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San Quentin to Be Reimagined As ‘San Quentin Rehabilitation Center’ Prioritizing Rehabilitation and Education Programs to Strengthen Public Safety

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 18, 2023
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San Quentin to Be Reimagined As ‘San Quentin Rehabilitation Center’ Prioritizing Rehabilitation and Education Programs to Strengthen Public Safety

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Quentin – Governor Newsom, alongside state legislators, surviv ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Quentin – Governor Newsom, alongside state legislators, survivors of crime and victim advocates, and civil rights leaders, announced that San Quentin State P ...

March 18, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Harsher Penalties for Fentanyl Will Not Save Lives

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|Date: January 20, 2023
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Guest Commentary: Harsher Penalties for Fentanyl Will Not Save Lives

By Cristine Soto Deberry In 2021, there were 6,843 opioid related overdose deaths in California. 5,722 of ...

By Cristine Soto Deberry In 2021, there were 6,843 opioid related overdose deaths in California. 5,722 of these deaths were related to fentanyl. The deadly epidemic of fentanyl is gripping our communi ...

January 20, 2023
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Prosecutor’s Alliance Celebrates DA Price Taking Oath of Office

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 04, 2023
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Prosecutor’s Alliance Celebrates DA Price Taking Oath of Office

Special to the Vanguard Alameda, CA – On Tuesday, Pamela Price took the oath of office and begins her ten ...

Special to the Vanguard Alameda, CA – On Tuesday, Pamela Price took the oath of office and begins her tenure as Alameda County District Attorney. She is the first Black person to hold the position in ...

January 04, 2023
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Monday Morning Thoughts: The Red Wave Never Came, and Neither Did the Anti-CJR Wave

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 14, 2022
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Monday Morning Thoughts: The Red Wave Never Came, and Neither Did the Anti-CJR Wave

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor It was looking bleak for criminal justice reform in June —Chesa Bo ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor It was looking bleak for criminal justice reform in June —Chesa Boudin in San Francisco was ousted, George Gascón in Los Angeles looked to be next, Democrats and ...

November 14, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Three Strikes Laws Make Californians Less Safe, Not More Safe

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|Date: November 01, 2022
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Guest Commentary: Three Strikes Laws Make Californians Less Safe, Not More Safe

By Cristine Soto Deberry In the mid-1990s, California was one of 24 states that enacted a “three-strikes” ...

By Cristine Soto Deberry In the mid-1990s, California was one of 24 states that enacted a “three-strikes” law. California’s law, however, stood out as being both the most severe and widely used. The ...

November 01, 2022
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Senator Wiener’s Legislation to Protect Sexual Assault Victim’s DNA Passes Assembly

Posted by Ava Schwartzapfel
|Date: September 06, 2022
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Senator Wiener’s Legislation to Protect Sexual Assault Victim’s DNA Passes Assembly

By Ava Schwartzapfel and Ivan Villegas SACRAMENTO, CA – CA State Senator Scott Wiener’s Senate Bill 122, ...

By Ava Schwartzapfel and Ivan Villegas SACRAMENTO, CA – CA State Senator Scott Wiener’s Senate Bill 122, entitled the Genetic Privacy for Sexual Assault Victim’s Act, passed the Assembly with a unanim ...

September 06, 2022
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Prosecutor’s Alliance Laments Loss in San Francisco

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 09, 2022
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Prosecutor’s Alliance Laments Loss in San Francisco

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – In a lot of ways, the focus on Chesa Boudin an ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – In a lot of ways, the focus on Chesa Boudin and a number of other losses dominates the immediate aftermath of Tuesday. However, one gets mor ...

June 09, 2022
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Senator Wiener and DA Boudin’s Bill to Protect Sexual Assault Survivors’ DNA Passes Key Leg. Hurdle

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 27, 2022
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Senator Wiener and DA Boudin’s Bill to Protect Sexual Assault Survivors’ DNA Passes Key Leg. Hurdle

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA - On Tuesday, SB 1228, “Genetic Privacy for Sexual ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA - On Tuesday, SB 1228, “Genetic Privacy for Sexual Assault Victims” was unanimously passed by the Senate Public Safety Committee on bipartisan vot ...

April 27, 2022
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Survey Released Showing New Data That State is Failing Victims of Crime

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 19, 2022
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Survey Released Showing New Data That State is Failing Victims of Crime

By David M. Greenwald Executive Director Sacramento, CA – Unbeknownst to the Prosecutors Alliance that sp ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Director Sacramento, CA – Unbeknownst to the Prosecutors Alliance that sponsored Monday’s press conference where a number of crime survivors told their stories, their e ...

