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		<title>Independent Monitor Says Reform in LASD Will Rest on Baca&#8217;s Leadership</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/lasd/2012/admin/independent-monitor-says-reform-in-lasd-will-rest-on-bacas-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 11:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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In Monday,  special counsel to the LA County Board of Supervisors, Merrick Bobb, issued his semi-annual report  in which he found that complaints in the department were being handled appallingly slowly, and that reform in the jails, while showing some heartening progress, still had a long way to go.
Yet Bobb&#8217;s strongest  theme [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Probation Dept. Is Asked for Solutions to Its Realignment Problems, Comes Back with Nada to Speak of</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
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Earlier this month, the LA County Supervisors passed a motion authored by Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas that asked the county&#8217;s Probation Department to come up with some ideas as to how Probation might improve the way it was handling the more than 5000 newly-released inmates that had been handed to LA County Probation for oversight as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Must Reads &amp; Short Takes for Cesar Chavez Friday</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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it slipped my mind that today was Cesar Chavez Day.  So since many are taking the day off (and, yes, many of us aren&#8217;t), the promised Part 2 of Aero Bureau will appear Monday, not today.
In the meantime, watch the hour-long PBS video on the Farm Worker&#8217;s Movement at the end of the post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jails Commission Meets &amp; Hearing Set Re: How CA&#8217;s Young Men of Color Can Thrive</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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JAILS COMMISSION MEETS TO HEAR TESTIMONY FROM INDEPENDENT MONITOR AND SPECIAL COUNSEL
The Citizens Commission on Jail Violence will meet at 10 a.m. on Friday, where they&#8217;ll hear reports and testimony from  Michael Gennaco, Office of Independent Review and Merrick Bobb, Special Counsel.
The Commission has a website that will tell you all its goings on. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jails Commission Adds 2 More Members&#8212;One a Strong Jails Reformer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The special Jail Violence Commission ordered by the LA County Board of Supervisors has added its final two members&#8212;one of whom, in particular, is a very heartening choice.
One of the two, Robert Bonner, is a former federal judge, a former prosecutor, and even a former DEA administrator.   This brings the total number of [...]]]></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>Knabe Names Top Cop Jim McDonnell to  Jails Commission</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 01:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Don Knabe has broken with the prevailing trend and, instead of nominating an august and respected former judge as his pick for the LA County Supe&#8217;s Jail Violence Commission&#8212;-Knabe picked a guy with his own badge and a gun.
Here&#8217;s how it happened: it seems that Knabe turned to Long Beach Chief of Police Jim McDonnell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Over But the Paperwork: Jerry Powers Will Be Chief Probation Officer for LA</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s not officially official yet, but deals have been made, hands have been shaken, last minute contractual stumbling blocks have been shoved off the road ahead.  Barring any force majeure, Jerry Powers, the Probation Chief for Stanislaus County will take over LA County&#8217;s very troubled and very large Department of Probation.
The official approval by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Independent Jails Commission Likely to be Approved by Supes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The proposed 5-person Citizens’ Commission on Jail Violence will be voted on by the LA County Supervisors today, Tuesday, and it looks as if  the motion&#8212;proposed by Zev Yaroslavsky and Mark Ridley-Thomas&#8212;will likely gather the necessary three votes to pass.
 Other than Yaroslavsky and Ridley-Thomas, none of the other Supes has officially committed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fed Jails Probe Widens &amp; Sheriff Says He Knew Nada</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/sheriff-lee-baca/2011/admin/the-fed-jails-probe-widens-sheriff-says-he-knew-nada/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Two important things having to do with the LA County Jails abuse scandal and with Sheriff Lee Baca happened over the weekend. 
 THE WIDENING OF THE FEDERAL INVESTIGATION: 
 It is now clear that the FBI&#8217;s probe of the abuse of jail inmates by Sheriff&#8217;s deputies is much wider than simply an investigation into [...]]]></description>
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