The Vallejo Sun

12/12/2025

Workers from La Tapatia Market in Vallejo are suing the owners for negligence and labor violations, alleging that two employees died from exposure to carbon monoxide while inside the store.

Trabajadores del Mercado La Tapatía de Vallejo están demandando a los propietarios por negligencia y violaciones laborales, alegando que dos empleados murieron por exposición al monóxido de carbono mientras estaban dentro de la tienda.
https://www.vallejosun.com/es/demandan-al-mercado-la-tapatia-de-vallejo-por-muertes-debido-a-monoxido-de-carbono/

A lawsuit accuses La Tapatia's owners of ignoring carbon monoxide issues and labor violations.

12/12/2025

People released from jail or prison often find that it’s extremely difficult to get a job.

For the last six years, the Center for Employment Opportunities, has been working to provide those opportunities to justice-impacted Solano residents.

For the last six years, the Center for Employment Opportunities, has been working to provide opportunities to justice-impacted Solano residents.

12/12/2025

Former Vallejo police Capt. John Whitney testified that Vallejo police kept two filling systems in internal affairs to bury citizen complaints against officers.

When Whitney became the head of the department’s professional standards division in 2015, he became aware that there were two filing systems in internal affairs: one for investigations the department conducted, and the other for “informal resolutions” of citizen complaints of misconduct, which were kept in the internal affairs sergeant’s office.

For the latter, the department would conduct a cursory investigation into the complaints without reaching a formal conclusion. Whitney said that these records weren’t turned over as required to criminal defendants.

Whitney was fired in 2019 and later won a $900,000 settlement from the city. He has made numerous allegations of a broken, toxic policing culture in Vallejo, including revealing that officers were bending the tips of their badges after a shooting.

Read more at VallejoSun.com

12/12/2025

Vallejo’s Police Oversight and Accountability Commission can finally begin its work after waiting three years for the police union to finish a meet and confer process with the city and move forward under a 2022 ordinance.

Negotiations with the Vallejo Police Officers’ Association ended after three years.

11/12/2025

🏆 The Vallejo Sun won two San Francisco Press Club awards at their annual gala on Tuesday! 🏆 https://sfpressclub.org/2025/12/09/2025-journalism-awards-winners/

We took third place in the politics/government category for Zack Haber's story, "Vallejo school board elections increasingly uncompetitive since adopting districts." https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-school-board-elections-increasingly-uncompetitive-since-adopting-districts/

We also took third place in the criminal justice category for Scott Morris's story, "Testimony describes systematic coverup of Vallejo police misconduct and culture of retaliation." https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-police-coverup-john-whitney-ron-tabron-melissa-nold/

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10/12/2025

This week in Vallejo:

🏘️ The Grand Victorian Homes Tour!
🎶 The American Canyon High School Chamber Choir!
🎵 The Vallejo Choral Society!
🎅 Multiple opportunities to see Santa!

Plus lot's more to do, check out the full listings here:

Plus, The Grinch and Santa are coming to town

10/12/2025

The Vallejo City Council voted Tuesday to consider whether to investigate the ACLU's claims of misconduct within the city attorney’s office, including destroying records from police shootings and obstructing civilian oversight of the police.

The ACLU accused the city attorney’s office of destroying records from police shootings and obstructing civilian oversight of the police.

10/12/2025

The Solano AIDS Coalition commemorated World AIDS Day on Sunday with a .85-mile walk.

The unusually specific distance served a somber purpose: it roughly equals 4,496 feet, a reference to the 4,496 AIDS-related deaths in the U.S. in 2023.

The Solano AIDS Coalition hopes to make it a yearly fundraising event.

09/12/2025

An attorney for the city of Vallejo confirmed to a Solano County Superior Court judge on Monday that Vallejo police kept a separate filing cabinet for internal affairs, preventing defense attorneys from accessing complaints of officer misconduct relevant to their defense.

The revelation came about in the criminal prosecution of Robert Baker, who is charged with evading police twice. Baker’s defense attorney James Mulgannon sought relevant police internal affairs files for their defense during a hearing last month.

Mulgannon pointed out that former Vallejo police Capt. John Whitney testified in a civil rights lawsuit earlier this year that the department kept a separate filing cabinet of complaints against officers that were resolved without a formal investigation and illegally withheld from criminal defendants. Mulgannon sought assurances that the practice was not ongoing.

But during the November court hearing, Judge John Ellis said that there were files missing from what Assistant City Attorney Kristoffer Jacob had disclosed to him but that he had seen disclosed in previous cases. This prompted Ellis to ask Jacob about the existence of the secret filing cabinet.

On Monday, Ellis said that Jacob confirmed the existence of the separate filing cabinet to him in a private session.

Ellis said that Jacob assured him that all the files from the separate internal affairs cabinets had since been consolidated into one and all relevant files for the case at hand had been looked for and disclosed. Jacob said that the omission of a file in Baker’s case was “an unintentional oversight.”

“The city of Vallejo concealing complaints made against officers and not bringing them to court is something that is a violation of the law,” Mulgannon said in an interview. “It goes absolutely against all the public policy interests.”

“What we got today was an admission that they were doing that, which is huge,” said Mulgannon.

Read more: https://www.vallejosun.com/vallejo-confirms-police-had-separate-filing-cabinet-that-hid-officer-complaints-from-courts/

09/12/2025

An attorney for the city of Vallejo confirmed in court on Monday that Vallejo police kept a separate filing cabinet for internal affairs, preventing defense attorneys from accessing complaints of officer misconduct relevant to their defense.

Former Vallejo police Capt. John Whitney testified earlier this year that the department kept a separate filing cabinet of complaints against officers that were illegally withheld from criminal defendants.

08/12/2025

The Vallejo Choral Society has been performing for 108 years.

This season, the community group will perform Carols and Lullabies, a seasonal program in Benicia and Vallejo on Dec. 13 and 14.

From a 108-year tradition to a growing youth chorus, the nonprofit keeps music at the heart of community life in Vallejo and Benicia.

05/12/2025

A Solano County Sheriff’s deputy sued the department, claiming that she was repeatedly and violently r***d and abused by a senior deputy and faced retaliation for reporting it.

A sheriff's deputy alleges in a lawsuit that fellow Deputy John Robertson r***d, assaulted, and harassed her for years, and the sheriff's office retaliated against her for reporting it.