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 ...

At WitnessLA, we were very happy to learn that one of our ongoing investigative series made it into the finals of this year’s Southern California Journalism Awards, an important string of awards, ...

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.

The last week wasn’t an easy period for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, and some of the community members they were policing. Over the weekend, an Instagram video went viral of an ...

California’s 35 prisons and four juvenile facilities will no longer accept new intakes, at least temporarily, under a new executive order from Governor Gavin Newsom meant to help slow the spread of ...

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 ...

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 ...

On March 21, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed an important motion that instructed the Director of the Office of Child Protection, Michael Nash, former presiding judge of Los Angeles ...

On May 30, of this year, the conviction of former President Donald Trump by the Manhattan District Attorney prompted a renewed discussion on the importance of the rule of law in the U.S. A reminder of ...