On Friday, Nicola Hanna was sworn in to serve as the interim United States Attorney for the Central...
OP-ED: Oregon Foster Care Said Parents Not Smart Enough to Raise Their Son, But Judge Vehemently Disagreed
Last month, the Oregon Department of Human Services deployed three lawyers to call 40 witnesses...
First California DOJ Report on Bias in Policing Looks at Complaints Against Officers
California’s Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board (RIPA) publicly released its first...
As New Juvenile Justice Reform Laws Go Into Effect This Week, New Data Shows Youth Arrest Rates Keep Dropping
Arrest rates for kids in California dropped for the ninth year in a row in 2016, according to a...
THE WRITER, The Sequel: A Confused Teenager, a Shooting, a Long Prison Sentence & an Unusual Opportunity
EDITOR’S NOTE: On Thanksgiving morning, 2017, I received an unexpected email from someone...
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year!
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Murder Rate in Largest U.S. Cities—Including 4 in California—Estimated to Fall This Year Says New Report
The 2017 murder rate in the 30 largest American cities is estimated to decline by 5.6 percent by...
Legislators Call for Investigations Into Assault Claims in Immigrant Detention; OIG Inspections Reveal Troubling Immigrant Detention Conditions
On Monday, a group of more than 70 Democratic members of Congress sent a letter urging federal...
Why 9th Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski’s Resignation for Sexual Impropriety is a Very Big Deal
As most readers know by now, Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, announced...
Judge Alex Kozinski Announces Retirement “Effective Immediately” Amid More Accusations of Sexual Impropriety
Judge Alex Kozinski, the powerful and notoriously quirky justice for the 9th Circuit Court of...
Powerful 9th Circuit Justice Alex Kozinski to be Investigated for Sexual Misconduct Allegations
On Thursday, Sidney R. Thomas, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit...
Fight Against Mugshot Sites Brings Little Success
By Rebecca Beitsch Mike Anderson was an 18-year-old freshman at Texas State University when he was...
Research Says Juveniles Need Their Own Miranda Rights
Studies suggest they're "too complex" for kids to understand, spurring some police departments to...
ACLU Launches National Initiative to End Cash Bail
On Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union’s Campaign for Smart Justice announced the...
OP-ED: Power, Privilege and Foster Care – How a northern California politician bent an entire child welfare system to his will
Meet Matt Rexroad. He is an ex-Marine who describes himself as “an influential part of California...
BEATING CHILDREN: Four L.A. County Probation Staff to Be Fired for Assault of Teenager in Central Juvenile Hall
On March 20, 2017, a Los Angeles County Probation supervisor allegedly physically assaulted a...
Keeping “Vigilant” About Racial Disparities in Youth Prosecution After Prop. 57 Abolished “Direct File”
With the 2016 passage of Proposition 57, which took the power to send kids to adult criminal court...
U.S. Supreme Court Says No to Paul Tanaka, the LASD’s Former 2nd in Command, Now in Fed Prison
At the end of October, Paul Tanaka, the once feared and powerful former second in command of the...