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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
Realignment

Close-Up on Realignment, LA County Juvie Probation $$, and Abuse in Santa Clara Jails

February 24, 2016
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SHOULD OTHER STATES FOLLOW CALIFORNIA’S LEAD ON DECARCERATION? The March 2016 issue of the...

District Attorney

Prop. 47 Applications County by County…the Takeaway from LA County’s Jail Scandal…and SFPD’s New Community Policing Bureau

February 23, 2016
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A LOOK AT WHICH CA COUNTIES ARE GATHERING THE MOST PROP. 47 APPLICATIONS As of September 2015, a...

Juvenile Justice

While LA County Juvenile Probation Hoards Cash, A Unique Youth Diversion Program Struggles for $$ – by Jeremy Loudenback

February 22, 2016
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A UNIQUE YOUTH DIVERSION PROGRAM HOPES TO HELP MORE KIDS RESTART THEIR LIVES If Only LA County...

Law Enforcement

LASD Deputy Union Says Jail Supervisors Misunderstand Force Policy….2 LA Sheriff’s Deputies Fight to Save Shot Baby Girl….NYPD Officer Sues to Reform His Department

February 22, 2016
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ARE SOME LA COUNTY JAIL SUPERVISORS WRONGLY OVER-REPORTING USES OF FORCE? DEPUTIES’ UNION...

LASD

CA Attorney General’s Office Reverses Refusal, Will Now Review Mitrice Richardson Case

February 19, 2016
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LETTER FROM MITRICE RICHARDSON’S FATHER TO CALIFORNIA AG KAMALA HARRIS TRIGGERS UNEXPECTED...

California Budget

Miscalculated $$ From Prop. 47, OpenJustice, and “Mariposa and the Saint”

February 18, 2016
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CA PROP. 47 SAVINGS ESTIMATES $100 MILLION TOO LOW, SAYS REPORT Governor Jerry Brown has...

Probation

LA County Supes Vote to Explore Idea of Splitting Probation in Two

February 17, 2016
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At Tuesday’s LA County Supervisors’ meeting, the board voted 4-0 in favor of triggering...

Reentry

Report Says LA County Probation Dept. is Failing Incarcerated Kids Badly After They Are Released

February 16, 2016
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LA COUNTY PROBATION’S JUVENILE REENTRY CRISIS More than two years ago, LA County Probation...

Supreme Court

SCOTUS Justice Antonin Scalia is Dead.

February 13, 2016
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There will be a zillion stories on the significance of a vacancy occurring in the nation’s...

CDCR

CA’s New Prisons Chief, the Homelessness Plan, Baca’s Guilty Plea, and Chief Beck on the “Ferguson Effect”

February 12, 2016
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MEET CA’S NEW REFORM-MINDED CORRECTIONS CHIEF, SCOTT KERNAN The California Department of...

The Trial of Lee Baca

Day of Reckoning: The Strange and Memorable Afternoon When Former LA County Sheriff Lee Baca Pleaded Guilty to a Felony

February 11, 2016
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BACA GOES TO COURT On Wednesday afternoon, around five minutes before the 2:30 p.m. plea hearing...

Sheriff Lee Baca • The Trial of Lee Baca

Former Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca Pleads to Felony Charge That Would Likely Involve Time in Lock-Up

February 10, 2016
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Early Wednesday morning the news began to leak that former Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca had agreed...

Foster Care

OVER-CRIMINALIZATION: Why Are LA’s Foster Kids More Likely to Be Charged With Crimes?

February 10, 2016
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THE OVER-CRIMINALIZATION OF LA’S FOSTER CHILDREN by Carrie Wang and Rachel Kohn Monserrat...

LASD

A Deal Is Struck! No Retrial for Two LA Sheriff’s Deputies Accused of Beating Jail Inmate, But Prison Sentences Likely

February 10, 2016
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If all goes as expected, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies Joey Aguiar and Mariano...

Homelessness

Homelessness in LA, a Heartbreaking South LA Shooting, Prison Yogis…and More

February 9, 2016
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A LOOK AT THE NUMBER$ AS LA COUNTY SUPES CONSIDER HOMELESSNESS PLAN ON TUESDAY The LA County Board...

Probation

Persons of Interest: Who Will Be LA County’s Next Probation Chief – by Jeremy Loudenback

February 8, 2016
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PERSONS OF INTEREST Searching for LA County’s Next Probation Chief by Jeremy Loudenback LA...

Parole Policy

Should ex-Mexican Mafia Hitman Rene “Boxer” Enriquez Be Paroled?

February 8, 2016
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On Friday, Rene “Boxer” Enriquez, who by his own account is a former shot-caller and hitman for...

Public Health

Trauma & Resiliency, Health and Activism: A Cross Generational Conversation Between BlackLivesMatter’s Patrisse Cullors and California Endowment’s Dr. Robert Ross

February 5, 2016
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“The most important indicator of your life expectancy in this country is your zip code,” said...

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