Date: May 19, 2013
Time: 5:15 to 7:15 PM
Location: 315 E. 14th St. , Davis, CA 95616
Yolo County Library Mary L. Stephens Davis Branch in the Blanchard Room
The public has an opportunity to tell of their experiences with the Yolo County judicial system. These are experiences that normally are not covered in the newspaper. The Council will take public comment and testimony from invited speakers and then deliberate in closed session to determine our course of action.
The Vanguard Court Watch Council (VCWC) is comprised of twelve members including eight from Woodland, Davis, and West Sacramento and advisors that include retired California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso, Sacramento State University Professor James Hernandez, a gang expert who testi ed at the Gang Injunction Trial, and Attorney Anthony Palik.
The Vanguard Court Watch puts college interns into the courthouse to monitor court cases and report to the public in order to shine the light of scrutiny on a system often hidden from the public.
Every week, 8 to 10 interns go into the court house to monitor cases in Yolo County. It presents the students, many of whom go on to law school, with a rather unique opportunity to view live cases.
The Vanguard Court Watch Council will hold public meetings every fourth Sunday of the month at various locations in Yolo County, to allow the public to come forward and share their stories and experiences.
Goals of the Court Watch Council include: identi cation of problematic court cases to track; identi cation of alleged police incidents in Yolo County to potentially be investigated, and the identi cation of cases involving alleged discrimination or prejudice within Yolo County.
David wrote:
> Racial Profiling Incident Highlight Vanguard
> Court Watch Council Meeting
If someone called the Davis PD and reported that they saw a white kid wearing a t-shirt with greek letters on it breaking in to a home and the cops asked a white kid mowing a law in the area with a greek letter t-shirt a question would this also be a “Racial Profiling Incident”?
If the above example is not a “Racial Profiling Incident” is stopping a white guy EVER a “Racial Profiling Incident” (and is stopping a “person of color” ever NOT a Racial Profiling Incident)?
David, your story doesn’t indicate what “racial profiling incident” is going to highlight Sunday’s meeting. Is SoD correct in assuming that you’re referring to the the officer who asked Mr. Davis for his identification?
If so, I’d certainly appreciate your short and sweet definition of “racial profiling” and how it applies to a reported crime where the race-sex-age-size-etc. of the alleged perpetrator.
….has been provided to the officer.
Eli Davis’ daughter is going to speak with us. I understand your question, in a title it’s hard to capture nuances. In this case, the age of Mr. Davis weighs heavily on my determination of the incident.
What does Davis’ daughter have to do with this incident and what insight will she be able to provide?
“What does Davis’ daughter have to do with this incident and what insight will she be able to provide?”
She would be speaking on Mr. Davis’ behalf. Apparently he’s a very shy and unassuming person. To me there are critical questions that we don’t really know yet about what happened.