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#NoKings • #SeekingJustice

How the 9th circuit told the U.S. President NO regarding POTUS’s plan to keep CA from counting 20,000 of our state’s votes.

October 26, 2026
#JusticeBriefs2026

Op-Ed: The Conviction of Mark Ridley-Thomas Is Not a Joke: Representative Democracy Is at Stake

October 9, 2026
#Justice • #The California Justice Report

WitnessLA Comes to Substack

October 7, 2026
#NoKings

A quick look at how SCOTUS ruled in favor of Democracy, then our nation went to war, and the president threatened the Supremes

March 18, 2026
#NoKings

Judge first knocked down CA’s “No Secret Police Act,” but gave the go-ahead to the “No Vigilantes Act.” Then things changed

February 10, 2026
#DangerousJails

Dying In LA County’s Jails: Now there are 7 deaths in 2026

January 31, 2026
LASD

Inspector General Gives LA County Sheriff’s Dept. (Mostly) Good Grades in Report on Jail Force Investigations (Except for Those Pesky Bad Grades)

July 14, 2016
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AUDIT OF USE-OF-FORCE INVESTIGATIONS INSIDE LA COUNTY’S JAILS FINDS MUCH PROGRESS, WITH MORE...

LA County Board of Supervisors • LASD

LA Board of Supes Votes to Speed Up Use of Body-Cams for Sheriff’s Deputies

July 13, 2016
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CITING RECENT EVENTS, SUPERVISORS VOTE TO PUSH FOR LASD BODY-CAMS ASAP On Tuesday, members of the...

Civil Rights • Law Enforcement

Conversations After Dallas

July 12, 2016
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DALLAS POLICE CHIEF DAVID BROWN SAYS WE ARE ASKING TOO MUCH OF OUR POLICE OFFICERS David Brown, the...

Homeboy Industries

Two Homeboy Industries Trainees Bring Water to Flint, MI, on Independence Day Weekend

July 11, 2016
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EDITOR’S NOTE: As we make our way through these difficult, division-haunted days, take a...

LASD • Sheriff Lee Baca

Sentencing of Former LA County Sheriff Lee Baca Postponed for One Week

July 9, 2016
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Former LA County Sheriff Lee Baca was originally due to be sentenced on Monday, July 11 in the...

Law Enforcement

Tragedy in Dallas: Five Dallas Police Officers Dead, Seven Others Wounded in Shooting at Protest

July 7, 2016
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UPDATE: THE LONER WHO CAUSED SUCH DAMAGE Although originally, officials—and...

Police

Alton Sterling’s Death, and the Oakland PD Sex Scandal

July 7, 2016
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IN RESPONSE TO VIDEO OF ALTON STERLING SHOOTING: PROTESTS, CALLS FOR ACCOUNTABILITY, AND AN...

Prison

Prison Call Fees Increasing After FCC Cap, How “Legal Financial Obligations” Also Burden Poor Inmates, and More

July 6, 2016
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AFTER FCC PUTS CAP ON EGREGIOUS OUT-OF-STATE PHONE CALL RATES FOR PRISONERS—MAJOR PHONE...

How Appealing • LASD • Pandora's Box

9th Circuit Hears Appeal Arguments for 7 Former LA Sheriff’s Deputies – UPDATED

July 5, 2016
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On Tuesday morning, July 5, attorneys for former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy James...

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • Parole Policy

Jerry Brown Blocks Parole—Again—for former Mexican Mafia Hitman Rene “Boxer” Enriquez

July 1, 2016
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On Thursday, California Governor Jerry Brown blocked parole for self-described former shot-caller...

LASD

LA Supes Vote to Analyze LASD Deputy Probationary Training After IG Report Finds Problems

June 30, 2016
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department may be failing to weed out problematic or...

Homelessness

A Focus on Homelessness, Veterans Courts in CA, SF District Attorney on SFPD Reform, and Bellfower Shooting Suspect Charged

June 29, 2016
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NEWS ORGS POINT SPOTLIGHT ON HOMELESSNESS IN SAN FRANCISCO, LOS ANGELES, AND BEYOND This week...

Education • Green Dot

Education Reformer Steve Barr Announces a Run for Mayor in 2017

June 28, 2016
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Running against a well-liked incumbent Los Angeles mayor is usually...

LASD • The Downfall of Paul Tanaka

Former LA Undersheriff Paul Tanaka Gets 5-Year Sentence & Scorching Lecture

June 27, 2016
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On Monday morning, U.S. District Court Judge Percy Anderson sentenced former Los Angeles County...

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Sentencing Day Arrives for Former Los Angeles County Undersheriff Paul Tanaka

June 26, 2016
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Paul Tanaka, the former undersheriff of the Los Angeles County, will be sentenced on Monday morning...

BREAKING L.A.

LASD Deputies Shot in Bellflower—UPDATED…Personnel Files & the Oakland PD Scandal…CA DOJ Investigating San Bernardino Child Welfare System…and LAUSD’s Random Weapon Checks

June 24, 2016
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UPDATE: SUSPECT ARRESTED ON SUSPICION OF SHOOTING DEPUTIES On Friday morning, authorities arrested...

LAPD

Body Cams for LAPD…SCOTUS Decision on Evidence From Illegal Police Stops…and Bills

June 23, 2016
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On Wednesday, the LA City Council approved a nearly $60 million plan to equip 7,000 Los Angeles...

Guns

California Funds Gun Research, LASD Mental Health Crisis Efforts, a Collaboration of Arts Groups in Juvie Camps, and Possible Settlement in Gabriel Fernandez Case

June 22, 2016
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FIVE MILLION ALLOCATED FOR GUN VIOLENCE RESEARCH CENTER AT A UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA A pot of $5...

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