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Joey Scott

Los Angeles

Documentary Photographer and Journalist at Freelance

Articles

  • 2 weeks ago | lapublicpress.org | Joey Scott

    Investigators with the Los Angeles Police Department can now delay interviewing officers involved in use-of-force investigations for up to 72 hours after the incident. The commission overseeing the department approved a six-month pilot to test the new policy.

  • 2 months ago | lapublicpress.org | Joey Scott

    A report released in January by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital civil liberties organization, found that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department improperly accessed databases with sensitive personal information thousands of times in 2023.

  • Feb 14, 2025 | lapublicpress.org | Joey Scott

    Outside a low-income apartment complex in Northwest Pasadena, children play a pick-up game of basketball on the black and orange court. Two blocks north, a small soccer game takes place on the grassy field at Robinson Park. As the children laugh and shout, microphones installed on utility poles down the street listen for gunfire.

  • Nov 22, 2024 | lapublicpress.org | Joey Scott

    The Los Angeles City Council has authorized the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) to continue using tactical and so-called “military” equipment. On Tuesday, the city council approved 10-2 the LAPD’s report enumerating its use and inventory of such equipment, as required by California state law. Council members Eunisses Hernandez and Hugo Soto-Martinez voted no.

  • Oct 29, 2024 | lapublicpress.org | Joey Scott

    This fall election presents LA County residents with a choice to make about LA’s criminal justice system. Two candidates – the incumbent George Gascón, and his challenger Nathan Hochman – are jockeying to serve the next four years as Los Angeles County’s District Attorney. LA’s DA office oversees one of the single largest jurisdictions of any local elected office in the country.