Awards
Laurence Du Sault wins James Madison Freedom of Information Award
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Du Sault won the award for her “tireless and meticulous” investigation into the Vallejo Police Department, which was co-published by Open Vallejo and ProPublica.
Awards
Open Vallejo wins statewide criminal justice award for journalistic integrity
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The Journalistic Integrity Award is Open Vallejo’s eighth since 2019, and its second from an organization focused on criminal justice.
Open Vallejo
Open Vallejo demands city unblock critics, stop removing comments
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Government officials violate the First Amendment when they block members of the public or delete comments on social media because they don’t like a speaker’s message, Open Vallejo cautioned through its legal counsel, the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
From the Editor
Introducing Open Vallejo
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Open Vallejo is an award-winning, independent, non-partisan, nonprofit newsroom serving the public interest. We seek to illuminate a small city long burdened by police violence, neglect, and corruption. Our core team consists of journalists, First Amendment and open government lawyers, press freedom advocates, data scientists and other subject-matter experts.
As the first project of the Informed California Foundation, Open Vallejo is also a permanent design laboratory for open source, high-impact, broadly-accessible frameworks for ensuring local transparency, accountability, and information justice.
Digital Security
How to contact us
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Open Vallejo
Open Vallejo wins James Madison Freedom of Information Award
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Open Vallejo has won a 2020 James Madison Freedom of Information Award from the Society of Professional Journalists, Northern California Chapter for its work exposing records of police and government misconduct.
Public Safety
Vallejo police release body camera footage of January shooting
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Vallejo police released footage of the non-fatal shooting of Eduardo Gonzalez in response to a public records request by Open Vallejo.