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		<title>Friday&#8217;s Juvenile Justice Must Reads (Plus Bear &amp; Wolf Stories)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 07:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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by Taylor Walker


USING PHOTOGRAPHS TO CHANGE MINDS ABOUT LOCKED UP KIDS
The Juvenile-in-Justice project, created by Photographer Richard Ross, documents the conditions youths live in within the juvenile justice system. The project is intended to raise awareness and will include traveling exhibit and a book&#8211;both due Fall 2012. The Juvenile-in-Justice book will include over 1000 photos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LAUSD Cuts, What KCET Found Inside Children&#8217;s Court, How the CDCR is Changing Methods&#8230;and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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LAUSD BOARD GRITS TEETH&#8230;.THEN SLASHES AND BURNS:  VOTES TO CUT ALL ADULT SCHOOLS&#8230;.AND A LOT MORE, HOPES THAT A PARCEL TAX &#38; UNION CONCESSIONS WILL SAVE ALL
The LA Times Stephen Ceasar reports:
The Los Angeles Board of Education approved a preliminary, worst-case $6-billion budget Tuesday, a plan that would eliminate thousands of jobs, close all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Nash Issues Order to Open Juvenile Dependency Court&#8230;and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Juvenile Court Presiding Judge Michael Nash did a brave and important thing on Friday&#8212;and then again on Monday.  On Friday he issued a draft order to open the Juvenile dependency courts to the press, allowing fresh air into a system in Los Angeles County that has long been disastrously closed.  Then on Monday, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short Takes: Presidential Pardons, 9th Circuit on Grizzlies, &amp; Bratton on Pepper Patrol, The LA Times on Jails Building</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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GOOD NEWS, OBAMA ISSUES FIRST COMMUTATION OF HIS PRESIDENCY. BAD NEWS:  WHAT TOOK HIM SO LONG? AND WHY JUST ONE?
Late Monday, the President pardoned five people and issued one commutation. 
 This is all very nice, of course.  But many of us who follow such things wonder why he has only pardoned a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Monday Must Reads</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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POLITICS TRUMPS SCIENCE:  MT &#38; IDAHO WOLVES REMOVED FROM THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT
In a completely incredible move that flew beneath the radar of many, and completely bypassed the interest threshold of others, Senator Jon Testor and Rep. Mike Simpson  from Montana and Arizona respectively, managed to get an inconspicuous, 11 line rider on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sanctity of Facebook Posts: A Constitutional Fight Brewing? &#8230;. and More</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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SHOULD STATE BE ABLE TO DEMAND A JUROR&#8217;S FACEBOOK POSTS?  CALIFORNIA SUPREMES WANT THE QUESTION CAREFULLY CONSIDERED
This one&#8217;s a doozey and is shaping up to be a Constitutional battle.  On one side you have the right to privacy and freedom of expression, on the other hand you have the constitutional rights of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Must Read (and Watch):  the Friday Edition</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/bears-and-alligators/2010/admin/must-read-and-watch-the-friday-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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WHAT KILLED AIYANA STANLEY-JONES?  
Former NY Times Pulitzer winner, Charlie Le Duff, writes about the death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones.  But the story is about a zillion more things than the single tragedy of a little girl being killed when Detroit SWAT burst into the wrong apartment and shots for reasons that are still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coyotes in Woodland Hills, Oh My!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bears and alligators]]></category>

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File this under don&#8217;t you have anything more freaking substantial to worry about?
The Daily News and several other So Cal publications have found the following to be, well, news:
 Police warned today that coyotes have been seen recently in neighborhoods in Woodland Hills and West Hills.
Residents should use caution when encountering such animals&#8230;.&#8221;
The story also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back in Town, Blogging Begins Tomorrow, 8/12</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/bears-and-alligators/2010/admin/back-in-town-blogging-begins-tomorrow-812/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life in general]]></category>
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OF WOLVES AND MEN (AND WOMEN AND DOGS)
I arrived back in LA on Tuesday night after 3 days of  driving from West Glacier, MT&#8212; my mind still lingering stubbornly on the banks of the Middle Fork of the Flathead River.
Thursday morning I&#8217;ll begin blogging in earnest.  
Then, Part 1 of the WitnessLA/Spot.Us LA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rescuing the Miracle Dog – Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 06:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Okay, now we return to the adventures of our intrepid attorney/dog rescuer Elie Miller, her trusty co-rescuer Beebee (who says that years ago he worked on a U.S. nuclear submarine, but now is an LA homeless guy), and Milagro, the abandoned, nearly-collar-strangled but smart and personable dog.  
(If you haven&#8217;t done so already, first [...]]]></description>
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