By The Vanguard Staff OAKLAND, CA – Oakland’s mayor—recently selecting Oakland’s new police chief in a process fraught with political tensions with the city’s police comm...
By Xinhui Lin JEFFERSON CITY, MO – A wide range of individuals and groups wrote a letter to the Missouri Gov. Mike Parson last month, asking him to “exercise executive po...
By Darlin Navarrete NEW YORK, NY – The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO), the nation’s largest reentry organization, announced its newest campaign, “M...
By Sarah Chayet MODESTO, CA – Judge Kellee C. Westbrook explained in a resentencing/modification hearing in Stanislaus County Superior Court last week that two appe...
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – Last week, Tim Kingston of the Senior Investigator/member of the SF Public Defender Racial Justice Committee wrote a le...
One of the problems with mass incarceration is that we end up incarcerating people—who at one point committed violent and dangerous crimes—long past the point at which th...
By The Vanguard Staff RIVERSIDE, CA – Riverside County offered incarcerated women thousands of dollars in hush money to keep quiet about sex abuse allegations at the coun...
By The Vanguard Staff SACRAMENTO, CA – Hundreds of immigrant rights activists are expected to rally Tuesday and Wednesday this week at the State Capitol here to promote a...
By Praniti Gulyani PHILADELPHIA, PA – Sixteen-year-old Zaire Wilson was charged with the fatal shooting of Tyshaun Welles, also 16, this past January in the Market...
By Estrella Torres LOS ANGELES, CA – In a Los Angeles County Superior Courtroom pretrial involving grand theft charges against the accused this past Thursday, Judge Marin...
By Helen Shamamyan MODESTO, CA – A man was denied reduction of his $350,000 bail because of his past violent crime history last week by Stanislaus County Superior...
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Davis, CA – It seems like many in the community are not aware of changes to state law which largely eliminated parking requirements...
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor While the news media has rightly focused on the failures of massive state investments to address California’s homelessness crisis,...
By The Vanguard Staff SACRAMENTO, CA – Earlonne Woods, a well-known podcaster formerly incarcerated at San Quentin who recently agreed to do a documentary with actor Morg...
By Madison Whittemore OAKLAND, CA – Dozens of community advocates stood on the steps of the René C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland last Tuesday to show support for...
By Vy Tran LOS ANGELES, CA — Turning Point officially opened its newest installation of the Sisterhood Alliance for Freedom and Equality (SAFE) home this past week, a SAF...
By Yana Singhal OAKLAND, CA – Months before the mid-cycle budget decisions, “(C)ity Administrator has reported that the city is facing a $177 million dollar budget...
By Tim Kingston Dear City of Davis Police Commission, I am extremely heartened to see that the City of Davis is considering protecting our constitutional right to privacy...
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Oakland, CA- Governor Newsom announced on Friday that California is installing a network of 480 high-tech cameras in Oakland and th...
By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor The California Second District Court of Appeal, affirming a lower court opinion, found that Senate Bill 10 (SB 10) was constitution...