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...
Warning Signs Los Angeles Missed That Allowed the LA County Sheriff’s Department to Spin Out of Control
If We Could Do It Over Again Right before former Los Angeles County sheriff Lee Baca was sentenced...
Former Sheriff Lee Baca Sentenced to 36 Months in Federal Prison
Leroy Baca is sentenced. “Alzheimer’s disease is not a get out of jail card,”...
The Serious Business of Sentencing the Longtime Los Angeles County Sheriff
Sentencing the Sheriff At 8:30 a.m. Friday, May 12, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca will...
Supervisors Vote to Indemnify LASD Members Involved in Jail Beating
Supes vote to pay punitive damages owed by deputies and a captain involved in a jail abuse case...
DCFS Unit Never Distributed $70,000 in Toys to Foster Kids and Mishandled Other Donations
LA County’s Children’s Trust Fund Unit (CTFU) failed to distribute $70,000 worth of...
Hefty Traffic Tickets Lead to Suspended Licenses, Lost Jobs, and Even Lock-up for Poor and Minority Californians
California traffic courts frequently suspend driver’s licenses of those who are unable to pay...
Los Angeles County’s Youth Probation Camps Have a Problem With Graduating Kids (But It’s Not What you Think)
Kids in LA County’s Youth Probation Camps Are Proud of Their Diplomas So, how do we help them...
LA Sheriff’s Deputy Gets $1.275 Million in Whistleblower Settlement Involving Paul Tanaka & Expanding Jail Sentences
Refusing Paul Tanaka & the Weird Case of the Magically Lengthening Jail Sentences On...