On Monday of this week, U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder knocked down a new California statute, known as the “No Secret Police Act,” which was signed into law last fall. This first of its kind ...
Editor’s note: Whatever you do or don’t think about the controversial and complex case of the Menendez Brothers, a look at their recent bid for parole opens the door to an examination of how well or ...
Six years ago, in February of 2018, a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy named Giancarlo Scotti, who was working at LA County’s largest women’s jail, which is located in Lynwood, California, was ...
As most readers know by now, Max Huntsman, Los Angeles County’s longtime and highly respected Inspector General has announced his retirement. His letter to the members of the LA County’s Board of ...
As many Los Angeles residents and other WLA readers already know, three members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, who are also members of the LASD’s Arson/Explosives Detail were killed ...
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 ...
A young woman, 19, sits in a director’s chair and watches as her face reflected in the mirror slowly transforms. Her eyelids are now varying shades of purple and her lips, a deep magenta. She closes ...
This afternoon, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the unsealing of a grand jury indictment against 30 detention services officers from Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall on charges of child ...
Jacquie Marroquin spent much of her childhood living in fear of her father. A child of undocumented immigrants from Guatemala, Marroquin – who grew up in Los Angeles in the 1970s – worried that ...
As we race through the last of our various 2024 holidays, and toward 2025, WitnessLA has begun to look at what effects the new year may have on the conviction of Mark-Ridley-Thomas. In the meantime, ...
Thursday, November 21, the team of appellate lawyers representing Mark Ridley-Thomas will argue his case before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The hearing will be held at 9:30 a.m. in the Richard H ...
Recent developments in California and New York make it clear: Foster care is now known to be so harmful to children—and there is so much abuse in foster care—that agencies providing it are becoming ...