Open Vallejo (https://openvallejo.org/author/geoffrey-king/page/2/)
The city of Vallejo violated state law when it destroyed evidence in multiple police shootings, a judge has ruled. Now, officials have just six months to produce other records they have withheld for years.
The Vallejo Police Department has prepared an update on California Department of Justice reforms it plans to present at a special City Council meeting tonight. But one notable stakeholder was left out of the department’s assessment — the DOJ.
Bonta gave the clearest indication to date that his office intends to continue — and potentially deepen — its review of Vallejo police.
The national headquarters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People sent a letter to former Councilmember Hakeem Brown Wednesday, ordering him to drop his claim that he leads the Vallejo branch of the organization.
Open Vallejo has cautioned Vallejo’s new outside counsel to ensure officials refrain from destroying evidence, as a Solano County judge sets a special hearing in the newsroom’s public records lawsuit against the city.
The Vallejo city attorney’s office has recused itself from an investigation into the destruction of evidence in multiple police shootings, according to a statement from the city manager’s office — but concerns about the process remain.
The Vallejo city attorney’s office has long resisted public scrutiny of the police department’s frequent shootings. With a new law poised to force the release of shooting records, a lawyer and a detective made a decision no court can reverse.
A disturbing history of domestic violence, verbal clashes with colleagues and constituents, and vocal support for Vallejo police defined the former council member’s turbulent tenure.
The Vallejo City Attorney’s Office hopes to identify the authors behind two pseudonymous social media accounts, confidential records obtained by Open Vallejo show.
If Nichelini is reinstated, “it should raise concern from the streets of Vallejo to the attorney general’s office about how seriously the police department is taking reform,” Otis R. Taylor, Jr., the reporter who received the menacing email, told Open Vallejo.