Nov 05, 2024

November 2024 live election results for Vallejo and Benicia

We're tracking the mayor and City Council races in Vallejo and Benicia, three Benicia ballot measures, Solano County's two state legislature seats, and the Solano College governing board seat for Vallejo and Benicia....

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  Aug 26, 2024

Las elecciones de noviembre podrían reestructurar los gobiernos municipales de Vallejo y Benicia

El concejo municipal de ambas ciudades tiene varios escaños abiertos para las elecciones....

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  Aug 15, 2024

November election could remake city governments in Vallejo and Benicia

A majority of City Council seats in both cities are up for election....

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  May 17, 2022

Homelessness dominates Solano supervisor candidates’ debate

Three of five candidates for the supervisor seat in District 3 debated in a forum hosted by the ACLU and Solano Community College....

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  Feb 07, 2022

Solano Sheriff’s Sgt. Cully Pratt, who made Three Percenter gun rack, retires from department

Pratt said he did not believe the Three Percenter symbols represented anti-government views....

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  Feb 02, 2022

Solano Sheriff Tom Ferrara raises $37K for re-election

Ferrara also began the new year without a declared opponent....

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  Jan 24, 2022

Former sheriff’s lieutenant to lead new Solano College police force

Brian Travis headed campus security for three and a half years before he retired from the sheriff’s office in 2019....

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  Dec 31, 2021

2021 was year of turnover and turmoil in Vallejo and Solano County government

The city of Vallejo grappled with a significant amount of turnover at city hall and within the Vallejo Police Department....

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  Nov 02, 2021

Solano Community College District to create standalone public safety department

The move comes after the Solano County Sheriff’s Office withdrew from its contract with the college after a confrontation over apparent support for the Three Percenter anti-government militia group....

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  Oct 29, 2021

Pressure grows for oversight of Solano County Sheriff’s Office

Activists have finally succeeded in convincing the Board of Supervisors to consider forming an oversight body with subpoena power to investigate the sheriff’s office....

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  Sep 28, 2021

Sheriff dropped community college contract after confrontation over Three Percenter support

College President Celia Esposito-Noy raised the concerns following an investigative report in February that revealed that two sergeants and a deputy had openly displayed support for the Three Percenter movement on social media....

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