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Prosecutor Discipline Reform Group Releases Videos from Law Prof and Wrongfully Convicted to Punctuate Recent Prosecutorial Misconduct in California Report

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|Date: May 18, 2023
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Prosecutor Discipline Reform Group Releases Videos from Law Prof and Wrongfully Convicted to Punctuate Recent Prosecutorial Misconduct in California Report

By Crescenzo Vellucci The Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO, CA – A man wrongly convicted because of ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci The Vanguard Sacramento Bureau SACRAMENTO, CA – A man wrongly convicted because of alleged prosecutorial misconduct, and a law professor frustrated by attempts to have the same p ...

May 18, 2023
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SF Officials Hail Measure Allowing Millions in State – Including Hundreds of Thousands in SF Bay Area – to Expunge Old Convictions from Their Records

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|Date: May 17, 2023
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SF Officials Hail Measure Allowing Millions in State – Including Hundreds of Thousands in SF Bay Area – to Expunge Old Convictions from Their Records

By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Hundreds of thousands of people in the Bay Area—about 25,000 in ...

By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Hundreds of thousands of people in the Bay Area—about 25,000 in San Francisco alone—may be eligible to have their old conviction records expunged, according t ...

May 17, 2023
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CA Attorney General Announces Investigation of Troubled Antioch PD for Civil Rights Violations – Ticks Off Half Dozen Other Probes Since 2021

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|Date: May 11, 2023
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CA Attorney General Announces Investigation of Troubled Antioch PD for Civil Rights Violations – Ticks Off Half Dozen Other Probes Since 2021

By Crescenzo Vellucci The Vanguard Sacramento Bureau OAKLAND, CA – The California Attorney General Wednes ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci The Vanguard Sacramento Bureau OAKLAND, CA – The California Attorney General Wednesday said he’s opening a civil rights probe of the Antioch Police Dept, to determine “whether th ...

May 11, 2023
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Did Voter OK’d Prop. 47 Legalize Shoplifting in the State of California?

Posted by Cheyenne Galloway
|Date: May 10, 2023
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Did Voter OK’d Prop. 47 Legalize Shoplifting in the State of California?

By Cheyenne Galloway SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Rumors circulated that Prop. 47, passed by voters in 2014, lega ...

By Cheyenne Galloway SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Rumors circulated that Prop. 47, passed by voters in 2014, legalized small-scale shoplifting, which might explain the presumed proliferation of shoplifting th ...

May 10, 2023
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Prosecutors, Law Professors Discuss Impact of Prosecutorial Discretion

Posted by Michael McCutcheon
|Date: May 09, 2023
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Prosecutors, Law Professors Discuss Impact of Prosecutorial Discretion

By Elina Sadeghian and Michael McCutcheon NEW YORK CITY, NY - A discussion program set up by The Institu ...

By Elina Sadeghian and Michael McCutcheon NEW YORK CITY, NY - A discussion program set up by The Institute for Innovation in Prosecution (IIP), at John Jay College of Criminal Justice recently, broug ...

May 09, 2023
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Bill Would Replace Housing Lost to Redevelopment

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|Date: May 04, 2023
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Bill Would Replace Housing Lost to Redevelopment

Special to the Vanguard Sacramento, CA - The Senate Housing Committee passed Senator Scott Wiener’s (D-Sa ...

Special to the Vanguard Sacramento, CA - The Senate Housing Committee passed Senator Scott Wiener’s (D-San Francisco) Senate Bill 593, the San Francisco Replacement Housing Act. SB 593 will create a t ...

May 04, 2023
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Columnist: Prevailing False Narratives about San Francisco’s Crime in Response to Progressive Criminal Justice Reforms

Posted by Cynthia Hoang-Duong
|Date: April 26, 2023
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Columnist: Prevailing False Narratives about San Francisco’s Crime in Response to Progressive Criminal Justice Reforms

By Cynthia Hoang-Duong SAN FRANCISCO, CA – In a column for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Hiltzik, a busi ...

By Cynthia Hoang-Duong SAN FRANCISCO, CA – In a column for the Los Angeles Times, Michael Hiltzik, a business columnist, critiqued the reaction to the stabbing of tech entrepreneur and Cash App founde ...

April 26, 2023
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New San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins Overturns Policies for Criminal Justice Reform Made by Chesa Boudin

Posted by The Vanguard at Berkeley
|Date: March 24, 2023
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New San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins Overturns Policies for Criminal Justice Reform Made by Chesa Boudin

By Sophia Martin SAN FRANCISCO - After San Francisco’s unconventional District Attorney Chesa Boudin was ...

By Sophia Martin SAN FRANCISCO - After San Francisco’s unconventional District Attorney Chesa Boudin was ousted in July 2022, Boudin’s successor Brooke Jenkins has advised prosecutorial cases througho ...

March 24, 2023
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SAN FRANCISCO TO LAUNCH STATE ENFORCED PROGRAM TO SHELTER ITS MENTALLY ILL HOUSELESS POPULATION BY OCT 1.

Posted by The Vanguard at Berkeley
|Date: March 16, 2023
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SAN FRANCISCO TO LAUNCH STATE ENFORCED PROGRAM TO SHELTER ITS MENTALLY ILL HOUSELESS POPULATION BY OCT 1.

BY HUEY COLLETTE | STAFF WRITER MAR. 16, 2023 SAN FRANCISCO— San Francisco County will follow through wi ...

BY HUEY COLLETTE | STAFF WRITER MAR. 16, 2023 SAN FRANCISCO— San Francisco County will follow through with California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s approved bill to create a court for its mentally ill houseles ...

