WitnessLA is a Finalist We were very happy to learn that WitnessLA is a finalist for one of the...
LA County Puts Thousands of Kids on “Voluntary” Probation for Merely Struggling With School
LA County’s Problematic Probation Lite by Sara Kravoy Marbella Munoz was a foster child for most...
How LA County Began to Face Its Big, Tragic Problem With Sex-Trafficked Kids
The Day Michelle Guymon Confronted the Awful Reality of Child Sex Trafficking by Kristy...
Gregg Allman, Blues-Haunted Southern Rock Pioneer, Dies at 69
David Brown, writing for Rolling Stone, got it right in his obit for Gregg Allman: “The...
A Flurry of Activity in the Appropriations Committees, Plus Bill Updates
Friday is the final deadline for the Senate and Assembly Appropriations Committees to send bills...
Civilian Commission Votes to Urge Sheriff to Increase Public Data
On Thursday, the civilian oversight commission for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s...
Criminalizing California’s Foster Kids
State and local officials are responding to the excessive arrests of children in California’s...
Lawsuit Says Former LA Undersheriff Paul Tanaka Pushed DA To Falsely Charge Deputies
A Long Held Vendetta On Wednesday, attorney Ron Kaye filed a civil lawsuit in behalf of Los Angeles...
Contradicting Stories from Beleaguered OC District Attorney and Jailhouse Informant on “60 Minutes”
On Monday, Orange County Supervisor Todd Spitzer called on US Attorney General Jeff Sessions to...
Witness Against Former Sheriff Lee Baca Gets 9-Month Sentence
Cooperation Versis Obstruction On Monday morning, William “Tom” Carey, 58, a former...
Now It’s Prosecutors Who Push Back Hard Against AG Sessions’ “Tough on Crime” Directive
Prosecutorial Objections A week after the release of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’...
How Much Harm Will AG Sessions’ Lock ‘Em Up Memo Do To Sentencing Reform?
Sessions Wants More People in Prison On Friday, May 12, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a...
States Still Failing to Protect Kids’ Rights to Counsel 50 Years After Gault
It has been 50 years since the 1967 US Supreme Court ruling in In re Gault established that youth...
CA Officials Don’t Hold Agencies Responsible When Officers Misuse Police Databases
California’s law enforcement agencies hit record numbers of instances of misusing the...
California’s Juvenile Lock-ups: High Costs, High Recidivism
As the number of kids in state lockups has plunged in California, per capita juvenile incarceration...
AFTER THE FALL: Why Judge Anderson’s 3-Year Sentence for Former LA Sheriff Lee Baca Was Not a Surprise
A “Tragic” Fall “This is a sad day for our community,” said U.S. District Court...
OP-ED: LA County Nixes Alarmingly Unreliable “Predictive Analytics” Foster Care Scheme—For Now
After Disturbingly High False Positive Rate, Head of LA County’s Office of Child Protection Urges...
LA Examines the Risky Business of “Predictive Risk Modeling”
A Child’s Death in L.A. Elicits More Questions than Answers Los Angeles County, home to the...