The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department may be failing to weed out problematic or...
Archive - June 2016
A Focus on Homelessness, Veterans Courts in CA, SF District Attorney on SFPD Reform, and Bellfower Shooting Suspect Charged
NEWS ORGS POINT SPOTLIGHT ON HOMELESSNESS IN SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, AND BEYOND This week...
Education Reformer Steve Barr Announces a Run for Mayor in 2017
Running against a well-liked incumbent Los Angeles mayor is usually...
Former LA Undersheriff Paul Tanaka Gets 5-Year Sentence & Scorching Lecture
On Monday morning, U.S. District Court Judge Percy Anderson sentenced former Los Angeles County...
Sentencing Day Arrives for Former Los Angeles County Undersheriff Paul Tanaka
Paul Tanaka, the former undersheriff of the Los Angeles County, will be sentenced on Monday morning...
LASD Deputies Shot in Bellflower—UPDATED…Personnel Files & the Oakland PD Scandal…CA DOJ Investigating San Bernardino Child Welfare System…and LAUSD’s Random Weapon Checks
UPDATE: SUSPECT ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF SHOOTING DEPUTIES On Friday morning, authorities arrested...
Body Cams for LAPD…SCOTUS Decision on Evidence From Illegal Police Stops…and Bills
On Wednesday, the LA City Council approved a nearly $60 million plan to equip 7,000 Los Angeles...
California Funds Gun Research, LASD Mental Health Crisis Efforts, a Collaboration of Arts Groups in Juvie Camps, and Possible Settlement in Gabriel Fernandez Case
FIVE MILLION ALLOCATED FOR GUN VIOLENCE RESEARCH CENTER AT A UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA A pot of $5...
L.A.’s One-and-Only Native American Foster Mom – by Daniel Heimpel
MEET L.A.’S ONE AND ONLY NATIVE AMERICAN FOSTER MOM A look at the urgent need for foster...
Former Sheriff Lee Baca’s Alzheimer’s Confirmed by Court Filings
Court filings released today have confirmed the story that WitnessLA broke last month, that former...