Press Releases

Press Release (Woodland, CA) – September 9, 2021 – The Yolo County District Attorney held a press briefing on Thursday morning, September 9, 2021, to announce the official launch of a first-of-its-kind Race Blind Charging program. Over the past few years, Yolo DA has...

AB 1542, Yolo's Drug Additional Treatment Bill, would provide treatment to those involved in the criminal justice system who live with drug addiction Press Release (Woodland, CA) – September 7, 2021 – On September 7, 2021, California Assembly member Kevin McCarty’s...

Press Release (Woodland, CA) – August 20, 2021 The Yolo County District Attorney’s Multi-Cultural Community Council Justice Leadership Awards Ceremony will be held on Wednesday, October 27, 2021, via zoom. The mission of the Yolo County’s Multi-Cultural Community...

Press Release (Woodland, CA) – (August 4, 2021) – Neighborhood Court is now known as the Yolo Restorative Justice Partnership (RJP). Since 2013, the Yolo County District Attorney has diverted over two thousand increasingly serious criminal cases through RJP. In RJP,...

Press Release (Woodland, CA) – August 3, 2021 - On July 30, 2021, 35 year-old Jasyn Bigasan-Carter, of Sacramento, pled no contest to multiple crimes including sex trafficking a minor, pimping a minor, felon in possession of a firearm, and dissuading a witness. In...

Press Release (Woodland, CA) - (July 30, 2021) – Yolo County was recently selected to be one of nine counties to receive funding for the California County Resentencing Pilot Project. The resentencing pilot project builds upon legislation under AB2942, which became...

Press Release (Woodland, CA) - (July 20, 2021) – West Sacramento resident Jayson Garcia was sentenced last week to 12 years, 8 months, local prison stemming from six separate drug trafficking arrests spanning a one-year period, and all committed while on mandatory...

McCarty’s Drug Treatment Bill Passes out of Senate Health Committee AB 1542 would provide treatment to those involved in the criminal justice system who live with drug addiction Press Release (Woodland, CA) – July 15, 2021 – On July 14, 2021, California Assembly...

Press Release (Woodland, CA) – July 7, 2021 – The Yolo County District Attorney’s Office is excited to announce the addition of five legal interns who started the Summer/Fall internship program at the conclusion of their law school spring semester. These new members...

Kenneth Buffer savagely beat James Williams over a drug deal Press Release (Woodland, CA) – April 18, 2019 – On June 29, 2021, Board of Parole Hearings commissioners granted convicted murderer Kenneth Buffer parole. Mr. Buffer, now 59, lived in Sacramento at the time...