Prosecutorial Objections A week after the release of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’...
Archive - May 2017
How Much Harm Will AG Sessions’ Lock ‘Em Up Memo Do To Sentencing Reform?
Sessions Wants More People in Prison On Friday, May 12, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a...
States Still Failing to Protect Kids’ Rights to Counsel 50 Years After Gault
It has been 50 years since the 1967 US Supreme Court ruling in In re Gault established that youth...
CA Officials Don’t Hold Agencies Responsible When Officers Misuse Police Databases
California’s law enforcement agencies hit record numbers of instances of misusing the...
California’s Juvenile Lock-ups: High Costs, High Recidivism
As the number of kids in state lockups has plunged in California, per capita juvenile incarceration...
AFTER THE FALL: Why Judge Anderson’s 3-Year Sentence for Former LA Sheriff Lee Baca Was Not a Surprise
A “Tragic” Fall “This is a sad day for our community,” said U.S. District Court...
OP-ED: LA County Nixes Alarmingly Unreliable “Predictive Analytics” Foster Care Scheme—For Now
After Disturbingly High False Positive Rate, Head of LA County’s Office of Child Protection Urges...
LA Examines the Risky Business of “Predictive Risk Modeling”
A Child’s Death in L.A. Elicits More Questions than Answers Los Angeles County, home to the...
Warning Signs Los Angeles Missed That Allowed the LA County Sheriff’s Department to Spin Out of Control
If We Could Do It Over Again Right before former Los Angeles County sheriff Lee Baca was sentenced...
Former Sheriff Lee Baca Sentenced to 36 Months in Federal Prison
Leroy Baca is sentenced. “Alzheimer’s disease is not a get out of jail card,”...