By Nikki Suzani Highlights (July 20th – 25th) Solano County Jail reported its first positive case of COVID-19 on Wednesday, July 22. The Solano County JDF has still...
By Roman Mendoza PORTLAND, OR – On the steps of the Multnomah County Justice Center, a local Black Lives Matter speaker makes a passionate “Thank You” to the Wall of Moms...
Multiple media reports over the weekend have noted that the president of the Vallejo police union is one of two police officers who has been suspended by the department,...
One of the biggest complaints about the University Commons project has been “size, scale, and height of the project.” Critics have a point here—the project is projected...
“Looking back” will feature reprints of articles that Jeff previously wrote while a columnist at The Westchester Guardian, which encompass topics that are app...
By Linh Nguyen LAS VEGAS – After a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling Thursday, five Las Vegas police officers will have to face a federal civil rights lawsuit by a ch...
By Susana Jurado YOLO COUNTY – Yolo County Superior Court Judge David Rosenberg was accused of “court prejudice” repeatedly here last Friday during a preliminary hearing,...
By Evelyn Valerio SACRAMENTO – A Sacramento man is currently being held in custody for a violent assault with a gun and corporal injury on a woman, as a second woman snat...
By Susana Jurado FRESNO, CA. – A defendant here was accused late last week of strangling his partner for about an hour at his apartment and smashing her iPhone—the victim...
A few weeks ago the Vanguard reported on complaints that Dr. Khoa Lam had in encounters with two residents of Moore Apartments in Davis which ultimately led to the police...
Informed and transparent decision-making is an essential pillar of good local governance. In Davis, this pillar is eroding. Recent years have seen multiple alarming ins...
By Satana Deberry, Jamila Hodge and Miriam Aroni Krinsky What if you could be removed from a jury for believing that Black lives matter? That question became reality afte...
By Elizabeth Cho Four California district attorneys wrote a letter to the Chair and Interim Executive Director of the California State Bar in June, proposing that prosecu...
By Gabriela Tsudik TENNESSEE – About four months from now, on Dec. 3, 2020, Pervis Payne, 53, is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee, after spending 32 years on death r...
By Ayanna Gandhi NEW ORLEANS – The District Attorney for Orleans Parish, who fought to restore criminal cases of people who had been exonerated because of prosecutorial a...
By Abigail Swallow SACRAMENTO – The deputy district attorney overreached a little—and in the end won one, but largely lost one here in Sacramento County Superior Court th...
By Elizabeth Cho and Mella Bettag FRESNO – Dontrea Castro is charged with misdemeanor loitering to commit prostitution—but despite having no real higher education, legal...
The issue of defunding the police has drawn a lot of attention but also a lot of confusion. At the Commonwealth Club on Thursday evening, San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin a...
On Thursday, Superintendent John Bowes during his comments noted that an appointment process was used to appoint a replacement to Cindy Pickett, whose term would have exp...
By Mella Bettag, Jose Medina, Lauren Smith The murder of Vanessa Guillen sparked outrage across the U.S. and led to a surge of questions surrounding women’s deaths in the...