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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

White House Recognizes LASD, Reentry Week, LASD Deputy Cleared of Felony Charges in Inmate Beatings, Tackling Bail

April 26, 2016
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WHITE HOUSE HONORS LA COUNTY FOR IMPLEMENTING ONE OF THREE MODELS FOR TRANSPARENT POLICING The Los...

Follow the Money • Probation

FOLLOW THE MONEY: Who Makes the Decisions About How to Spend LA’s Juvenile Justice Millions?

April 25, 2016
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FOLLOW THE MONEY There are various large pots of state and national dollars that are funneled to...

Columns, Op-Eds, & Interviews • Follow the Money • Juvenile Probation

FOLLOW THE MONEY: Is LA County Probation Misspending JJDPA & Other Juvenile Justice Money? by Alex Johnson

April 22, 2016
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EDITOR’S NOTE: We’ve written in the past about the issue of how LA County Probation has...

LASD

Lie & Deny: What Does the Still Unsolved Death of Mitrice Richardson Say About the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department?

April 22, 2016
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Lost Compassion Trailer 2015 from Chip Croft on Vimeo. “EVERYTHING ABOUT THE HANDLING OF THE...

Life and Life Only

Brave & Beautiful: Prince – 1958-2016

April 22, 2016
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The NFL has unwisely blocked the last video we embedded video of Prince’s amazing...

Foster Care

Foster Kids’ Rights, Suspensions in the OC, LA City Approves Officer Rape Settlement

April 21, 2016
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STRENGTHENING THE FOSTER YOUTH BILL OF RIGHTS TO PROTECT AND EMPOWER KIDS IN THE CHILD WELFARE...

Law Enforcement

The Blue Curtain….How Prosecutors Accused of Misconduct Become Judges…LA City Attorney on Prop. 47…and More

April 20, 2016
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THE HOTLY CONTESTED ISSUE OF PUBLIC ACCESS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT RECORDS In this week’s LA...

Education • Mental Health

Missing: Mental Health Services in CA Schools, Mortality Rates Among SF Homeless Youth, and CA’s Prison Budget

April 19, 2016
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REPORT FINDS INADEQUACIES IN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR IN CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS, AND A PIPELINE TO...

Gangs • LASD

LA County Sheriff’s Department Takes Gang Diversion to College

April 18, 2016
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This past Saturday morning, April 16, in a lecture room at the University of California, Irvine, a...

Education

Appeals Court Reverses Teacher Tenure Ruling, Retaining Relative Caregivers, and Drugging Foster Kids

April 15, 2016
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APPEALS COURT DECISION REVERSES RULING SAYING TEACHER TENURE LAWS VIOLATE KIDS’ EDUCATIONAL...

LAPD • Uncategorized

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

April 14, 2016
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LAPD COMMISSION SAYS FATAL SHOOTING OF VENICE HOMELESS MAN VIOLATED LAPD POLICY On Tuesday, the Los...

Columns, Op-Eds, & Interviews • LAPD

Can “De-Escalation” Training Help the LAPD Shoot Fewer People? by Joe Domanick

April 13, 2016
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  The LAPD’s New Plan to Shoot Fewer People by Joe Domanick “Every second counts, and...

Propositions • Rehabilitation

LA County Supes Vote to Track Fiscal Impact of Prop. 47 and Devote 50% of Savings to Prevention Programs

April 13, 2016
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At last week’s LA County Board of Supervisors meeting, Auditor-Controller John Naimo informed...

LASD

Use-of-Force Policies, Immigrant Kids Held Indefinitely, the Healing Power of Art, WLA on Deadline LA

April 12, 2016
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OPINION – INSTEAD OF PUSHING PILES OF NEW “PAPER POLICIES” TO REDUCE...

American Artists • Writers and Writing

Crime, Justice & Redemption….at the LA Times Festival of Books

April 11, 2016
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CRIME, JUSTICE, REDEMPTION AND THE POWER OF BOOKS This past weekend, the University of Southern...

Uncategorized

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

April 8, 2016
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RARE CHARGES AGAINST SOCIAL WORKERS IN THE BRUTAL MURDER OF A BOY AT THE HANDS OF HIS MOTHER AND...

LASD • The Downfall of Paul Tanaka

The Trial of Paul Tanaka Part 6: The Verdict & the Jury

April 7, 2016
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THE VERDICT It was around 9:20 a.m. on Wednesday, when U.S. District Court Judge Percy Anderson got...

LASD

The Trial of Paul Tanaka: GUILTY!!!

April 6, 2016
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There is much to say. The jurors’ comments were most telling. Back soon.

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