It’s not yet a done deal, but absent some kind of dramatic intervention, it appears that the...
Sheriff Alex Villanueva
Getting Body Cams ASAP, Getting ICE Out of Jails—and Other Campaign Promises Made by New LA County Sheriff Villanueva
“If I’m elected, on day one, we’re going to set an entirely new course for the...
LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva Sworn In At Upbeat Community Celebration Amid Outbreaks of Concern and Lots of Hope
“This entire county is at a crossroad,” said newly elected Los Angeles County Sheriff...
WitnessLA on Spectrum News Tuesday A.M. Talking About Newly Sworn In Sheriff Alex Villanueva
As you may or may not know, Spectrum Networks, the hyper-local cable news operation of Charter...
It’s Official: Los Angeles County Has a New Sheriff! And Alex Villanueva is Already Readying His Team to Take Over the LASD!
With Monday's history making victory in mind, Villanueva has been working with the main people on...
What Does Villanueva’s New 22,000 Vote Lead Over McDonnell for Sheriff Tell Us? – UPDATED
Whoever told the sheriff he could skip those debates, Levenson said, "gave him bad advice."
Dramatic & Potentially Historic LA County Sheriff’s Race Will Be Decided By 985,000 Ballots Still To Be Counted
As things stand now, 4,927 votes separate the two men, with Villanueva receiving 820,333 votes to...
Sheriff Jim McDonnell and Election Challenger Alex Villanueva Get More Endorsements
On Thursday, the Association of Deputy District Attorneys announced that its board of directors had...
How Did Alex Villanueva, an Unknown, No-Chance Candidate for LA County Sheriff Become a Serious Challenger?
The California primaries have been over for a month and a half, and the real campaigning for the...
THE CHALLENGERS WHO WOULD BE LA COUNTY SHERIFF: An Interview With Alex Villanueva
A Talk With Alex Villanueva About Why He’s Running for Sheriff Lieutenant Alex Villanueva...
The Writer
THE WRITER, The Sequel, Part 2: A Troubled But Talented Boy, a Shooting, a 22-Year-Sentence, & Miracles in the Unlikeliest of Places
During the first days after John Rodriguez arrived at California’s Ironwood State Prison, located near Blythe, California, he was overcome by a bad case of the jitters. He’d spent the first few years of his 22-year...
THE WRITER, The Sequel, Part 1: 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...
The Writer – Chapter 4: by Dennis Danziger
EDITOR’S NOTE: The non-fiction story below is part of a four-part series that was written for...
The Writer, Chapter 3 – by Dennis Danziger
In August of this year, John Rodriguez was released from prison after Governor Jerry Brown commuted...
The Writer, Part 2 – by Dennis Danziger
EDITOR’S NOTE: When we last left off, it was 2010, and Venice High School English teacher...
The Writer: Chapter 1: An Unexpected E-Mail
EDITOR’S NOTE: On Thanksgiving morning I received an unexpected email from someone whose name...
The Trial of Lee Baca
Former LA County Sheriff Lee Baca Granted Bail Pending Appeal
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals granted Leroy Baca’s motion for bail pending his appeal in an...
Judge Denies Former LA County Sheriff Lee Baca Bail While Awaiting Appeal (But It’s Still Unlikely Baca Will Go to Prison on July 25)
On Thursday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Percy Anderson issued an order denying former LA...
AFTER THE FALL: Why Judge Anderson’s 3-Year Sentence for Former LA Sheriff Lee Baca Was Not a Surprise
Warning Signs Los Angeles Missed That Allowed the LA County Sheriff’s Department to Spin Out of Control
Former Sheriff Lee Baca Sentenced to 36 Months in Federal Prison
Lee Baca’s Lawyers Ask for More Alzheimer’s Testing As a Sentencing Day is Set
WitnessLA Discusses the Long Road to Baca’s Conviction on KCRW & KPFK
THE RETRIAL OF LEE BACA: How LA County’s Popular Sheriff Got Convicted
THE RETRIAL OF LEE BACA: The Jury Finds Baca Guilty on All 3 Counts
THE RETRIAL OF LEE BACA: Jury Still Deliberating…& Sending Notes
THE RETRIAL OF LEE BACA: The Eyes of Sheriff Baca vs. the Chess King
THE RETRIAL OF LEE BACA : The Defense Calls Only One Witness
During 1st Week of Testimony 4 Former LASD Members Point to Baca as the Man Who Gave the Orders
THE RETRIAL OF LEE BACA: During Opening Statements the Prosecution & the Defense Drag a Ghost Into Court
THE TRIAL OF LEE BACA -Judge Rules No Star Pin, No “Good Works” Defense, & No Alzheimer’s Expert
Lee Baca’s Defense Team Claims Double Jeopardy as Prosecutors Move to Nix the Mini Sheriff’s Badge
Prosecutors Announce They Will Retry Former LA County Sheriff Lee Baca
THE TRIAL OF LEE BACA: To Retry or Not to Retry
Hung Jury in Baca Trial – “Unable to reach a Verdict,” Deadlocked at 11 /1 for Acquittal
THE TRIAL OF LEE BACA – The Jury Deliberates
Lee Baca Trial: The Prosecution Rests With Fed Judge’s Account of Furious Sheriff, and the Defense Calls a Speedy List of Character Witnesses
The Trial of Lee Baca – Day 3: A Colleague’s Warning & a Convicted Deputy Shows the High Cost of Following Orders
Updates on the Lee Baca Trial Coming This Weekend – UPDATED
Judge Rules That Lee Baca Will Now Have Two Trials. (No. We Are Not Kidding.)
