But reports surfacing online included enough detail to inspire real fear in the largely Latino and Vietnamese East Side.

While AB 392 raises the standard for when police can use deadly force, SB 230 will overhaul training manuals to reflect the new threshold.

While proponents hail the bill as a momentous step towards greater accountability, the San Jose cop union contends otherwise. 

A proposal granting prosecutors on-demand access to inmate calls became a test of the county’s fidelity to its own oversight standards.

A quiet push to give local prosecutors on-demand access to inmate phone calls has ignited a controversy over checks and balances.

A new law granting public access to police misconduct records is already changing lives, despite attempts to stifle disclosure.

Thanks to a new law, police video once available only to authorities and few others will become public to anyone who asks.

City Attorney Rick Doyle said he plans to re-evaluate his interpretation of Fair Political Practices Commission rules regarding recusal.

Justice for Josiah hosted a toy drive and holiday party for children left fatherless or otherwise bereaved by police use of force.

San Jose community organizer Raj Jayadev has been named a 2018 MacArthur Fellow for his work with Silicon Valley De-Bug.

What would have been a milestone for social justice advocates instead exposed deep divisions in the criminal justice movement.

Jose Mesa Velasquez, the artist whose East Side mural was painted over last week, says the property owner gave him no warning.

San Jose’s civilian cop monitor is stepping down, citing the police union’s personal attacks as a distraction to community-led reforms.

A 53-year-old Santa Clara County inmate was pronounced dead at 7:33pm on this past Sunday at the Main Jail in San Jose.

San Jose’s new cop watchdog, Aaron Zisser, has won praise from activists but criticism from police over his brand of oversight.

Hunger strikes, an in-custody death and the new politics of criminal justice define the race for Santa Clara County sheriff.