Saving “LA Youth”—The Nation’s Largest Youth Newspaper Needs Help ASAP
We want our kids to be informed, thinking, confident compassionate, educated people, such a goal is in everyone’s interest, for heaven’s sake, and yet increasingly, as the economy continues to wobble,...
View ArticleWitnessLA is a Finalist for Three LA Press Club Awards
WitnessLA is very happy to report that we are a finalist in three categories for this year’s Southern California Journalism Awards given by the LA Press Club. The categories in which we are shortlisted...
View ArticleWitnessLA Walks Away With One of Top Prizes at LA Press Club Awards
Witness LA took home a top prize in one category, a second place in another, and was a finalist in a third on Sunday night at the 54th annual Los Angeles Press Club Awards, where hundreds of reporters,...
View ArticleLife-Skills Programs Combat Juvie Crime, Baca’s Legal Issues, and “Breaking Bad”
LIFE-SKILLS PROGRAMS GREATLY REDUCE JUVIE ARREST RATES Enrolling disadvantaged teens in life-skills programs may bring down juvenile arrests for violent crime by as much as 44%, according to a report...
View ArticleGathering Some Thoughts About the Murders in Aurora
Over the weekend, it was hard to focus on news other than the shootings in Aurora, Colorado, where 12 people were killed, 58 wounded, at the midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises. With this in...
View ArticleLA Gets a New Education Blog! It’s About $%@#%& Time!… KQED Does...
LA HAS A NEW, MUCH NEEDED EDUCATION BLOG There are few things of more consequence in this city and county than education. And yet, although we have good education reporters in LA (Tammy Abdollah at...
View ArticleJerry Signs SB9, Giving Kids Sentenced to Die in Prison a Chance at a...
Yes, the governor signed the bill at the last possible minute. (Today was the cutoff.) But sign it, he did. We are grateful. Rather than ramble on about the importance of SB9, the Fair Sentencing for...
View ArticlePublic Records Act at Risk, Anti-Bullying Program Slammed as Gay Plot, Juvie...
A CALIF JUDGE’S DECISION THREATENS THE PUBLIC RECORDS ACT The LA Times’ Jim Newton has a column that is an absolutely essential read —unless you trust every single one of our government agencies and...
View ArticleThe Sheriff Back-Pedals, FBI Has to Pay Up on FOIA Screw up…& Voter Fraud
BACA SAYS THAT THE JAILS COMMISSIONS RECS ARE FINE, BUT THE HARSH FINDINGS BEHIND THEM….UH…WELL, MAYBE NOT SO MUCH Sheriff Lee Baca gave an interview to KPCC’s Larry Mantel on Thursday. The transcript...
View ArticleLA Magazine Wants You to Help Catch A Serial Killer
Los Angeles Magazine wants you to help catch a serial killer and rapist who preyed on both northern and southern Californians between 1976 and 1986, committing, it is believed, fifty rapes and ten...
View Article2012 Was a Good Year for Exonerations…..D.C. Kids Use Cameras to Protest More...
Light posting today. Working on a number of interesting thing for next week and the following week. COPS AND PROSECUTORS HELP MORE IN EXONERATIONS IN 2012 According to a new report released Wednesday,...
View ArticleJittery Talk at LAT Book Fest About Koch Bros. Bidding for LA Times…How CA...
NY TIMES REPORTS KOCH BROTHERS MAY BE FRONT RUNNERS IN BIDDING TO BUY LA TIMES On Sunday the USC Campus was gloriously packed with tens of thousands of Lit Lovers as the yearly LA Times Festival of...
View ArticleWitnessLA Wins Two 1st Places at So Cal Journalism Awards! (and More Journo...
WOOO-HOOO! We were extremely honored (and kinda blown away) when WitnessLA won 1st Place in both catagories in which we were finalists at in the Southern California Journalism Awards, given out Sunday...
View ArticleMORE POST TRIAL NEWS: Violence at an LA Prayer Vigil……”What Do I Tell My Boys...
PLANNED LEIMERT PARK COMMUNITY RALLY DISRUPTED BY VIOLENCE, RALLIERS DISMAYED A well-organized, well-attended prayer vigil and community rally that began at Leimert Park early on Monday evening, was...
View ArticleHow is LA doing on DCFS Reform?….Hostage Deaths and the LASD Oversight...
LA CHILD WELFARE REFORM “CHECKUP” REPORT STRESSES IMPORTANCE OF MEDIA PRESSURE TO KEEP DCFS REFORMS MOVING Fostering Media Connections has released a 23-page report stressing the necessity for...
View ArticleLessons the LAPD Can Teach……What About Body Cameras?…..John Oliver on Police...
WHAT FERGUSON CAN LEARN FROM THE LAPD Yes, the Los Angeles Police Department is far from perfect. There was, for instance, the recent revelation that they appear to be deliberately cooking some of...
View Article4 LA County Sheriff’s Deputies Suspect of Theft and Bribe Taking…CA Poor...
FOUR LA SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT MEMBERS INVESTIGATED FOR THEFT AND BRIBERY ALLEGATIONS Four members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department have been relieved of duty without pay pending the...
View ArticleMedia & Crime & Race…Emotion Makes Bad Law…..Were SF Jail Deputies Behind...
DEAR MEDIA, ABOUT THE CRIME & RACE THING…YOU’RE NOT HELPING We know that, statistically, poor minority defendants fair far less well when they come in contact with the American criminal justice...
View ArticleDOJ, LASD Approve Antelope Valley Settlement…For-profit Prison Companies’...
LA SUPES OKAY DOJ AND SHERIFF’S DEPT. SETTLEMENT OVER DISCRIMINATION IN THE ANTELOPE VALLEY On Tuesday, the US Department of Justice and LA County agreed on a court-enforceable settlement that will...
View ArticleWatts Riots 50th Anniversary News Roundup….Are Crime Rates Really...
JOURNALISTS, AUTHORS, ACTIVISTS, AND RESIDENTS REMEMBER THE WATTS RIOTS As America marks the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Watts riots this week, here are some stories we didn’t want you to miss:...
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