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...
With a Huge COVID-19 Spike In CA’s Dangerous Youth Prisons, Why Did the Governor Ask Counties to Keep Sending More Kids?
COVID-19 is spiking in California’s youth prisons. And the upward climb has yet to stop. As...
LA County Supes Poised to Ask Voters to Lock-in County Funds for Community Investments and Alternatives to Incarceration
Last week, on July 21, LA County’s Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 in favor of moving forward...
Dispatch From San Quentin: Proximity Hurts
I just found out my friend died. He contracted COVID-19 in San Quentin State Prison after a botched...
Crime Rates Did Not Rise Under Coronavirus-Propelled Decarceration, Says Report
In a report released Monday, the ACLU’s analytics team examined 29 large cities in counties...
The Executioners: Does a Violent Deputy Gang Rule LA County’s Compton Station?
In a new legal claim, a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy describes how the Compton Sheriff’s...
OIG Report Reveals How Administrative Failures Allowed Coronavirus to Explode Inside a Federal Prison Complex in Lompoc
A new report from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Inspector General has identified a series...
More COVID Heartbreak: First Sworn LAPD Officer Dies of COVID-19
On Friday morning, July 24, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore announced that the...
Two Newly Passed Board Motions Hope to Reimagine Los Angeles Forever – Including Turning LA Into An Antiracist County
"These two big things happening in our lives," said the supervisor, "the moment of George Floyd and...
Op-Ed: People are dying in US prisons, and not just from COVID-19
Randall Jordan-Aparo, Darren Rainey and Latandra Ellington are not household names. But like...
Op-Ed: When Reimagining Justice in Our Communities, Probation Must Be Part of the Conversation
We recognize this is a time of change, and we believe that challenging preconceptions is healthy...
R.I.P. Congressman John Lewis: February 21, 1940 — July 17, 2020. Thank You for the “Good Trouble.”
“We’re going to have generations for years to come that will be prepared to get in trouble...
Op-Ed: Prisons Are Overwhelmed With COVID-19. Why Aren’t Governors Doing More?
How governors respond to this pandemic will define their legacy. They all face a choice: save lives...
CA Attorney General Blocks Law Enforcement Access to Quarter of State Gang Database Entries Amid Investigation Into LAPD Misconduct
After a CA DOJ investigation into allegations that LAPD officers falsely labeled people as gang...