CENTINELA YOUTH SERVICES AND THE CASE FOR COMMUNITY-BASED RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, RATHER THAN LOCK-UP...
Taking a Closer Look at an Anti-Gang Program, More SFPD Racist Texts, and Assistant Sheriff Terri McDonald’s Retirement
COUNTY OFFICIALS TO RE-EVALUATE A 1990s ANTI-GANG PROGRAM AND ITS EFFECTIVENESS On Tuesday, the LA...
White House Recognizes LASD, Reentry Week, LASD Deputy Cleared of Felony Charges in Inmate Beatings, Tackling Bail
WHITE HOUSE HONORS LA COUNTY FOR IMPLEMENTING ONE OF THREE MODELS FOR TRANSPARENT POLICING The Los...
FOLLOW THE MONEY: Who Makes the Decisions About How to Spend LA’s Juvenile Justice Millions?
FOLLOW THE MONEY There are various large pots of state and national dollars that are funneled to...
FOLLOW THE MONEY: Is LA County Probation Misspending JJDPA & Other Juvenile Justice Money? by Alex Johnson
EDITOR’S NOTE: We’ve written in the past about the issue of how LA County Probation has...
Lie & Deny: What Does the Still Unsolved Death of Mitrice Richardson Say About the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department?
Lost Compassion Trailer 2015 from Chip Croft on Vimeo. “EVERYTHING ABOUT THE HANDLING OF THE...
Brave & Beautiful: Prince – 1958-2016
The NFL has unwisely blocked the last video we embedded video of Prince’s amazing...
Foster Kids’ Rights, Suspensions in the OC, LA City Approves Officer Rape Settlement
STRENGTHENING THE FOSTER YOUTH BILL OF RIGHTS TO PROTECT AND EMPOWER KIDS IN THE CHILD WELFARE...
The Blue Curtain….How Prosecutors Accused of Misconduct Become Judges…LA City Attorney on Prop. 47…and More
THE HOTLY CONTESTED ISSUE OF PUBLIC ACCESS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT RECORDS In this week’s LA...
Missing: Mental Health Services in CA Schools, Mortality Rates Among SF Homeless Youth, and CA’s Prison Budget
REPORT FINDS INADEQUACIES IN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR IN CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS, AND A PIPELINE TO...
LA County Sheriff’s Department Takes Gang Diversion to College
This past Saturday morning, April 16, in a lecture room at the University of California, Irvine, a...
Appeals Court Reverses Teacher Tenure Ruling, Retaining Relative Caregivers, and Drugging Foster Kids
APPEALS COURT DECISION REVERSES RULING SAYING TEACHER TENURE LAWS VIOLATE KIDS’ EDUCATIONAL...
LAPD Commission Sez Venice Shooting Was Unjustified, a Bill to Bar For-Profit Immigrant Detention Contracts, and Pt. Two of MacArthur Safety and Justice Challenge
LAPD COMMISSION SAYS FATAL SHOOTING OF VENICE HOMELESS MAN VIOLATED LAPD POLICY On Tuesday, the Los...
Can “De-Escalation” Training Help the LAPD Shoot Fewer People? by Joe Domanick
The LAPD’s New Plan to Shoot Fewer People by Joe Domanick “Every second counts, and...
LA County Supes Vote to Track Fiscal Impact of Prop. 47 and Devote 50% of Savings to Prevention Programs
At last week’s LA County Board of Supervisors meeting, Auditor-Controller John Naimo informed...
Use-of-Force Policies, Immigrant Kids Held Indefinitely, the Healing Power of Art, WLA on Deadline LA
OPINION – INSTEAD OF PUSHING PILES OF NEW “PAPER POLICIES” TO REDUCE...
Crime, Justice & Redemption….at the LA Times Festival of Books
CRIME, JUSTICE, REDEMPTION AND THE POWER OF BOOKS This past weekend, the University of Southern...
Four Social Workers Charged After Boy’s Death, a New Courtroom to Help Aging-Out Foster Kids, and LA County to Explore Ways to Fix Juvenile Defense
RARE CHARGES AGAINST SOCIAL WORKERS IN THE BRUTAL MURDER OF A BOY AT THE HANDS OF HIS MOTHER AND...