California Attorney General Rob Bonta has stood with Vallejo Mayor Robert McConnell and Interim Police Chief Jason Ta to announce a five-year plan for reforming Vallejo’s troubled police department. 

The parties on Monday signed a mutual agreement that includes an expanded list of changes and the appointment of an independent evaluator who oversees the police department and reports to the court and the Department of Justice. The agreement is pending approval by the Solano County Superior Court.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.