William “Tom” Carey, a former captain of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and...
Gov. Brown Signing Bills, Hearing on Overmedication of Foster Kids, Defining Solitary, and the Folsom Riot
IT’S BILL-SIGNING SEASON IN SACRAMENTO: GRAND JURIES BLOCKED FROM USE-OF-FORCE CASES...
LA County Supervisors Choose a New Jail Plan & Vote Serious $$ to Fund Mental Health Diversion Strategy
The LA County Board of Supervisors made two significant decisions on Tuesday regarding LA’s...
LA Supes to Vote on Mental Health Diversion, Differing Definitions of Solitary Confinement, Rancho Cielo, and HuffPost & WaPo Ferguson Reporters Facing Charges
LA COUNTY SUPES LIKELY TO VOTE ON CREATING AN “OFFICE OF DIVERSION” TO KEEP MENTALLY...
BLUE: Joe Domanick Writes About Saving the LAPD & the Crossroads of American Policing
Award-winning journalist and author Joe Domanick has been a long time critic of bad policing...
School Achievement and the Unmentionable “I” Word
The achievement gap between white students and minority students narrowed by nearly 20 points...
Juvie Solitary Confinement, College in Prison, Alleged Boot Camp Abusers Arrested, and Kelly Thomas’ Death Violated Police Policy
A BIPARTISAN PUSH TO BAN THE PSYCHOLOGICALLY HARMFUL USE OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT ON KIDS LOCKED UP...
Far-Reaching DOJ Settlement With LA County Sheriff’s Department to Trigger Major Jail Reform
The long-expected settlement between the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the U.S...
WitnessLA on KCRW’s Press Play With Madeleine Brand Talking About the Ins & Outs of the LASD/DOJ Settlement
On Wednesday, I was on KCRW’s news talk show, Press Play, with the always excellent Madeleine...
Thousands of CA’s Disenfranchised Will Soon Gain Voting Rights, LA Supes Hear Reports on Mental Health Diversion and Jail Building, and 20-Year Interviews in Solitary
CA SECRETARY OF STATE MOVES TO END FELONY DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF THOUSANDS OF AB 109’ERS UNDER...
Screening ACEs in New Places, Salinas High Cuts Suspensions by 70%, and Wolves
USING THE ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES QUESTIONNAIRE AS A SCREENING TOOL IN NON-MEDICAL SETTINGS...
Are California Prosecutors “Stuck in the ’70’s?” A New Report Says YES.
The primary power in both our American justice system in general, and in California’s justice...
South Dakota Firefighter Killed Battling Northeastern California Wildfire
David Ruhl, a South Dakota firefighter with the U.S. Forest Service, was killed Thursday while...
The US Would Save $$$ by Helping Disadvantaged Kids…Disparate School Discipline….California Endowment’s Robert Ross on Justice Reform…and the Struggles of an Understaffed Juvie Lock-Up
KIDS OF COLOR FACE HUGE BARRIERS TO OPPORTUNITY AND ACHIEVEMENT, AND THE US COULD SAVE A TON OF...
Oakland Mentorship Program Offers Safety & Healing to Sexually Exploited Young Women – by Sarah Zahedi
EDITOR’S NOTE: San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego metropolitan areas are all rated as...
Does Youth Probation Help Kids or Push Them Deeper Into the Juvenile Justice System?….& How One Mich. County Does It Right
In recent years, juvenile judges around California have been making an effort to put kids on...
LA Supes Hold Discussion on LASD Oversight, Richmond’s Anti-Violence Program, Pell Grants for Prisoners, and Calexico’s Police Chief
LA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS HEAR RECOMMENDATIONS AND HOLD DISCUSSION ON CREATING CIVILIAN...
Pulling Back the Blue Curtain: What Does the Public Really Have the Right to Know About Police Records?
In Los Angeles and around the country, law enforcement agencies are purchasing and deploying police...