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WEB4 days ago · The Catharsis of Accountability: My Healing Journey. September 24, 2024. Written by WLA Guest. Add Comment. by Yenni Rivera “I understand, take your time.”. That was a text I sent to my ex-husband as part of my family’s healing process, made possible with the help of a restorative justice program located in Los... Columns, Op-Eds ...
New LA Innocence Project, Funded by Exoneree, Will Partner With ...
WEBAug 23, 2022 · Photo: Paula Mitchell, director of the LAIP at Cal State LA, speaks during a news conference on Aug. 19 announcing the new partnership. Mitchell was joined by Cal State LA Executive Vice President and Provost Jose A. Gomez, exoneree and founding donor of the project Andrew Wilson, State Sen. Bob Hertzberg, State Sen. Steven Bradford, Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo, and Katherine Roberts ...
LA County Probation puts 66 officers on leave pending disciplinary ...
WEBMay 14, 2024 · LA County Probation Chief Guillermo Viera Rosa announced Monday that the department he leads has put 66 sworn probation officers on administrative leave since the beginning of 2024, pending internal affairs investigations into allegations of official misconduct, including at the county’s youth facilities. According to the email sent by Chief ...
With a grand opening in LA, Young Women’s Freedom Center …
WEBJun 11, 2022 · On May 26, the Bay Area-based Young Women’s Freedom Center (YWFC) officially opened the doors of a new Los Angeles center, and simultaneously unveiled a magazine written by and for system-impacted youth. YWFC has been integral to efforts to reduce juvenile incarceration in Northern California, and to the passage of local and state-level legislation meant to improve the lives of young people ...
Tom Carey | Search Results
WEBMay 14, 2024 · OPERATION PANDORA’S BOX FINALLY GOES UP THE LADDER: The Day That Paul Tanaka and Tom Carey of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Were Federally Indicted. May 16, 2015. 83 Comments. “The allegations in the indictment include cover-ups, diversionary tactics, retribution and a... FBI • LASD • …
Former LA Sheriff’s Lieutenant & Son Federally Indicted for …
WEBJul 7, 2017 · Former Los Angeles Sheriff’s Lieutenant, and His Son, a Former Compton Cop, Indicted for Cross-Country Drug & Money Laundering Conspiracy . Last week twenty-two alleged members and associates of two street gangs, the Los Angeles-based Grape Street Crips, and the Memphis-based Peda Roll Mafia, were indicted by a federal grand jury for being part of a reported drug and money laundering ...
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WEBOur Supporters. Our generous and valued supporters include: The California Endowment, The Fund for Investigative Journalism, The Institute for Justice and Journalism (which gave us our first grant, through a fund sponsored by the Ford Foundation). Most recently we have received a 2021-22 John S. Knight Foundation Community Impact Fellowship, to help WitnessLA “focus on practical solutions to ...
Brawls interrupt graduation at Disney Hall for probation youth
WEBJun 14, 2024 · A brawl followed. And a top probation official was reportedly knocked down at some point in the confusion. Post brawl as brawlers head to the Disney Hall parking lot. Those getting their diplomas included 29 young people who are in residence in one or more of LA County Probation’s youth facilities. The Probation Special Enforcement Operations ...
LA Homeboys – Then & Now
WEBSep 26, 2007 · He is now a husband, a dad—and an associate producer on a long-running, very popular network TV series, the name of which you would assuredly know. Eventually he wants to direct. (He’s also in the midst of writing his own feature script. Naturally. As a teenager, Stranger got his eye shot out by an enemy homeboy.
Can Guillermo Viera Rosa transform LA County’s youth probation ...
WEBApr 7, 2023 · The presumed hope is that said new person will somehow yank the county’s youth probation system back from its present position on the edge of a cliff, where neither kids nor staff feel safe. The new person’s name is Guillermo Viera Rosa, and he has been hired as “Chief Strategist for Juvenile Operations” for the Los Angeles County ...