The bill that could have given City Attorney Carmen Trutanich his own grand jury was shot down in...
Archive - June 2010
DCFS Worker Arrested For Having Sex With 15-Year-Old Girl
Rod Lautrec Carter, 45, who is employed as an investigator by the Department of Children and Family...
Wednesday RoundUp
A KID DIES AS DCFS OUT-OF-CONTROL BACKLOG OF ABUSE ALLEGATIONS INCREASES LA Times’ Garrett...
The LA Times, Probation and Inadequate “Second Chances” – UPDATED
(NOTE: BE SURE TO CHECK THE LA TIMES-RELATED UPDATE AT THE END OF THE POST.) I just reread this...
Mark Ridley-Thomas on Probation, the Feds, & Why the Sups are Squabbling
While the flow of revelations about the ghastly state of LA County’s juvenile probation...
LAPD Gets Out Ahead of the Problem in Video-Captured Tasing
The above video shows a belligerent man being tased Sunday night by an LAPD officer, and...
County Sups: $400K Death Payout, City Council: Vote on Trutanich Grand Jury
TRUTANICH’S GRAND JURY Tuesday the City Council is tentatively scheduled to discuss SB 1168...
Interview on the Ongoing Probation Debacle Coming Late Today
An interview with LA County Supervisor about the LA County Probation mess, how he thinks it should...
LA Press Club Honors Parole Series
At the LA Press Club Awards held in the Crystal ballroom of the Biltmore Hotel Sunday night, Arnold...
One of Pot Dispensary Workers Killed, Son of LA Labor Leader, Julie Butcher
Awful. Andrew Blankstein and David Zahniser report for the LAT: ‘No reason for anyone to die...