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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
CDCR • Charlie Beck • Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • Future of Journalism • Homeboy Industries • LAPD • LASD • Los Angeles Times • Media • Prison

Jittery Talk at LAT Book Fest About Koch Bros. Bidding for LA Times…How CA Can Get Back Control of its Prisons….and More News

April 22, 2013
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NY TIMES REPORTS KOCH BROTHERS MAY BE FRONT RUNNERS IN BIDDING TO BUY LA TIMES On Sunday the USC...

American Artists • American Voices • Los Angeles Times • Writers and Writing

It’s LA Times Festival of Books Weekend: Be There! (My “Guns in America” Panel Is Sunday)

April 19, 2013
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The LA Times Festival of Books is this weekend—Saturday and Sunday—on the USC campus. ...

American Voices • Art and Culture • Gangs • Homeboy Industries

G-Dog Movie Opens in Selected Theaters, April 22

April 19, 2013
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This documentary about Father Greg Boyle and his Homeboy Industries, directed by Academy Award...

LA County Jail • LASD • Sheriff Lee Baca • Uncategorized

Two High-Level LASD Supervisors Demoted Over Charity Foot Race Cheating Scandal – UPDATED**

April 18, 2013
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While it doesn’t rise to the seriousness of illegal juicing for the Tour de France, cheating...

DEA • Education • LAPD • LAUSD • Restorative Justice • School to Prison Pipeline • War on Drugs • Youth at Risk • Zero Tolerance and School Discipline

Will LAUSD Regulate School Discipline & Ban “Willful Defiance?”….Far Right Lawmakers Say Let States Regulate Weed….LAPD’s Zero Tolerance,

April 17, 2013
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MONICA GARCIA’S STUDENT BILL OF RIGHTS On Tuesday, LAUSD Board President Monica Garcia...

LA County Jail • LASD • Sheriff Lee Baca

LASD Commander Accused of Sexual Harassment Allegedly Bragged About Running Illegal Errands for Baca

April 16, 2013
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As a part of the sexual harassment lawsuit filed in February by LASD Lieutenant Angela Walton...

LAUSD • Restorative Justice • School to Prison Pipeline • Youth at Risk • Zero Tolerance and School Discipline

THE SCHOOL DISCIPLINE CRISIS: 3 New Bills, a Commission Hearing, a Groundbreaking Report… & LAUSD

April 15, 2013
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The topic of school discipline, school safety and the so-called school to prison pipeline continues...

LASD • Sheriff Lee Baca

Baca to Be Interviewed by FBI for Role in Hiding Federal Informant & More

April 11, 2013
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According to a new LA Times story, Sheriff Lee Baca “played a significant role” in the...

Courts • District Attorney • Juvenile Justice • LASD • Sentencing

LASD “COPS HIT Team” Opens Fire…CA Activist Gets Son Back After 3-Strikes Reform…..The Teen Court Option

April 11, 2013
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A SHOOTING IN LANCASTER Angel Mendez, 30, and Jennifer Garcia, 27, were assuredly not model...

Gangs • Jail • Prison

Texas AB—a New Look at White Supremacist Prison Gangs….SD’s Deadly Jails, Part 2…& More

April 10, 2013
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NPR LOOKS AT THE AB AND OTHER PRISON GANGS Prison gangs—in particular white prison...

LAPD • LASD • Law Enforcement • School to Prison Pipeline • Zero Tolerance and School Discipline

The War on Cops—that Isn’t….Rethinking Anti-Bulling Policies…Reporters & their Sources…..”Teacher Jail” Proposal Win’s Support

April 9, 2013
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A WAR ON COPS? When police officers are murdered, in addition to the unbearable hole it leaves in...

Life and Life Only

Late in Posting Today. Check Back Soon

April 9, 2013
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Still slowed by an unscheduled hard drive crash. Posting a little later today. Check back

Homeboy Industries • Life and Life Only • Realignment • Sentencing

Straight Talk About Sex Offenders & Their Ankle Monitors…Are the LAPD’s Internal Investigations Good Enough?….& the Death of a City Hall Homeboy

April 8, 2013
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WHAT TO DO ABOUT SEX OFFENDERS WHO SNIP THEIR ANKLE MONITORS? ROB GREENE AT THE LA TIMES STARTS A...

District Attorney • Innocence • Media • Realignment • School to Prison Pipeline • Zero Tolerance and School Discipline

2012 Was a Good Year for Exonerations…..D.C. Kids Use Cameras to Protest More School Cops… More Sloppy Realignment Reporting

April 5, 2013
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Light posting today. Working on a number of interesting thing for next week and the following...

Jail • LA County Jail • LASD • Sheriff Lee Baca

Interview With LASD’s New Top Jailer…..a Profile of Former Gangster….New Probation Report Describes “Alarming” Misconduct…. Petersilia Speaks on Realignment

April 4, 2013
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PATT MORRISON TALKS TO THE LASD’S NEW JAILER-IN-CHIEF The LA Times Patt Morrison did an...

Jail • LA County Jail • LASD • Realignment • Reentry • Sheriff Lee Baca • Uncategorized

Realignment Battles…..and LA’s Jail Dogs

April 3, 2013
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ASSEMBLY DEMS REJECT FIRST ROUNDS OF ATTEMPTED REALIGNMENT ROLL-BACKS After decades of general...

Gender • LASD

LASD Lieutenant Sues Department Commander for Sexual Harassment & More

April 2, 2013
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Angela Walton, a lieutenant who is quite literally a poster girl for the Los Angeles...

How Appealing • LAUSD

LASD to Appeal $1.1 Million Judgement ….and other stories

April 1, 2013
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THE LASD WILL APPEAL RECENT HIGH $$ JUDGEMENT IN CASE OF DEPUTY SHOOTING OF PALMDALE TEENAGER WITH...

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