UC Board of Regents Approves Settlement Agreement
Agreement Expected to Be Publicly Released in Two Weeks – The Vanguard has confirmed that the UC Board of Regents in closed session approved the financial details of a settlement agreement with the...
View ArticleVanguard Commentary: University, Newspaper, Playing Games With Our Right To Know
For the second time in a month, the Sacramento Bee beat everyone to the punch, publishing what seemed to be internal emails. This time highlights, among other things, documents the university has...
View ArticleUCD Students Reach Million Dollar Settlement with University Over Pepper...
UC Davis Agrees to Formally Apologize to Students and Implement Reforms Ten months after the November 18, 2011, pepper spray incident, attorneys for 21 UC Davis students and recent alumni announced the...
View ArticleAttorneys Defend UC Davis Pepper Spray Suit Settlement
On Wednesday, the terms of the settlement of the lawsuit filed by students pepper sprayed on the UC Davis Quad, November 18, 2011, was announced. Among other things, the students would receive around...
View ArticleMy View: Unsatisfying Outcome
On Wednesday, we finally learned the terms of the pepper-spray settlement. I was covering the federal civil rights trial of Luis Gutierréz so I missed the press conference. However, I was quickly...
View ArticlePepper-Sprayed Student Speaks About Settlement and Incident
In the press conference at the Quad on Wednesday, Ian Lee spoke. He was a first-year student, two months into college, when he got involved in the protest that would ultimately alter his life. “By now,...
View ArticleWhat is UC Davis Trying to Hide?
The lawsuit is settled, the DA has made his decision, Kroll and Reynoso have long since completed their investigations, and yet with the university leaking like a sieve – documents and reports leaked...
View ArticleFederal Judge Confirms Settlement in UC Davis Pepper Spray Lawsuit
On Wednesday, a federal judge gave final approval to the settlement that UC Davis students and recent alumni reached with the university in late September. Ten months after the November 18, 2011,...
View ArticleUCD Researcher Arrested in Explosion Case
David Snyder, 32, was booked into the Yolo County Jail on Sunday, following his arrest on possessing explosives and materials with the intent to make a destructive device, and possessing firearms on...
View ArticleSecond Potentially Hate-Motivated Beating Reported; Attackers Used Anti-Gay...
Details at this time are sketchy, but officials from the UC Davis Police Department are confirming that a crime is being investigated as a hate crime. According to Campus Crime Alert Bulletin, the...
View ArticleUCD Student Protesters Lock Down Dutton Hall
Early this morning, the Vanguard received a call that protesters had locked down Dutton Hall and barricaded all entrances to the building. When the Vanguard arrived on the scene this morning, there...
View ArticleCourt Orders Release of Pepper Spray Officer Names Arguing Not Covered Under...
In May of 2012, following the release of the Kroll Report and the Cruz Reynoso Task Force report with the names of police officers redacted, the Los Angeles Times and Sacramento Bee argued that the...
View ArticlePike Filed Worker’s Compensation Claim For Pepper-Spray Incident
Former UC Davis Lt. John Pike filed a worker’s compensation claim for injuries suffered on November 18, 2011, during the incident in which he doused protesters with pepper spray on the UC Davis Quad....
View ArticleUC Davis Officials Investigating Incident as Hate Crime
Limited details are available at present in an incident that happened on Sunday morning on the UC Davis campus. Officials are describing it as “a series of crimes that range from vandalism to breaking...
View ArticleUC Davis Unveils Police Oversight Plan
In the wake of the pepper-spray incident in November 2011 and the subsequent settlement of the lawsuit with pepper-spray victims, UC Davis in the last week has released a report and a plan to implement...
View ArticleCommentary: Pike Worker’s Compensation Payout Makes Mockery of System, Incident
Apparently an administrative law judge has taken the old adage – this hurts me more than it hurts you – to a new a level when deciding to award Lt. John Pike 38,056 dollars. Lt. Pike filed a worker’s...
View ArticleMy View: Civilian Police Review Should Not be a Four-Letter Word
It is interesting that this month saw both the culmination of the worker’s compensation process for former UC Davis Police Lieutenant John Pike, as well as the presentations last week of the UC Davis...
View ArticleCommentary: Workers’ Compensation Award of Pike Much Criticized
Pepper-spray When former UC Davis Police Lieutenant John Pike received a workers’ compensation award that was greater than the payout to his victims, the Vanguard wrote that the payout makes both a...
View ArticleDetails Emerge of Alleged Hate Incident, Police Misconduct in March 6 UC...
Last night at the Davis Human Relations Commission meeting, students expanded on a police incident that occurred Thursday, March 6 between 7:15 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. on Orchard Park Road involving a...
View ArticleUC Davis Fire Department Annual Report 2013-14
The following are excerpts from the 2013-14, UC Davis Fire Department Annual Report. To view the full report and graphics – please click here. MESSAGE FROM THE CHIEF 2013-2014 was a year of hard work...
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