Celeste Fremon

1 month 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.

2 months 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.

Mar 6, 2025 | 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.

Mar 4, 2025 | 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.

Feb 13, 2025 | witnessla.com | Celeste Fremon

Now that the Palisades and Eaton wildfires that caused such damage and heartache in Los Angeles County have been thoroughly doused by two sets of rainstorms, with a larger storm bringing more rain today and tomorrow, a series of government agencies are engaged in an ambitious two-phase plan to clear the wreckage of the homes, businesses, and other community structures, so that these thousands of burn sitesmay be returned to use, sooner rather than later.