California’s Victim Compensation Fund provides crime victims with money for medical...
Archive - July 2018
Police Are Changing Lineups to Avoid False IDs
By Michael Ollove After nearly 38 years, on Jan. 30 Malcolm Alexander walked away from a place he...
LA Nonprofit Will House More Homeless Foster Youth With $1 Million Grant
United Airlines has announced a $1 million grant to the Los Angeles branch of First Place for...
How Did Alex Villanueva, an Unknown, No-Chance Candidate for LA County Sheriff Become a Serious Challenger?
The California primaries have been over for a month and a half, and the real campaigning for the...
Has Plea Bargaining Pushed the Sixth Amendment Right to Trial to the Brink of Extinction? A New Report Says Yes
The right to a trial by jury is enshrined in the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and also...
California DOJ Presents Public With Second Annual Report on Police Uses of Force
In 2017, law enforcement officers in California used force against civilians in a manner that...
New Data Reveals an Unemployment Crisis Among the Formerly Incarcerated
Approximately 27 percent of formerly incarcerated people are looking for a job, but are still...
ACLU Sues Over Alleged Abuse of Immigrant Women During Transport
On Tuesday, the ACLU of Nothern California and the law firm Goodwin Procter LLP filed a series of...
How President Trump’s SCOTUS Pick, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Could Affect Criminal Justice Reform, Past & Future
EDITOR’S NOTE: Now that President Trump has announced his pick of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to...
Fresno’s Juvenile Justice Campus Has a Pepper Spray Problem, Says Report
The Fresno County Probation Department’s reliance on using pepper spray to control the...