By Community Alliance Staff On Aug. 25, citizens from throughout Fresno gathered in west Fresno for a community town hall on discrimination in policing. Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer, State Attorney [...] Continue Reading
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Fresno PD Refuses to Enforce Gun Laws
By Lindsey Spec In May 2014, the Fresno Bee covered a story of a 13-year-old student found with a .357 magnum and bullets at Baird Middle School. The gun was owned by the father, a Fresno County [...] Continue Reading
Racial Bias and the Criminal Justice System
By Jonathan Luevanos The Community Alliance newspaper recently published an article titled “ACLU Sues Over Failing Public Defense System in Fresno County: Tens of Thousands Go Without Legal [...] Continue Reading
12 Points to Address Police Abuse
By Gloria M. Hernandez Three years ago, families met in Oxnard from throughout the state to share their pain and learn from each other. I went to find others like me who had been in the battlefront [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s Real Time “Security State”
By Stan Santos Author’s note: On July 7, reporters gathered at the Fresno Police Department (FPD) headquarters to observe the rollout of the Real Time Crime Center. The Community Alliance covered this [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Police Introduce New Surveillance Technology
By Vic Bedoian On July 7, the Fresno Police Department unveiled a high-technology information center that incorporates video surveillance and intelligence-gathering software to help officers better [...] Continue Reading
To Serve and Protect
By Hannah Brandt On Feb. 23, 2014, 18-year-old Joseph Ma was running with a couple of his buddies. One of them might have had a gun. The former special education student from West Fresno Middle [...] Continue Reading
ACLU Sues Over Failing Public Defense System in Fresno County
Tens of Thousands Go Without the Legal Representation the Constitution Guarantees The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, the ACLU’s Criminal Law Reform Project, and the law firm [...] Continue Reading
Which Side Are You On My People?
By Luis Ojeda On July 9, the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department announced that it had launched a “unique program at [the] Fresno County Jail” that would provide two ICE (Immigration and Customs [...] Continue Reading
The Importance of Building a Labor/Community Alliance
By Mike Rhodes If progressives want to win political power in Fresno and beyond, we must build a coalition that includes both organized labor and grassroots community groups. A big leap forward in [...] Continue Reading
A Chemistry Department | Academic and Progressive
By Alex Vavoulis Nobel Laureate George Seferis said “that learning is one of the noblest exercises of man and to be learned is one of its highest desires. Education is the governing factor of [...] Continue Reading
Lawsuit for Lax Enforcement of Violence Against Women Act
By Community Alliance Staff June 19, the Law Offices of Kevin G. Little announced a lawsuit against Fresno Police officers and the City of Fresno for “the lax enforcement of the laws protecting [...] Continue Reading