Seventeen years ago, Stanley Tookie Williams died on my birthday.
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Op-Ed: She Reached Out for Help and Got Her Kids Taken Away
She told the officers the truth. Yes, she had survived multiple instances of domestic violence from...
Book Review: Why You Need to Know About Michael Ratner, Visionary Human Rights Advocate
MOVING THE BAR: MY LIFE AS A RADICAL LAWYER by Michael Ratner OR Books, New York/London 2021, 358...
Groundbreaking Settlement Between LA County & AG Becerra Demands that Kids In LA Lock-Ups Must Be Treated as If they matter
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has announced a legal settlement with Los Angeles...
Facing the Inferno, Part 4: A New Lawsuit Says LA County Probation Ignored Judge’s Order & Failed to Protect 14-Year-old Boy From Long & Vicious Assault During 2019 Fire Evacuation
According to a new civil rights lawsuit, in October 2019, Los Angeles County Probation was again...
Perpetual Wounds
The hopes and dreams for our unborn son were quickly tempered by our collective fears. Fear of...
LA County Spent $81.5 Million on LASD Litigation Costs and Payouts Last Year
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department cost county taxpayers $81.5 million in litigation...
Hearings: Young, First-Time Parents Face ‘Civil Death Penalty’ in a Ventura Child Welfare Court
200 Beats a Minute It was the week before Christmas 2018. Sometime around noon that day, the...
DJJ Watch: Violence, Neglect & Fear Makes Kids Worse Not Better at California’s Division of Juvenile Justice, Says Scathing New Report
"It did not want to make people build their dreams. It did not rehabilitate me, for sure. If...
Some of Our Best Work From 2018
This past year, WitnessLA published various stories and investigations that we know made a...