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		<title>Rumors Persist that Baca is Shaking Up His Top Management</title>
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In general we consider it bad form to report on rumors, but this one has grown so persistent, detailed and wide-spread in the last few days  that not reporting it is beginning to seem peculiar.
The primary rumor is as follows:
Sheriff Lee Baca will soon announce that he is demoting his ultra-powerful second in command, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Round-Up: Miramonte Gets Messier, Private Prisons Lose Biz&#8230;and More</title>
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LAUSD PAID $40 GRAND TO SETTLE WITH MIRAMONTE TEACHER MARK BERNDT, BUT PUT BLOTCH ON RECORD OF INNOCENT MIRAMONTE TEACHERS.  REALLY.
KPCC&#8217;S Tami Abdollah with Shirley Jahad broke the $40 K settlement story and the opening paragraph pretty much says it all:
The Los Angeles Unified School District agreed last June to pay about $40,000 to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changes in Sheriff&#8217;s Department Have Insiders Guessing at the Meaning</title>
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THE SHERIFF MAKES THREE CHANGES AND INSIDERS SEARCH FOR HIDDEN MEANING
reported by Matt Fleischer and Celeste Fremon

It is rumored that there may be one or two unexpected shifts in personnel  in the Los Angeles Sheriff&#8217;s department command staff.  More on that later as we sort fact from gossip.
In the meantime, three small but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge&#8217;s Allows LA Times Reporters a Rare Visit Inside Children&#8217;s Courts</title>
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LA Times reporters Garrett Therolf and John Hoeffel experience their first visit inside LA County&#8217;s main children&#8217;s court, a territory previously forbidden to reporters&#8212;until, after much deliberation and controversy, Children&#8217;s Court Presiding Judge Michael Nash ordered the courtsto be open to the media, except in cases when a judge finds that it would be harmful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deconstructing the Prop 8 Decision</title>
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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>Friends of Paul Tanaka:  Campaign Donations, 2009</title>
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As those of you who have been following Matt Fleischer&#8217;s Dangerous Jails series know, we have received quite a number of requests from people working for (or retired from) the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department asking us to post The Friends of Paul Tanaka campaign contributions lists that we acquired for WitnessLA/the LA Justice Report through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prop 8 Challenge: Waiting for the 9th Circuit &#8211; UPDATED:  8 is UNconstitutional!</title>
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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>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/civil-rights/2012/admin/prop-8-challenge-waiting-for-the-9th-circuit/</link>
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		<title>SHOOT THE MESSENGER:  Sheriff&#8217;s Department Investigates Ret. Cmr. Olmsted&#8217;s Accounts of Jail Violence and Higher Ups Lack of Response</title>
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In an interesting turn of events, the Los Angeles Sheriff&#8217;s Department has launched an investigation into whether or not retired custody commander, Robert Olmsted, was blocked from from correcting problems at Men&#8217;s Central Jail that he said he repeatedly reported to command staff.  
Olmsted worries that the new probe is merely an attempt to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/los-angeles-times/2012/admin/shoot-the-messenger-sheriffs-department-investigates-ret-cmr-olmsteds-whistleblower-accounts-of-jail-violence-and-higher-ups-lack-of-response/</link>
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		<title>Deputies Union Tells Jail Commission NO Access to Deputy Disciplinary Records</title>
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One of the more interesting moments in Friday&#8217;s meeting of the Citizen&#8217;s Committee on Jail Violence came when Richard Drooyan,  the General Counsel for the Commission, gave his report.  
Drooyan, a former Chief of the Criminal Division in the US Attorney&#8217;s Office in LA, now in private practice, (and was also was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prop 8 Videos,  Jails Commission Meets, Colbert v. SCOTUS, Sentencing Reform</title>
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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>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/supreme-court/2012/admin/prop-8-videos-jails-commission-meets-colbert-v-scotus-sentencing-reform/</link>
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