by Nora Oldwin As vocal members of the public, we have demanded transparency and accountability of local governmental entities. We have been critical of the lack of both...
Over the last two council meetings, as many as 40 different people have spoken during public comment—expanding the full range of Davis’ political divide—to complain about...
I grew up in the 80s and early 90s at a time when society was just recognizing the prevalence of sexual assault and rape. It was my generation that became sensitized to...
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SAN FRANCISCO – THE VANGUARD – similar to consumer groups demanding remote access to the courts on a federal level...
By Leila Rafei “You’re on the list.” It took a few seconds for Chalana McFarland to grasp what was happening. Her name was one of just a few on the list of people who wou...
This week in an event probably overshadowed by the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the mayors of Sacramento and West Sacramento—Darrell Steinberg and Christopher Cabaldon, respe...
This week, the Yolo County DA’s Office put out a release on a man in Woodland, released due to the emergency provisions, but who allegedly committed auto theft after bein...
Yolo County issued the order on Friday, as expected, to require wearing a face covering in public. At the same time, it has amended the current Shelter in Place order to...
(From Press Release – SF Public Defender) – Yesterday, the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office secured the release of Lexis Hernandez Avilez, a 41-year-old...
There are two ways to look at the planning commission meeting—and keep in mind that in the past the planning commission has gone so far as not to recommend certification...
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – On April 21, 2019 – a little more than a year after unarmed Stephon Clark was gunned down by Sacrament...
by Rory Fleming The city’s top prosecutor learned that the murdered young man was the boyfriend of the woman’s daughter. So he had investigators call the woman to find ou...
By Shellsea Lomeli and Linh Nguyen NEW YORK – New York’s first annual report by the state’s Raise the Age (RTA) Implementation Task Force reveals various efforts ma...
In 1981, Jodie Sinclair was a journalist visiting the Angola Prison in Louisiana to do a story on the newly-reinstated death penalty. She met Billy Sinclair, who had been...
By Shellsea Lomeli HARTFORD, CT – A federal class-action lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Connecticut on behalf of those incarcerat...
By Linh Nguyen SAN FRANCISCO — On Apr. 21, 2020, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced the launch of a new “innovative” unit within the District At...
In advance of the end of the comment period to the Draft Subsequent EIR for the Aggie Research Campus, the Planning Commission listened to 29 public comments and then man...
(What follows is a first-person account by Susan Pelican—a 78-year-old RN and midwife, and long, long time resident of Yolo County—of her experience protesting while soci...
By Shellsea Lomeli KERN COUNTY, CA – The Fifth District Court of Appeal affirmed the judgment of the Kern County Superior Court, which denied the petition for resen...
By Nancy Martinez The second subseries of Netflix’s “The Innocence Files” focuses on two wrongful convictions caused by mistaken witness identifications. Epis...