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Vallejo Police Chief Jason Ta leaves a Vallejo City Council meeting, bag of documents in hand. The images catches him mid-stride. He is an Asian American man in his 50s in a dark blue police chief's uniform. The first several rows of seats are nearly empty of audience members.

Vallejo police to update city on DOJ reforms

By Geoffrey King and Laurence Du Sault | May 16, 2023

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.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks at a lectern featuring the seal of his office. The flags of California and the United States of America hang on poles behind him.
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Civil rights investigation ‘on the table’ in Vallejo, Bonta says

By Geoffrey King and Laurence Du Sault | May 11, 2023

Bonta gave the clearest indication to date that his office intends to continue — and potentially deepen — its review of Vallejo police.

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A full-page historical newspaper advertisement for the redlined "Vista de Vallejo" neighborhood in the Vallejo Evening Chronicle.

How decades of racist housing policies shaped modern Vallejo

By Brendan Riley | May 5, 2023

Racist housing restrictions in the first half of the 20th century contributed to present-day wealth inequities.

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A "Black Lives Matter" yard sign in front of a house on Mare Island, Vallejo, Calif. in 2021.

Vallejo’s Black shipyard workers forged nationwide reforms

By Brendan Riley | November 11, 2021

In the early 1960s, a small group of Black workers began organizing for equal treatment at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard — and inspired nationwide reforms.

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