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Stanislaus Hammered over Handling of Palin Situation
In April a story exploded that CSU-Stanislaus had failed to properly turn over public documents requesting how much money they had spent for the controversial former Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin,...
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Proposed Constitutional Amendment Would Bolster Brown Act
In recent years the Brown Act, which protects the fundament right for the public to be noticed of meetings by public officials and governmental bodies, has been suspended or threatened during the...
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Student Reporter’s Arrest Covering Protest Raises Chilling Concerns About...
In all frankness this story should put a chill down people’s spines. No matter how you view student protests, a journalist should not face liability for covering a protest. But that is exactly what...
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Grand Jury Hammers Winters School District on Open Government and...
The Yolo County Grand Jury hammered the Winters School District for numerous violations in response to citizen complaints “regarding 2009/10 Board of Trustees’ actions at meetings and treatment of...
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Ban on Violent Video Games
In an interesting ruling that crossed political and ideological lines, the US Supreme Court struck down on Monday a ban on the sale of violent video games to minors in California, a bill written by...
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As the Media Swarms and Pounces on Murdoch, Time To Defend Fox News
The events of the last few weeks with the scandal in the British tabloids have focused renewed attention on Fox News. While the phone hacking scandal that has ensnared Mr. Murdoch is salacious, it is...
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Study Shows What We Already Knew: Term Limits Do Not Work
At the outset here, I will admit I am philosophically opposed to term limits. I believe the public has the right to vote for whomever they choose to vote for. I oppose term limits on Presidents as...
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A Commentary on Reader Comments
Two years ago this site had a pretty bad reputation for being a tough place in terms of the comment section. People told me they would avoid the comment section altogether, and some people did not...
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Misreading the Data on Gun and Automobile Accident Fatalities
In the weeks since the Sandy Hook massacre, we have seen a re-engagement of the gun debate. It is an issue area that had been largely ceded since 2000 when Al Gore, running for President, made...
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Blogging and Political Discrimination
By Jeff Boone I had to stop blogging using my real name. The reason: because of certain political comments I had made as a private citizen, my company was harmed by a rejection of likely participation...
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Enhanced Driver’s Licenses Would Be A Privacy and Civil Liberties Nightmare
by Kevin Baker If someone tried to sell you security software that was ten years old, would you buy it? Of course, it wouldn’t make sense to spend money on something that’s now outdated and vulnerable....
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Governor Vetoes Border Crossing Identification License Bill
On Friday, Governor Brown vetoed SB 249, sponsored by Democratic Senator Ben Hueso, a measure to create “enhanced” driver’s licenses (EDLs) to be used as an additional border-crossing identification...
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My View: Why WikiLeaks Seals Our Fate in a World with No Privacy
The issue of WikiLeaks is more than a little ironic at this point. When WikiLeaks emerged on the scene leaking government secrets, many who had opposed the war in Iraq applauded the release of many...
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First Amendment and Media Coalition Opposes Effort to Gut Police Transparency...
A coalition of media groups led by the First Amendment Coalition (FAC) today filed briefing in the California Supreme Court to oppose a police union’s effort to undermine the effectiveness of a new,...
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Supreme Court Denies Effort to Block Access to Police Records
In a one-sentence ruling the California Supreme Court denied the efforts by police unions to gut or block the landmark police transparency law (SB 1421) attempting to apply the law only to records...
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Court Denies Effort to Thwart Release of Police Records Mandated by SB 1421
(From Press Release) – (Friday), in a ruling in Contra Costa Superior Court, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) blocked an effort by six police unions that are seeking to prevent the...
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National Lawyers Guild Opposes Cities’ Move to Stop Providing Records because...
By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – Cities in California – claiming they are already bogged down with the cost of fighting the COVID-19 pandemic – are now urging the...
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California Capitol Watch: Introduction and Proposed Housing Bills
By Eric Gelber This is the first of periodic articles (tentatively titled California Capitol Watch) I intend to write for the Vanguard that will focus on the California Legislature. The articles will...
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Nancy Pelosi Endorses Stock Trading Ban
By Ineka Damen San Francisco– After receiving extensive backlash from both Democrats and Republicans for her silence on the issue, Nancy Pelosi endorses a stock trading ban pushed by Democrats in the...
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Bill to Address Public Meeting Disruptions Signed into Law
A Proud Boys member speaks out in Modesto in June Special to the Vanguard Sacramento, CA – A recent phenomenon has been the increasing number of people—particularly from extremist groups like the Proud...
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