March 16, 2023
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45 San Francisco Organizations Send Letter Pleading to Maintain City’s Sanctuary Status

Posted by Michael McCutcheon
|Date: March 04, 2023
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45 San Francisco Organizations Send Letter Pleading to Maintain City’s Sanctuary Status

By Michael McCutcheon SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Forty-five various civil rights, faith, and community groups si ...

By Michael McCutcheon SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Forty-five various civil rights, faith, and community groups signed a letter addressed to the leaders of San Francisco, urging them to maintain the city’s san ...

March 04, 2023
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Study Charges California’s Lake County Failing Indigent Clients; Suggests $4.65 Million Fix, State Accepting More Responsibility to Aid Counties in Providing Help for Those Who Can’t Afford Attorney

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|Date: February 02, 2023
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Study Charges California’s Lake County Failing Indigent Clients; Suggests $4.65 Million Fix, State Accepting More Responsibility to Aid Counties in Providing Help for Those Who Can’t Afford Attorney

By Cres Vellucci The Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief LAKEPORT, CA – Often “unprepared” lawyers who may n ...

By Cres Vellucci The Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief LAKEPORT, CA – Often “unprepared” lawyers who may not be “qualified or trained” are generally not providing “effective representation” in Lake Cou ...

February 02, 2023
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Commentary: A Look at SF’s Historic Affordable Housing Plan and What We Might Take Away From It

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 25, 2023
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Commentary: A Look at SF’s Historic Affordable Housing Plan and What We Might Take Away From It

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – All eyes in the state have been on San Francis ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – All eyes in the state have been on San Francisco this week as the SF Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a plan to build 82,000 new hom ...

January 25, 2023
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Huge Coalition in San Francisco Calls for the End of Racially-Biased Pretext Stops

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 12, 2023
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Huge Coalition in San Francisco Calls for the End of Racially-Biased Pretext Stops

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – A press conference held early Wednesday inside ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – A press conference held early Wednesday inside City Hall called for an end to racially-biased traffic stops, also known as “driving, bicyclin ...

January 12, 2023
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Guest Commentary: It’s Simply Too Dangerous to Arm Robots

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|Date: December 17, 2022
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Guest Commentary: It’s Simply Too Dangerous to Arm Robots

Here are our guiding principles that communities and policymakers should follow when debating police robo ...

Here are our guiding principles that communities and policymakers should follow when debating police robots. By Jay Stanley San Francisco was embroiled in controversy earlier this month over a proposa ...

December 17, 2022
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San Francisco Police Officers to Allow Lethal Force from Police Robots

Posted by The Vanguard at Berkeley
|Date: December 04, 2022
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San Francisco Police Officers to Allow Lethal Force from Police Robots

By Gibran Khalil SAN FRANCISCO, CA –The San Francisco Board of Supervisors proposed a broad policy ...

By Gibran Khalil SAN FRANCISCO, CA –The San Francisco Board of Supervisors proposed a broad policy to “allow police to bring armed robots to every arrest, and every execution of a warrant to se ...

December 04, 2022
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SF Public Defenders, Community Members Blast to CA Judicial Council SF Superior Court Unlawful Trial Backlog, ‘Humanitarian Crisis’

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|Date: December 03, 2022
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SF Public Defenders, Community Members Blast to CA Judicial Council SF Superior Court Unlawful Trial Backlog, ‘Humanitarian Crisis’

By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA — San Francisco Public Defenders, community leaders and members b ...

By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA — San Francisco Public Defenders, community leaders and members blasted San Francisco Superior Court’s trial backlog—and the unlawful “humanitarian crisis” of t ...

December 03, 2022
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SF Dramatically Increased Use of Pretrial Electronic Monitoring, New Report Finds

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|Date: November 23, 2022
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SF Dramatically Increased Use of Pretrial Electronic Monitoring, New Report Finds

By Vanguard Staff San Francisco, CA - A new report from the nonpartisan California Policy Lab shows that ...

By Vanguard Staff San Francisco, CA - A new report from the nonpartisan California Policy Lab shows that San Francisco has increasingly turned to electronic monitoring as a pretrial release option. Th ...

November 23, 2022
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San Francisco Jury finds Former Uber Executive Guilty of Obstructing Federal Trade Commission Investigation

Posted by The Vanguard at Berkeley
|Date: November 05, 2022
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San Francisco Jury finds Former Uber Executive Guilty of Obstructing Federal Trade Commission Investigation

By Rick Cruz Last month, a panel of jurors found Joe Sullivan, former Uber Head of Security, guilty of ob ...

By Rick Cruz Last month, a panel of jurors found Joe Sullivan, former Uber Head of Security, guilty of obstruction. The former executive is being charged for a cyber security incident in 2016, when he ...

November 05, 2022
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News Reports: Interim SF District Attorney May Have Broken Law in June in DA Recall

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|Date: November 03, 2022
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News Reports: Interim SF District Attorney May Have Broken Law in June in DA Recall

By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Less than a week before the election, news reports here Wednesd ...

By The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Less than a week before the election, news reports here Wednesday suggest interim San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins may have violated state law b ...

November 03, 2022
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Monday Morning Thoughts: When the Incumbent DA Is So Bad, the Chronicle Can’t Support Anyone

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: October 31, 2022
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Monday Morning Thoughts: When the Incumbent DA Is So Bad, the Chronicle Can’t Support Anyone

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – In a stunning move, the SF Chronicle blasted t ...

By David M. Greenwald Executive Editor San Francisco, CA – In a stunning move, the SF Chronicle blasted the DA field, blasted the appointed incumbent and refused to endorse anyone, arguing: “S.F. need ...

October 31, 2022
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