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#JusticeBriefs

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

August 7, 2025
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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
#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
Bill Watch

New CA Justice Bills for 2024

March 1, 2024
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In the first two months of 2024, California lawmakers have introduced new noteworthy criminal...

#ThePowerOfProsecutors

A last minute look at the 11 people who hope to unseat LA DA George Gascón

February 27, 2024
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As we race toward the March 5, 2024, primary election, let’s take one more quick look at the...

Columns, Op-Eds, & Interviews

My Mom Helped Me Think Bigger Than Prison. Soon, I’ll Graduate College

February 23, 2024
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So many African American women have given me hope and influenced what I want my future to look...

#JusticeBriefs

Police Solving Fewer Crimes Despite Increased Spending, Says New Report

February 20, 2024
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Over the past three decades, clearance rates for serious crimes have dropped by 41 percent in...

#NoSafePlace • Uncategorized

Unsuitable: State oversight commission pronounces LA County’s two juvenile halls as unsuitable for youth residence, as two more kids overdose on fentanyl

February 17, 2024
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At or around 4 p.m. on Thursday, February 15, after many hours of discussion, plus a string of...

#NoSafePlace

Will Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall be declared “unsuitable” for youth?

February 9, 2024
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On February 15, the members of The California Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) will...

Open Vallejo

Vallejo police may swap stars for shields amid badge-bending scandal

February 7, 2024
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Editor’s note The story below is another in WLA’s series presenting the remarkable...

Care First Jails Last • Jail Reform • LA County Jail

A New 5-Year Plan for Closing Men’s Central Jail

February 5, 2024
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On January 30, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors received a new five-year plan for...

#SeekingJustice

Deconstructing the Conviction of Mark Ridley-Thomas: Part 9 – Filing With the 9th Circuit

February 1, 2024
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On Thursday, January 25, the team of five appellate attorneys who are now representing Mark...

Reimagining Child Welfare

Punishing Families Part 3: It Starts With a Phone Call

January 23, 2024
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Mandated reporting laws have led to a flood of calls to report suspected child abuse and neglect...

#GangstersWithBadges

LASD whistleblower takes her case to trial, while Villanueva testifies that deputy gangs don’t exist, & Sheriff Luna says there’s a new deputy gang

January 17, 2024
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Wednesday, civil rights attorney, Alan Romero presented closing arguments in the whistleblower...

#ThePowerOfProsecutors

Saturday Forum Featuring DA Candidates & a Reconstruction of the Conviction of Mark Ridley-Thomas

January 15, 2024
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This past Saturday, January 13, 2024, the 32-year-old organization known as the Empowerment...

#NoSafePlace

8 LA probation staff removed from duty for overseeing “fight clubs,” as probation chief outsources internal affairs investigations

January 11, 2024
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So, why have 8 probation staff members been removed from duty? It appears that the employees were...

Columns, Op-Eds, & Interviews

A good California Supreme Court decision curbs the family police

January 9, 2024
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A decision by the California Supreme Court sheds rare light on how family police agencies (a more...

#JusticeBriefs • Bill Watch

CA Attorney General Issues Guidelines for Prosecutors to Implement Race-blind Charging

January 8, 2024
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In 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill, AB 2778, meant to reduce racial bias in...

ICE • Incarceration

Californian who joined hunger strike in ICE detention seeks $1 million in complaint

January 4, 2024
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By Justo Robles, CalMatters After 16 months in immigration detention facilities in California...

Wolves

Colorado releases 5 gray wolves, fulfilling voter-approved reintroduction measure.

January 2, 2024
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by Chase Woodruff of Colorado Newsline Gray wolves captured in Oregon, released at undisclosed...

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A tale of dangerous jails & why WitnessLA needs your help before midnight tonight!

December 31, 2023
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Almost every day we get calls from people locked up in the nation’s largest jail...

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