San Jose on Tuesday appointed prominent civil rights attorney Aaron Zisser as the city’s new police watchdog.

San Jose’s search for a new independent police auditor begins in earnest this month, as Walter Katz will officially resign from the post Friday.

San Jose’s police watchdog, Walter Katz, is on his way to Chicago after little more than a year on the job.

Heavy rainfall Monday didn’t stop more than 200 anti-Donald Trump activists from rallying in front of San Jose City Hall.

Racial minorities are more likely to get stopped, searched and cited than their white counterparts in San Jose, according to a new report.

San Jose's City Council will consider whether to bring a ballot measure to voters that would expand oversight of the Independent Police Auditor.

Two events in San Jose this month aim to build trust between local law enforcement and the communities they police.

In his inaugural report as SJPD watchdog, Walter Katz urges the city to take better accounting of how and when officers resort to force.

Sheriff Laurie Smith left in the middle of a hearing on jail reforms Tuesday, but her early exit rubbed some people the wrong way.

A reform commission created after the fatal beating of a mentally ill inmate wants to wrest control of the jails from Sheriff Laurie Smith.

A review of local jails found that inmate complaints often fall on deaf ears and that a lack of oversight allows guards to conceal their own misconduct.

It wasn’t until December, under mounting public pressure, that the Sheriff's Office disclosed its jail use-of-force and cell extraction policies.

Last week we ran through the biggest stores of 2015 in our annual Year in Review. As we pivot to a New Year, here's a look at the stories to come.

Inmates are dying, jail guards are breaking laws and sending racist texts, and worse, some may even be raping the men and women behind bars.

An oversight board tasked with examining Santa Clara County jails decided against disbanding, despite concerns that a parallel probe would undermine its work.

A commission assigned to investigate local jails meets Saturday. Its first order of business: deciding whether to call the whole thing off.