With all the complex and troubling news of the past week, we neglected to announce some of our own...
Op-Ed: My Country ‘Tis of Thee
What does “liberty” truly mean when you are a Black man, or a Black woman constantly denied the...
Important Justice Reform Bills Headed to Newsom, but Time Runs Out for Critical Bill Allowing CA DOJ to Decertify Cops Fired for Misconduct
Monday was the final day of the legislative session, and thus the final day for California...
LA Deputies Kill 29-Year-Old Dijon Kizzee After Stopping Him for a “Code Violation” on His Bicycle
On Monday afternoon, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a Black man after...
LA County Supes Poised to Make Permanent Sheriff’s Ban on Transferring People Jails to ICE Absent a Judicial Warrant
On April 24, LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva announced a moratorium on holding and transferring...
New Report Reveals Latinx Youth Severely Undercounted in the Juvenile Justice System
Inconsistencies in how justice agencies and states categorize and count race and ethnicity have...
Op-Ed: Why police unions are not part of the American labor movement
By Paul F. Clark, The Conversation In the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of a...
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...
Two Wisconsin Officers Placed on Leave After Disturbing Shooting of Jacob Blake by Kenosha, WI, Police
Two Wisconsin police officers were placed on leave Monday while state authorities...
Oversight Essential as State Shifts Youth Justice Role to CA’s Counties
Young people and their allies have grown increasingly concerned that the state may fail to fully...
Stacks of Bills Abandoned After COVID-19, But Protest-Prompted Criminal Justice Bills Remain on the Table
Right now, California legislators are working at record speed to push a COVID-reduced...
Overtime at California’s prisons swelled to almost half a billion dollars last year
Hybrid nurse-officers are being phased out statewide, but many earned six-figure salaries. One in...
Four Prosecutors Fight to “Cure the Conflict” Created by Police Unions Funding DA Campaigns
In Los Angeles and other large jurisdictions, deep-pocketed police unions use their spending power...
LA County Agrees to Pay $5.5 Million to Teenager in Violent Rape Case Involving LASD Detective With Two Alleged Prior Incidents
On Tuesday, August 4, the LA County Board of Supervisors settled a $5.5 million lawsuit against Los...
Tear Gas Bans: A Policing Change Not Gaining Traction
EDITOR’S NOTE: In a five-to-one vote on Friday, August 7, the California Assembly Public...
New Report Says LA County’s Deputy Gangs Promote a “secretive, violent, us-against-them” police culture
A new rigorously researched report takes a deep look at the corrosive effects that deputy gangs...
New ACLU Campaign Urges Governors to Use Their Executive Clemency Powers
On Wednesday, the ACLU announced the launch of a campaign to push governors across the country to...
Supervisors Vote to Expand Data Collection in Push to “Reimagine” Justice in LA County
While the county has made important progress over the last decade to increase data collection and...