It’s already been an unusual July 4, weekend as LA County Parks and Recreation cancelled a number of celebrations out of concern for potential ICE raids. Organizers for the Gloria Molina Grand Park ...

Now that most Los Angeles County residents have received their ballots for the June primary election, it is time to address one of the most significant races in the state of California, namely the ...

Editor’s Note: Since the Gold Rush, California’s youth prisons or “correctional institutions” have been characterized by neglect, violence, and abuse, despite attempts at reform. During the bad old ...

Only in LA Sheriff Villanueva is not alone in his resistance to addressing the issue of deputy gangs. Every LA County Sheriff from Sherman Block forward has failed to take on the corrosive deputy ...

As of Wednesday, May 11, a fourth whistleblower from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has come forward to file a civil rights claim that disputes major parts of the story Sheriff Alex ...

By “personal knowledge,” she means that, to quote Lin-Manuel Miranda, she was “in the room where it happened.” Limon is an eyewitness. And what she saw goes far beyond the issue of the head-kneeling ...

Los Angeles County Inspector General Max Huntsman has quietly sent out 35 letters to 35 different LA County Sheriff’s deputies. The letters, which are dated Friday, May 12, direct each of the deputy ...

On Friday, September 23, the LA County Sheriffs Civilian Oversight Commission held the sixth of its special public hearings on the issue of deputy gangs. The event, which was held both in person and ...

Last October, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors paused the LA County Sheriff’s Department’s ability to hire certain non-sworn personnel, while also freezing $143.7 million in sheriff’s ...

For a long time, justice advocates have complained that the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office has repeatedly failed to prosecute members of law enforcement who have broken the law or ...

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 Sunday, December 15, civil rights attorney Ron Kaye sent a letter to Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva informing him of what Kaye described as “unlawful conduct” on the part of an LA ...