Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
From the town clerks who answer our questions and help us find public records, to police officers who pay for their lunches and tip their servers well— not everyone in public service runs from accountability.
But some do.
In this video, we take you inside a decade of local investigative reporting — from the officials who assist us to the elected attorneys with bodyguards who never turn around when the camera is on.
Elected officials and appointed attorneys with too much power share one thing in common: they fear the questions nobody else is asking. Questions about how public money is spent. About how public trust is used. About why the people paid the most to serve the public are the least willing to show their work on camera.
\\Here is our link to today's article as we focus on the District Attorney making nearly $600,000 in pay and benefits who too a free lunch with a city councilman he sent to prison two years later.
davisvanguard.org/2026/05/child-sex-abuse-network-lawsuit
From the town clerks who answer our questions and help us find public records, to police officers who pay for their lunches and tip their servers well— not everyone in public service runs from accountability.
But some do.
In this video, we take you inside a decade of local investigative reporting — from the officials who assist us to the elected attorneys with bodyguards who never turn around when the camera is on.
Elected officials and appointed attorneys with too much power share one thing in common: they fear the questions nobody else is asking. Questions about how public money is spent. About how public trust is used. About why the people paid the most to serve the public are the least willing to show their work on camera.
\\Here is our link to today's article as we focus on the District Attorney making nearly $600,000 in pay and benefits who too a free lunch with a city councilman he sent to prison two years later.
davisvanguard.org/2026/05/child-sex-abuse-network-lawsuit
