Crazy Prosecutions, Lawyers Using Facebook & More
SUPREMES CONSIDER WHETHER BLOGGERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR WORDS (AND CAN BE SUED FOR DEFAMATION) Uh, yeah. Of course they can be and should be. And it’s time the issue was addressed. UPI has the...
View ArticleThe U.S. Supreme Court, the Power of Money and other Must Reads
In next week’s issue of the New Yorker (April 11), the magazine’s legal writer, Jeffery Toobin, has a MUST READ story about SCOTUS’ view of campaign reform. It is an interesting and important read, but...
View ArticleSTOP SOPA (and PIPA)
While WitnessLA didn’t go dark on Wednesday for the SOPA blackout (too much jails stuff going on to even consider it), the protest seems to be helping. If you’re unfamiliar with the fuss about SOPA—the...
View ArticleFriday Wrap up: Is Decrypting Covered by the 5th? Baca Agrees With Beck about...
DIGITAL SELF INCRIMINATION So, let’s say you’ve been arrested, and you’ve been told by the cops (or the assistant district attorney, or whomever) that you have to decrypt the hard drive of your laptop,...
View ArticleR.I.P. Rodney King, the G-Dog Movie, Gov. Christie’s Rich Halfway House Pals...
RODNEY KING: 1965 – 2012 He wasn’t a very strong person, and maybe not even a particularly good person. Certainly he was a man who battled with wounds of the psyche. Nevertheless Rodney King has a...
View ArticlePublic Records Act at Risk, Anti-Bullying Program Slammed as Gay Plot, Juvie...
A CALIF JUDGE’S DECISION THREATENS THE PUBLIC RECORDS ACT The LA Times’ Jim Newton has a column that is an absolutely essential read —unless you trust every single one of our government agencies and...
View ArticleThe Sheriff Back-Pedals, FBI Has to Pay Up on FOIA Screw up…& Voter Fraud
BACA SAYS THAT THE JAILS COMMISSIONS RECS ARE FINE, BUT THE HARSH FINDINGS BEHIND THEM….UH…WELL, MAYBE NOT SO MUCH Sheriff Lee Baca gave an interview to KPCC’s Larry Mantel on Thursday. The transcript...
View ArticleBaca Must Fork Over Unredacted Ruben Salazar Files….and More
MALDEF PRIES UNREDACTED RUBEN SALAZAR RECORDS AWAY FROM BACA AFTER 2 YEARS OF POINTLESS LEGAL WRANGLING ON Tuesday, MALDEF settled its lawsuit against Sheriff Lee Baca and LA County, in which they had...
View ArticleProsecutorial Overreach and Why We Have to Care About the Life & Death of...
Ever since the news leaked out that cyber wunderkind and activist, Aaron Swartz, had hanged himself in his Brooklyn apartment this past Friday, a growing number of people have felt compelled to write...
View ArticleSheriff says Extra $61 Million Needed to Keep LASD Jails Safe…Supremes...
LOS ANGELES SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT NEEDS ANOTHER $61 MILLION TO KEEP ITS JAILS SAFE According to a report issued Tuesday by Richard Drooyan, the lead attorney for the Citizen’s Commission on Jail...
View Article4 LA County Sheriff’s Deputies Suspect of Theft and Bribe Taking…CA Poor...
FOUR LA SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT MEMBERS INVESTIGATED FOR THEFT AND BRIBERY ALLEGATIONS Four members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department have been relieved of duty without pay pending the...
View Article40,000 Californians Download ACLU App…..Ferguson’s High Priced “Negotiation”...
APPROXIMATELY 40,000 CALIFORNIANS DOWNLOAD THE NEW ACLU MOBILE JUSTICE APP IN 5 DAYS Last month a South Gate, California, woman was filming a police action when a Deputy U.S. Marshall saw her, strode...
View ArticlePulling Back the Blue Curtain: What Does the Public Really Have the Right to...
In LA and around the country, law enforcement agencies are purchasing and deploying police body cameras as a means of increasing accountability to the public. But the use of all these new cameras means...
View ArticleHappy President’s Day 2018
“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” George Washington, 1783 Ever since July 13, 2015, when the musical Hamilton premiered at the...
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