The main thing that the government wants to escape is the legal reach of last month’s 52-page ruling by Federal Judge ...

Late last Friday, August 1, 2025, a panel of three judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals published a 61-page-ruling ...

The voters elected George Gascón as LA County’s District Attorney because they want evidence-based policies that promote justice for all members of the community, not just a continuation of past ...

After more than two weeks of protests ignited by George Floyd’s death under the knees of Minneapolis police — protests that rippled out from Minnesota to spread across the country and world — local ...

This is the second in a multi-part series about racial and economic disparities in Los Angeles County’s child welfare system, and the impact family surveillance and separation has on kids and their ...

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 ...

Trixie is a young woman in her mid-20s who recently left an abusive relationship with a boyfriend. She came to my workplace, Walnut Avenue Family & Women’s Center, in Santa Cruz, seeking help from our ...

Alex Villanueva Are Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s “criminal investigations” of so-called adversaries chilling oversight of the LASD? A report says yes.

Since 1994, California has required people convicted of domestic violence and granted probation to attend what’s known as a “batterer intervention program” certified by their county’s probation ...

Over the past month, there have been two competing headlines about West Hollywood’s fight with the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. The LASD-approved one goes something like this: So this year, ...

This past Tuesday, July 12, was not the greatest of days for Sheriff Alex Villanueva. First, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed a motion giving the go-ahead for a special election in ...