California has allocated more than $1 billion in recent years to combat its opioid crisis. Much of...
Preview: Deconstructing the conviction of Mark Ridley-Thomas
Two and-a-half months ago, on Thursday, March 30, 2023, U.S. District Court Judge Dale S...
California’s digital privacy battle was already complicated & now, post Dobbs, it has brand new complications
by Kristen Hwang, CalMatters On March 1, 2019, 38-year-old Adbadalla Thabet arrived at a Bank...
Punishing Families: The Need to Reimagine Child Welfare in LA County
Part 1: Removed for Neglect This is the first in a multi-part series about racial and economic...
When ‘What Goes Around Comes Around’ Is a Good Thing
The phrase “What goes around, comes around” has been a refrain throughout my life, but its...
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...
Planned Office of Diversion and Reentry Expansion Not Enough to Bring LA County Into Compliance With Federal Lawsuits, Says ACLU
On Tuesday, May 2, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion to...
Interim Probation Chief quits, reportedly in clash with new Chief Strategist for Juvenile Operations & LA County CEO has a $30 million plan
Last night, Monday night, just after 5 p.m., Karen Fletcher, the Interim Chief of LA County...
Op-Ed: The state should close Los Angeles County’s failed juvenile halls. It’s time to start over.
That same night as our client lay in his cell, his appendix burst and he was taken to the hospital...
CA Bill Would Limit the Criminalization of Survivors of Abuse and Trafficking
More than one-third of women in California have experienced domestic violence. For women in prison...