LA TIMES SAYS BACA OWES US A BETTER EXPLANATION ABOUT HIS JAILING OF IMMIGRANTS Thursday’s LA...
Girls in the Juvenile Justice System, LAPD Chief’s Immigrant Strategies, Banning Puppy Mills, and More
HELPING GIRLS ENTANGLED IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM A new report from the Georgetown Center on...
Does Prop 34, the Death Penalty Initiative, Have a Chance of Passing?
LET’S HEAR FROM THE POLLS According to the latest CA initiative poll, 42.9% are in favor of...
Economics and Kids’ Brains, Pretrial Successes, and Overpaid Prison Doctors
KIDS’ BRAIN DEVELOPMENT AFFECTED BY ENVIRONMENT Socioeconomic status plays a role in the...
CLARIFICATION Re: Those LASD Donations & the Promotions Lists
CLEARING UP THE CONFUSION ABOUT THE LASD DONATIONS & the PROMOTIONS LISTS When we originally...
The Sheriff Back-Pedals, FBI Has to Pay Up on FOIA Screw up…& Voter Fraud
BACA SAYS THAT THE JAILS COMMISSIONS RECS ARE FINE, BUT THE HARSH FINDINGS BEHIND...
Iran Hostage Reports on Solitary in CA Prisons, 2nd Circuit Sez DOMA Unconstitutional…& More
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IRANIAN PRISON CELL & THE PELICAN BAY SHU? WINDOWS. The December 2012...
The Accuracy of Drug-Sniffing Dogs and the Issue of Probable Cause, Why Criminal Justice is Missing from the Presidential Campaigns, and LA City Council Says “Yes” to Immigrant I.D.s
SCOTUS TO TAKE A LOOK AT DRUG-DETECTING DOGS VS. FOURTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS The US Supreme Court will...
The LA Supes and the Sheriff Square Off on How Jail Commission’s 63 Recommendations will be Implemented
With Taylor Walker LA BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND SHERIFF BACA’S TUG-OF-WAR OVER...
Why AB 2242 Would Have Counteracted Zero Tolerance Discipline, LA Libraries Reclaim Hours Lost to Budget Cuts…and More
AB 2242 AND THE BATTLE AGAINST ZERO TOLERANCE Assembly member Roger Dickinson authored AB 2242 to...
Public Records Act at Risk, Anti-Bullying Program Slammed as Gay Plot, Juvie LWOP from 2 POVs
A CALIF JUDGE’S DECISION THREATENS THE PUBLIC RECORDS ACT The LA Times’ Jim Newton has...
The Damage Inflicted by Putting Kids in Isolation, SD’s Juvenile Justice Issues Deserve Candidates’ Attention…and More
DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT ON TEENS AND THE NEED FOR A DIFFERENT APPROACH A new...
LASD INVESTIGATIONS, Part 5 – Pay to Play: Does the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department have an unofficial quid pro quo promotion system? – by Matthew Fleischer
PAY TO PLAY Does the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department have an unofficial quid pro quo promotion...
1st Part of County’s Aero Bureau Audit Finds Only Minor Problems
Part 1 of the long-promised promised “30-Day” audit of alleged improprieties at the Los...
Board of Supes Ponders Next Steps Now That Jails Commission Report is In
OKAY, NOW WHAT? “The time for negotiation has long since gone.” Sup. Mark...
Immigration Cases Up for Supreme Court Consideration, “Art Matters” Fund Drive for LA Arts Education…and More
COMING SOON TO SCOTUS: IMMIGRATION Three cases will likely go before the US Supreme Court that...
Calls Intensify for Baca to Take Action, LAPD Changes ICE Detention Protocol…and More
FURTHER CALLS TO ACTION FOR SHERIFF BACA In an op-ed for the LA Times, Richard Drooyan, the...
Youth Justice Round-up: Infographics, SF Juvies Reject Outdoor Exercise, Growing Up in Prison…and More
NEW TROUBLING JUVENILE JUSTICE INFOGRAPHIC Despite recent juvenile justice victories—SB9, and...