A total of 23 California cities and counties have been awarded chunks of the $103 million in funds...
Op-Ed: The Real Problem With California’s Foster Care Shelters: They Exist
First Stop Parking Places for the State’s Foster Children Have to Go by Richard Wexler Two...
LA County Probation to Roll Out Innovative Mental & Emotional Health Screening Program for Girls
The Power of Gender-Specific Health Screening On any given day, Los Angeles County...
Can a New Brand of Prosecutors Trigger Reform From the Inside?
The New Prosecutors & the Winds of Justice by Miriam Aroni Krinski and Dan Satterberg There...
Stockton Unified Is Over-Policing Schools, Says ACLU
The Stockton Unified School District has a serious problem with over-policing students, according...
LA County Supes Do Away With Fee for “Free” Public Defender
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to eliminate a $50 fee levied against...
Bail Industry and Bed Leasing to Blame for Rising Jail Populations
While the number of convicted individuals serving jail sentences across the nation has been...
SCOTUS, Justice Kennedy & President Trump’s “Animus” Problem
The Justice and the Word President Donald Trump and a great many news pundits seem to view the U.S...
Bills, Bills, Bills Flying Out of Fiscal Committees and Onto House Floors
Last Thursday and Friday were the final two days for the California Senate and Assembly...
Supes Approve $3.3 Million Settlement to Family of Man Killed by Deputies
LA County to Settle With Family of Man Killed by LASD Deputies During Mental Health Emergency On...
WitnessLA a Finalist for SoCal Journalism Awards—& Also a Plot Point on Bosch!
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...