El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson speaks at the Nov. 24 press conference announcing the investigation into EDD fraud by California inmates. Courtesy photo District attorneys from across the state, including El Dorado County District Attorney Vern...
Nation State of Play Podcast EPISODE NOTESPresident of the California District Attorneys Association and El Dorado County DA Vern Pierson joins us to discuss a pending bill that would dramatically impact public safety throughout California. DA Pierson explains how a...
Students are escorted off campus after a shooting occurred around 7:30 at Saugus high in Santa Clarita, Nov. 14, 2019. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG.) Understandably, we will hear a call to action in response to the shooting that left two young...
Photograph by David Becker—Getty In the wake of the recent atrocities in Gilroy, El Paso, and Dayton, Gov. Gavin Newsom convened a meeting of law enforcement and others and called for action. “Failure to act on gun violence is a damn disgrace,” he said. Given the...
A homeless man on the street in San Francisco’s Tenderloin. Photo by Euan Slorach via Creative Commons Ronald Reagan emptied the psychiatric hospitals and Jerry Brown emptied the prisons, or so some people say. Although neither statement is completely true,...
