Anticipating improved ICU capacity and the end of the post-holidays Covid surge, the greater Sacramento region has been removed from California’s most restrictive list and can once again allow some indoor activities, including dining at restaurants.
Read moreThe greater Sacramento region became the latest area in California to announce a Covid lockdown, beginning Friday at midnight, after exceeding the state-mandated threshold for ICU capacity with 85% of beds full.
Read more
A long overdue makeover for one of California’s busiest state courts is finally underway as officials announced Friday construction has started on a half billion-dollar courthouse in downtown Sacramento.
Read moreA federal class action accuses the Sacramento Police Department of unconstitutionally injuring peaceful civil rights demonstrators on the night of May 30-31 with gas canisters and rubber bullets.
Read more
After nearly three months of plotting a reopening path, Sacramento County Superior Court is ready to debut a new “socially distanced” era of criminal justice featuring temperature checks, mandatory masks and jurors behind plexiglass.
Read more
For the first time since the coronavirus pandemic caused thousands of politicians, regulators and court employees to abruptly abandon the downtown core, small albeit definitive signs of life are emerging throughout California’s capital and its mass of government institutions.
Read moreA federal court in California granted a preliminary injunction to two members of Black Lives Matter, ordering the Sacramento County Sheriff to “unban” them from his Facebook page, finding that the plaintiffs have demonstrated that the page is a public forum and the sheriff “engaged in viewpoint discrimination” when he banned them.
Read moreFour homeless people filed a federal class action against Sacramento, to try to stop its police “from removing or ordering the removal of a single port-a-potty … adjacent to a homeless tent encampment” that was placed there by good Samaritans.
Read moreLike many Americans her age do each winter, Rosalie Achiu hopped on a flight to escape the cold for somewhere balmy. Achiu, a 75-year-old woman with dementia, was alone on her way to a tropical island less than a month after a series of bizarre incidents that seemed to stem from a seemingly routine welfare check by law enforcement.
Read moreA school district in California’s capital city is careening toward bankruptcy after it ignored warnings from county officials and approved ill-advised generous teacher raises, the state auditor announced Tuesday.
Read moreJudge Russell Hom was about to do something most jurists are taught to avoid.
Read moreThe city of Sacramento will pay $2.4 million to the children of Stephon Clark, the unarmed black man shot and killed by police in 2018, under a settlement signed Wednesday by a federal judge.
Read moreTwo Sacramento police officers who fatally shot Stephon Clark in his grandparents’ backyard in 2018 won’t face criminal charges, federal investigators announced Thursday.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit Sacramento filed against Wells Fargo bank, accusing it of offering bad, misguided loans to minority homebuyers during the Great Recession, thereby denying the city tax revenue.
Read moreA federal judge approved a $5.2 million settlement for John Hernandez, an unarmed minor whom Sacramento police beat, Tasered and asphyxiated in a hospital, without body cameras.
Read moreThe family of Stephon Clark, the unarmed black man fatally shot by Sacramento police officers in 2018, reached a tentative partial settlement Tuesday with the city in its federal lawsuit, according to a court notice.
Read moreSettlement talks have broken down between the city of Sacramento and the family of Stephon Clark, which is suing the city for $20 million over the shooting death of the unarmed Clark by police in 2018.
Read moreThe Sacramento City Teachers Association claims in court that the Sacramento City Unified School District Board of Trustees violated open-meeting laws by discussing its budget in closed session, leading to the firing of 150 teachers.
Read moreA California mother and daughter filed suit against a Sacramento doctor in state court on Tuesday, saying he artificially inseminated the mother with his own semen without permission and then performed gynecological exams on his own daughter unbeknownst to her for years.
Read more