Celeste Fremon
Founder and Editor at WitnessLA
Founder & editor of WitnessLA. Author, @jskstanford fellow 2022, mom & grandma. Investigates matters of justice & lack thereof. Talks to species not her own.
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4 days ago |
witnessla.com | Celeste Fremon
On Saturday and Sunday this coming weekend, April 26 and 27, 2025, the Los Angeles Times is holding its annual LA Times Festival of Books on the USC campus. Admission is free to everyone who attends this amazing line-up of events. It also happens that I’m moderating a terrific panel of writers at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday. If you have the time, I think you’ll really enjoy it, as we’ll be covering some very timely topics.
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2 weeks ago |
witnessla.com | Celeste Fremon
The case of Diana TeranAs described in Part 1 of this series, it was a controversial set of criminal charges filed against a longtime local prosecutor named Diana Teran, that inspired lawyer Sean Kennedy, and the rest of the members of the LA County Sheriff’s Civilian Oversight Commission to file an amicus brief in support Teran. As WLA readers of Part 1 will remember, the filing of the brief subsequently precipitated a series of threats and retaliatory actions on the part of Dawyn R.
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3 weeks ago |
witnessla.com | Celeste Fremon
On Thursday, March 20, 2025, Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna attended the monthly meeting of the county’s Sheriff’s Civilian Oversight Commission—or COC. The sheriff was scheduled to give a 30-minute presentation to the commission, in which he would attempt to answer 27 previously submitted questions regarding what he and his staff are doing to address the ongoing problem of deputy gangs that has plagued the department for more than a half century.
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1 month ago |
witnessla.com | Celeste Fremon
In a decision that some found very unexpected, on Wednesday, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, along with Chief Justice John Roberts, joined the U.S. Supreme Court’s three liberal justices in a 5-4 order, that told the Trump administration to direct the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to pay nearly $2 billion in foreign-aid reimbursements for critical work that has already been done.
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1 month ago |
witnessla.com | Celeste Fremon
This afternoon, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the unsealing of a grand jury indictment against 30 detention services officers from Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall on charges of child endangerment, abuse, conspiracy, and battery. The indictment alleges that the officers allowed—and, in some instances, encouraged—69 fights to occur between youths at the Downey-located youth hall during the period from July 1, 2023, to December 31, 2023.
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Yep. (Last night, I happened to look up the former record holder & found it was Thurmond, and learned why he was filibustering.) This is history, and Cory Booker has been making this particular Good Trouble with spectacular grace. It's a privilege to witness.
The racist rant by Thurmond has held since 1957. You don’t have to like Booker, but respect this American History happening right before your eyes.
Me too. And I'm also going to write about it. Thanks for the heads up about this new case. Insane.
I'm going to lose my fucking mind https://t.co/3ADwudKvbK https://t.co/Grjo2wGm2c
Grateful to you beyond adequate expression for speaking hour after hour (still watching), reminding us, through the voices of our fellow Americans, that we belong to each other. And we need a government that reflects that fact. https://t.co/ro8l1ZlAIb
I’m heading to the Senate floor because Donald Trump and Elon Musk have shown a complete disregard for the rule of law, the Constitution, and the needs of the American people. You can tune in on CSPAN, YouTube, X, and Facebook.
