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		<title>ChangeLA Fundraiser:  Help Train LA&#8217;s Next Gen Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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If you want to go to a cool party this weekend and congratulate yourself on doing a good deed at the same time, consider the ChangeLA Fundraiser, sponsored by Liberty Hill, an LA-based nonprofit that has a history of supporting small but significant LA projects that larger funders tend to overlook.

A featured speaker on Saturday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SB399: Juvenile Sentencing Madness About to Come to a Vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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&#8220;We can keep the public safe without locking children up forever for crimes committed when they were still considered too young to have the judgment to vote or drive.&#8221;
- Elizabeth Calvin, children&#8217;s advocate, Human Rights Watch

The Fair Sentencing for Youth Act, SB 399, may or may not be passed into law  this week in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SCOTUS Rules on Both: Sexual Preditors and LWOP Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 00:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Two important criminal justice rulings came down from the Supremes today.  (More details on both these cases late tonight, but for now, here are the broad strokes.)


LWOP KIDS
In a 5-4 ruling with Justice Kennedy writing for the majority, the Supreme Court ruled that a sentence of life without the possibility of parole&#8212;LWOP&#8212;for a juvenile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday&#8217;s Must Reads</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 09:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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When LA Times writer Joe Mozingo came to guest lecture at my Annenberg  class last fall, he mentioned that, for months, between other assignments, he&#8217;d been working somewhat obsessively on a story about his personal heritage.  Joe had taken it into his head to find out the origin of his last name, Mozingo, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And the WTF Were They Thinking? Award Goes to&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Lower Merion School District, a suburban school district near Philadelphia,  gave nearly 2,300 high school students their own laptop computers. 
What a good idea! How great for the students!
Well, as it turns out, yes and no.  It seems that, to make sure the computers were secure, the district installed a nifty tracking system [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PA 12-year-old Could be Youngest Lifer Kid</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 08:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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A 12-year-old Pennsylvania boy is to be tried for the murder of his soon-to-be stepmother and her unborn child.  He was 11 at the time of the shooting.  The judge who ordered the adult proceedings says that the boy, Justin Brown, has no remorse thus is unlikely to be rehabilitated.  
If he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Owed the Victims of Child Porn?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Should people who are convicted of downloading pornographic images of a child have to pay the victim?  It is a new and controversial question.  Some people feel the download is a victimless crime.  But read on: 
And The New York Times has a story about the issue on Wednesday
When Amy was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday&#8217;s Social Justice Shorts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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WHEN DOES RESTRAINING AND SECLUDING KIDS TURNS ABUSIVE AND DANGEROUS
On Wednesday, December 9, Representatives George Miller (D-CA) and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) plan to  introduce a bill that prevents the misuse of restraint and seclusion on school kids. (Miller is the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee.  McMorris Rodgers is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Motivating Foster Care Kids to College</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/public-health/2009/admin/motivating-foster-care-kids-to-college/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Every year around 5,000 kids are emancipated from California&#8217;s foster care system.  Sixty-five percent of those kids who &#8220;age out&#8221; of foster care do so with nowhere to live, and 51 percent are unemployed.
When combined with whatever abuse and/or neglect brought a kid into the system, the effects of this sudden removal of all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1 in 7 American Teenagers Think They&#8217;ll Die Young</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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In a brand new study published in the July issue of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota pediatrics expert, Dr. Iris Wagman Borowsky, found that almost 15 percent of American teens believe they will die before age 35.
Dr. Borowsky also found that the adolescents who were the least hopeful that they would survive past 35, were the [...]]]></description>
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