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Monday Morning Thoughts: DA Reisig, Dunning Respond to Letter on Provenza Race; Reisig Gets A Lot Wrong Here

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 11, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: DA Reisig, Dunning Respond to Letter on Provenza Race; Reisig Gets A Lot Wrong Here

Last week the Vanguard published a letter from about 40 citizens questioning the endorsement by Jeff Reis ...

Last week the Vanguard published a letter from about 40 citizens questioning the endorsement by Jeff Reisig of Jim Provenza. The response was interesting – a lot of pushback. A lot of claims that thi ...

November 11, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Guest Commentary: Reisig Endorsement Raises Concerns about Provenza

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 03, 2019
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Guest Commentary: Reisig Endorsement Raises Concerns about Provenza

By Multiple Authors (see bottom) As the race for District 4 County Supervisor begins to take shape, we ar ...

By Multiple Authors (see bottom) As the race for District 4 County Supervisor begins to take shape, we are surprised to see incumbent Jim Provenza advertise that he is “proud to have [Yolo DA] Jeff Re ...

November 03, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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AB 1331: A System Requirement Instead of a System Overhaul

Posted by Danielle Silva
|Date: October 03, 2019
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AB 1331: A System Requirement Instead of a System Overhaul

By Danielle Silva On Sept. 25, 2019, DA Jeff Reisig published an opinion piece to the Sacramento Bee enco ...

By Danielle Silva On Sept. 25, 2019, DA Jeff Reisig published an opinion piece to the Sacramento Bee encouraging the implementation of Assembly Bill 1331. AB 1331 requires criminal justice agencies to ...

October 03, 2019
| by Danielle Silva

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Sunday Commentary: Parole Opposition Shows Once Again Reisig Just Not a Reformer

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 29, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: Parole Opposition Shows Once Again Reisig Just Not a Reformer

Since his narrow victory last year in the DA’s race, Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig keeps trying to make the ...

Since his narrow victory last year in the DA’s race, Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig keeps trying to make the claim that he is a criminal justice reformer. Indeed, some have bought into the rhetoric – but ...

September 29, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Is It All Just Propaganda Coming Out of the DA’s Office on Marijuana Expungements?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 09, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Is It All Just Propaganda Coming Out of the DA’s Office on Marijuana Expungements?

You always need to check the fine print on Yolo County DA press releases. Let’s be clear: it is a good t ...

You always need to check the fine print on Yolo County DA press releases. Let’s be clear: it is a good thing that the DA’s office has moved to expunge “all eligible marijuana-related convictions.” O ...

September 09, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Yolo and Other DAs Ask DOJ to Respect Prosecutorial Discretion that Affect Immigration Determinations

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 12, 2019
| (1) Comment

Yolo and Other DAs Ask DOJ to Respect Prosecutorial Discretion that Affect Immigration Determinations

(From Press Release) – District Attorney Jeff Reisig, along with 42 other elected District Attorneys and ...

(From Press Release) – District Attorney Jeff Reisig, along with 42 other elected District Attorneys and Attorneys General from across the country, filed an amicus curiae brief on August 2, 2019, in f ...

August 12, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Sunday Commentary: If Reisig Wants to Be a Progressive Prosecutor – Here’s His Chance in the Dev Case

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 28, 2019
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Sunday Commentary: If Reisig Wants to Be a Progressive Prosecutor – Here’s His Chance in the Dev Case

District Attorney Jeff Reisig has, strangely enough, two reputations. Some will tell you he’s actually o ...

District Attorney Jeff Reisig has, strangely enough, two reputations. Some will tell you he’s actually one of the more progressive prosecutors in the state. That’s what an editorial in the Enterpris ...

July 28, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Rare Consensus by DA and Public Defender Overshadowed by Local Politics

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 04, 2019
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Commentary: Rare Consensus by DA and Public Defender Overshadowed by Local Politics

Last month, the Davis City Council, pressured by neighbors on Pacifico, acknowledged that the Pacifico lo ...

Last month, the Davis City Council, pressured by neighbors on Pacifico, acknowledged that the Pacifico location was not the best position for the residential treatment center proposed by the county fo ...

June 04, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Yolo DA Announces Pilot Project Felony Expansion for Neighborhood Court Diversion Program

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 25, 2019
| (1) Comment

Yolo DA Announces Pilot Project Felony Expansion for Neighborhood Court Diversion Program

(From Press Release) - Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced that his office has implemente ...

(From Press Release) - Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced that his office has implemented a pilot project that would significantly expand the local Neighborhood Court diversion progra ...

