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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
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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
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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
Families • Gangs • LASD • Paul Tanaka • Public Defender • Sheriff Lee Baca • War on Drugs

Project Fatherhood on Fresh Air, Paul Tanaka’s Defense Move, Bails Lowered in SF, Mass Incarceration’s Slow Death

June 26, 2015
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JORJA LEAP AND “BIG MIKE” SHARE STORIES ABOUT PROJECT FATHERHOOD ON NPR’S FRESH...

Crime and Punishment • FBI • LA County Jail • LASD

2 LA County Deputies & 1 Sergeant Convicted on All Counts for Beating Jail Visitor, Then Falsifying Charges in Cover-Up

June 25, 2015
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THE VERDICT The jury members sent their note to Judge George H. King, announcing that they had a...

CCPOA • CDCR • DCFS • Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • Education • Foster Care • Prison Policy • Solitary

CA Cuts Prison Guard Training Time, a San Quentin Lawsuit, Graduating LA Foster Students Honored, and an Award for “Drugging Our Kids”

June 25, 2015
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offset STARTING NEXT MONTH, CALIFORNIA PRISON GUARDS TRAINING WILL BE SHORTENED BY A...

BREAKING L.A.

Verdict is in on LASD Visiting Center Trial: ALL GUILTY

June 24, 2015
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Full story later today.

FBI • LA County Jail • LASD • U.S. Attorney

LASD Visiting Center Trial: Day 5 – Closing Arguments: It’s About the Handcuffs

June 24, 2015
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After nearly five hours of closing arguments, the federal trial involving three former and present...

Department of Justice • Foster Care • LA County Board of Supervisors • LAPD • LASD • Race & Justice • Reentry • Rehabilitation • Right on Crime • The Feds • War on Drugs

Shuttering LA’s Troubled Youth Welcome Center, Reforming LASD’s Antelope Valley Stations, For-Profit Policing in CA, and Pat Nolan

June 23, 2015
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SHUT DOWN THE LA COUNTY YOUTH WELCOME CENTER, A WAREHOUSE FOR HARD-TO-PLACE FOSTER KIDS, SEZ A...

FBI • Jail • LA County Jail • LASD • U.S. Attorney

The Visiting Center Trial – Day 3: A Deputy Tells of Lies That Were Far Too Costly

June 22, 2015
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TRUTH AND LIES Criminal trials are about the law, of course, and hopefully about truth. They are...

FBI • Jail • LA County Jail • LASD

The Visiting Center Trial, Day 3: An Alleged Victim Speaks of His Fear, and a Deputy Tells of Lies That Were Far Too Costly

June 19, 2015
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Criminal trials are about the law, of course, and hopefully about truth. They are also about...

American Voices • Community Health • Race & Class • Writers and Writing

FATHERHOOD MATTERS: Dr. Jorja Leap Gives Readers a Remarkable Window into the Lives of the Fathers of Jordan Downs

June 19, 2015
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FATHERS WITHOUT FATHERS Every Wednesday night around two dozen men from the Jordan Downs housing...

FBI • LA County Jail • LASD • U.S. Attorney

Day 2: Former LASD Deputy Takes the Stand and Tells of Falsifying Charges at Jail Visiting Center to Cover Brutality

June 18, 2015
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Former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Pantamitr Zunggeemoge was the first prosecution...

Charlie Beck • DCFS • Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • Education • Foster Care • LAPD • Law Enforcement • Prison • Prison Policy

CA Education Bill to Help Foster Kids, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck Interview, CA Wrongful Convictions,

June 18, 2015
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CA BILL TO OPEN EDUCATION SUPPORT PROGRAM TO FOSTER KIDS LIVING WITH RELATIVES, WHO NEED JUST AS...

Crime and Punishment • FBI • LA County Jail • LASD • The Feds • U.S. Attorney

1st Day of Newest LASD Trial Features Accusations of Out-of-Control Brutality by Deputies versus Claims of Wall-to-Wall Gov’t Lies

June 17, 2015
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OPENING ARGUEMENTS On Tuesday afternoon, Assistant U.S. Attorney Lizabeth Rhodes told a...

ACEs • DCFS • Foster Care • Law Enforcement • Prison Policy • Reentry • Rehabilitation

Protecting Kids with Locked-Up Parents, German Prisons, LA Investigating Social Workers after Brutal Beating of Baby…and More

June 17, 2015
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COALITION IN ALAMEDA COUNTY FOCUSES ON TRAUMA-INFORMED EFFORTS TO HELP AND PROTECT KIDS WITH...

Foster Care • Juvenile Justice • LA County Board of Supervisors

LA County Counsel Resigns After 8 Months, a Unique SF Drug Abuse Program for Teens, Public Input on LA Child Safety…and More

June 16, 2015
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LA COUNTY COUNSEL MARK SALADINO UNEXPECTEDLY ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION AFTER 8 MONTHS IN OFFICE Late...

Death Penalty • Supreme Court

How SCOTUS and a Horribly Botched Execution in OK Has Bearing on CA’s Possible Resumption Its Own Executions

June 15, 2015
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CALIFORNIA & THE ONE-DRUG COCKTAIL Death penalty advocates who sued the state in 2014, hoping...

Immigration & Justice • Jail

Mysterious Death in AZ Immigration Lock-Up Triggers Inmate Protest

June 15, 2015
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Around two hundred detainees at Eloy Detention Center outside Tucson, AZ, reportedly launched a...

Charlie Beck • Eric Garcetti • Juvenile Justice • LAPD • LASD • Paul Tanaka • Prison Policy • Reentry • Solitary

Solitary and Life on the Outside, Reauthorizing the JJDPA, Trial Date Set for Tanaka/Carey Case, More Reactions to LA Police Commission’s Ezell Ford Decision, and Tamir Rice

June 12, 2015
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STATES RELEASE INMATES FROM SOLITARY CONFINEMENT BACK INTO THEIR COMMUNITIES, WHERE THEY STRUGGLE...

ACLU • DCFS • Eric Garcetti • LA County Board of Supervisors • LA County Jail

Bail, Blocked Video of a Fatal Shooting in Gardena, LA County Spending, and More on the Ezell Ford Decision

June 11, 2015
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INEFFECTIVE BAIL BOND SYSTEM TARGETS POOR Bail in America is a punishment-until-proven-innocent...

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