, March 19, 2024
Feb 13, 2024
Vallejo police statistics show a dramatic rise in use of force by officers and the city has seen an increase in claims filed by civil rights attorneys....
Jan 25, 2024
Attorney tells Sun to "not do a story" on records publicly posted to the federal court's website....
Jan 25, 2024
Ryan McMahon recently completed arbitration proceedings to get his job back in Vallejo and the city is awaiting a final ruling from the arbitrator....
Jan 09, 2024
The settlement is one of the largest in the city’s history....
Oct 18, 2023
Officer Colin Eaton was one of six officers who shot and killed Willie McCoy in 2019....
Sep 19, 2023
The lawsuit alleges that former Vallejo police Officer Ryan McMahon was forced to leave the Broadmoor Police Department after the Vallejo Sun reported that he was flagged for poor performance in Vallejo....
Sep 14, 2023
Former Vallejo police Capt. John Whitney said he hopes the settlement “is the beginning of some of the major changes that I have always advocated for in Vallejo.”...
May 17, 2023
The oversight agreement between the DOJ and the Vallejo Police Department to institute 45 reform recommendations is set to come to a close on June 5....
Apr 10, 2023
Joanna Schwartz, a professor of law at UCLA, wrote in her new book Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable that a federal judge “had firsthand knowledge of a pattern of substantial claims of constitutional violations by Vallejo police.”...
Apr 05, 2023
The city is seeking Willie McCoy's juvenile criminal records in order to defend itself against McCoy’s family in a civil rights lawsuit over his death....
Feb 28, 2023
Former Capt. John Whitney said the chief knew officers bent their badges after shootings as early as 2014....
Feb 14, 2023
Willie McCoy’s family wants his name to remain synonymous with police violence....