Matthew Brown is an investigative reporter at Open Vallejo. Previously, Brown was a reporter for the Vallejo Times-Herald, where he focused on investigative and city government news. His reporting exposed critical issues such as Vallejo’s failure to investigate alleged bad-faith negotiations in a multimillion-dollar land deal and concerns over the handling of confidential courthouse records in Solano County. Brown also was a Dow Jones News Fund Multiplatform Editing Fellow at the San Francisco Chronicle and a reporting intern for POLITICO’s California bureau, focusing on housing and technology policy. 

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