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		<title>Prop 8 Videos,  Jails Commission Meets, Colbert v. SCOTUS, Sentencing Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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9TH CIRCUIT DECIDES THAT VIDEO OF PROP 8 TRIAL ARGUMENTS WILL NOT BE RELEASED
The San Jose Mercury News has the story.  Here&#8217;s a clip:

A federal appeals court on Thursday refused to allow the public release of the videotapes of the historic Proposition 8 trial that led a judge to overturn California&#8217;s voter-approved gay marriage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Cut the Education Program Helping Foster Kids&#8230;.&amp; Other Must Reads</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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A lot of necessary budget cutting is going on in the state right now. Many of the cuts are difficult.  But in a few cases, the cuts are poorly thought out&#8212;- penny wise and pound foolish (as my mother would have put it). 
The cut to Foster Youth Services is one of those cuts. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short Takes for Wednesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Realignment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wolves]]></category>

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HUNDREDS PROTEST THE UNWISDOM OF LAUSD&#8217;S PLAN TO ELIMINATE ADULT ED&#8212;COMPLETELY
In the budget presented to the LAUSD board last month, the $$ allocation for Adult Education was not just slashed, it was eliminated altogether.
On Tuesday afternoon, around 300 adult ed students demonstrated to protest the proposed vaporizing of the classes that more than 300,000 adults [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Nash Issues Order to Open Juvenile Dependency Court&#8230;and More</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/bears-and-alligators/2012/admin/judge-michael-nash-issues-order-to-open-juvenile-dependency-court-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Courts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry)]]></category>
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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>The Friends of Paul Tanaka Campaign Donations List:  2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LASD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheriff Lee Baca]]></category>
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We have received quite a number of requests from people working for (or retired from) the Los Angeles Sheriff&#8217;s Department asking us to post  The Friends of Paul Tanaka campaign contributions lists that WitnessLA/the LA Justice Report acquired through public records act requests.
Although we expect to be posting more of the lists in Dangerous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prez of Law Enforcement Union Writes That Baca Should Fix Problems in LASD, Instead of Hunting Department&#8217;s Leakers to Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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Stop trying to find those Sheriff&#8217;s Department insiders who are leaking to WitnessLA and other media outlets,  and focus on fixing the problems of &#8220;Corruption, abuses of power and &#8216;codes of silence&#8217;&#8221; within the department itself, writes PPOA president, Lt. Brian Moriguchi, in a new strongly worded message to Sheriff Lee Baca. 
Moriguchi, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LASD Deputy Says Dept. Captain Spiked His Investigation of Alleged Drug Dealer</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/lasd/2012/admin/lasd-deputy-says-dept-captain-spiked-his-investigation-of-alleged-drug-dealer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LASD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheriff Lee Baca]]></category>

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Bernice Abram, the personable captain of the Los Angeles Sheriff&#8217;s Department station in Carson, was placed on administrative leave last April when FBI agents believed they may have heard Abram&#8217;s voice on a wiretapped phone conversation involving Compton drug dealers. (Abram&#8217;s  niece, a sheriff&#8217;s custody assistant named Chantell White, was placed on leave at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Justice Round Up: Old Prisoners, Why LA&#8217;s Media Should Ride Buses</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/prison/2012/admin/friday-justice-round-up-old-prisoners-what-las-media-doesnt-dp/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/prison/2012/admin/friday-justice-round-up-old-prisoners-what-las-media-doesnt-dp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Times]]></category>
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NEW STUDY SAYS AGING PRISONERS FASTEST GROWING LOCKED-UP POPULATION 
The fact that aging prisoners are a growing issue has been reported on a lot lately as reporters and policy makers start to snap awake to the fact that locking up more people for longer is going to eventually produce a bunch of old guy (and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>The New Yorker: Why Do We Lock-Up So Many People?&#8230;&amp; Other Must Reads</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/prison/2012/admin/the-new-yorker-why-do-we-lock-up-so-many-people-other-must-reads/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/prison/2012/admin/the-new-yorker-why-do-we-lock-up-so-many-people-other-must-reads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American voices]]></category>
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Most Americans honestly don&#8217;t want to spend much time, energy or emotion thinking about people in jail or prison&#8212;unless, by chance they have a family member who is locked up.  
We harp on the issue here at WitnessLA since criminal justice is, after all, central to the mission of the site.   But [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>RESCUE ME:  LASD Deputies Make Multiple Hillside Rescues on Weekend</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/lasd/2012/admin/rescue-me-lasd-deputies-make-multiple-hillside-rescues-on-weekend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LASD]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Normally, it&#8217;s our business to investigate more than it is to praise.  
However, this story is just to remind everyone that we do also notice the everyday heroism performed week after week, year in, year out, by the men and women of the Los Angeles Sheriff&#8217;s Department (and the Los Angeles Police Department [...]]]></description>
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