Geoffrey King is the president and CEO of Open Vallejo, a startup, nonprofit online news site that publishes longform investigations about police and government misconduct in the city of Vallejo, California. An investigative report by Geoffrey for Open Vallejo published in July 2020 about the city’s police officers bending their badges to commemorate fatal shootings went viral, causing a major scandal and a subsequent third-party investigation of the police department.
Geoffrey is a native of Vallejo and went to UC Berkeley for undergrad. He then went on to Stanford Law School. As a litigator, he’s represented journalists, activists and artists. He’s been a member of multiple press freedom and reporting organizations, including the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists, where he co-chaired the group’s Freedom of Information Committee. In addition to his duties at Open Vallejo, Geoffrey also teaches privacy law at UC Berkeley.
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And click here to watch Geoffrey's recent interview with CNN's W. Kamau Bell.
Geoffrey’s shoutouts were to The Monterey County Herald, the Half Moon Bay Review, and the Shasta Scout. He also gave shoutouts to individual reporters, including John Glidden, Scott Morris and Otis R. Taylor Jr. (Geoffrey also mentioned Oaklandside and Berkeleyside, which have both been mentioned on this podcast before.)
(You may notice this episode is a little longer than the others, which are usually around ~45 minutes. I did my best to edit this episode. But I thought the conversation was too good to cut out extensive portions of it. Enjoy!)
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