“Regrettably, some who have sworn to safeguard these minors have instead become agents of brutal violence.”

Last year, 332,000 hearings occurred without a court reporter or an electronic recording device -- meaning no verbatim record was preserved -- in Los Angeles County Superior Court alone.

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California lawmakers “tell us time and again that they are committed to helping [domestic violence] survivors and protecting them, but I guess that commitment only goes so far,' one legal advocate said.

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Trump is right about a two-tiered justice system. But he's wrong that it works against him. I wrote about the privilege of being Donald Trump on trial.

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“It is absolutely an access to justice issue,” said Cory Hernandez, w/ Family Violence Appellate Project. “Not having court reporters is disproportionately impacting women, and women of color in particular.”

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California’s highest-ranking court officials are warning of a growing “constitutional crisis” playing out across the state’s judicial system, as hundreds of thousands of hearings are held without a precise record of what occurred.

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BREAKING: Feds charge Shohei Ohtani’s ex-interpreter Ippei Mizuhara with stealing more than $16 million from Dodgers star.

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The defendant, tied up with a white supremacist group, admitted to punching a journalist at a rally several times in the head and body.

He received just 35 days in pretrial custody because the judge is convinced prosecutors are generally treating 'antifa' less harshly...

One of the stranger things in this: now ex-LAPD Chief Michel Moore met directly with Scientology attorneys on the eve of Masterson's 2nd trial to receive an IA complaint against detectives. Sources in LAPD/D.A.'s office sources were uh ... not pleased. latimes.com/california/sto…

Latest: LAPD Officer Toni McBride loses lawsuit over social media accounts

“She shot and killed a man ... But the emotional distress that she is suffering and that she is asking you to award money for is because she is told to take down her Instagram.”

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NEW: Following a 3-year investigation by the state DOJ, sources say LASD seems headed toward a settlement agreement after findings recommending deputies curtail traffic stops, stop enforcing some drug laws and complete 100s more hours of training. latimes.com/california/sto…

Earlier this year, Alene Tchekmedyian & I wrote about a previously unknown deputy gang within the LA Sheriff's Dept:the Industry Indians

County leaders asked LASD for more info on the group - but now oversight officials say the dept largely flouted that request

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The sheriff's dept did not provide a copy of the incident video to the Times today. I was only able to file a story because Joey shared the documents they released to him, 18 months after his initial CPRA request.
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I once wrote a The Baltimore Sun story on underwater work in that area, how extremely complicated it is, and how highly-trained divers basically have to work 'blindfolded': baltimoresun.com/2015/04/17/div…

If it's a tangled mess down there, they've definitely got their work cut out for them.

The decades-long effort to return confiscated property to Jewish families is morally courageous.

Proud to sponsor Asm. Jesse Gabriel’s #AB2867 , ensuring Holocaust survivors & other victims of persecution can recover property that is rightfully theirs.
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