As Former LA County Sheriff Lee Baca’s Trial Approaches….
Judge Puts Off Decision About Whether Former LA Sheriff Lee Baca Can use an Expert to Introduce Baca’s Alzheimer’s Diagnosis
As Lee Baca’s Trial Approaches, the Fight Heats Up About the Former LA Sheriff’s “Cognitive Impairment”
Fed Judge Denies Baca’s Motions to Recuse Lead Prosecutor and Change the Trial Location
Former Sheriff Lee Baca Goes to Court to Get Trial Moved Out of LA & to Get Lead Prosecutor Off Case
Baca Wants Lead Prosecutor, Federal Judge AND City of LA Disqualified
Prosecutors Request Mental Competency Evaluation for Former Sheriff Lee Baca
Lee Baca: A December Trial Date, A New Lawyer, and a Pitch for Legal $$$ – UPDATED
Now That a Grand Jury Has Indicted Former Sheriff Lee Baca, Can His Trial Move Us Closer to Lasting Reform?
No New Plea Deal Reached, Baca Almost Certain to Be Indicted and Go to Trial
What to Expect When Lee Baca To Be Sentenced Monday Morning
Day of Reckoning: The Strange and Memorable Afternoon When Former LA County Sheriff Lee Baca Pleaded Guilty to a Felony
Former Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca Pleads to Felony Charge That Would Likely Involve Time in Lock-Up
The Urgent Matter of Child Sex Trafficking & the Lasting Cost of Child Sexual Abuse
San Francisco Public Schools Include Human Trafficking in Health Curriculum
Supes to Increase Services for Parents of Sex Trafficking Victims
California Tries — With Difficulty — to Implement Two Important Laws to Help Sex-Trafficked Kids, But Progress is Maddeningly Slow
LA City and County to Crack Down on Enforcing Human Trafficking Hotline Law
“No Such Thing as a Child Prostitute” Bill Becomes State Law
Dozens of Bills (Some Overlapping) Tackle Child Sex Trafficking in California
How LA Kids are Being Recruited for Sex Trafficking & What LA Law Enforcement is Doing About It – by Kristy Plaza and Alana Victor
Are LA’s Locked Up & Traumatized Girls Getting the Help They Need?
Letter Asks DOJ to Deal With OC Prosecutorial Misconduct Scandal…Responses to Sheriff Jim McDonnell’s Prop 47 Videos…LA Launch of Coalition to End Child Exploitation…and More
Why It’s Important That LA County Sheriff Jim McDonnell and the LASD Are Making Child Sex-trafficking a Priority
LA County Sheriff Jim McDonnell Says There’s No Such Thing as a Child Prostitute
Are Abused and Traumatized Girls Disproportionately Pushed Into the Justice System? A Startling New Study Says: YES
Oakland Mentorship Program Offers Safety & Healing to Sexually Exploited Young Women – by Sarah Zahedi
Girls and the Sexual-Abuse-to-Prison-Pipeline
The Downfall of Paul Tanaka
U.S. Supreme Court Says No to Paul Tanaka, the LASD’s Former 2nd in Command, Now in Fed Prison
Former LASD Undersheriff Paul Tanaka Appeals to SCOTUS Hoping to Reverse Criminal Conviction
9th Circuit Denies Paul Tanaka’s Appeal
At Appeal Hearing 9th Circuit Judges Ask About Paul Tanaka’s Viking Tattoo
Former LA Undersheriff Paul Tanaka Gets 5-Year Sentence & Scorching Lecture
Attorneys for Paul Tanaka Fight for Probation Only, Saying Former LA Sheriff Baca Was the Real “Ringleader”
Prosecutors Call for 5 Years in Prison for Former LASD Undersheriff Paul Tanaka
The Trial of Paul Tanaka Part 6: The Verdict & the Jury
The Trial of Paul Tanaka – Part 5: The Former Undersheriff and the Vikings
The Trial of Paul Tanaka – Part 4: Tanaka Takes the Stand, and the Prosecution Uses the “V” Word
” F— the FBI!” – Trial of Former LASD Undersheriff Paul Tanaka, Part 3
The Trial of Paul Tanaka, Part 2: The “Context” and “the Crime”
Former LA Sheriff’s Dept. Captain Tom Carey Takes Plea Deal—Which Means Cooperation, Testimony….(And Maybe a Baca Indictment?) in the Future
OPERATION PANDORA’S BOX FINALLY GOES UP THE LADDER: The Day That Paul Tanaka and Tom Carey of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Were Federally Indicted
An Anatomy of the LA Jails Commission: Will It Matter?
ANATOMY OF A JAILS COMMISSION: Part 5 – Revisiting the Testimony of Undersheriff Paul Tanaka
Tanaka’s testimony may not have provided the commission members with the answers they hoped to...
ANATOMY OF A JAILS COMMISSION: Part 4 – The Sheriff & his Undersheriff Finally Talk
For much of the LA Press, who were present in greater numbers at this particularly commission...
