The matter came to the Ninth after District Judge Charles Breyer issued a temporary restraining order requiring the president to return control of approximately 4,000 California National Guard troops ...

On Thursday, June 19th, a three judge panel from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals put out a unanimous ruling that allowed President Donald Trump to continue to direct the California National Guard ...

In a new legal claim, a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy describes how the Compton Sheriff’s Station has, in the last few years, been permeated by “a violent deputy gang” called the Executioners.

On Tuesday, September 13, after hearing about persistent, inhumane conditions at Los Angeles County’s jail intake center, the LA County Board of Supervisors used a spur-of-the-moment motion to ...

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 ...

Part 1: Removed for Neglect. This is the first in a multi-part series about racial and economic disparities in LA County’s child welfare system, and the impact family surveillance and separation has ...

Impact reports. Before Scotti’s sentence was formally pronounced by Judge Korn on Thursday morning, Deputy District Attorney Hyunah Suh of the DA’s Justice System Integrity Division, who was the ...

At approximately 7 a.m. Wednesday morning, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies arrived at the home of LA County Supervisor Sheila Kuehl with a warrant to search her house. According to Kuehl, the ...

In May of 2022, WitnessLA reported in detail about how Walton was retaliated against for her unwillingness to go along with the provably false story that then Sheriff Villanueva told regarding a ...

In August 2019, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors made the historic decision to cancel a $1.7 billion contract to replace the dangerous and dungeon-like Men’s Central Jail, and to commit ...

(If you’ve not yet read Part 1 you can find it here.). Two weeks ago, at 9:58 a.m. on Monday, June 26, U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer entered her 7th floor courtroom at the United States ...

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 ...