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#JusticeBriefs2025 • Uncategorized

SUPREMES Remove—at least for now—legal restrictions that prevent Trump administration from making immigration stops based on racial profiling

September 8, 2025
#DangerousJails

AG Rob Bonta sues LASD for its “inhumane” Jails

September 8, 2025
#JusticeBriefs

This Week’s Slap Down Ruling by the 9th Sends Government running to SCOTUS

August 7, 2025
#Justice

9th Circuit Slaps Down Government’s Attempt to Avoid Judge’s Temporary Restraining Order

August 5, 2025
#JusticeBriefs2025 • ACLU

Federal Judge demonstrates the power of temporary restraining orders when the U.S. Constitution is violated

July 20, 2025
#JusticeBriefs2025

Three Members of the LA County Sheriff’s Department Killed Friday Described as The Best of the Best.

July 18, 2025
Gangs • Homeboy Industries • Jail • LASD • Obama • Sentencing • Sheriff Lee Baca • Uncategorized • War on Drugs

Homeboy Needs Funding to Continue Crucial Services…Cams in LA Jails a Success…More LASD Indictments?…and Drug Sentencing Reform and the State of the Union

January 27, 2014
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HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES FORESEES MORE LAYOFFS WITHOUT DESPERATELY NEEDED FUNDING Of late, it has become...

CDCR • Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • LASD • Law Enforcement • Paul Tanaka • Prison

New DOJ Report on Inmate Sexual Abuse, Gov. Brown Files Prison Overcrowding Proposal, and LASD Sheriff Contender Stories

January 24, 2014
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US JUSTICE DEPARTMENT REPORT SHOWS INCREASE IN ALLEGED SEXUAL ABUSE IN CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES A...

2014 Election • DCFS • Foster Care • LA County Jail • LASD

Sheriff’s Race: A Candidate Has a Plan…Who’s the Interim?… A New Child Safety Czar for LA’s Foster Kids?

January 23, 2014
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SHERIFF’S HOPEFUL BOB OLMSTED HAS A PLAN On Wednesday morning, as TV cameras rolled, retired...

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • Guns • Immigration & Justice • LA County Board of Supervisors • LASD • Paul Tanaka • Sheriff Lee Baca

Firearm Access Heightens Risk of Homicide/Suicide…Worthwhile Editorials…Private Prison Group Donates Max to Brown’s Campaign…and Sheriff Candidate Updates

January 22, 2014
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ACCESS TO GUNS DOUBLES AND TRIPLES RISK OF BEING MURDERED AND COMMITTING SUICIDE, RESPECTIVELY...

Immigration & Justice • Juvenile Justice • LWOP Kids • Marijuana Laws • Obama • Race & Justice • Sentencing

Kids Still Locked Up for Life Despite SCOTUS Rulings…Youth Justice Grant $$ Cut from Federal Budget….Obama on Marijuana Policy…and the US Immigration Lock-Up Quota

January 21, 2014
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STATES’ RESPONSES TO SUPREME COURT RULINGS ON LIFE SENTENCES FOR JUVENILES The United States...

Life and Life Only • Race • Race & Class • Race & Justice • Uncategorized

For Martin Luther King, Jr’s Birthday

January 20, 2014
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To celebrate this day, three versions of A Change Is Gonna Come. A 2013 version by a fine new...

LA County Board of Supervisors • Probation

LA County Probation Has Big Drop In Employee Arrests (& It’s Not Accidental )

January 17, 2014
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LA County Probation just released some new figures showing that the number of its employees who...

2014 Election • LA County Jail • LASD

Jails Commission Members Endorse a Sheriff’s Candidate….A New Candidate for Sheriff…the LASD is Sloppy With Money….& More

January 17, 2014
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MEMBERS OF CITIZENS COMMISSION ON JAIL VIOLENCE TO ENDORSE JIM MCDONNELL FOR SHERIFF Executive...

