More prosecutors are trying to root out wrongful convictions and restore trust in the legal system. They’re meeting opposition on all sides. By Nina Morrison and Somil Tr...
By Eve Garrow After she became homeless, Callie Rutter entered Bridges at Kraemer Place, an emergency shelter that promises to “connect participants to housing as q...
There have been a lot of changes since the last time the council held elections. We now have five districts and the elections have been pushed from the primary ballot th...
San Francisco – Tiandre Howard Kidd faced charges of burglary, attempted rape, and elder abuse for his crimes alleged against a 100-year-old San Francisco woman. However...
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO – Weeks after the public and at least one other supervisor balked, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors...
In 1986, Dusty Turner was convicted of 1st degree murder and abduction and sentenced to 82 years in prison in Virginia – a state lagging behind in criminal justice...
By Celeste Campbell In Department 10 of the San Francisco County Superior Court, a Deputy Public Defender argued illegally held his client due to their lack of reasonable...
We have learned or we should have learned that it is a false comfort to argue that those who have nothing to fear, should fear nothing in terms of surveillance and privac...
SAN FRANCISCO – The case of 42-year-old Gregory Fields gained national notoriety last week when Danielle Harris, the director of public policy at the San Francisco...
By Danielle Silva Thirty-nine California Sheriff’s Departments scored an 60% or less overall on the California Police Scorecard, an interactive data map that uses informa...
by Mark Dempsey Sacramento County Supervisor Sue Frost recently wrote an editorial (“Forcing Consequences“) explaining her, and Supervisor Sue Peter...
By Rory Fleming San Francisco Superior Court Judge Michael Begert is probably feeling lucky that he is not facing reelection for another five years. That is because Beger...
When people were polled last spring, the issue that most concerned them was cost of housing. When people are polled about the need for economic development, there is an...
As someone born in 1972, I am too young to remember contemporaneous accounts of the death of Fred Hampton and the trial that ultimately brought some measure of justice...
by Michael Bisch As the Executive Director of Yolo Food Bank, I am honored to be included this evening in a Winter Needs Panel discussion of notable area nonprofit leader...
By Lauren Zaren A woman was interrupted while making dinner by screams and threats from her next-door neighbor. On the evening of Nov. 17, 2019, a Woodland resident was m...
By Evan Chu Anita Santos, a woman who allegedly shot a man in his face in front of his wife, will be going to trial. During the preliminary hearing, the alleged victim, w...
I caught the most recent column by Rich Rifkin, noting that Davis “talks a good game when it comes to environmental policy.” But the reality is that those environmental...
There has been a pattern developing this year – a policy is proposed by the city or the council, the public and various stakeholders rise up, and the council seemingly ba...
Now Another One Of Her Former Prosecutors Is Running Against Her. Carvana Cloud, until recently the chief of the Special Victims Bureau, is entering the race to unseat h...