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In a newly released deposition, former Vallejo Police Chief Shawny Williams said he resigned after the city failed to investigate a series of anonymous threats against him and alleged that the Vallejo City Attorney’s Office tried to intimidate him over his testimony.

EXCLUSIVE: The Solano County District Attorney's Office wants to shield video of the most recent Vallejo police shooting from public view, despite a state law mandating its release. Open Vallejo has obtained the unredacted recordings. Watch the video here.

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EXCLUSIVE: The Solano County District Attorney's Office wants to shield video of the most recent Vallejo police shooting from public view, despite a state law mandating its release. Open Vallejo has obtained the unredacted recordings. Watch the video here.

Open Vallejo has compiled a shareable list of places to get free groceries in Vallejo. The federal government will fund only partial food stamp benefits this month, the Trump administration said in court filings Monday. See the list: openvallejo.org/2025/10/31/w...

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Local nutrition assistance organizations have already seen an increase in need, and are preparing for more amid a potential cutoff of food aid on Saturday. Here is where to find free groceries, how Solano County's efforts compare to those of its neighbors, and how to help.

Vallejo immigrant rights groups braced for raids as warning flyers appeared downtown on Friday. By this afternoon, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee announced that federal authorities had canceled sweeping plans for operations across the greater Bay Area.

Vallejo Police Department Critical Incident Review Board member Phillip Balbuena resigned one day after Open Vallejo reported on his online comments and those of another commissioner, which experts said threatened the integrity of the oversight process.

Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, blocked the administration’s attempt to sidestep an earlier order finding protests in Oregon were “not significantly violent or disruptive” enough to justify federalizing the Oregon National Guard.

Solano County will pay $17 million to resolve a “historic” civil rights lawsuit involving the sheriff’s office, as supervisors approve an $11.2 million contract to deploy deputies in Vallejo.

The comments, about the shooting of a man suffering a mental health crisis in the back, included praise for officers’ marksmanship. A national use-of-force expert called the commentary “wildly inappropriate,” while Vallejo’s mayor called for one official’s “immediate removal” from the investigation.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and state health officials released the recommendations as part of the state’s newly formed health alliance with Oregon, Washington and Hawaii.

Police video and court proceedings revealed new details of the shooting, even as officials seek to prevent further disclosures.

The California Supreme Court has denied a last-ditch effort by the city of Vallejo to conceal an investigation into officers who bent their badges to mark fatal shootings.

Vallejo police found a 73-year-old woman safe on Wednesday, more than two days after she went missing.

Vallejo police are investigating the 12th homicide in the city this year, after police officers and firefighters found a man shot dead inside a car Monday morning.

A new state bill awaiting Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature would give officials more tools to identify and combat sexual abuse and educate students to better identify the most common signs of grooming behavior.

Vallejo police are investigating the 11th homicide of 2025 after a man was found dead on the 100 block of Carolina Street Thursday afternoon.

Congratulations to our colleagues at @kcdefender.bsky.social for winning the 2025 @inn.org Community Champion Award! Read about their groundbreaking B-REAL Freedom School here.

For the second time in three days, a Vallejo police SUV collided with a civilian vehicle on city streets, disabling both vehicles and prompting an emergency response.

There's still time to register for ProJourn's Newsgathering Legal Training on Wednesday! Held in partnership with @theajp.bsky.social, this free, virtual session will cover journalists' legal rights on topics like recording, trespass, and more. Sign up: https://www.shorturl.at/yaHxM

The Vallejo Police Department has identified two officers who shot and injured a 24-year-old man during an apparent mental health crisis last week.

State officials said they acted in response to what they called the “destruction” of scientific integrity at the nation’s top public health agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A Vallejo police SUV collided with a blue sedan Tuesday evening, injuring an officer and one other person. The crash occurred the same week as an alleged hit-and-run just four blocks away that left a bicyclist with life-threatening injuries.

Vallejo police shot a 24-year-old man during an apparent mental health crisis in East Vallejo Friday, the first shooting by Vallejo officers since November 2023.

Bay Area air quality regulators have ordered a Vallejo landscape supply company, Crown Hill Materials, to immediately shut down a concrete batch plant that it has allegedly been operating without required air quality permits.

Two shootings less than four miles apart left two people dead in Vallejo Monday — the city’s ninth and 10th homicides this year.

The shooting occurred in a homeless encampment on White Slough, near where a gunman shot three people in May, two fatally.

The Vallejo City Council voted Tuesday to renew its search for a law firm tasked with exploring whether recent misconduct allegations against the City Attorney’s Office merit an independent investigation.

Dash cam footage of a high-speed Vallejo police pursuit surfaced on Instagram last month, alongside rap music and a warning, in apparent violation of multiple police policies.

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The city of Vallejo “erroneously” withheld the vote tally in response to a public records request by Open Vallejo, Deputy City Attorney Sukhnandan Nijjar wrote in a statement Thursday.

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NEW: Five years ago today, Open Vallejo launched as the city’s only nonprofit, investigative newsroom. Our first story revealed a secret clique of Vallejo police officers who bent down the tips of their badges each time they killed a civilian. Here is the story behind the story.

In a recent closed session, the Vallejo City Council greenlit the city attorney’s last-ditch effort to shield an official investigation into badge-bending from public scrutiny, after an appellate court ordered its release.

A lengthy SWAT standoff disrupted a Vallejo neighborhood for most of the day Wednesday, after a report of a man brandishing a firearm prompted a large police response.

Vallejo police arrested a man Wednesday in connection with the shooting death of a Vallejo woman earlier this month.

San Francisco Burglary Unit investigators searched the property and nearby vehicles, reviewing and removing documents, a Jeep, and other evidence. Open Vallejo also observed investigators from the FBI and the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service enter the home.

The shootings reportedly included a freeway carjacking and a shootout between two vehicles, during which a California Highway Patrol helicopter made an emergency landing to airlift a victim to a local hospital.

Police said patrol officers spotted the suspect about two blocks away from the June shooting on July 7.

Five years ago, Open Vallejo's reporting forced the City of Vallejo to conduct an investigation into “badge bending” by killer cops. The city buried the findings so @aclu-norcal.bsky.social sued. On appeal and with Open Vallejo as amicus, a court has ordered the full investigation's release.

For years, Vallejo police systematically defied court orders to produce police misconduct files, according to sworn statements by an attorney and a former police captain in connection with an ongoing federal civil rights case.

Open Vallejo revealed the tradition in 2020, exposing how a clique of officers in the department would bend down the tabs of their star-shaped badges each time they killed a civilian.

Congratulations to Anna Bauman and @openvallejo.org on winning the June Sidney Award for their deep dive into a death in police custody eerily similar to that of George Floyd.

In 2024, four people were killed as people fled Vallejo police, including a 76-year-old man who was crushed between two parked cars in October. Last July, two people died in police pursuits within three days of each other.

Vallejo police are investigating the city’s eighth homicide of the year, after a 45-year-old woman was shot early Saturday morning.