April 19, 2022
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Prosecutors Alliance Asks Contra Costa County BOS to Audit Sheriff’s Disciplinary Practices after Concerning Remarks

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|Date: March 15, 2022
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Prosecutors Alliance Asks Contra Costa County BOS to Audit Sheriff’s Disciplinary Practices after Concerning Remarks

Sheriff's Unwavering Support for Deputy Who Killed Two People Raises Serious Questions about His Commitme ...

Sheriff's Unwavering Support for Deputy Who Killed Two People Raises Serious Questions about His Commitment to Safety and Accountability Special To the Vanguard Martinez, CA - In a letter to the Contr ...

March 15, 2022
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SB 301 Dealing with Retail Theft Rings, Passes Senate on a 34-0 Vote

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 25, 2022
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SB 301 Dealing with Retail Theft Rings, Passes Senate on a 34-0 Vote

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – One of the first legislative efforts to crack dow ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA – One of the first legislative efforts to crack down on retail theft rings, SB 301 authored by Senator Nancy Skinner, passed in the Senate by a 34 ...

January 25, 2022
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Boudin Announces Charges against Nine for Union Square; Prosecutors in Bay Area Create Alliance to Combat Retail Theft

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 24, 2021
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Boudin Announces Charges against Nine for Union Square; Prosecutors in Bay Area Create Alliance to Combat Retail Theft

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – If there is one area that San Francisco DA Che ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – If there is one area that San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin, facing recall, has been hammered on more than any it is on retail theft. The DA’s o ...

November 24, 2021
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Commentary: The Crime Situation Is Complicated, but Overall It Is Clear the Status Quo Has Failed to Make Society Safer

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 30, 2021
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Commentary: The Crime Situation Is Complicated, but Overall It Is Clear the Status Quo Has Failed to Make Society Safer

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor This week we got the FBI Uniform Crime Report and it painted a pic ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor This week we got the FBI Uniform Crime Report and it painted a picture we largely expected—it’s not that all crime went up in 2020. In fact, property crime whic ...

September 30, 2021
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Dept. of Justice Report Suggests SF DA Boudin’s Prosecution Tactics Working to Reduce Crime Rates

Posted by Alana Bleimann
|Date: September 29, 2021
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Dept. of Justice Report Suggests SF DA Boudin’s Prosecution Tactics Working to Reduce Crime Rates

By Alana Bleimann SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Amidst the Republican-led recall effort of San Francisco District A ...

By Alana Bleimann SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Amidst the Republican-led recall effort of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, the U.S. Department of Justice released its annual Uniform Crime Report ( ...

September 29, 2021
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Tens of Thousands of Bail Bond Contracts, Millions of $$ in Doubt in ‘Bad Boys’ Class Action, Supported by SF District Attorney Boudin

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 26, 2021
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Tens of Thousands of Bail Bond Contracts, Millions of $$ in Doubt in ‘Bad Boys’ Class Action, Supported by SF District Attorney Boudin

By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA – San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and the Prosecutor ...

By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA – San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and the Prosecutors Alliance of California Wednesday jointly announced the filing of an amicus brief in a bail bo ...

August 26, 2021
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Schubert and Crime Victims Attempt to Stop CDCR’s Early Release Using Misleading Claims and Rhetoric

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 23, 2021
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Schubert and Crime Victims Attempt to Stop CDCR’s Early Release Using Misleading Claims and Rhetoric

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA - Sacramento DA Anne Marie Schubert, flanked by vic ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor Sacramento, CA - Sacramento DA Anne Marie Schubert, flanked by victims, victim advocates and other DAs, pushed back against proposed early release as they addres ...

August 23, 2021
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Sunday Commentary: Reisig Positioning Himself between Schubert and Boudin

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 02, 2021
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Sunday Commentary: Reisig Positioning Himself between Schubert and Boudin

By David M. Greenwald For the second time in a row, Jeff Reisig, first elected in 2006, will face a chall ...

By David M. Greenwald For the second time in a row, Jeff Reisig, first elected in 2006, will face a challenger. In 2018, he faced Dean Johansson and won by just over 2000 votes in a surprisingly clos ...

May 02, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast 90: Cristine Soto DeBerry and the Prosecutors Alliance

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 08, 2021
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Everyday Injustice Podcast 90: Cristine Soto DeBerry and the Prosecutors Alliance

Cristine Soto Deberry is former Chief of Staff under both SF District Attorney George Gascón and Chesa Bo ...

Cristine Soto Deberry is former Chief of Staff under both SF District Attorney George Gascón and Chesa Boudin as well as Deputy Chief of Staff to Gavin Newsom when he was Sacramento Mayor. In the fall ...

February 08, 2021
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