This year, WitnessLA’s continuing investigative series, “Rosa Gonzalez, The Whistleblower,” Part 1 and Part 2, is a finalist ...

Editor Fremon has also vanished temporarily from these pages because, for about a week, she was busy with the process of ...

The Los Angeles County Probation Department began moving kids between youth lockups this week, as ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Misconduct and brutality at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has resulted in criminal convictions for 21 department members, including former Sheriff Lee Baca. Now that the string of high ...

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 ...

Judge Renee Korn’s day was running late last Thursday morning, so it past 10:30 a.m. before the sentencing hearing for former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy, Giancarlo Scotti, finally got ...

Last year, according to Los Angeles County Probation officials, thirteen kids under the county’s supervision filed what are technically known as PREA grievances against probation staff members.