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.
Articles
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3 weeks ago |
witnessla.com | Celeste Fremon
Another tragic puzzle piece has dropped into the ongoing catastrophe that is Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall, in Downey, CA, in which young people in residence at LP, as it is called for short, are subjected to a range of abuses. As WLA wrote a week ago, Living conditions in Los Padrinos are so bad that the Board of State and Community Corrections declared it uninhabitable, and Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Miguel Espinoza ordered the county to come up with a plan to close the facility.
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3 weeks ago |
witnessla.com | Celeste Fremon
At WitnessLA, we were very happy to learn that one of our ongoing investigative series made it into the finals of this year’s Southern California Journalism Awards,an important string of awards, which is sponsored each year by the Los Angeles Press Club. This year, WitnessLA’s continuing investigative series, “Rosa Gonzalez, The Whistleblower,” Part 1 and Part 2, is a finalist in the category of “Investigative Reporting, Crime Related,” for Online Publications.
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4 weeks ago |
witnessla.com | Celeste Fremon
While Assistant Editor Taylor Walker has been once more looking into the painful and ongoing issue of moving LA County’s young people between various youth lock-ups, each of these environments clearly “not fit for youth,” editor Celeste Fremon has been at work on a number of other critically important stories you won’t want to miss.
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1 month ago |
witnessla.com | Celeste Fremon
This past Saturday, April 26, when the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books opened its doors at the University of Southern California at 9:55 a.m, the campus was in the midst of being deluged by the cold hard rain that was falling on much of LA County that morning.
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2 months 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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BREAKING: The court just confirmed what we all know — the military belongs on the battlefield, not on our city streets. This win is not just for California, but the nation. It’s a check on a man whose authoritarian tendencies are increasing by the day. End the illegal https://t.co/0YMqvZSN6u
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Yesterday at Gaylor Lake in Yosemite: bald eagle, pika and yellow-bellied marmot. I had so many amazing wildlife encounters! https://t.co/yHXixnPoOU
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#NoKingsProtest march organizers: please appoint your own monitors/marshals to keep the peace on Saturday; give troublemakers the boot yourselves, and don't give authorities the excuse to jump in, nor any visuals that the fulminating monarch-in-his-mirror can use against you.
