For Lydia, 40, of southeast Los Angeles County, there was nothing safe about staying at home during...
Archive - July 2021
LA County Supes pass aggressive new motion to protect grieving survivor families from law enforcement harassment & retaliation.
A growing number of LA residents with family members who were fatally shot by sheriff's deputies...
This is what happens to child migrants found alone at the border, from the moment they cross into the US, until age 18. (CA is one of the few states that offers them legal help.)
A record number of child migrants have arrived alone at the United States’ southern border this...
A new report and a remarkable new radio series point to deeply troubling issues inside LA County’s foster care system
A new report, shows that 58 percent of all Black children in the County of Los Angles live through...
The Art of Building Exits: How Diversion Programs address the devastating effects of mass incarceration, & why not all such programs are created equal
The landscape of diversion is vast, and the design and implementation of each program matters.
Despite continuing declines in youth incarceration, disparity between Black & white kids in youth lock-ups remains disturbingly high, says new report
For the the last quarter century, the overrepresentation of Black Americans in the nation’s...
Are Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s “criminal investigations” of so-called adversaries chilling oversight of the LASD? A report says yes.
An alarming new report was introduced during the last few minutes of the virtual meeting of the...
Low-Income People of Color Bear Brunt of Rising Pedestrian Deaths (including in Los Angeles)
Los Angeles traffic took a giant dive in 2020, But traffic violence and deaths on LA's streets did...
No Safe Place: When LA County Probation officials got reports that a staff member sexually assaulted a teenager, why did they fail to protect her?
In mid April, 2019, a teenage girl who was a resident at LA County Probation's Central Juvenile...
Nationwide, the death penalty continues to decline despite the former president’s execution spree
As WitnessLA readers know, last week, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland instituted a...