Columnist Robin Abcarian, in a Los Angeles Times column, identified Tom Steyer as the strongest candidate in California’s gubernatorial contest. Her assessment highlighted Steyer’s environmental platform, support for a billionaire tax, advocacy for closing the corporate property tax loophole, and his call for the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Nathan Hochman promised to bring “balance” to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office, but his record so far suggests a retreat from prosecuting police misconduct cases, with charges being downgraded, dismissed, or resolved without incarceration.
Ian Ayres of the Los Angeles Times argues that psychiatric holds often fail to prevent people placed under those holds from buying firearms, and suggests reforms to balance public safety with civil liberties.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna stated that his department is legally obligated to comply with federal judicial warrants and has “no choice” but to transfer certain individuals in county custody to ICE, while also reiterating that his department does not honor ICE detainers or requests for transfers.
Over 24 members of the California Legislature are calling on the state’s Republican congressional delegation to pressure President Trump to end indiscriminate immigration crackdowns that are harming the state’s economy and communities.
The LAPD rejected over 1,700 complaints of “biased policing” in 2024, while only 4.7% of complaints were sustained, despite evidence showing that people of color and other marginalized groups are disproportionately arrested or ignored by police.
California Correctional Health Care Services is reviewing hundreds of parole hearings after discovering faulty drug tests may have wrongly denied incarcerated individuals a chance at parole, with nearly 6,000 tests resulting in false positives.
Former Los Angeles Times reporter Maya Lau has filed a federal lawsuit accusing Los Angeles County and former Sheriff Alex Villanueva of launching a retaliatory investigation into her journalistic work, raising First Amendment concerns and spotlighting the treatment of press freedoms under Villanueva’s leadership.
California’s trickle-down housing policy has failed to alleviate the state’s housing affordability and homelessness crises, fueling gentrification, displacement, and evictions in working-class communities, and advocates are calling for a three-part strategy known as the “3 Ps” to address the crisis.
Prison journalists are fighting for their right to free speech and to hold truth to power, despite facing intimidation, threats, and censorship, in order to give voice to the most marginalized populations and to help dismantle and silence journalistic voices from within the walls of this nation’s penitentiaries.
William J. Drummond, an American journalist and professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, has a unique approach to journalism, using his words to construct a safe space for conversation and interaction, making him more similar to an architect than a journalist.
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