Government services gather under one roof at Contra Costa County’s annual ‘block party’
Contra Costa County is holding its annual block party for people to avoid making multiple stops to government offices or wait in long lines to take care of important tasks. County agencies like the clerk-recorder-elections department and the city of Concord are collaborating to provide a fun, festive event this Tuesday offering a wide variety…
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Lodi bicyclist ready to hit the road Saturday for cross-country charity ride to Boston
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San Joaquin County Fair kicks off Friday with free admission day for kids, music and more
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Take them out to a ballgame: Stockton Ports put young fans in stands for Education Day
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Lessons from Bay Area Police Reform; Looking at Past Practice, Future Potential in Vallejo
This series was reported by John Glidden, edited by Dan Rosenheim and funded by Solutions Journalism Network.
The San Francisco Bay Area is fertile ground to investigate the role of policing in diverse communities and police violence against Black and other people of color — and to learn what has worked to cut that violence while ensuring safety in these communities. With 8 million people, the Bay Area is a diverse region made up of separate jurisdictions that have different experiences with police reform efforts, some longer-standing (Oakland and Richmond), others more recent (San Francisco), and one just announced (Vallejo). With this as a backdrop, we applied a solutions journalism lens to evaluate four types of policing reforms that have been attempted, with mixed results, to achieve more public safety, more community trust, and less police violence in Vallejo.
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