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		<title>Molina Lobs the G-Word at Baca, Accusations of Evidence Tampering &amp; More LASD News</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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To be exact, Supervisor Gloria Molina tossed two G-words in Sheriff Baca&#8217;s direction during Tuesday&#8217;s Board of Supervisors meeting when she was questioning the sheriff about the Sheriff&#8217;s Department&#8217;s progress&#8212;or lack thereof&#8212;-in implementing the recommendations made last October by Special Counsel Merrick Bobb and the Office of Independent Review relating violence in Baca&#8217;s troubled jails.
Among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DANGEROUS JAILS: Help Needed with Sheriff&#8217;s Department Reporting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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9:50 PM UPDATE:  Amazing!  In Just a few hours you all came through, and  Matt&#8217;s next story is funded. (It&#8217;ll appear early next week.)  But please keep doing the questionnaire, as any $$ gathered will continue to be used exclusively to fund this investigation.  (And, obviously,  if you feel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dangerous Jails, Part 3:  THE PRINCE &#8211; by Matt Fleischer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The article below is Part Three of WitnessLA’s investigation into the culture of violence and abuse that, for years, has been reported to exist inside the Los Angeles County Jail system—and the dysfunction inside the sheriff’s department that has allowed the abuse to flourish.
(You can find Part One of the series here, Part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don Blevins Reportedly Will &#8220;Resign&#8221; From Probation,  Avoiding a Firing Vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 07:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LA County Board of Supervisors]]></category>
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Soon to be ankling Probation Chief Don Blevins is back from vacation looking very tanned and cheerful.
The latest word (from sources close to probation and the Board of Supes) is that, although Blevins was informed two weeks ago (as WLA reported)  it is time for him and LA County Probation to part ways (translation: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supes Interview New Candidate for Probation Chief&#8230;Prison Hunger Strike, Part II&#8230;and More</title>
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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>Knabe Redistricting Plan Accepted, Lawsuits Probable, Secret Plan in Play &#8211; UPDATED</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LA County Board of Supervisors]]></category>
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 An 11th hour deal was struck in the LA County redistricting battle on Tuesday afternoon after a brief closed door session. When the Supes emerged from behind the closed doors, they voted and, all at once, the deed was done. 
The winning plan that finally got the necessary four votes after weeks of stalemate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Country Redistricting&#8230;.Jails, FBI &amp; Cell Phones&#8230;and the State Parolee Handover</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/lasd/2011/admin/country-redistricting-jails-fbi-cell-phones-and-the-state-parolee-handover/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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RESHAPING LA COUNTY&#8217;S DISTRICTS &#8211; WHO WILL WIN THE POLITICAL BATTLE? 
The final hearing on the topic of how and how much the county ought to be redistricted will be held at Tuesday&#8217;s LA County Supervisors&#8217; meeting, at which time the three possible redistricting plans for LA will be discussed.  Two of the plans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supervisors Approve New County Jail Phone Contract.  Are We Happy?</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/lasd/2011/admin/supervisors-approve-new-county-jail-phone-contract-are-we-happy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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On Tuesday the LA County Board of Supervisors voted to accept a new contract with Public Communications Services&#8212;or PCS&#8212;to provide the phones that inmates use to makes calls home from inside the county&#8217;s various jail facilities.
On Zev Yaroslavsky&#8217;s blog the deal  was pronounced a WIN-WIN.  And maybe it is.
But like most things in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Policy Trumps Politics as LA County Sups Give Probation the Nod for Parolees</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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At Tuesday&#8217;s meeting, the LA County Supervisors wisely put aside personal feelings and worries about political ramifications and made the correct and rational choice&#8212;even if the circumstances were not ideal&#8212;when they finally voted to designate Probation as the lead agency in monitoring the group of parolees who will begin to be funneled to California counties [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Probation Chief Blevins Survive the Unions&#8217; No Confidence Vote?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Probation]]></category>

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On Thursday, the four primary unions that represent all those (save management) who work in the LA County Department of Probation announced what union leaders are calling an  unprecedented  &#8220;No Confidence&#8221; vote that was delivered in letter  form to Probation Chief Donald Blevins.
 Blevins, who took over the catastrophically troubled agency in [...]]]></description>
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