless population due to their fringe status in society, their general distru...
By Julietta Bisharyan Orlando Smith is a talented illustrated journalist, graphic artist and comic book creator. He has been incarcerated for 23 years under the draconian...
Davis Vanguard’s weekly highlights from CDCR’s COVID-19 crisis CDCR Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Outcomes As of Feb. 19, there have been a total of 48,...
By Nora Lelivelt DAVIS – Open Ceilings’ first virtual open mic and poetry night was full of positivity and support; showcasing fourteen powerful UC Davis students’...
By Dorrin Akbari LOS ANGELES — Millions of workers in frontline industries are being left behind as California grapples with limited and unpredictable COVID-19 vaccine su...
By Jordan Varney DAVIS — On Feb. 22, the Vanguard hosted a webinar with two Yolo County deputy public defenders, Emily Fisher and Martha Sequeira. The deputy publi...
By Ivana Ramirez LOS ANGELES — Militaristic. Racist. Cruel. These are just a few of the words used to describe the Los Angeles Police Department’s tendencies. Now, cement...
By Liam Benedict At this point, there is perhaps no desire more commonly shared among the American people than for the current pandemic to end. It has been a long, brutal...
By David M. Greenwald Last week when I interviewed Contra Costa DA Diana Becton, one of the people that has put their hat in the race for an appointment to the Attorney G...
Deputy Public Defenders Martha Sequeira and Emily Fisher talk about the challenges of representing their clients and changing the narrative of the criminal justice system...
By Alex Morgan and Mianna Muscat SAN FRANCISCO— UC Hastings College of the Law held its third and final day last week of a webinar series entitled California Correctional...
By Juliet Bost SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco Police announced the arrest of 26-year-old Necho Goins on charges of attempted robbery, brandishing a deadly weapon oth...