On April 24, LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva announced a moratorium on holding and transferring...
Archive - August 2020
New Report Reveals Latinx Youth Severely Undercounted in the Juvenile Justice System
Inconsistencies in how justice agencies and states categorize and count race and ethnicity have...
Op-Ed: Why police unions are not part of the American labor movement
By Paul F. Clark, The Conversation In the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of a...
Facing the Inferno, Part 4: A New Lawsuit Says LA County Probation Ignored Judge’s Order & Failed to Protect 14-Year-old Boy From Long & Vicious Assault During 2019 Fire Evacuation
According to a new civil rights lawsuit, in October 2019, Los Angeles County Probation was again...
Two Wisconsin Officers Placed on Leave After Disturbing Shooting of Jacob Blake by Kenosha, WI, Police
Two Wisconsin police officers were placed on leave Monday while state authorities...
Oversight Essential as State Shifts Youth Justice Role to CA’s Counties
Young people and their allies have grown increasingly concerned that the state may fail to fully...
Stacks of Bills Abandoned After COVID-19, But Protest-Prompted Criminal Justice Bills Remain on the Table
Right now, California legislators are working at record speed to push a COVID-reduced...
Overtime at California’s prisons swelled to almost half a billion dollars last year
Hybrid nurse-officers are being phased out statewide, but many earned six-figure salaries. One in...
Four Prosecutors Fight to “Cure the Conflict” Created by Police Unions Funding DA Campaigns
In Los Angeles and other large jurisdictions, deep-pocketed police unions use their spending power...
LA County Agrees to Pay $5.5 Million to Teenager in Violent Rape Case Involving LASD Detective With Two Alleged Prior Incidents
On Tuesday, August 4, the LA County Board of Supervisors settled a $5.5 million lawsuit against Los...