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#JusticeBriefs2025 • ACLU

Federal Judge demonstrates the power of temporary restraining orders when the U.S. Constitution is violated

July 20, 2025
#JusticeBriefs2025

Three Members of the LA County Sheriff’s Department Killed Friday Described as The Best of the Best.

July 18, 2025
#Documented/Undocumented • #ProtectingDueProcess

Mayor Bass & a list of mayors of So Cal cities join in federal civil rights lawsuit against Trump’s militarization of immigration

July 9, 2025
Civil Liberties

May your 4th of July weekend be a safe one, and may you find joy in these strange times.

July 4, 2025
#JusticeBriefs

Three judges from the 9th Circuit weigh in on the Trump v. Newsom battle over CA’s National Guard

June 20, 2025
#NoSafePlace

LA County Pays $2.7 million to teenager who was the victim of “Gladiator” fights at youth hall

June 5, 2025
California Budget • Life and Life Only • Prison • Prison Policy

Spankings, Prisons and Assemblyman Michael Duvall

September 9, 2009
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Duvall sb 18xxx floor speech 8.31.09 from CA Assembly GOP on Vimeo. OC Assemblyman Michael Duvall...

LAPD • LASD • Law Enforcement

IDing Problem Cops – LASD Says It Has a System

September 9, 2009
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On Tuesday, a study was released that indicated that a sheriff’s deputy who received more...

Gangs • LA City Government • Media

Gang Czar Guillermo Cespedes – A News Round Up

September 9, 2009
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A pile of stories were hastily reported and written yesterday about Guillermo Cespedes and his...

Antonio Villaraigosa • Gangs

Los Angeles Gets a New Gang Czar

September 8, 2009
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At a press conference this morning, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will announce his choice for a new...

Prison • Prison Policy

Prisons and Torching Money

September 8, 2009
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Playing catch up from the three day weekend, here are three pieces about the ongoing prison...

Health Care

Moyers 2 Obama: Remind Us of Our Greatness as a Democracy

September 5, 2009
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“This health care thing is make or break for your leadership, but for us, it’s life and...

Books • Writers and Writing

WLA’s Last-Gasp-of-Summer Reading List

September 4, 2009
45 Comments

These are sobering times. The Station fire, the largest fire in LA County history, has been deemed...

City Attorney • City Government • Gangs

Luis Rodriguez on Tagging and Trutanich

September 4, 2009
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Novelist, poet, memoirist, teacher, advocate Luis Rodriguez writes about City Attorney Carmen...

Crime and Punishment • Death Penalty • Gangs

The Willingham Fire: Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?

September 3, 2009
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In December 21, 1991. the house that Cameron Todd Willingham shared with his wife and his three...

Bill Bratton • LAPD

Police Commission Wants Your Input Re: Picking a New Chief

September 2, 2009
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The Los Angeles Police Commission will hold a series of four public forums in order to get public...

Uncategorized

Fatality at USC Radisson Hotel – UPDATED

September 2, 2009
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Sometime shortly before 8:40 p.m. on Tuesday, a man, approximately 30-years-old, jumped, fell, or...

Uncategorized

Putting Civil Rights on the National Agenda Again

September 2, 2009
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Monday’s NY Times had an editorial about Attorney General Eric Holder’s determination...

California Budget • CDCR • Prison • Prison Policy

Prison Budget Hell: The Neverending Story

September 2, 2009
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With all the fire news, there has been little or no discussion about the fact that on Monday, the...

Fire • LACFD • Natural Disasters

Firefighters Arnie Quinones & Ted Hall: A Hero Story

August 31, 2009
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Firefighters are, by definition, heroic. But in some cases, the heroism is more direct. We know...

Future of Journalism • Natural Disasters

Katrina, Triage & The Cost of Great Journalism

August 31, 2009
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For the second week in a row, the New York Times Magazine has presented a cover story that is...

Fire • Natural Disasters

Fire Weather: Two LA County Firefighters Killed – UPDATED

August 31, 2009
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UPDATE: 5:15 P.M. The word is now, according to LASD’s Steve Whitmore, that those five...

Fire • Natural Disasters

Fire Weather ’09

August 30, 2009
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View on Saturday at 1:40 p.m. from Topanga Canyon Blvd. looking toward the La Canada Flintridge...

CDCR • Prison • Prison Policy

Prison Lifers Trained as Drug & Alcohol Counselors

August 28, 2009
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With all the depressing news coming out of Sacramento and Washington D.C., it is great to run...

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