Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig

Jeff Reisig is the District Attorney of Yolo County, which is one of California’s fifty-eight counties, located in Northern California, between the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento. Reisig has served as the county’s chief elected law enforcement official since 2007. In addition to overseeing all criminal prosecutions in the county, he also leads one of state’s most active environmental protection divisions.

During his tenure as DA, Reisig has focused intently on expanding diversion programs as a way to smartly redirect people out of the criminal justice system and into community based programs. In collaboration with community stakeholders, Reisig designed and launched a restorative justice-based alternative to traditional prosecution, called Neighborhood Court. Since its launch nearly a decade ago, thousands of people have been successfully diverted into the program, thereby ensuring accountability and victim healing, while also reducing recidivism and the criminal justice footprint. In addition, he has promoted multiple highly successful diversion programs designed to help those suffering from serious addiction and mental illness.

Reisig was the first prosecutor in the nation to launch a third-party hosted data-transparency portal in collaboration with the national reform organization Measures For Justice and a diverse community group he formed nearly a decade ago, the DA’s Multi-Cultural Community Council. The portal provides the public nearly unrestricted access to criminal justice data from his office, while also giving community members a platform to directly share their findings and engage policy makers and the media on the data.  In addition, the real-time comprehensive data has helped Reisig drive significant local policy changes to help mitigate against racial disparities and other factors that often contribute to historic inequities in the criminal justice system.

Reisig was one of the first district attorneys in the state to require all of his deputies to regularly receive implicit bias training. In addition, in 2017 he partnered with the Glide Church in San Francisco to form an immersion course for peace officers and prosecutors, designed to intimately expose participants to those who are suffering on the streets in order to develop a deeper level of understanding and empathy.

District Attorney Reisig was elected by his California colleagues as the incoming President of the California District Attorneys Association in 2021.

Education:

B.S. – UC Davis –Agricultural and Managerial Economics

J.D. – University of the Pacific