Criminal Justice Journalism in the Public Interest

Archive - August 2014

DCFS • Foster Care • Homeboy Industries • Inspector General • Jim McDonnell • Juvenile Justice • LA County Board of Supervisors • LASD • Media • Sheriff John Scott • Solitary • U.S. Attorney

How is LA doing on DCFS Reform?….Hostage Deaths and the LASD Oversight Debate….Feds Find Unchecked Violence Against Teens at Rikers….and a Homeboy Food Truck

August 5, 2014

LA CHILD WELFARE REFORM “CHECKUP” REPORT STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF MEDIA PRESSURE TO KEEP...

Inspector General • Jim McDonnell • LA County Board of Supervisors • LASD • Paul Tanaka • Race • The Feds • War on Drugs

Creating Civilian Oversight of the Sheriff’s Dept….Paul Tanaka Campaign Inactive….LA Times Urges Five More Years for LAPD Chief Beck….and 91% ATF Drug Sting Arrests are of Minorities

August 4, 2014

SUPE RIDLEY-THOMAS, JIM MCDONNELL, OTHERS DISCUSS LASD CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT ON ABC7 “EYEWITNESS...

Juvenile Justice • Law Enforcement • Race & Justice • School to Prison Pipeline • Sentencing • The Feds • Trauma • Zero Tolerance and School Discipline

Using Risk Assessment in Sentencing…Protecting Kids Whose Parents are Being Arrested…and More

August 1, 2014

AG ERIC HOLDER OPPOSES USING RISK ASSESSMENT TO CALCULATE DRUG SENTENCES US Attorney General Eric...