During the last fiscal year, 2015-2016, Los Angeles County spent $131.8 million on judgment and...
FOLLOW THE MONEY: Why is LA County Probation Spending $400K Yearly on a Youth Diversion Program Serving Zero Kids?
Number of “At Risk” Kids of LA County Served For $397,071? Zero In January of 2015, the...
4th Circuit May Hear Travel Ban Appeal En Banc, While 9th Circuit Will Examine Hawaii Travel Ban Ruling in May
Will the 4th Circuit Go With 15 Judges Instead of 3 When it Reviews Trump’s Travel...
Feds May Back Off of Consent Decrees, Many Departments Remain Committed to Reforms
In a memo made public on Monday, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions directed the Department of...
DHS Says Undocumented Families Will Not Be Separated at the Border
KELLY BACKS OFF PLAN TO SEPARATE MOTHERS AND CHILDREN AT THE BORDER U.S. Secretary of Homeland...
County to Look into Making it Easier to Take Action Against County Employees Who Lie
The LA County Board of Supervisors called for an analysis of whether a portion of the...
DOJ’s Inspector General Concerned by DOJ’s Lack of Oversight of Asset Forfeiture Activities
Over the past 10 years, law enforcement agencies have seized billions of dollars from people who...
Data Shows Arrests Numbers Dropping at the Local and State Levels
In Los Angeles and across the state, law enforcement officers are increasingly making fewer...
Does Race Affect Plea Bargaining? A New Study Says YES
Plea Bargains & Race We know that approximately 95 percent of all criminal convictions are the...
Should the LA County Sheriff’s Department Be Able to Fire Deputies Who Lie?
What Does It Take to Get Fired Around Here? It turns out that firing, or even sanctioning, law...
Bills to Help Sexual Assault and Trafficking Victims
BILL OF RIGHTS FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVORS This week, AB 1312, the Sexual Assault Survivors’...
Bill to Ease Burden of Child Care for Foster Parents
Los Angeles County is experiencing a critical shortage of available foster parents and relative...
State Proposes Rules for Prop. 57 Regarding Good Time Credits and Parole
Late last week, California prison officials proposed regulations for the portions of voter-approved...
LA Police Commission Seeks Public Comment as It Reviews LAPD Body Cam Policy
Late last week, the Los Angeles Police Commission launched a review of the LAPD’s policy...
After Decades Behind Bars on a Wrongful Conviction, Man to Be Set Free
Marco Contreras, a man wrongfully convicted of attempted murder and robbery, is expected to be...
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Videos Himself Deliberately Ignoring a “Gunshot Victim” Radio Call. ….But There Is Much More To The Story
“Somebody Got shot right now….I Gotta Go, But I’m Not Gonna Go” In a...
Lee Baca’s Lawyers Ask for More Alzheimer’s Testing As a Sentencing Day is Set
The Date is (Mostly) Set The date of May 15 has been set for sentencing former Los Angeles County...
SCOTUS Considers Whether LASD Deputies Are Liable in Lancaster Shooting Case
On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case centered around liability for an...