A decision by the California Supreme Court sheds rare light on how family police agencies (a more accurate term than “child welfare” agencies) like the Los Angeles County Department of Children and ...
Deconstructing the Conviction of Mark Ridley-Thomas: Part 10 – The U.S. Government changes its story
On May 30, of this year, the conviction of former President Donald Trump by the Manhattan District Attorney prompted a renewed discussion on the importance of the rule of law in the U.S. A reminder of ...
On Thursday, January 25, the team of five appellate attorneys who are now representing Mark Ridley-Thomas filed their 102-page brief in order to appeal their client’s conviction with the United States ...
In February of this year, a Los Angeles County Deputy named Giancarlo Scotti, who was working at the women’s jail located in Lynwood, California, was charged with sexually assaulting six female ...
On Thursday, March 20, 2025, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna attended the monthly meeting of the county’s Sheriff’s Civilian Oversight Commission—or COC. The sheriff was scheduled to give a ...
At Monday’s Board of Supervisors meeting, prior to the vote on Los Angeles County’s 2020-21 budget, the fact that a critical program had been defunded at the last minute was not really discussed, and ...
Recent developments in California and New York make it clear: Foster care is now known to be so harmful to children—and there is so much abuse in foster care—that agencies providing it are becoming ...
On June 7, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted on a new motion co-authored by Supervisors Mark Ridley-Thomas and Janice Hahn, that when it passed early on Tuesday afternoon, will ...
Passed by both the California Assembly and Senate, AB 2527, the “Dignified Care of Incarcerated Pregnancy Act,” will soon face a final decision from Governor Gavin Newsom. One significant amendment in ...
The last week wasn’t an easy period for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, and some of the community members they were policing. Over the weekend, an Instagram video went viral of an ...
The Los Angeles County Department of the Medical Examiner and Coroner often overgeneralizes or misrepresents the reasons people are dying inside the county’s jails, according to a new report from ...
As many readers are aware, the Department of Juvenile Justice, or DJJ, the state’s youth prison system, will stop taking youth from California’s counties in July of this year. This means that the kids ...
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