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...
Supes Balk at $5.7 Million Jails Report & Want Alternatives to Rebuilding CJ
At Tuesday’s board meeting, several of the LA County Supervisors surprised many observers by...
Supes Will Address Jail Planning & Building Options—But Is It Too Soon?
I’m in the middle of working on another project today, so just one quick bit of news on...
Jails Commission Anonymity, Warrentless Tracking & Juvenile LWOP
SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES CAN’T BE GUARANTEED CONFIDENTIALITY IN JAILS COMMISSION...
In an Era of Library Cutbacks, LA County Opens a New Library—in Topanga
The prevailing mood was utter giddiness when the brand new 11,293 square foot LA County library...
Good bye, Darling Etta
There isn’t a song she sang, that she didn’t own. But it was when she recorded this...
LASD INVESTIGATIONS: Dangerous Jails, Part 4: INTERNAL AFFAIRS – by Matt Fleischer
EDITOR’S NOTE: The article below is another in WitnessLA’s LASD INVESTIGATIONS/Dangerous Jails...