By David M. Greenwald COVID cases are down across the country, vaccines are slowly but surely getting distributed, and now the California legislature is looking at a bill...
Special To the Vanguard SAN FRANCISCO – A nearly year-long battle to free immigrant detainees from inhumane, COVID-19 infested U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I...
By Esha Kher SAN FRANCISCO – The Adachi Project, an initiative started by the late San Francisco Public Defender to reveal unseen perspectives of the U.S. criminal legal...
By Linhchi Nguyen SACRAMENTO – California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) official Chris Lief (Deputy Director of Facility Planning) left questi...
By Kathryn Wood SACRAMENTO – Peace officers here in a Sacramento County Superior Court preliminary hearing Wednesday described in sometimes graphic, bloody detail the inj...
By Max Kennedy SACRAMENTO – Defendant Keith Kelly allegedly fired a handgun nearly a dozen times inside and around a Sacramento home—fully naked, surrounded by Sacramento...
By Sally Kim ALAMEDA – Defendant Zachary Running Wolf Brown, acting as his own attorney here, appeared to try the patience of Alameda County Superior Court Judge Delia Tr...
By Rachel Kim California’s Judicial Council voted to issue a second round of Covid-19 court fundings at its meeting on Friday, January 22, in an attempt to relieve some o...
By Lauren Smith At Tuesday’s City Council meeting, City Manager Mike Webb shared legislative accomplishments from the 2020 year and proposed the 2021 platform. Introduce...
By Samantha Swank Following a required 14-day quarantine in a hotel January, 17 World Health Organization (WHO) researchers collaborated for two weeks with Chinese resea...
By Flor Sanchez DAVIS — This month’s installation of the Vanguard’s Monthly Webinar, titled Homelessness in Davis, discussed a variety of topics related to h...
By Sally Kim, Lisbeth Martine, Alex Morgan, Esha Kher CALIFORNIA – “Belly of the Beast,” a groundbreaking film by Ericka Cohn, was virtually screened by “If/When/How: Law...
Diana Becton is a former judge, appointed as DA in Contra Costa County, and then she won in her own right. With the appointment of AG Xavier Becerra by Biden to a federal...
By Catherine Pentoney SACRAMENTO – The Sacramento Sheriff’s Department announced this week through their Facebook account that, effective Feb. 15, 2021, the “specialized...
By Eric Gelber On Tuesday, February 16th, the State Assembly passed on a 2/3 majority, party line vote SB 29 (Umberg), requiring county election officials to mail a ballo...
By Juliet Bost and Mia Machado SAN FRANCISCO — During the SF District Attorney African American Employees Association’s (AAEA) Black History Month Celebration, DA C...
By Hongyi Wen BERKELEY – State Senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) has introduced Senate Bill (SB) 398 at the State Capitol, intended to expand California’s legal cannabis...
By Lisbeth Martinez WOODLAND –A 60-year-old man was charged with two felonies, including corporal injury to a spouse/cohabitant and an attempted threat to terrorize, in a...
By Koda Slingluff SACRAMENTO – Sacramento County Superior Judge Ernest Sawtelle Tuesday joined via Zoom to participate in an unusually lighthearted, polite burglary plea...
By Emily Dill and Jordan Varney (Editor’s note: this is part one of a two-part article—part two will follow next week). DAVIS — On Jan. 24, the Vanguard repor...