Child Sexual Abuse • Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • FBI • Foster Care • LAPD • LAUSD • Prison • Youth at Risk

LA Child Sex Trafficker Pleads Guilty…Gov Brown to Increase Spending on Private Prisons…State School Board to Decide on New School District $$$ Rules…and More

January 16, 2014
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US ATTORNEY BIROTTE ANNOUNCES GUILTY PLEA OF LOS ANGELES CHILD SEX TRAFFICKER On Tuesday, US...

LA County Board of Supervisors • LASD • Marijuana Laws • Sentencing • Sheriff Lee Baca • War on Drugs

LA Supes Talk Interim LA Sheriff, Majority of LASD Excessive Force Payouts Related to Patrol, Marijuana Offense Lifers, and the Empowerment Congress Summit

January 15, 2014
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SUPERVISORS HOLD PRIVATE SESSION ON INTERIM SHERIFF The LA County Board of Supervisors held a...

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • FBI • Juvenile Justice • LASD • Probation • Realignment • Sentencing

Federal Judges to Issue Ruling on CA Prison Pop, from Lockup to Running for CA State Assembly, Split-Sentencing in Contra Costa, and Kelly Thomas

January 14, 2014
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FEDERAL JUDGES PREPARED TO RULE ON HOW CALIFORNIA WILL ALLEVIATE PRISON OVERCROWDING A federal...

2014 Election • LAPD • LASD • Paul Tanaka • Sheriff Lee Baca

NEW CANDIDATE: Long Beach PD Chief Jim McDonnell Has Jumped into the Race for Sheriff

January 13, 2014
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Long beach Police Chief Jim McDonnell announced Monday afternoon that he has jumped into the race...

Juvenile Justice • LA County Board of Supervisors • LASD • LWOP Kids • Sentencing • Sheriff Lee Baca

The LASD Latest, the Problem with Plea Bargains, and New Sentences Under CA’s Fair Sentencing for Youth Act

January 13, 2014
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ADVICE FOR THE FUTURE LASD INTERIM SHERIFF…AND MORE One of the next big questions, following...

Education • Juvenile Justice • LASD • Sentencing • Sheriff Lee Baca • War on Drugs

LA Libraries to Issue High School Diplomas, Life as a Kid in a GPS Ankle Monitor, LA’s Potential Sheriffs…and More

January 10, 2014
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LA PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM TO PILOT A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA PROGRAM The Los Angeles Public Library...

California Budget • Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • Education • Juvenile Justice • LASD • Prison • School to Prison Pipeline • Sheriff Lee Baca • Zero Tolerance and School Discipline

Governor’s Budget Proposal Banks on a Postponed Overcrowding Deadline…New Federal Guidelines on School Discipline…Must Read LASD Editorials

January 9, 2014
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GOV. BROWN’S NEW BUDGET PROPOSAL AIMS TO REDUCE PRISON OVERCROWDING Counting on a two-year...

2014 Election • Board of Supervisors • FBI • LASD • Sheriff Lee Baca

Sheriff Lee Baca Retires: “I Will Go Out on My Terms” More Candidates Consider Running…& Indictments Loom

January 8, 2014
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It was a strangely melancholy, almost Shakespearean scene on Tuesday morning at the Monterey Park...

2014 Election • LASD • Los Angeles County • Sheriff Lee Baca

SHOCKER: Sheriff Lee Baca to Announce His Retirement on Tuesday at 10 AM.

January 6, 2014
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Photo of Lee Baca by Saxon Brice for WitnessLA In a surprising turn of events, WitnessLA has...

Gangs • Juvenile Justice • Los Angeles County • Probation • Realignment • Reentry • Rehabilitation • Violence Prevention

Head of LA Anti-Gang Dept. Resigns…Realignment, “Flash” Arrests, and the Battle Against Recidivism…and More

January 6, 2014
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GUILLERMO CESPEDES TO LEAVE POST AS “ANTI-GANG CZAR,” AND WHAT THAT MEANS FOR...

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