May 25, 2019
| by Vanguard Administrator

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Appellate Court Upholds SB 1391, Allows Juvenile Law Prohibiting Adult Court for 14- and 15-Year-Olds

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 03, 2019
| (1) Comment

Appellate Court Upholds SB 1391, Allows Juvenile Law Prohibiting Adult Court for 14- and 15-Year-Olds

In October, former Governor Jerry Brown signed into law, SB 1391 which prohibits 14- and 15-year-olds fro ...

In October, former Governor Jerry Brown signed into law, SB 1391 which prohibits 14- and 15-year-olds from being tried as adults in criminal court and subsequently sent to adult prison. The bill rever ...

May 03, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Prosecutorial Oversight Lacking in Yolo County

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 22, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Prosecutorial Oversight Lacking in Yolo County

Last week we saw at the state level a shining example of how even a liberal attorney general is not suffi ...

Last week we saw at the state level a shining example of how even a liberal attorney general is not sufficient to produce proper oversight. In the Orange County jailhouse informant scandal, a case th ...

April 22, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Reisig’s Defense of the Death Penalty Belies Claims of Progressive Reform

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 18, 2019
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Reisig’s Defense of the Death Penalty Belies Claims of Progressive Reform

In last year’s election for district attorney, challenged as he never has been before, Jeff Reisig, the Y ...

In last year’s election for district attorney, challenged as he never has been before, Jeff Reisig, the Yolo County District Attorney since 2007, struck back with the help of a local editorial, claimi ...

March 18, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Reaction Pours Out to Gavin Newsom’s Moratorium on the Death Penalty

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 14, 2019
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Reaction Pours Out to Gavin Newsom’s Moratorium on the Death Penalty

In his announcement on the moratorium, Governor Gavin Newsom framed the issue as a personal journey roote ...

In his announcement on the moratorium, Governor Gavin Newsom framed the issue as a personal journey rooted not just in the immorality of the death penalty, but also in the idea that there are people o ...

March 14, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 06, 2019
| (1) Comment

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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2018 in Review: The Near Upset in the District Attorney’s Race

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 01, 2019
| (2) Comments

2018 in Review: The Near Upset in the District Attorney’s Race

In the fall of 2017, veteran Deputy District Attorney Larry Eichele announced he was going to run against ...

In the fall of 2017, veteran Deputy District Attorney Larry Eichele announced he was going to run against his boss for District Attorney. It was a contest that did not last very long as Mr. Eichele, ...

January 01, 2019
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: Should Sheriff’s and DA’s Be Elected Positions?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 18, 2018
| (4) Comments

Commentary: Should Sheriff’s and DA’s Be Elected Positions?

The recent saga with Sacramento Sheriff Scott Jones and the inability of the Sacramento Board of Supervis ...

The recent saga with Sacramento Sheriff Scott Jones and the inability of the Sacramento Board of Supervisors to reign him in is another reminder that perhaps we ought to question the wisdom of electin ...

December 18, 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
| (18) Comments

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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My View: Down Goes Another DA

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: November 10, 2018
| (2) Comments

My View: Down Goes Another DA

There are just four district attorneys in California that have opposed every criminal justice reform effo ...

There are just four district attorneys in California that have opposed every criminal justice reform effort – Mike Ramos of San Bernardino, Tony Rackauckas of Orange County, Anne Marie Schubert of Sac ...

November 10, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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My View: Grijalva Case Really Was Open and Shut and the Question Remains – Why Reisig Prosecuted This At All?

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 27, 2018
| (8) Comments

My View: Grijalva Case Really Was Open and Shut and the Question Remains – Why Reisig Prosecuted This At All?

From the beginning, people skeptical of our coverage asked what we were missing with respect to the prose ...

From the beginning, people skeptical of our coverage asked what we were missing with respect to the prosecution of Maria Grijalva. That was answered this week on Thursday when the DA’s office did wha ...

October 27, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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Sunday Commentary: DA Prosecuting Grijalva under Code Section that Should Have Been Invalidated by Citizens United

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 14, 2018
| (6) Comments

Sunday Commentary: DA Prosecuting Grijalva under Code Section that Should Have Been Invalidated by Citizens United

DA Sets Up An Interesting Legal Battle If They Prosecute Grijalva This week, the DA sent out a press rele ...

DA Sets Up An Interesting Legal Battle If They Prosecute Grijalva This week, the DA sent out a press release clarifying the prosecution of Maria Grijalva for campaign-related violations. As they spel ...

October 14, 2018
| by David Greenwald

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