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Open Vallejo @openvallejo.org · 01/01/2026

Your tax-deductible donation will be TRIPLED if you give before midnight Pacific Time tonight! Support ethical, accurate, high-impact local news in the public interest. openvallejo.org/donate

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Open Vallejo @openvallejo.org · 30/12/2025

None of this happens without your support; Open Vallejo publishes news for people, not for profit. We don't have a billionaire owner or an opaque corporate parent. Instead, we rely on readers like you. Help us reach our goal before #NewsMatch ends at midnight on December 31. openvallejo.org/donate

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Open Vallejo @openvallejo.org · 30/12/2025

Open Vallejo is the city's only nonprofit, investigative newsroom. With a little over 48 hours to go in #NewsMatch, we are 80% of the way to our $30,000 fundraising goal. Will you help us close the gap with a tax-deductible gift? openvallejo.org/donate

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Open Vallejo @openvallejo.org · 03/12/2025

It’s #GivingNewsDay at Open Vallejo. For five years, we’ve provided Solano County with meticulous accountability reporting on public safety, government, and more as the region’s only nonprofit investigative newsroom. NewsMatch will match your tax-deductible gift up to $1,000: openvallejo.org/donate

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Open Vallejo @openvallejo.org · 03/11/2025

Open Vallejo has compiled a shareable list of places to get free groceries in Vallejo. The federal government will fund only partial food stamp benefits this month, the Trump administration said in court filings Monday. See the list: openvallejo.org/2025/10/31/w...

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Open Vallejo @openvallejo.org · 03/05/2025

On #WorldPressFreedomDay, defend your right to know. Open Vallejo exposes misconduct, holds power to account, and stands free from political influence — all thanks to your support. Stand for independent journalism today: openvallejo.org/donate #PressFreedom

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Open Vallejo @openvallejo.org · 14/04/2025

“I think that’s the kind of thing that probably wouldn’t qualify,” First Amendment scholar Eugene Volokh (@volokhc.bsky.social) said of the best-documented charge against Carrizales. “You might say in context, he’s just trying to get a rise out of me, that this isn’t really an insult.”

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Open Vallejo @openvallejo.org · 31/03/2025

"Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore." — César E. Chávez, Nov. 9, 1984 © Paul Fusco / Magnum Photos

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Open Vallejo @openvallejo.org · 18/11/2024

Vallejo Ofc. Brent Pucci struck Otis Edward McPeters with his metal flashlight before Ofc. Jeremie Patzer placed him in a carotid hold. Ofc. Robert Knight, now the department's deputy police chief, Tased McPeters for a total of 11 seconds. He died soon after. openvallejo.org/2023/08/24/v...

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Open Vallejo @openvallejo.org · 18/11/2024

Charles Khristopher Gordon was experiencing a mental health crisis when officers Tased him, placed him in handcuffs, and tied his feet together, police records show. After being placed on a gurney, he began to have trouble breathing. He died despite medical care. openvallejo.org/2023/08/24/v...

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Open Vallejo @openvallejo.org · 18/11/2024

Vallejo police handcuffed Michael Todd White, then bound his legs and tied them to his handcuffed hands. The practice, called “hogtying,” is prohibited by many police departments and disapproved of by the U.S. Department of Justice since 1995. He died soon after. openvallejo.org/2023/08/24/v...

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Open Vallejo @openvallejo.org · 18/11/2024

Ofc. Jeremie Patzer’s Taser battery became so hot that it melted the weapon’s plastic handle, a person with knowledge of the matter told Open Vallejo. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case. openvallejo.org/2023/08/24/v...

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Open Vallejo @openvallejo.org · 18/11/2024

Andrew Lamar Washington sustained 2 minutes and 54 seconds of near-continuous electric shock, according to device logs investigators downloaded from the Taser. Yet authorities ruled his death an accident — a cardiac arrest, at 21 years old. openvallejo.org/2023/08/24/v...

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