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LA County Pays $2.7 million to teenager who was the victim of “Gladiator” fights at youth hall

June 5, 2025
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WitnessLA is a finalist for SoCal Journalism Award!

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The Case of the Vanishing Editor

May 30, 2025
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Probation Moving Incarcerated Kids Out of “Unsuitable” Juvenile Hall After Court Approval, But Oversight Commission Says Simply Relocating Kids Won’t Solve Root Problems

May 29, 2025
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Undocumented: The Price of the Promised Land

April 30, 2025
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#NoSafePlace

LA County Pays $2.7 million to teenager who was the victim of “Gladiator” fights at youth hall

Celeste Fremon
June 5, 2025
Written by Celeste Fremon
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A new high-ticket legal settlement has added still more painful details to the ongoing catastrophe that is Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall, in Downey, CA

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WitnessLA is a finalist for SoCal Journalism Award!

June 1, 2025
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At WitnessLA, we were very happy to learn that one of our ongoing investigative series made it into...

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The Case of the Vanishing Editor

May 30, 2025
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While Assistant Editor Taylor Walker has been once more looking into the painful and ongoing issue...

#YouthJusticeReimagined • LA County Probation • LA Probation Oversight Commission • Probation • Unsuitable 4 Youth

Probation Moving Incarcerated Kids Out of “Unsuitable” Juvenile Hall After Court Approval, But Oversight Commission Says Simply Relocating Kids Won’t Solve Root Problems

May 29, 2025
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The Los Angeles County Probation Department began moving kids between youth lockups this week, as...

#Documented/Undocumented

Undocumented: The Price of the Promised Land

April 30, 2025
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This past Saturday, April 26, when the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books opened its doors at the...

Books & Justice

WLA Editor leading writers panel Saturday at LA Times Festival Books

April 20, 2025
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On Saturday and Sunday this coming weekend, April 26 and 27, 2025, the Los Angeles Times is holding...

#LACountyJusticeReimagined

A controversial prosecution, a series of threats, & the struggle to provide genuine oversight for the nations largest sheriff’s department – Part 2

April 9, 2025
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The case of Diana Teran As described in Part 1 of this series, it was a controversial set of...

Juvenile Probation • LA County Probation • Probation

LA County Supes Order “Transparency in Planning During Probation’s Ongoing Crisis”

April 5, 2025
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On Tuesday, April 1, four of the five Los Angeles County Supervisors expressed their displeasure...

#LACountyJusticeReimagined

A controversial prosecution, a series of threats, & the struggle to provide genuine oversight for the nation’s largest sheriff’s department – Part 1

March 31, 2025
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On Thursday, March 20, 2025, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna attended the monthly meeting of...

LA County Probation • LA Probation Oversight Commission • Probation • Reimagining Youth Justice & Child Welfare

LA County Probation Presents “Global Plan” for Housing Youth in Halls and Camps

March 15, 2025
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Two years ago, on March 7, 2023, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors directed the LA County...

Immigration & Justice

California’s Immigrant Teens Find Healing in Unexpected Places

March 11, 2025
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by Isaac Ceja and Lauren DeLaunay Miller A young woman, 19, sits in a director’s chair and...

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Justice Briefs 2025: Amy Coney Barrett does the right thing

March 6, 2025
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In a decision that some found unexpected, on Wednesday, March 5, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, along...

#NoSafePlace

AG Bonta announces indictments of 30 probation officers for facilitating gladiator fights in troubled youth hall…but there’s more

March 3, 2025
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This afternoon, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the unsealing of a grand jury...

Domestic Violence

A Violence-Prevention Helpline for Those Who Want to Change Gains Ground in California

March 1, 2025
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Jacquie Marroquin spent much of her childhood living in fear of her father. A child of...

Facing the Inferno 2025

Facing the Inferno 2025 – Trump’s cuts to federal wildfire crews could have ‘scary’ consequences

February 19, 2025
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President Donald Trump’s moves to slash the federal workforce have gutted the ranks of wildland...

Environment • Facing the Inferno 2025

FACING THE INFERNO 2025 – Why did the EPA choose to sort toxic waste in an irreplaceable wildlife sanctuary?

February 13, 2025
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The Palisades and Eaton wildfires that caused such damage and heartache in Los Angeles County have...

Facing the Inferno 2025 • Uncategorized

Facing the Inferno 2025 – Incarcerated Firefighters Deserve a Raise

January 29, 2025
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For their essential work saving lives, homes, & communities, they're paid $1.12 per hour.

Facing the Inferno 2025

Facing the Inferno 2025 – Locked up During Hughes Fire Evacuation

January 23, 2025
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The Hughes Fire is now the third-largest wild fire in Southern California.

#JusticeBriefs • Indigenous rights • Native American

At the last possible moment Biden commutes sentence for Leonard Peltier

January 20, 2025
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In the last few minutes of his presidency, Joe Biden unexpectedly commuted the sentence of Leonard...

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