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		<title>Deconstructing the Prop 8 Decision</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Liberties]]></category>
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 On Tuesday morning, there was mostly ebullience.  However, by afternoon  the significance of Tuesday&#8217;s Proposition 8 decision by the 9th Circuit was being examined from every angle.
 The majority opinion for the 2 to 1 ruling was, after all,  written by the most liberal justice on the most liberal appellate court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prop 8 Challenge: Waiting for the 9th Circuit &#8211; UPDATED:  8 is UNconstitutional!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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UPDATE:  Today is a very good day for human beings.
No reporting can speak quite as eloquently to the point as the opening of the ruling itself, the majority opinion, written by Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt.
You can find it here.
But here&#8217;s one line that sums up all:
Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jails Commission Anonymity, Warrentless Tracking &amp; Juvenile LWOP</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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SHERIFF&#8217;S DEPUTIES CAN&#8217;T BE GUARANTEED CONFIDENTIALITY IN JAILS COMMISSION TESTIMONY

The controversy over whether or not those testifying before the Citizens Commission on Jail Violence can be offered anonymity may have just been settled. 
LA Times reporters Robert Faturechi and Jack Leonard spoke to the Commission&#8217;s lead attorney, Richard E. Drooyan, who explained that legally, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LAPD Chief Charlie Beck Throws a Book Party for Connie Rice</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American voices]]></category>
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It wasn&#8217;t your usual book party.
For one thing, Monday night&#8217;s book launching event for civil rights lawyer  Connie Rice&#8217;s new memoir, Power Concedes Nothing, was held at the LAPD&#8217;s headquarters, in the over-lit Compstat room, no less&#8212;i.e. the room where the cops go to hear a rundown on the latest crime statistics and &#8216;crime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is a Federal Consent Decree Coming for LA&#8217;s Juvie Probation Camps?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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THE LATEST DOJ REPORT FUELS RENEWED SPECULATION THAT A FEDERAL CONSENT DECREE MIGHT BE IN THE FUTURE FOR LA COUNTY&#8217;S TROUBLED PROBATION CAMPS

This past Friday the Federal monitors representing US Department of Justice delivered their 145 page response to LA County Probation&#8217;s claims that its juvenile camps were mostly &#8220;In compliance&#8221; with the Feds&#8217; 41 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy LA:  Tuesday Night: LAPD Removes the Occupiers (Mostly) Peacefully</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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3:25:  THE MAYOR AND THE CHIEF OF POLICE COME OUT AND SAY A FEW WORDS
Villaraigosa said of Chief Charlie Beck:  &#8220;He&#8217;s someone who understands that Constitutional policing is the only way to go for Los Angeles.&#8221;
Charlie Beck said that 1400 officers took part, and there were around 200  arrests. (There were 292 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SCOTUS Hears Death Penalty Case of Missed Deadlines&#8230;MT Challenges Pot &amp; Guns Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 07:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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This death penalty case about returned mail and multiple oversights on the part of lackadaisical court clerks and ball-dropping lawyers seemed to get a positive hearing from everyone but Scalia who reportedly was the only obvious contra.  
The AP&#8217;s Mark Sherman has the story.
Here&#8217;s how it opens:
WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; The tale of returned mail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>26 Criminal Justice &amp; Civil Rights Leaders Call for Fed Probe Into Jail Abuse</title>
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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>Eric Holder Invokes State Secrets Act in FBI/SoCal Mosques Spying  Lawsuit</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/civil-rights/2011/admin/eric-holder-invokes-state-secrets-act-in-fbisocal-mosques-spying-lawsuit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 07:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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In a filing late Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder argued that national security would be damaged if the feds were forced to reveal who was the focus of mosque-spying operation in 2006, and how it was done, the Sac Bee reports.
(Politico also has a good report here.)
A look at the lawsuit that has caused all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Noose &amp; Racial Bullying In a Santa Monica High Locker Room</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/education/2011/admin/a-noose-racial-bullying-in-a-santa-monica-high-locker-room/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 08:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
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Here is what we know of the story:
A sophomore on the Santa Monica High School wrestling team says that, on May 4, he walked into the school&#8217;s wrestling room and saw the team&#8217;s brown practice dummy with a noose around its neck.   As this same student, who happens to be black, headed for [...]]]></description>
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