This searchable database created by the Southern California News Group contains details about every jail death in the region ...

MARTINEZ — Federal and local authorities have launched a manhunt after a man who was awaiting extradition to Seattle for a pending murder charge was released from jail, under circumstances that the ...

The California legislature’s passage of Senate Bill 79 didn’t come without a few modifications, including a carveout that excludes one county. Contra Costa County in the Bay Area wouldn’t be required ...

The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday appointed Dr. Grant Colfax, former director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health, as director of Contra Costa Health (CCH), ...

Despite requests from community groups and Contra Costa County’s Public Defender to stop reporting inmate release data for people living here illegally to Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents, ...

Protesters clash with federal agents while trying to block a vehicle containing local immigrants who had been detained outside the Concord Immigration Court on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (Tony Hicks/Bay ...

A heated debate unfolded in Contra Costa County Tuesday as immigration advocates demanded the sheriff stop cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Dozens of people gathered in the ...

Tomorrow morning, the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors will hold its annual forum to discuss local immigration enforcement activities. The public meeting is required by the TRUTH Act. It was ...