Open Vallejo News Archives

A Vallejo Police Department SUV is seen parked outside fired City Hall employee Slater Matzke's home. The photograph was taken through a window from inside the home.

News

Fired Vallejo employees sue, alleging retaliation and threats

by Chris Roberts February 15, 2021October 27, 2023

A photograph depicting the facade of the University of Southern California's Annenberg Hall

News

Open Vallejo wins national journalism honor for exposing secret police ritual

by Brian Howey February 10, 2021October 27, 2023

A man stands among a crowd of people in silhouette against a backlit flag of the "Three Percenter" militia.

News

Solano deputies, Vacaville councilmember promote anti-government militia

by Scott Morris February 4, 2021October 27, 2023

Surveillance video shows then-Detective Kent Tribble repeatedly struck Enrique Cruz, 29, as Cruz sat in a holding cell inside the Vallejo Police Department in 2012. Tribble has since been promoted to lieutenant, and is as a senior member of the department's command staff.

News, Public Safety

Vallejo police lieutenant assaulted man in custody, video shows

by Brian Krans January 21, 2021October 27, 2023

A blue, white and black graphic depicting redacted pages from the Vallejo Police Department policy manual

News

Open Vallejo lawsuit makes police policies public

by John Glidden December 23, 2020October 27, 2023

City Manager Greg Nyhoff is seen at Vallejo City Hall in November 2019. Nyhoff held a series of undisclosed meetings with developers seeking to build on Mare Island that Fall.

City Hall, City Manager, News

Vallejo scraps Mare Island development guarantees, to sell off public land

by Chris Roberts December 17, 2020October 27, 2023

Vallejo City Manager Greg Nyhoff is seen at the swearing-in for Police Chief Shawny Williams on November 12, 2019 at Vallejo City Hall.

City Hall, Ethics, Featured, News

City manager weakened Mare Island deal after undisclosed meetings with developers

by Chris Roberts December 2, 2020January 29, 2025

EFF press freedom graphic

News, Open Vallejo

Open Vallejo demands city unblock critics, stop removing comments

by Open Vallejo October 22, 2020October 27, 2023

Vallejo City Councilmember Hakeem Brown, right, attends the swearing-in of Police Chief Shawny Williams last November. Elected to the council in 2018, Brown has rapidly consolidated political power by aligning himself with Vallejo’s powerful public safety unions.

‘Domestic violence bordering on torture’: records reveal years of allegations against Vallejo councilmember

by Geoffrey King October 13, 2020January 29, 2025

A handout photograph of Vallejo Police Spokesperson Brittany K. Jackson

News

Police union alleges hiring of civilian spokesperson ‘unlawful’

by John Glidden August 9, 2020October 27, 2023