The US housing market is experiencing a paradox where more homes are on the market, but fewer people are able to afford them due to rising prices and mortgage rates, highlighting a broken system that needs aggressive policy solutions to tackle the supply and cost sides of the housing equation.
The Vanguard, a small nonprofit newsroom, is in need of $15,000 to stay afloat and pay its dedicated staff, and donations of any amount can help bring them closer to stability and justice.
The US Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to resume deporting immigrants to third countries, halting due process protections for thousands of noncitizens who could face serious threats of torture or death.
California State Senator Sasha Renée Pérez has introduced the No Vigilantes Act, which aims to strengthen the state’s laws against police impersonation and require law enforcement officers to display clear identification.
Crime rates have declined in 2024, with violent crime returning to pre-pandemic levels, and Trump is finally acknowledging the trend, but it’s important to recognize that the decline was driven by government investment in evidence-based strategies and not by Trump’s policies.
Hundreds of community members and activists protested against Mayor Daniel Lurie’s proposed city budget, which they claim would cut essential services for low-income, immigrant, and BIPOC communities, while increasing funding for a new jail.
Byron Black, a 68-year-old man on Tennessee’s death row, has filed a petition with the Tennessee Supreme Court to halt his execution due to extensive medical evidence of intellectual disability, brain damage, dementia, and multiple life-threatening physical illnesses.
The ACLU has filed amicus briefs in support of NPR and PBS’s lawsuits against President Trump’s executive order to defund the broadcasters, arguing that the order violates the First Amendment by retaliating against protected speech.
The ACLU of Texas and Students Engaged in Advancing Texas plan to sue over unconstitutional parts of Senate Bill 12, which bans discussions of race, ethnicity, gender identity, or sexual orientation in Texas schools and bars teachers from supporting transgender students.
A Suffolk County man faces a second-degree assault charge for allegedly stabbing his partner in the forearm with a kitchen knife during a June 22 altercation, and was released on $10,000 cash or $30,000 bond with a refrain-from order of protection.
Measure J/R/D has been a useful tool for protecting Davis from uncontrolled growth, but it has also created a system where the only options are “take it or leave it,” leading to unworkable outcomes and limiting the ability for community planning.
The Highest Law in the Land reveals the rise of constitutional sheriffs, a movement that fuses hardline law enforcement with far-right ideology and Trumpist populism, and argues that the institution of the sheriff should be rethought in order to understand the threat it poses to American democracy.
California lawmakers are introducing SB 627, the No Secret Police Act, to prohibit law enforcement officers from obscuring their identities during operations, requiring them to wear uniforms and markings clearly identifying their name or badge number, in order to enforce the most basic standard of democratic law enforcement.
Professor Todd Clear, a leading scholar on mass incarceration, discusses his research on the social consequences of incarceration and argues for a reimagining of justice that centers community health and recognizes that risk is not static.
The Defender Association of Philadelphia is condemning the city’s police sweeps in Kensington, calling them ineffective and harmful, and is calling for a shift in strategy to focus on stable housing, harm reduction, mental health care, and legal advocacy.
Right on Crime is promoting the Bureau of Prisons’ new plan to implement the First Step Act and Second Chance Act, aiming to improve public safety and personal responsibility by allowing offenders to combine earned time credits and reducing delays of referrals.
Labor law scholar Matthew W. Finkin has compared former President Donald Trump’s actions to those of Adolf Hitler in his opinion piece, warning of the erosion of democratic governance and the rule of law in the United States.
Seven Job Corps students, represented by the Southern Poverty Law Center, have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Labor for shutting down the program that provides education, job training, medical services, and other essential support to low-income students.
A recent court ruling in Orange County has upheld the City of Newport Beach’s decision to implement its state-mandated housing element without voter approval, and may have sweeping implications for cities in California, including Davis, that are governed by voter-controlled growth ordinances.
California’s death penalty system has been shown to be racially discriminatory, with Black and Latino defendants up to 8.7 and 6.2 times more likely to be sentenced to death respectively, and victims of white victims being nearly 9 times more likely to result in a death sentence.