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DCFS • Foster Care • Law Enforcement

Cops, Group Homes & Criminalized Kids — by Brian Rinker

January 21, 2015

COPS, GROUP HOMES & CRIMINALIZED KIDS Is There Collateral Damage If Law Enforcement is Called...

Charlie Beck • Columns, Op-Eds, & Interviews • LAPD • LASD • Law Enforcement • Police • Race • Race & Class • Race & Justice

Blue is the New White: The Complexity of Talking About Police Reform – by Bill Boyarsky

January 21, 2015

EDITOR’S NOTE: In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Barak Obama...

ACEs • Education • Foster Care • Inspector General • Jim McDonnell • Juvenile Justice • LA County Jail • LAPD • LASD

California’s School Counselor Problem… The LA Sheriff’s Department’s Transparency Problem…Changing the Double Jeopardy of “Dual Status” Kids

January 20, 2015

CALIFORNIA HAS THE NATION’S WORST STUDENT-TO-COUNSELOR RATIO & IT’S KEEPING KIDS...

Justice • Race • Race & Class • Race & Justice

Thinking of Dr. Martin Luther King

January 19, 2015

Attorney Bryan Stevenson’s Spring 2012 TED talk called “We Need to Talk About...

DCFS • Foster Care • Health Care • Immigration & Justice • Juvenile Justice • LA County Board of Supervisors • Mental Illness • Race & Justice • Solitary

Reforms Trump Talking About Race, Solitary and Kids’ Brains, Next Steps for NYC Solitary Ban, and LA Foster Care Reform Efforts

January 16, 2015

CHOOSE ACTIONABLE REFORM OVER NATIONAL DISCOURSE ON RACE In an op-ed for the LA Times, California...

Children and Adolescents • Gangs • Jim McDonnell • LAPD • LASD • Mental Illness • Prison • War on Drugs

Ezell Ford, LA County Crime Rates, Flashbang Grenades, and Kids’ Perceptions of Incarceration

January 15, 2015

EZELL FORD: BEFORE THE DEADLY ENCOUNTER WITH LAPD OFFICERS Going beyond Ezell Ford’s...

Crime and Punishment • Criminal Justice • Gender • Law Enforcement • Life and Life Only • Los Angeles Writers • Police • Public Health • Race • Race & Class • Race & Justice • School to Prison Pipeline • Solitary • Violence Prevention • Writers and Writing • Zero Tolerance and School Discipline

LA Supes Finally Approve 2 Foster Care Fixes….Can SF’s Community Court Halt the Revolving Door?….NYC Bans Solitary for Inmates Under 21….More on the “End of Gangs…..and the Pain of Losing Al Martinez

January 14, 2015

AFTER MUCH STALLING BY THE OLD BOARD, THE NEW LA BOARD OF SUPES QUICKLY MAKES 2 NEW FOSTER CARE...

Art and Culture • FBI • Free Speech • Freedom of Information • Future of Journalism • Jim McDonnell • LA County Jail • LASD • Media • Paul Tanaka • Sheriff Lee Baca • The Feds

4 LA County Sheriff’s Deputies Suspect of Theft and Bribe Taking…CA Poor Often Given Cut Rate Legal Defense, Report Finds….Will There Be Fed Indictments for former LASD Top Brass?…& LA Press Club Award to Charlie Hebdo

January 13, 2015

FOUR LA SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT MEMBERS INVESTIGATED FOR THEFT AND BRIBERY ALLEGATIONS Four...

Journalism • Juvenile Justice • LAUSD • Law Enforcement • Prosecutors • Restorative Justice • Writers and Writing • Zero Tolerance and School Discipline

Independent Investigations into Police-Killings, Restorative Justice in LA, Broken City Poets, and Streetcraft LA

January 12, 2015

STATES WEIGH ESTABLISHING OUTSIDE INVESTIGATION OF POLICE-INVOLVED DEATHS Several states...

Death Penalty • Education • Juvenile Justice • Sentencing • Trauma

Obama Proposes Free Community College…. Should a 19-Year-Old Get the Death Penalty?…Horses Help Traumatized Kids….Pens v. Guns

January 9, 2015

Post by The White House. FREE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOR “ANYONE WILLING TO WORK FOR IT,”...