LAUSD PAID $40 GRAND TO SETTLE WITH MIRAMONTE TEACHER MARK BERNDT, BUT PUT BLOTCH ON RECORD OF...
Changes in Sheriff’s Department Have Insiders Guessing at the Meaning
THE SHERIFF MAKES THREE CHANGES AND INSIDERS SEARCH FOR HIDDEN MEANING reported by Matt Fleischer...
Judge’s Allows LA Times Reporters a Rare Visit Inside Children’s Courts
LA Times reporters Garrett Therolf and John Hoeffel experience their first visit inside LA...
Deconstructing the Prop 8 Decision
On Tuesday morning, there was mostly ebullience. However, by afternoon the significance of...
LASD INVESTIGATIONS: Friends of Paul Tanaka – Campaign Donations, 2009
As those of you who have been following Matt Fleischer’s LASD INVESTIGATIONS Dangerous Jails...
Prop 8 Challenge: Waiting for the 9th Circuit – UPDATED: 8 is UNconstitutional!
UPDATE: Today is a very good day for human beings. No reporting can speak quite as eloquently to...
SHOOT THE MESSENGER: Sheriff’s Department Investigates Ret. Cmr. Olmsted’s Accounts of Jail Violence and Higher Ups Lack of Response
In an interesting turn of events, the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department has launched an...
Deputies Union Tells Jail Commission NO Access to Deputy Disciplinary Records
One of the more interesting moments in Friday’s meeting of the Citizen’s Committee on...
Prop 8 Videos, Jails Commission Meets, Colbert v. SCOTUS, Sentencing Reform
9TH CIRCUIT DECIDES THAT VIDEO OF PROP 8 TRIAL ARGUMENTS WILL NOT BE RELEASED The San Jose Mercury...
Don’t Cut the Education Program Helping Foster Kids….& Other Must Reads
A lot of necessary budget cutting is going on in the state right now. Many of the cuts are...
Short Takes for Wednesday
HUNDREDS PROTEST THE UNWISDOM OF LAUSD’S PLAN TO ELIMINATE ADULT ED—COMPLETELY In the...
Judge Nash Issues Order to Open Juvenile Dependency Court…and More
Juvenile Court Presiding Judge Michael Nash did a brave and important thing on Friday—and...
The Friends of Paul Tanaka Campaign Donations List: 2008
We have received quite a number of requests from people working for (or retired from) the Los...
Prez of Law Enforcement Union Writes That Baca Should Fix Problems in LASD, Instead of Hunting Department’s Leakers to Media
Stop trying to find those Sheriff’s Department insiders who are leaking to WitnessLA and...
LASD Deputy Says Dept. Captain Spiked His Investigation of Alleged Drug Dealer
Bernice Abram, the personable captain of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department station in...
Friday Justice Round Up: Old Prisoners, Why LA’s Media Should Ride Buses
NEW STUDY SAYS AGING PRISONERS FASTEST GROWING LOCKED-UP POPULATION The fact that aging prisoners...
The New Yorker: Why Do We Lock-Up So Many People?…& Other Must Reads
Most Americans honestly don’t want to spend much time, energy or emotion thinking about...
RESCUE ME: LASD Deputies Make Multiple Hillside Rescues on Weekend
Normally, it’s our business to investigate more than it is to praise. However, this story...