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#JusticeBriefs2025 • Uncategorized

SUPREMES Remove—at least for now—legal restrictions that prevent Trump administration from making immigration stops based on racial profiling

September 8, 2025
#DangerousJails

AG Rob Bonta sues LASD for its “inhumane” Jails

September 8, 2025
#JusticeBriefs

This Week’s Slap Down Ruling by the 9th Sends Government running to SCOTUS

August 7, 2025
#Justice

9th Circuit Slaps Down Government’s Attempt to Avoid Judge’s Temporary Restraining Order

August 5, 2025
#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
Antonio Villaraigosa • Gangs

Wellness Foundation Has $$$ for Homeboy Industries

July 15, 2009
22 Comments

Tuesday, Julio Marcial, a program director for the California Wellness Foundation, announced that...

Crime and Punishment • Criminal Justice • Gangs • Homelessness • LAPD

Social Justice Shorts

July 15, 2009
4 Comments

A NEW BAIL HEARING FOR ALEX SANCHEZ TODAY Attorneys have managed to get a second bail hearing for...

Crime and Punishment • Criminal Justice

Sheriff Joe Meets the New Yorker

July 14, 2009
10 Comments

The July 20 New Yorker has a profile of Joe ArpaioRight now, it’s still hidden behind the New...

ACLU • Jail • Sheriff Lee Baca

Budgets, Jail Closings and the ACLU Sues

July 13, 2009
4 Comments

LA County, like the state (and the city of LA) has big budget problems. So to help shrink his...

Antonio Villaraigosa • Civil Liberties • Gangs • Public Health • Social Justice Shorts • Torture

Monday Social Justice Shorts

July 13, 2009
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MAYOR’S OFFICE RE-PROMISES THAT $500K TO HOMEBOY…BY SEPTEMBER After reading...

Bears and Alligators • Environment

Minds in the Water – UPDATED

July 13, 2009
16 Comments

Last October, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to wade into the battle over whether then president...

City Government • Gangs

The City’s Gang Report – Part 1

July 10, 2009
18 Comments

Yesterday I complained that the city has not given funds to Homeboy Industries despite the fact ...

Life and Life Only

Having Coffee and Contemplating. Check Back

July 10, 2009
9 Comments

I’ll be posting in a little while (before noon). But for the moment I’m enjoying...

Gangs • LAUSD

Homeboy’s Virtual Carwash……and the Mayor’s Office

July 9, 2009
13 Comments

name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> Homeboy Industries wants you to get your car...

Uncategorized

A Tale of Greenpeace Climbers, Obama & Mount Rushmore

July 8, 2009
9 Comments

name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> Okay, just a reminder that there are one or two things in the...

Children and Adolescents • Public Assistance • Public Health

Motivating Foster Care Kids to College

July 8, 2009
9 Comments

Every year around 5,000 kids are emancipated from California’s foster care system. ...

American Artists • American Voices

Music and Grace

July 7, 2009
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name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> If you listen to nothing else from the Michael Jackson...

California Budget • State Government • State Politics

LA Townhall Meeting to Push for a Constitutional Convention

July 7, 2009
4 Comments

Although there have been certain thoughtful people warning against the idea, the push for a...

Criminal Justice • LASD

Conflicting Stories in OIS Case in Compton

July 7, 2009
21 Comments

A sixteen-year-old was shot and killed in Compton on Sunday by a Los Angeles sheriff’s...

Economy • Prison • Prison Policy

Bernie Shops For Prisons

July 7, 2009
2 Comments

I tried to ignore this story yesterday, I really did. But find that I can’t do it. According...

Social Justice • Social Justice Shorts

Monday’s Social Justice Shorts

July 6, 2009
15 Comments

THE INCARCERATION GENERATION According to federal data, on any given day 1.5 million American...

American Artists • American Voices • Free Speech • Freedom of Information • Life and Life Only

Happy Independence Day!

July 4, 2009
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name="allowFullScreen" value="true"> Me we each renew our commitment to our best aspirations...

City Attorney • City Government • LAPD

Could the City Attorney Keep an Eye On the LAPD?

July 3, 2009
20 Comments

When newly elected City Attorney Carmen Trutanich was sworn in on Wednesday, one of the more...

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