The phrase “What goes around, comes around” has been a refrain throughout my life, but its...
Archive - May 2023
CA Senate approves bill eliminating deadline for reducing old felony convictions to misdemeanors under Prop 47
On Tuesday, May 30, the California Senate approved a bill eliminating the deadline by which people...
Memorial Day: With Deep Gratitude, Sorrow, & Love: For Our Fallen Sons And Daughters, Mothers, Fathers, Wives, Husbands, Brothers And Sisters
The Things They Carried. First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a...
Unsuitable: With Tuesday’s pain-haunted vote, CA’s Oversight Board ordered LA’s youth halls to be shut down. But the dangers are far from over
On Tuesday afternoon, May 23, the members of The California Board of State and Community...
On Tuesday, will CA’s oversight commission give LA County Probation extra time to empty out its troubled youth halls? – Updated
On Tuesday, the California Board of State and Community Corrections is expected to vote to declare...
LA County Inspector General uses CA’s new deputy gang laws to start identifying LASD’s gangsters with badges— meanwhile county counsel lawyers attack whistleblowers
Los Angeles County Inspector General Max Huntsman has quietly sent out 35 letters to 35 different...
WitnessLA is a finalist for this year’s SoCal Journalism Awards!
The year's finalists for the 65th Annual SoCal Journalism Awards were just announced, and WitnessLA...
Youth found dead of drug overdose at LA County’s Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall
A boy was found dead of a drug overdose at Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall Tuesday morning. ...
LA County to Receive Money and Technical Support to Work Toward Ending Girls’ Incarceration
The California Office of Youth and Community Restoration (OYCR) and the Vera Institute of Justice...
I Had Already Walked That Road: How One Woman Is Helping Survivors of Domestic Violence
Maury Danielle studied the flyer about a missing woman that a friend had shared on Facebook...