Brock Turner walked out of jail after three months of incarceration for sexually assaulting a woman last year after a campus party.

SJPD's staffing shortfall has made recruiting even more important. But a recent trip to Hawaii raises questions about how the budget is being spent.

In an exclusive interview, SJPD Chief Eddie Garcia speaks out on gun control laws, Black Lives Matter and how to create a safer society.

District Attorney Jeff Rosen will deliver a presentation about his 2015 tour of German prisons, which are considered a model of progressivism.

To address a critical police staffing shortage, San Jose is expected to suspend union protections to reassign detectives back to patrol.

Campbell Councilman Jeffrey Cristina was arrested earlier this week on suspicion of domestic violence, according to city officials.

Five years after Gov. Jerry Brown signed the FAIR Education Act, California’s public schools are now rolling LGBTQ history into the coursework.

A veteran San Jose police officer was arrested Tuesday for allegedly leaking sensitive information to a Vietnamese street gang.

A spate of new laws will reduce penalties for minors as part of a push by policymakers to keep kids out of the criminal justice system.

Ragged roads in the South Bay cost the average driver $2,471 a year in wear and tear, crashes and congestion-related delays.

Santa Clara County residents didn’t have to vote for Bernie Sanders to get a free college education—they just have to get arrested.

To curb avian collisions, San Jose will consider requiring builders to abide by bird-friendly architectural guidelines.

After an era of quiet compared to the so-called timber wars of the 1980s and ’90s, conflict over logging in Northern California forests has returned.

Contractors might have plowed through ancient human remains had it not been for a local journalist alerting the county to its glaring oversight.

Congressman Mike Honda has an inauspicious anniversary on the horizon, as his ethics scandal approaches its second year.

A local reform group has proposed a plan to divert people with serious mental illness out of Santa Clara County jails and into treatment.