It’s been a scandal-filled week for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the...
Impact Justice and Its Project Pairing Homeowners With Formerly Incarcerated Tenants Gets a $15 Million Boost
With a $15 million pot of funding in California’s 2022-23 budget, the organization Impact Justice...
Is Sheriff’s search of homes of Supervisor Sheila Kuehl & oversight commissioner Patti Giggans part of a pattern? Report says yes.
At approximately 7 a.m. Wednesday morning, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies arrived at...
Where people in prison come from: The geography of mass incarceration in California
by Emily Widra and Felicia Gomez of the Prison Policy Initiative One of the...
Yes, Slavery Is on the Ballot in These States
Editor’s Note: California banned slavery in 1850, two years before the Thirteenth...
LA Supervisors Move Forward With Firefighting Career Center Plans to Replace Juvenile Camp
A former juvenile probation lockup, Camp David Gonzales in Malibu Canyon, will soon house a...
New LASD Whistleblower tells of the sheriff’s budget manipulations, rigged promotions, & an alarming array of other forms of corruption
A new whistleblower lawsuit against the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department in general, and Sheriff...
WitnessLA a finalist for Non-Profit News Award!
Every year the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) selects the winners of the INN Nonprofit News...
More on the LASD Deputy who crashed & left the scene arrested for drunk driving
The Santa Clarita Valley Signal was first to break the news on Friday night that a Los Angeles...
Reefer Madness: Riverside County Sheriff’s Office Destroys Home due to… Solar Panels
Here’s the funny thing. Sergeant Olguin had no search warrant. According to a lawsuit filed by...
New LA Innocence Project, Funded by Exoneree, Will Partner With Forensic Scientists to Uncover Wrongful Convictions
Andrew Wilson spent 32 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Now, with a founding...
After Decades of Fed Oversight, OIG Finds Medical Care at CA’s High Desert Prison “Inadequate”
After two decades of federal oversight of the state’s prison system, medical services at...
Nation’s First Standalone Prison Campus Celebrates Graduation
But COVID-19 outbreaks at San Quentin loomed in the background of the festivities.
Efforts to gather enough valid signatures to put recall of LA DA George Gascón on the ballot fails a second time
Monday afternoon, Dean Logan, Los Angeles County’s Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, sent out...
What question do you wish someone would ask LA DA George Gascón?
WitnessLA—which in this case means me—is interviewing Los Angeles District Attorney George...
College requirements for police forces can save Black lives, but may increase arrest rates
Editor’s Note: On January 1, 2022, Ab 89, the Peace Officers Education and Age Conditions for...
LA Grand jury continues its probe into the troubling incident of the neck-kneeling sheriff’s deputy & its cover-up
On August 4, according to Sheriff Alex Villanueva, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department got a...
Survivors Call on CA Legislators to Expand Access to Victim Compensation to Include Families Impacted by Violent Police Encounters
Victims and advocates are urging California legislators to pass a bill meant to ensure that the...