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	<title>WitnessLA.com &#187; Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry)</title>
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		<title>Thursday Must Reads: CA Juvie Facilites, an ICE Dention Dependant Town &#8230;&amp; More</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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by Taylor Walker



TO CLOSE OR NOT TO CLOSE CA&#8217;S COSTLY JUVENILE PROGRAMS?
SF Chronicle&#8217;s Marisa Lagos reports on the advantages (and disadvantages) of the state&#8217;s controversial juvenile justice programs that the governor proposes to close and the effect that closure could have on the programs&#8217; resident youth.
Here&#8217;s a clip:
This is California&#8217;s solution to dealing with its [...]]]></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>
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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>Supes Interview New Candidate for Probation Chief&#8230;Prison Hunger Strike, Part II&#8230;and More</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/los-angeles-county/2011/admin/supes-maybe-interview-new-candidate-for-probation-chief-prison-hunger-strike-part-ii-and-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Last week WitnessLA reported (based on the word of multiple inside sources) that Probation Chief Donald Blevins had been informed the week before that his tenure in LA County Probation was over;  he was being given the boot.
When other news outlets, like KPCC, called Probation to confirm our report they were told no such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jerry Brown Signs Important New Law Restricting Use of Jailhouse Snitches</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The use of jailhouse snitches has been a notorious sources of wrongful convictions.  
On Monday, the state of California just took a large step in correcting that problem when Governor Jerry Brown signed a law that greatly restricts how jailhouse snitches may be used.
The Sac Bee&#8217;s Carol Williams wrote this story  before Brown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Legal Must Reads:  New CA Supreme Justice Goodwin Liu&#8230;Asylum&#8230;and Prisons</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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A trio of legal and justice stories that you shouldn&#8217;t miss:

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF JERRY BROWN&#8217;S APPOINTMENT OF GOODWIN LIU TO THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT
In his Sunday column, the Sac Bee&#8217;s Dan Morain has an interesting take on why Governor Jerry Brown&#8217;s recent appointment of Goodwin Liu to the California Supreme Court is important&#8212;to him and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Must Reads:  Prison Guard Deals, School Board Rogues &amp; More</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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THE BULLIES AND ROGUES OF THE COMPTON UNIFIED SCHOOL BOARD
The drama of the hoped for &#8220;Parent Trigger&#8221; transformation of Compton&#8217;s McKinley Elementary School was covered quite well by Patrick Range McDonald at the LA Weekly late last year and early this year.
In case you don&#8217;t know, the so-called parent trigger gives parents the power to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Affordable Housing &amp; the War Over Redevelopment &#8212; by Shashi Hanuman</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/homelessness/2011/admin/affordable-housing-the-war-over-the-redevelopment-by-shashi-hanuman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE:  The newest and bloodiest front in Sacramento&#8217;s ongoing budget battle  is around the issue of redevelopment agencies or RDAs&#8212;and whether to abolish them, at least for the time being.
In essence, RDA&#8217;s redirect local property taxes toward a variety of economic development programs. The state makes up the $$ difference for each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jerry Talks Straight in the State of the State</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 06:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Just after 5 pm on Monday, Jerry Brown gave his 8th ever State of the State speech&#8212;the first of his new term, and his first in 30 years.  (The  last time he delivered one of these he had a very full head of dark hair.) 
Brown&#8217;s oration was not overly polished. There was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Anne Factor:  Or Why Jerry Will Be Different This Time</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/city-government/2010/admin/the-anne-factor-or-why-jerry-will-be-different-this-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The Daily Beast has a brand new profile of soon to be California First Lady, Anne Gust Brown, and her affect on the life and work of the governor elect.  But before we get to the DB story, a few personal recollections on the same topic:


MY FIRST VERY BIG STORY AS A YOUNG AND [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday Must Reads &#8211; The Education Version</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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UC BOARD MAY RAISE FEES&#8212;AGAIN
The LA Times Carla Rivers reports:

Faced with flagging state funding and a $1-billion budget hole, University of California officials on Monday proposed several actions to preserve programs and stabilize finances, including far-reaching pension reforms and an 8% student fee increase for next school year.
Under the plan, undergraduate student fees for 2011-12 [...]]]></description>
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