Press Releases

Press Release (Woodland, CA) – October 4, 2019 October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Domestic Violence Awareness Month (DVAM) evolved from the “Day of Unity” held in October 1981. In October 1987, the first Domestic Violence Awareness Month was...

Press Release (Woodland, CA) – October 2, 2019 – On October 1, 2019, an audience full of supporters, family members, members of the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office, 13 members of the District Attorney’s Office, and a representative from Assemblymember Cecilia...

Press Release (Woodland, CA) – October 1, 2019 – On September 12, 2019 the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) Board of Trustees voted to approve a grant, totaling $2.1 million over three years, to sustain and expand the Yolo County District Attorney’s...

Press Release (Woodland, CA) – September 26, 2019 – The Yolo County District Attorney’s Office is hosting the 12th Annual Yolo County Senior Resource & Crime Prevention Fair on Wednesday, October 16, 2019, from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm at University Covenant Church...

Timothy Wilson killed John O’Friel thinking he was gay Press Release (Woodland, CA) –September 20, 2019 – On September 19, 2019, a Board of Parole Hearings panel granted parole to convicted murderer Timothy Wilson. At the hearing, which took place at California State...

Members of Law Enforcement spent two days at the Glide Church in the SF Tenderloin District Press Release (Woodland, CA) – September 16, 2019 – During the dates of September 10-12, 2019, police officers, prosecutors, an investigator, a victim advocate, and other...

Rohail Sarwar was Convicted of Murder with Special Circumstances and Sexual Assault Press Release (Woodland, CA) – September 13, 2019 - On September 12, 2019, the Honorable Judge Paul Richardson sentenced 28-year-old Woodland man, Rohail Sarwar, to life without the...

Press Release Woodland, CA - September 12, 2019 District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced that the Yolo County District Attorney’s Multi-Cultural Community Council (MCCC) honored a dozen Yolo County citizens in five different categories at the 6th annual MCCC Justice...

Code for America, a nonprofit that develops technology to improve government service delivery, has developed a free Community Resource Guide that provides resources and information to help spread the word about AB 1793, a new California law that requires the...

Press Release (Woodland, CA) – September 5, 2019 -- Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig announced that four Yolo County residents graduated from the Steps to Success (S2S) diversion program on August 28, 2019. The well-attended ceremony, honoring Jose Maldanado,...