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...
Fresno’s Public Defender Problem…John Oliver on Mandatory Minimum Sentences…and Supes Consider LASD Oversight
ACLU LAWSUIT AGAINST FRESNO SAYS POOR DEFENDANTS GO WITHOUT ADEQUATE LEGAL REPRESENTATION FROM...
Former LASD Deputy Accuses Feds of Editing Testimony to Get Conviction
DID EDITED TESTIMONY MAKE A DIFFERENCE? The formal written brief asking the 9th Circuit Court of...
LASD Civilian Oversight Report, Kids and Prop 47, and Still No Child Welfare Czar
LA SUPES TO CONSIDER WORKING GROUP’S FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CREATING CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT...
DA Jackie Lacey Delivers Her Master Plan for Diverting LA’s Mentally Ill From Lock-Up
After 15 months of research, including out-of-state field trips to see what other cities and...
How Do You Rate the Risk of Kid in a Troubled Family of Being Abused? This Woman Has an App for That….& More
Ruby Guillen is a social worker who has worked for LA’s Department of Children and Family...
Incarcerated Kids 3 Times More Likely to Be Hospitalized for Mental Health Issues….New LASD Mental Heath Crisis Teams in Desert….Expanding Adelanto…and Sandra Bland
LOCKED UP KIDS IN CA ARE FAR MORE LIKELY TO BE HOSPITALIZED FOR MENTAL HEALTH REASONS THAN...
LA Housing Authority Will Pay $2 Million for Antelope Valley Housing Discrimination…Bill to Limit Drugging of CA Foster Kids Won’t Fix the Problem
US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE COURT-ENFORCEABLE SETTLEMENT OVER RACIAL DISCRIMINATION MEANS LA HOUSING...
LASD Heroes Find Baby Allegedly Kidnapped by Pimp
LA SHERIFF’S DEPT. MEMBERS FIND AMBER ALERT BABY THROUGH INTER-BUREAU COLLABORATION & A...
The Power of “The Cartel” – When Headlines Imitate Art….& Fiction Tells the Real Truth About the Drug Wars
HEADLINES RIPPED FROM A NEW NOVEL (AND VICE VERSA) After it was released on June 23, Southern...
Do Unarmed Latinos Shot By Police Get Less Attention Than Blacks?…..Why Juvie Solitary Has to Go
BLACK LIVES MATTER, BUT WHAT ABOUT BROWN LIVES? Coroner’s data shows that half of those shot...
A Ride Home, Fresno’s Restorative Justice, $$ Spent on Misconduct in Biggest Police Departments, and Obama Visits Prison
THE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION’S ROBY SO & CARLOS CERVANTES GIVE MEN LEAVING PRISON A RIDE...