LAST WEEK’S LA COUNTY JAIL PLAN VOTE APPEARS TO BE IN VIOLATION OF THE BROWN ACT The LA...
The Commish: How a Former Gangster Became an LA County Probation Commissioner…and a Savvy Advocate for Locked-Up Kids.
When Sal Martinez, whose full name is Azael “Sal” Martinez Sonoquí, was sworn in on August 9...
Paul Tanaka’s Attorneys Ask Feds to Give Former Sheriff Lee Baca Immunity to Testify….& Execs Charged with Skimming $$ From Group Home for LA Foster Kids
As the ongoing drama of the obstruction of Justice indictments against former members of the Los...
Brawl at LA Foster Care’s Controversial Youth Welcome Center is Caught on Video, Supervisor Wants Action
A “TRAGEDY WATING TO HAPPEN?” Staff members say that LA County’s Department of...
Watts Riots 50th Anniversary News Roundup….Are Crime Rates Really Rising?….and Coroner’s Inquests
JOURNALISTS, AUTHORS, ACTIVISTS, AND RESIDENTS REMEMBER THE WATTS RIOTS As America marks the 50th...
Former LA Sheriff’s Dept. Captain Tom Carey Takes Plea Deal—Which Means Cooperation, Testimony….(And Maybe a Baca Indictment?) in the Future
William “Tom” Carey, a former captain of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department and...
Gov. Brown Signing Bills, Hearing on Overmedication of Foster Kids, Defining Solitary, and the Folsom Riot
IT’S BILL-SIGNING SEASON IN SACRAMENTO: GRAND JURIES BLOCKED FROM USE-OF-FORCE CASES...
LA County Supervisors Choose a New Jail Plan & Vote Serious $$ 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...