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	<title>WitnessLA.com &#187; Los Angeles County</title>
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		<title>SCOTUS Declines to Let Baca Legally Off the Hook in Jail Stabbing Case; So What Does That Suggest for Paul Tanaka&#8217;s Legal Future?</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/supreme-court/2012/admin/scotus-declines-to-let-baca-legally-off-the-hook-in-jail-stabbing-case-would-that-mean-tanaka-might-also-bear-actionable-responsibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 10:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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On Monday, the US Supreme Court rejected without comment an appeal that could have shielded Sheriff Lee Baca from legal responsibility for a pending jail abuse case.  The case involves an inmate named Dion Starr who was stabbed 23 times with a jail-made shank by three alleged Latino gang members in a racially charged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gang Violence, Daryl Gates &amp; the Task of Making it Home on April 29, 1992</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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On April 29, 1992, I began the day worrying about the threat of gang violence, not city-altering conflagration that the afternoon&#8217;s news would bring.
As every local media outlet has been discussing all week , twenty years ago on Sunday, Los Angeles exploded in what is generally considered to be the worst civil disturbance of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SMC Students Pepper Sprayed, Supes Lay Down the Law With Realignment, Colorado Closing Prisons and More</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/lasd/2012/admin/smc-students-pepper-sprayed-supes-lay-down-the-law-with-realignment-colorado-closing-prisons-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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SANTA MONICA COLLEGE STUDENTS PROTESTING RATE HIKES PEPPER SPRAYED
(NOTE:  Taylor Walker contributed to the following stories.)
Angry over a new system of pricey courses, around 30 not-very-dangerous looking Santa Monica College students tried to enter the trustees meeting on Tuesday night, and got lit up with pepper spray for their trouble.  
Stay classy SMC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supes Ask County Auditor-Controller to Examine LASD Aero Bureau Contract</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LA County Board of Supervisors]]></category>
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Responding to a motion by LA County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, the board of supervisors voted unanimously to request an audit of Aero Bureau&#8212;the air support division of the LA County Sheriff&#8217;s Department.  
In particular, the audit will examine the allegations&#8212;reported by WitnessLA and the LA Times last week&#8212;that high ranking deputies at Aero have [...]]]></description>
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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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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/lasd/2011/admin/dangerous-jails-help-needed-with-sheriffs-department-reporting/#comments</comments>
		<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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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/lasd/2011/admin/dangerous-jails-part-3-the-prince-by-matt-fleischer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LA County Jail]]></category>
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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>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/los-angeles-county/2011/admin/don-blevins-reportedly-will-resign-from-probation-avoiding-a-firing-vote/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/los-angeles-county/2011/admin/don-blevins-reportedly-will-resign-from-probation-avoiding-a-firing-vote/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<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>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/los-angeles-county/2011/admin/supes-maybe-interview-new-candidate-for-probation-chief-prison-hunger-strike-part-ii-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/los-angeles-county/2011/admin/redistricting-deal-made-knabe-plan-accepted-political-agendas-intact/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/los-angeles-county/2011/admin/redistricting-deal-made-knabe-plan-accepted-political-agendas-intact/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 01:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LA County Board of Supervisors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles County]]></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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