By Lisbeth Martinez CALIFORNIA – The University Council American Federation of Teachers (UCAFT) held a rally via Zoom and Facebook live this week with many UCAFT, AFT and...
By Jose Medina SACRAMENTO – The Sacramento Homeless Union has signaled it’s “fed up” with Mayor Darrell Steinberg’s gross neglect in solving the issues that affect...
Why President Biden Must Commute All Federal Death Sentences By Cassandra Stubbs In just six months, the federal government conducted an unprecedented, unjust, and unlawf...
By Samara Yarnes OREGON – This state served as a leader in the nation today by becoming the first state to decriminalize the possession of small quantities of drugs, as w...
By Alana Bleimann and Lovepreet Dhinsa SACRAMENTO – Despite acknowledging the lack of substantial evidence and the discrepancies in officer testimonies, Judge Steve White...
By William McCurry SACRAMENTO – Defendant Natasha Ogle—evading police, she said, because she didn’t want to get stopped without her driver license—now faces seriou...
By Aishwarya Rajan SACRAMENTO – In April 2020, a woman was raped, assaulted and robbed in Downtown Sacramento—Bemil Zamora Tangonan was accused of being that perpetrator...
By Jacob Vito For hundreds of years, in the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church sold what it called “indulgences.” The church had grown hypocritical and began to sell purcha...
By David M. Greenwald A few weeks ago I posted a column in light of the city getting what otherwise would have been a spectacular gift commemorating the beautiful life an...
By Lisbeth Martinez and Jose Medina SACRAMENTO – The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors last week rejected staff reports and warnings—following dozens of call-in comm...
By Molly O’Neal, Manohar Raju, Oscar Bobrow, Tracie Olson, David Epps, Michael Ogul and Sajid A. Khan As public defenders who represent people and serve families mo...
By Sydney Kamlager - After years of misappropriating millions of dollars, opposing criminal justice reform, and ignoring the will of voters, the CDAA must be held to acco...
By Alexander Ramirez STATE CAPITOL – ReImagine Justice California Coalition, an activist group in Southern California, has sent an open letter to California Governor News...
By Linhchi Nguyen and Esha Kher SACRAMENTO – After comparing body camera evidence and a police report, a defense attorney here Friday succeeded in getting a judge to exam...
By Dorrin Akbari and Linhchi Nguyen SACRAMENTO – The prosecution needed just one witness—even though it had planned two—to win its preliminary hearing here in Sacramento...
By Nora Lelivelt DAVIS – In the wake of the insurrection on the nation’s Capital and in comparison to the Black Lives Matter protests, local county officials contin...
By Liam Benedict President Joe Biden’s recent proposed plan for combating climate change involved the creation of 10 million clean energy jobs. If it came fully to pass,...
By Mengyu Yang This report is written by the Covid In-Custody Project — an independent journalism project that partners with the Davis Vanguard to bring reporting o...
Davis Vanguard’s Weekly Highlights from CDCR’s COVID-19 Crisis CDCR Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Outcomes As of Jan. 29, there have been a total of 47,215 con...
By Roxanna Jarvis SAN FRANCISCO – In an interview conducted by The Davis Vanguard, lawyers Tony Serra and Curtis Briggs provided more details about Douglas Stankewitz—who...