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		<title>So Cal ACLU Files Big Federal Law Suit Against Sheriff&#8217;s Dept. for Jails Violence</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/courts/2012/admin/so-cal-aclu-files-big-federal-law-suit-against-sheriffs-dept-for-jails-violence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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On Wednesday morning, The ACLU of Southern California filed a federal class action suit  against the Los Angeles Sheriff&#8217;s Department with the idea of getting a sharp-toothed federal injunction that will force the department, at legal gunpoint, if necessary, to make the changes necessary clean up its desperately troubled jails.
The suit makes it clear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Molina Lobs the G-Word at Baca, Accusations of Evidence Tampering &amp; More LASD News</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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To be exact, Supervisor Gloria Molina tossed two G-words in Sheriff Baca&#8217;s direction during Tuesday&#8217;s Board of Supervisors meeting when she was questioning the sheriff about the Sheriff&#8217;s Department&#8217;s progress&#8212;or lack thereof&#8212;-in implementing the recommendations made last October by Special Counsel Merrick Bobb and the Office of Independent Review relating violence in Baca&#8217;s troubled jails.
Among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Sheriff Was &#8220;Kept in the Dark&#8221; on Jails Abuse, Shouldn&#8217;t Heads Roll?</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/aclu/2011/admin/if-sheriff-was-kept-in-the-dark-on-jails-abuse-should-heads-roll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Last week, Sheriff Lee Baca did a massive mea culpa when he met with the Times Editorial Board and told them he didn&#8217;t know, but should have known, about the pattern of abuse of inmates by Sheriff&#8217;s deputies in his massive jail system.
Okay, at first bounce the sheriff&#8217;s Captain Louis Renault stance was not terribly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACLU Files Racial Profiling Suit Re: Creepy Incident With 56 Glendale Students</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The ACLU of So Cal filed a racial profiling lawsuit against Glendale Unified School District, the Glendale Police Department, the Los Angeles Police Department, and LA County Probation on Thursday having to do with a 2010 incident in which 56 Hoover High Hchool students were rounded up and questioned for an hour.
The suit names individual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incidents Where Deputies “Get Away” with Inmate Abuse May be on the Rise, says Independent Monitor&#8217;s New Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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 In his most recent report on the jails,   Michael Gennaco,  head of LA County&#8217;s Office of Independent Review (OIR),  details 12 incidents, in relation to which, a total of more than 30 jail employees have been fired or suspended for either abusing inmates or helping to cover up abuse they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re:  the Jails Mess, Baca Says He&#8217;d Welcome a Civilian Commission, So Where are the Supes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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On Tuesday morning, both the LA Times editorial board and WitnessLA called for the LA County Supervisors to appoint an independent civilian commission&#8212;a la the Christopher Commission (which looked into LAPD practices post Rodney King)&#8212;to investigate the civil rights mess that is occurring in the County&#8217;s jails facilities.
On Which Way LA?  Tuesday night, after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 Big Reasons Why the Calls for Sheriff Lee Baca to Resign are Dead Wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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In a blogpost that appeared on the LA Times website in the late morning this past Friday, columnist Steve Lopez called for Sheriff Lee Baca to resign.  
A lot of frantic chatter about whether the Sheriff should, could or would resign followed the appearance of the column.  (The ACLU also called for Baca&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>26 Criminal Justice &amp; Civil Rights Leaders Call for Fed Probe Into Jail Abuse</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/civil-rights/2011/admin/26-criminal-justice-civil-rights-leaders-call-for-fed-probe-into-jail-abuse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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THE LETTER
On Thursday afternoon, the ACLU released a letter signed by 26 criminal justice, civil rights and religious leaders that calls for a broader Federal investigation of the alleged abuse of inmates and misconduct by sheriff&#8217;s deputies inside the LA County Jails.  
The letter is addressed to US Attorney General Eric Holder, US Attorney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACLU Witnesses Detail Shocking Abuse in LA Jails&#8212;&amp; Baca Dismisses It All</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/aclu/2011/admin/aclu-witnesses-detail-shocking-abuse-in-la-jails-and-in-a-press-conference-afterward-baca-dismisses-accounts/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/aclu/2011/admin/aclu-witnesses-detail-shocking-abuse-in-la-jails-and-in-a-press-conference-afterward-baca-dismisses-accounts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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&#8220;I have never seen anything that approaches the patterns of violence, misfeasance and malfeasance that particularly infects the Los Angeles County jail system.&#8221;
Tom Parker, Former Assistant Special Agent in Charge of FBI LA Field Office

The witnesses include two jail chaplains, film producer Scott Budnick of &#8220;Hangover&#8221; fame   who volunteers at Men&#8217;s Central Jail,, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ACLU Releases a Disturbing New Jails Report &#8230;and the News is Bad</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 07:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Tuesday morning, the Southern California ACLU released a new and deeply disturbing report detailing, yet again,  the systemic pattern of abuse by deputies taking place in the LA County Jail System.  This time the report contains the accounts of witnesses along with those from the inmates describing abuse.
Both the LA Times and the [...]]]></description>
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