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Sunday Commentary: A New Era of Reform DA’s Began This Week

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 06, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: A New Era of Reform DA’s Began This Week

This week I had an interesting conversation with a man who had lost in an effort to put a progressive DA ...

This week I had an interesting conversation with a man who had lost in an effort to put a progressive DA in an adjacent county this past year. His comment to me after talking about the Yolo Coun ...

January 06, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Important Civil Rights Battles Were Won in the 115th Congress

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 05, 2019
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Important Civil Rights Battles Were Won in the 115th Congress

By Brian Tashman The past two years have been challenging times, as we have witnessed attacks on our shar ...

By Brian Tashman The past two years have been challenging times, as we have witnessed attacks on our shared values and civil rights from the Trump White House and a Republican-dominated Congress. It c ...

January 05, 2019
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Bipartisan Sentencing Reductions Pass Overwhelmingly in the US Senate

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 19, 2018
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Bipartisan Sentencing Reductions Pass Overwhelmingly in the US Senate

Real Criminal Justice Reform Happened Under Trump in a Bipartisan and Most Unlikely Fashion It may end up ...

Real Criminal Justice Reform Happened Under Trump in a Bipartisan and Most Unlikely Fashion It may end up being the only major bipartisan legislation passed in this term, but the Senate voted overwhel ...

December 19, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Conservative Approaches to Criminal Justice Reform

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 17, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Conservative Approaches to Criminal Justice Reform

Since July, the American Conservative has an ongoing series of currently 12 articles in collaboration wit ...

Since July, the American Conservative has an ongoing series of currently 12 articles in collaboration with the R Street Institute exploring conservative approaches to criminal justice reform. Here is ...

December 17, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: There’s a Wave of Progressive Prosecutors, but We’ve Been Left Behind

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 16, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: There’s a Wave of Progressive Prosecutors, but We’ve Been Left Behind

Despite a closer than expected election back in June in Yolo County, the hope for progressive reform rema ...

Despite a closer than expected election back in June in Yolo County, the hope for progressive reform remains elusive. This past week there was an op-ed in the New York Times, “There’s a Wave of New P ...

December 16, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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PPIC Report Finds Arrest Rates Plummet to Historic Lows in California

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 07, 2018
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PPIC Report Finds Arrest Rates Plummet to Historic Lows in California

While Disparities Have Narrowed, Large Gaps Remain Between African Americans and Whites Crime and policin ...

While Disparities Have Narrowed, Large Gaps Remain Between African Americans and Whites Crime and policing have been the subject of heated debates in California and nationwide, while crime rates have ...

December 07, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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In Major Threat to Due Process, Marsy’s Law Gains Ground Nationwide

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 01, 2018
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In Major Threat to Due Process, Marsy’s Law Gains Ground Nationwide

By Jeanne Hruska and Holly Welborn Alongside the major criminal justice reform headlines that came out of ...

By Jeanne Hruska and Holly Welborn Alongside the major criminal justice reform headlines that came out of the midterm elections, a quieter trend also gained momentum through the ballot box: a budding, ...

December 01, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Prop 47 Spares Offenders from Prison, but County Jail May Be Worse

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 29, 2018
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Guest Commentary: Prop 47 Spares Offenders from Prison, but County Jail May Be Worse

By Kerry Rudd Proposition 47’s forgotten people are in dire need of relief. Low-level offenders, the peop ...

By Kerry Rudd Proposition 47’s forgotten people are in dire need of relief. Low-level offenders, the people for whom our state sought to decrease penalties, have been buried under a tomb of harsher pu ...

November 29, 2018
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Probation System Squeezes the Poor and Feeds Mass Incarceration

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 19, 2018
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Probation System Squeezes the Poor and Feeds Mass Incarceration

By Andrea Young Charles “Skip” Eckartz, a 63-year-old disabled veteran, and his wife, Virginia “Ginny” Ec ...

By Andrea Young Charles “Skip” Eckartz, a 63-year-old disabled veteran, and his wife, Virginia “Ginny” Eckartz, were arrested in their Georgia home for manufacturing marijuana. They were incarcerated ...

November 19, 2018
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Senator Makes A Conservative Case for Criminal Justice Reform

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 14, 2018
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Senator Makes A Conservative Case for Criminal Justice Reform

While there has been bipartisan support at times for criminal justice reform, for the most part it seems ...

