For decades police and prosecutors have racially profiled, arrested, and incarcerated Latino community members in Santa Clara County. Now, due to the Racial Justice Act -- these discriminatory practices are being challenged in the courts.

High school student Jordyn travelled to the State Capitol to advocate for legislation for the first time. She recounts the day and how rewarding it was to see the bill move to the next step.

A newly published Santa Clara County Grand Jury report echoed what students and community advocates have been saying for years about the San Jose Unified School District. The report confirms sustained failures in leadership.

The Santa Clara County DA has announced he is resentencing those on death row. But author Raymond Goins, who won a resentencing after 18 years of incarceration, writes that true justice would be offering pathways to freedom, rather than still condemning people to die in prison through "life without parole" sentences.

Led by the National Council of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, movement leaders from across the country converged at Washington DC to demand federal and state clemency, and to end the incarceration of women.

Beloved 19 year old David Sullivan was killed by Buena Park Police Department in 2019. Officers Jennifer Tran and Bobby Colon shot him 7 times within 2 minutes of pulling David over. This week, the family's second civil trial ended and the jury found the officers were negligent and used excessive force. The following is a statement from DeAnna Sullivan, David's mother.

In Oakland’s federal court on March 14th, community from all over California showed up in solidarity with hunger strikers facing vindictive prosecution for their participation in the historic hunger strikes of 2011 and 2013 to end indefinite solidarity confinement in CDCR. This statement is from Sitawa Nantambu Gamma, a representative of the same hunger strikes. The next court date is scheduled for April 29th.

More people are going out with the same outfits they wear in the house - crocs, sweats - what the author calls the "lazy fit." But what does this style say about the moment?

When she reached out for support after being released from prison and was homeless, the author was confident Santa Clara County Re-Entry services would assist her. But every County door shut on her, and so together, they went through 48 hours of crisis trying to find answers.

SV De-Bug - SV De-Bug - January 30, 2024 January 29, 2024 Re: 8.1 Regulating Oversized Vehicles & 8.2 Addressing Encampments and Oversized Vehicles Around Schools Dear Mayor and City Council, We are so disappointed in the City of San Jose’s direction to criminalize a symptom of a larger housing crisis that instead of addressing root causes of poverty, ignores them altogether and punishes a vulnerable population with already limited options - threatening to end up taking what

"The White men came, committing bloody sins. They stole the gold and oil and grabbed the land. The Palestinians are Indians," writes rhymer Christopher Patrick Nelson in a striking poem.

The City of San Jose has issued a retraining order against the mother of Jacob Dominguez, who was killed by San Jose police. Jacob's family recently won a civil suit against the officer Mike Pina, when a jury found his lethal force unlawful. In a retaliatory act, the City filed a restraining order against Jacob's mother. The community has called on the city to drop the order.

On Nov 19, 2023, thousands of people - families with children and elders, met at San Jose City Hall to stand up for Gaza. They heard speakers and then peacefully and loudly marched down Santa Clara Street toward Roosevelt Park for another program and walk back. These are images of the day by Charisse Domingo & Donovan Castillero.

Author Raymond Goins gives context to the racist texts by former San Jose Police officer Mark McNamara, and how the racism expressed is indicative of a larger, long standing attack on the Black community by law enforcement and political decision-makers.

Imani is the lead organizer of the Community Defense of East Tennessee Participatory Defense hub, and is a National Participatory Defense Network Trainer/ Organizer on staff at De-Bug. She is also an artist and a writer, a community organizer and builder.

Joining the 11th Annual Quest for Democracy the author recalled the very different circumstances of his last trip to Sacramento and his reflections on the day of advocacy let us know he will continue to work on himself and advocate for the people left behind inside prison.

After 8 years of incarceration, author Donovan Castillero didn't mind an ankle monitor to be outside the prison walls, but with the limitations he was reminded of all he had missed and still wanted to experience.

On June 15th system impacted youth, formerly incarcerated young people, families & supportive communities from San Jose to Gilroy rallied in front of juvenile hall, the courts and the county to demand a stop to warehousing youth in juvenile hall. The following speech was delivered at the rally by Raymond Goins, who was in each unit of juvenile hall as a teen.

The City of San Jose is deciding its annual budget - a "back to basics" budget touted by Mayor Mahan that defunds permanent housing and increases the police budget. We oppose any reallocations of Measure E away from permanent solutions and we oppose any increase to an unaccountable police budget.

On June 5th, 2023 the ACLU and the Stanford Law School Criminal Defense Clinic, on behalf of SV De-Bug, filed this demand letter calling on Santa Clara County to change their directive which bars "people with arrest warrants from accessing court except by undergoing incarceration before arraignment."