While Assistant Editor Taylor Walker has been once more looking into the painful and ongoing issue...
Probation Moving Incarcerated Kids Out of “Unsuitable” Juvenile Hall After Court Approval, But Oversight Commission Says Simply Relocating Kids Won’t Solve Root Problems
The Los Angeles County Probation Department began moving kids between youth lockups this week, as...
Undocumented: The Price of the Promised Land
This past Saturday, April 26, when the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books opened its doors at the...
WLA Editor leading writers panel Saturday at LA Times Festival Books
On Saturday and Sunday this coming weekend, April 26 and 27, 2025, the Los Angeles Times is holding...
LASD Oversight Part 2: The struggle to provide genuine oversight for the nation’s largest sheriff’s department continues, while the new sheriff opens “criminal” investigations on those he dislikes.
The case of Diana Teran As described in Part 1 of this series, it was a controversial set of...
LA County Supes Order “Transparency in Planning During Probation’s Ongoing Crisis”
On Tuesday, April 1, four of the five Los Angeles County Supervisors expressed their displeasure...
LASD Oversight Part 1: A controversial prosecution, a series of threats, & the struggle to provide genuine oversight for the nation’s largest sheriff’s department
On Thursday, March 20, 2025, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna attended the monthly meeting of...
LA County Probation Presents “Global Plan” for Housing Youth in Halls and Camps
Two years ago, on March 7, 2023, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors directed the LA County...
California’s Immigrant Teens Find Healing in Unexpected Places
by Isaac Ceja and Lauren DeLaunay Miller A young woman, 19, sits in a director’s chair and...
Justice Briefs 2025: Amy Coney Barrett does the right thing
In a decision that some found unexpected, on Wednesday, March 5, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, along...
AG Bonta announces indictments of 30 probation officers for facilitating gladiator fights in troubled youth hall…but there’s more
This afternoon, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the unsealing of a grand jury...
A Violence-Prevention Helpline for Those Who Want to Change Gains Ground in California
Jacquie Marroquin spent much of her childhood living in fear of her father. A child of...
Facing the Inferno 2025 – Trump’s cuts to federal wildfire crews could have ‘scary’ consequences
President Donald Trump’s moves to slash the federal workforce have gutted the ranks of wildland...
FACING THE INFERNO 2025 – Why did the EPA choose to sort toxic waste in an irreplaceable wildlife sanctuary?
The Palisades and Eaton wildfires that caused such damage and heartache in Los Angeles County have...
Facing the Inferno 2025 – Incarcerated Firefighters Deserve a Raise
For their essential work saving lives, homes, & communities, they're paid $1.12 per hour.
Facing the Inferno 2025 – Locked up During Hughes Fire Evacuation
The Hughes Fire is now the third-largest wild fire in Southern California.
At the last possible moment Biden commutes sentence for Leonard Peltier
In the last few minutes of his presidency, Joe Biden unexpectedly commuted the sentence of Leonard...
Preview: Facing the Inferno, 2025
Like many Angelenos, WitnessLA Editor, Celeste Fremon, and Assistant Editor Taylor Walker have...