GENE MADDAUS ON RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BACA + HELLMOLD When Lee Baca resigned as LA County Sheriff...
Archive - May 2014
Jail Visitor Beaten by Deputies Wins Settlement, SCOTUS Moves to Protect Intellectually Disabled on Death Row, Problematic Proposed Adelanto Jail, RIP Maya Angelou…& WLA Finalist for LA Press Club Prize
JAIL VISITOR BEATEN BY LA COUNTY DEPUTIES WINS SEVEN-FIGURE SETTLEMENT In February 2011, a man...
OPERATION PANDORA’S BOX GOES TO TRIAL: Opening Arguments, LASD Fed Obstruction of Justice Trial, Round 2
“Lock the jail, hide the informant, silence the witnesses, threaten the FBI agent and make it...
Noteworthy Juvenile Justice Bills, the Price of Electronic Monitoring, and an LA Sheriff Campaign Update
JUVENILE JUSTICE REFORMS IN THE PIPELINE A number of important juvenile justice bills are making...
Isla Vista & the 2nd Amendment…..Paroling Lifers in CA…..LASD Opens Inmate Reentry Center….A One-of-a-Kind Sheriff’s Race….Next LASD/Fed Trial Begins Tuesday
ISLA VISTA & THE SECOND AMENDMENT Three days before Elliot Rodger went on his murderous...
Transforming Camp Kilpatrick, DOJ’s New Interrogation-Recording Policy, Empowering an Inspector General…and More
LA COUNTY’S CAMP KILPATRICK’S SHINY, NEW REHABILITATION-CENTERED FUTURE LA County...
PANDORA’S BOX: Mistrial declared! Jurors “hopelessly split” 6-6 in James Sexton obstruction of justice trial
After being sent back for additional deliberation twice by Judge Percy Anderson, a jury of five...
PANDORA’S BOX: Will Sexton Trial End Up in a Hung Jury?
In the course of their deliberation thus far in the James Sexton obstruction of justice trial, the...
Supes Terminate Contract with LA Works over $1M in Overcharges, San Quentin’s Award-Winning Newspaper, and an Arts Initiative for Low-Achieving Schools
AUDITS FIND LA WORKS OVERCHARGED LASD (AND ANOTHER COUNTY DEPT.) A WHOPPING $1M, SUPES END CONTRACT...
PANDORA’S BOX: After Closing Arguments the Sexton Case Goes to the Jury
COLLATERAL DAMAGE “Mr. Sexton is nothing more than collateral damage” in a conflict...