The decision comes after a public forum on the statue’s fate in which community members criticized it as a glorification of colonialism.

Public defenders are calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to name the Silicon Valley lawmaker—a former defense attorney—to the AG post.

The fact that Medaria Arradondo was even an option rubbed some local civil rights leaders the wrong way. 

It’s been a millennium and a decade since two identical numbers divisible by 10 paired together in such a beautiful fashion.

Not everyone loves sharing the road with this colorful cadre of wheeled activists, but the feeling is mostly mutual—and that’s the point.

As California AG Xavier Becerra joins Joe Biden’s cabinet as head of Health and Human Services, locals are looking ahead.

Sam Liccardo said he was one of eight relatives from five households who gathered for the holiday feast in violation of Covid-19 protocols.

A spokesman for Santa Clara County DA Jeff Rosen confirmed his office would drop the case based on “an insufficiency of evidence.”

The banners could reaffirm our commitment to equity. But right now, the promises they hold are as empty as the wind that blows them.

The decision came after prosecutors reviewed hundreds of cases involving officers whose comments were first reported by SJI.

Experts say Silicon Valley’s homeless crisis—like that of the nation—is interwoven with its long, painful history structural racism. 

Not a single officer was charged with killing the 26-year-old paramedic shot to death by Louisville police in her own apartment. 

Internal correspondence among the department's top brass consistently refer to the George Floyd demonstrators as "rioters."

A leaked trove of law enforcement records shows that police were told to view anti-brutality protesters as an adversarial force.

The nearly 250-page report details everything from use of force to an hourly play-by-play of what happened during the protests.

While the new videos offer some fresh perspective of the George Floyd demonstrations, there’s a lot missing from the official narrative.