The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is unable to fulfill its policing contract with Lancaster, the largest of the 42 “contract” cities in LA County, which the nation’s largest sheriff’s...
By Tim Henderson, Stateline Activists in North Carolina’s two largest cities, Charlotte and...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom promised to “end the juvenile justice system as we know it” on...
California and its law enforcement agencies have taken a string of extremely painful blows in the...
California Governor Gavin Newsom revealed the first iteration of his $209 billion budget for...
On Wednesday, 55 current and former prosecutors and law enforcement officials signed a statement in...
Between 2010 and 2016, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department booked 173,023 women into...
It’s not yet a done deal, but absent some kind of dramatic intervention, it appears that the...
Editor’s Note: As many readers are aware, WitnessLA has been publishing a series of...
On Wednesday, January 2, the California Supreme Court shut down a San Bernardino Sheriff’s...
By Tim Henderson More states plan to count state prisoners as residents of their home communities...
This past year, WitnessLA published various stories and investigations that we know made a...
This has been a full, complicated, and always interesting year in the world of justice in Los...
“For the first time in 5 years, violent crime and homicides are [down] in L.A.” Los...
By Stephanie Lacambra, Jeremy Gillula, and Jamie Williams, Electronic Frontier Foundation The...
WitnessLA’s posting will be lighter until 2019 rings in. Then we’ll be back in full...
Trump and Congress Take a “First Step” to Reduce Mass Incarceration On Friday, December...
LA supervisors see this Arts Justice Fund grant as an opportunity to expand the overall arts...
This video is part of a series of essays and videos WitnessLA is publishing that are written and/or...
