KIDS OF COLOR FACE HUGE BARRIERS TO OPPORTUNITY AND ACHIEVEMENT, AND THE US COULD SAVE A TON OF...
Archive - July 2015
Oakland Mentorship Program Offers Safety & Healing to Sexually Exploited Young Women – by Sarah Zahedi
EDITOR’S NOTE: San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego metropolitan areas are all rated as...
Does Youth Probation Help Kids or Push Them Deeper Into the Juvenile Justice System?….& How One Mich. County Does It Right
In recent years, juvenile judges around California have been making an effort to put kids on...
LA Supes Hold Discussion on LASD Oversight, Richmond’s Anti-Violence Program, Pell Grants for Prisoners, and Calexico’s Police Chief
LA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HEAR RECOMMENDATIONS AND HOLD DISCUSSION ON CREATING CIVILIAN...
Pulling Back the Blue Curtain: What Does the Public Really Have the Right to Know About Police Records?
In Los Angeles and around the country, law enforcement agencies are purchasing and deploying police...
Fresno’s Public Defender Problem…John Oliver on Mandatory Minimum Sentences…and Supes Consider LASD Oversight
ACLU LAWSUIT AGAINST FRESNO SAYS POOR DEFENDANTS GO WITHOUT ADEQUATE LEGAL REPRESENTATION FROM...
Former LASD Deputy Accuses Feds of Editing Testimony to Get Conviction
DID EDITED TESTIMONY MAKE A DIFFERENCE? The formal written brief asking the 9th Circuit Court of...
LASD Civilian Oversight Report, Kids and Prop 47, and Still No Child Welfare Czar
LA SUPES TO CONSIDER WORKING GROUP’S FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CREATING CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT...
DA Jackie Lacey Delivers Her Master Plan for Diverting LA’s Mentally Ill From Lock-Up
After 15 months of research, including out-of-state field trips to see what other cities and...
How Do You Rate the Risk of Kid in a Troubled Family of Being Abused? This Woman Has an App for That….& More
Ruby Guillen is a social worker who has worked for LA’s Department of Children and Family...