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#JusticeBriefs2025 • Uncategorized

SUPREMES Remove—at least for now—legal restrictions that prevent Trump administration from making immigration stops based on racial profiling

September 8, 2025
#DangerousJails

AG Rob Bonta sues LASD for its “inhumane” Jails

September 8, 2025
#JusticeBriefs

This Week’s Slap Down Ruling by the 9th Sends Government running to SCOTUS

August 7, 2025
#Justice

9th Circuit Slaps Down Government’s Attempt to Avoid Judge’s Temporary Restraining Order

August 5, 2025
#JusticeBriefs2025 • ACLU

Federal Judge demonstrates the power of temporary restraining orders when the U.S. Constitution is violated

July 20, 2025
#JusticeBriefs2025

Three Members of the LA County Sheriff’s Department Killed Friday Described as The Best of the Best.

July 18, 2025
Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry)

CA High Court Rules in Favor of Allowing Gov. Brown’s Prison Initiative to Move Forward

June 7, 2016
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A 6-1 ruling from the California Supreme Court on Monday allows Governor Jerry Brown to put his...

LAPD

CORRECTED: IG Review Reveals LAPD Officers’ Cell Block Checks Violate Policy

June 7, 2016
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When conducting cell block checks at the Los Angeles Police Department-run Metropolitan Detention...

LASD • Uncategorized

THE LASD SAGA CONTINUES: Another LA Sheriff’s Deputy Soon to be Sentenced….Retired Sheriff Lee Baca Unconcerned with “Jail”….LASD & DA Investigated Baca & Pal, Bishop Turner

June 6, 2016
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Former Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputy Gilbert Michel will be sentenced next week. Michel, if...

Life and Life Only • Uncategorized

Muhammed Ali: Simply, The Greatest – January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016

June 4, 2016
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“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world...

Law Enforcement

Why Wasn’t SB 1286, the Police Transparency Bill, Allowed to Go Through the Legislative Process?

June 3, 2016
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Late last week, SB 1286, a bill that would have allowed greater public access to certain peace...

Campus Violence

The UCLA Shooting, Compton’s Confounding Homicide Spike, The Push for More Relative Caregivers in LA, and Juvie Solitary

June 2, 2016
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MURDER-SUICIDE AT UCLA On Thursday morning at UCLA, an unnamed man shot and killed a well-liked...

Restorative Justice

Criminal Justice Bill Roundup, Curfew Laws, Discrimination Lawsuit on Behalf of Kern County Kids of Color, and More

June 1, 2016
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A CALIFORNIA CRIMINAL JUSTICE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: PROP 47 EXTENSION, VOTING WITH A FELONY...

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Former LA County Sheriff Lee Baca Reportedly Suffering From Alzheimer’s, Could Affect Sentencing

May 31, 2016
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IS FORMER SHERIFF LEE BACA SUFFERING FROM ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE? According to sources who have...

Life and Life Only

For Those Who Have Served, With Deep Appreciation, Respect and Sorrow.

May 30, 2016
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For those service men and women whom Memorial Day honors, here is Jason Isbell’s beautiful...

Sentencing

In an Important New Opinion, Fed Judge Talks About “Collateral Consequences” of a Felony Record, & Declines to Give Prison Sentence

May 27, 2016
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In a remarkable 42-page opinion handed down in a New York federal court on Tuesday, U.S. District...

Death Penalty

SCOTUS Tackles Racism in Jury Selection, Bill to Block Info on Child Welfare Deaths Scrapped, and a Jackie Lacey Interview

May 26, 2016
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SCOTUS RULES AGAINST RACIAL BIAS IN DEATH PENALTY JURY SELECTION On Monday, in a 7-1 decision...

Police

The Transformation of American Interrogation, Pushing CA to Abolish Juvie Solitary, a Troubling Death in a San Diego Jail, and Environmental Discrimination Against Inmates

May 25, 2016
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OBAMA’S NON-COERCIVE TERROR INTERROGATION GROUP IS WORKING TO RADICALLY CHANGING THE WAY...

Police

What’s Next for the SFPD After Chief’s Removal, PBS Film Follows Former Third-Strikers, and Youth Poetry from Behind Bars

May 24, 2016
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AFTER THE RESIGNATION OF SFPD CHIEF GREG SUHR, A LOOK TO THE FUTURE Last Thursday, hours after San...

Foster Care

When Calif. Closes Its Problematic Group Homes Will LA’s Neediest Foster Kids Have Somewhere Better to Go? – by Sara Tiano & Brittany Reid

May 23, 2016
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FINDING FAMILY A New California Law Will Soon Close the State’s Scandal-Plagued Group...

LAPD

SFPD Chief Ousted, LAPD Union Sues Over Discipline Practices, Prison Admissions up Nationwide, and Blocking Sunshine in Child Death Records

May 20, 2016
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SF MAYOR BOOTS EMBATTLED SFPD CHIEF AFTER FATAL SHOOTING On Thursday, just a few short hours after...

California Budget • Uncategorized

California Budget Highlights: Prop. 47 Savings, $$ for Combatting Homelessness, and More

May 19, 2016
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BROWN’S CALCULATED PROP. 47 SAVINGS INCREASES BY $10 MILLION California Governor Jerry Brown...

Education

Formerly Incarcerated Berkeley Grads, Supes Seek “Millionaires Tax” to Fight Homelessness, the 4th District Supe Candidates, LA Mag’s Charlie Beck Interview, and Exoneration in San Diego

May 18, 2016
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BERKELEY STUDENTS’ PATH FROM LOCK-UP TO COLLEGE GRADUATION On Sunday, UC Berkeley held its...

LASD

Fed Jury Takes Less Than 90 Min to Convict Two Los Angeles Sheriff’s Deputies in Latest Jail Brutality Trial

May 16, 2016
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After three days of dramatic testimony in the trial of two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s...

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