Doniesha Thomas is in her bedroom, crouching on the floor and peering into a pet carrier that...
NOT AGAIN: An Ordinary School Morning in Santa Fe, TX, Is Shattered by Deadly Gunfire
On Friday night, May 18, Santa Fe High School’s varsity baseball team was scheduled to play...
Candidates for CA Governor Discuss Foster Care, Juvenile Justice, and Other Children’s Issues
At LA Trade Technical College, during what was billed as the first forum or debate among...
Los Angeles Gets a New County Department Dedicated to the Arts
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously in favor of creating a...
LA County Probation Wins Award for Its Trauma-Informed LA Model
The National Association of Counties (NACo) has awarded Los Angeles County Probation an Achievement...
Ambitious New Report Says It’s Time to Rethink the Nation’s Juvenile Probation Systems
For more than a decade, the nation’s juvenile justice systems have steadily cut back on...
The Problems With California’s Broken Bail System are Vividly Illustrated as a 26-Year-Old Pregnant Mother is Bailed Out of an LA Jail For Mother’s Day
On Tuesday, 26-year-old Deshay Murphy, received an early Mother’s Day gift when her $30,000 bail...
Prop. H Is the SF Police Union’s “Unprecedented Power Grab” to Undermine SFPD’s Taser Policy, Opponents Say
The San Francisco Police Officers Association is campaigning on behalf of a proposed ballot...
The Three Final Candidates for LAPD’s Next Chief Are… Mike Moore, Bill Scott & Robert Arcos
Okay, we did our best to give you helpful hints, without actually revealing the names of the three...
To Fend off Family First Act, L.A. Hires Lobbyist Who Helped Write It
In mid-April, former Senate Finance staffer-turned-lobbyist Becky Shipp sent an e-blast to dozens...
CA Lawmaker, Partners Introduce Budget Request for $100 Million “Down Payment” on Juvenile Diversion
On Monday, California Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-South Los Angeles) officially requested...
Choosing a New Chief for the LAPD: It’s Down to 3 Finalists
On Monday, the five-member LA Police Commission announced that they have forwarded their list of...
Federal Bureau of Prisons Dumps Controversial Policy Restricting Books, Emails, and Letters for Inmates
On Thursday, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons rolled back a policy deemed by many to be “a...
Preventing Unplanned Pregnancies Among LA County’s Foster Youth
Teen girls in foster care in Los Angeles County are 2.5 times more likely to become pregnant by age...
The Day the LA County Board of Supes Made the Historic Choice to Create an Oversight Commission for Probation
Around 12:30 on Tuesday afternoon, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to...
San Bernardino County Supes Say Data-Driven Criminal Justice Reform Is Yielding Results
By Nadine Ono The results of a jail study conducted by CA Fwd’s Justice System Change Initiative...
Will the Supes Vote to Create a Much-Needed Independent Oversight Commission for LA County Probation? – UPDATED
EDITOR’S UPDATE: The motion you’ll read about below passed unanimously on Tuesday, May...
LA Sheriff’s Sergeant Convicted in Obstruction of Justice Case Asks to Be Sent Home from Prison for Treatment of Stage 3 Cancer
On September 23, 2014, Scott Craig, a former sergeant in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s...