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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
Civil Liberties • Gangs • LAPD

Fed Judge Shuts Down Los Angeles Gang Injunctions in Historic Ruling

March 16, 2018
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by Taylor Walker & Celeste Fremon In a 22-page order signed on Thursday, a federal district...

Prison • Prison Policy • prison reform • Uncategorized

Bill Would Give FCC Power to Cap Outrageous Intrastate Calls Between Inmates and Their Families

March 15, 2018
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In 2013 and 2015, the Federal Communications Commission placed caps on how much companies can...

Crossover Youth • DCFS • Foster Care • LA County Probation

2 Supes Issue Call to Help “Crossover Kids,” Young People Failed—Not Once, But Twice—By LA County’s Juvenile Systems

March 14, 2018
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We know that, statistically speaking, kids who spend time in LA County’s foster care...

Drugs & Drug Treatment • Justice Reform • Prison • prison reform • Rehabilitation • Sentencing Reform

Increasing Incarceration for Drug Use Doesn’t Help to Combat the Opioid Crisis, Says Pew Report

March 13, 2018
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Incarcerating individuals for drug-related offenses does not lead to reduced drug use or fewer...

Community Health & Safety • Guns

LA County Supes Aim at Gun Violence With Call for Stricter County Firearm Regulations & Creation of An Office of Violence Prevention

March 12, 2018
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On Tuesday March 13, LA County Supervisors Mark Ridley-Thomas and Sheila Kuehl will ask their...

Law Enforcement • Life and Life Only

Pomona Police Officer Killed in 15-Hour Stand-Off With Suspect, Who is Reportedly a Mentally Ill Vet

March 10, 2018
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Pomona PD Officer Greggory Casillas was sworn in only six months ago, and was nearly finished with...

ACLU • Immigration & Justice

ACLU Sues DHS & ICE for Separating Asylum-Seeking Parents From Their Kids

March 10, 2018
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On November 1, 2017, a Congolese woman and her six-year-old daughter arrived at the U.S. Port of...

Community Health & Safety

Prop. 47 Not Responsible for Crime Rate Increases in 2015, Says New UCI Study—Prosecutors Disagree, UPDATED

March 8, 2018
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by Taylor Walker & Celeste Fremon California’s voter-approved Proposition 47—which...

Bill Watch

Bill Update: Compensation for the Wrongfully Convicted, Independent Autopsies, and Gun Control

March 7, 2018
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As California’s 2018 legislative session has been starting to gain momentum in February and...

LA County Board of Supervisors • LA County Jail • LASD

LA County Supes Approve $5.9 Million Settlement for Mentally Ill Pretrial Inmate Who Sustained Brain Injury

March 6, 2018
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On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a $5.9 million...

Campus Violence • Children and Adolescents

Nobody Knows How Many Kids Get Caught With Guns in School. Here’s Why.

March 6, 2018
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By Jen Fifield One day after a Florida teenager walked into his former high school and carried out...

Community Health & Safety

How the Worst Kind of Personal Sorrow Led LA Violence Reduction Expert Aqeela Sherrills to Help Newark, NJ, Lower Its Murder Rate

March 5, 2018
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Aqeela Sherrills, a former Grape Street Crip, who was one of the primary architects of the famous...

CDCR • Edmund G. Brown, Jr. (Jerry) • Juvenile Justice • Youth Justice: Healing Not Punishment

Gov. Brown, the State’s Analyst, & Youth Advocates Argue Over Raising the Age Limit for State Juvie Lock-ups

March 2, 2018
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In January, California Governor Jerry Brown released a budget blueprint that included several...

Community Health & Safety

In a Case of Awful Timing, Trump Administration Seeks Shutdown of New School Safety Research

March 1, 2018
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by Ted Gest After the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut at the end of 2012...

Community Health & Safety • Guns

Head of Nation’s Biggest Teachers’ Union Says Arming School Teachers is “Insane”

February 28, 2018
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On Wednesday, President Donald Trump hosted another meeting pertaining to the frightening and...

Campus Violence • LA County Board of Supervisors • LASD • LAUSD • Uncategorized

LA County Looks at Expanding Mental Health Intervention Program That Aims to Prevent School Shootings

February 28, 2018
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On Tuesday, just under two weeks after the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland...

Foster Care • Juvenile Justice • Juvenile Probation • LA County Probation • Youth Justice: Healing Not Punishment

California Hopes to Place More Probation Youth in Foster Homes Like This

February 27, 2018
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Starcania Ford’s first call came not too long after she had completed two months of background...

California Supreme Court • Juvenile Justice

California Supremes Say 50+ Years in Prison for Juvenile Non-Murder Crimes Is Unconstitutional

February 27, 2018
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In a 4-3 decision Monday, the California Supreme Court ruled that juvenile sentences of 50 years or...

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