While there has been bipartisan support at times for criminal justice reform, for the most part it seems to remain the purview of the left. But this week, Utah Senator Mike Lee has authored an opinio ...

November 14, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: Criminal Justice Reform Advocate Warns of a Coming System of “E-Carceration”

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 11, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: Criminal Justice Reform Advocate Warns of a Coming System of “E-Carceration”

More than anything else, the 2010 book by Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the ...

More than anything else, the 2010 book by Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, laid the foundation for criminal justice reform efforts. However, I th ...

November 11, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Agenda for the New Congress

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 09, 2018
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Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Agenda for the New Congress

By Gabriela Meléndez Olivera This week’s midterms should send a strong message to the political establish ...

By Gabriela Meléndez Olivera This week’s midterms should send a strong message to the political establishment that when our civil rights and civil liberties are on the line, American voters will step ...

November 09, 2018
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Tuesday Big Win for Criminal Justice Reform Ballot Initiatives

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 08, 2018
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Tuesday Big Win for Criminal Justice Reform Ballot Initiatives

By Udi Ofer Wednesday morning I woke up in a better America when it comes to criminal justice reform. On ...

By Udi Ofer Wednesday morning I woke up in a better America when it comes to criminal justice reform. On Election Day, voters in states across the country said enough is enough to America’s horrific c ...

November 08, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: Conservative Approaches to Criminal Justice Reform

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 08, 2018
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Sunday Commentary: Conservative Approaches to Criminal Justice Reform

During the district attorney election some of the most fascinating conversation was not on the race itsel ...

During the district attorney election some of the most fascinating conversation was not on the race itself – which turned out to be rather interesting in its own right – but rather over the future of ...

July 08, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: DA’s Race Better Open Some Eyes

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 20, 2018
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Commentary: DA’s Race Better Open Some Eyes

Johansson was Underfunded and Disadvantaged from the Start but Nearly Knocked Off Reisig Yolo County rele ...

Johansson was Underfunded and Disadvantaged from the Start but Nearly Knocked Off Reisig Yolo County released the final canvassing numbers yesterday afternoon. They confirmed pretty much across the b ...

June 20, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Criminal Justice Reform Efforts Fall Short in California

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 09, 2018
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Criminal Justice Reform Efforts Fall Short in California

An article by the Appeal points out that, while there was a statewide push for criminal justice reform in ...

An article by the Appeal points out that, while there was a statewide push for criminal justice reform in California, “most incumbents successfully fended off progressive challengers during the June 5 ...

June 09, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Johansson Claims Victory Even Though His Electoral Quest Falls Short

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 07, 2018
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Johansson Claims Victory Even Though His Electoral Quest Falls Short

If we had predicted that Dean Johansson would finish Election Day trailing 54-46 and by just 2037 votes, ...

If we had predicted that Dean Johansson would finish Election Day trailing 54-46 and by just 2037 votes, we would likely have been accused of drinking the Kool-Aid. But that just serves to illustrate ...

June 07, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Local Paper Buys Into Progressive DA Argument

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 12, 2018
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My View: Local Paper Buys Into Progressive DA Argument

The Davis Enterprise this week endorsed Jeff Reisig for district attorney. Really, there is no surprise ...

The Davis Enterprise this week endorsed Jeff Reisig for district attorney. Really, there is no surprise there. In fact, the only surprise would have been had they endorsed challenger Dean Johansson. ...

May 12, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Reisig a No-Show at King Hall Law School Candidates Forum

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 06, 2018
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Reisig a No-Show at King Hall Law School Candidates Forum

Students at UC Davis’ Law School invited both DA candidates to participate in a candidates forum. Challe ...

Students at UC Davis’ Law School invited both DA candidates to participate in a candidates forum. Challenger Dean Johansson showed up, but incumbent Jeff Reisig was once again a no-show, never respon ...

April 06, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Does a Prosecutor Have to Be Tough on Crime?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 02, 2018
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Does a Prosecutor Have to Be Tough on Crime?

I found Matt Rexroad's letter in support of DA Jeff Reisig interesting. I asked him if he would submit i ...

I found Matt Rexroad's letter in support of DA Jeff Reisig interesting. I asked him if he would submit it to the Vanguard, but he declined, suggesting this wasn't the audience he wanted to reach. Fin ...

April 02, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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