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2 months ago | witnessla.com | Taylor Walker

Two years ago, on March 7, 2023, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors directed the LA County Probation Department to develop what they called a “Global Plan” to reorganize and move incarcerated youth between the county’s juvenile halls and camps.

2 months 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.

2 months 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.

2 months ago | witnessla.com | Claudia Boyd-Barrett

Jacquie Marroquin spent much of her childhood living in fear of her father. A child of undocumented immigrants from Guatemala, Marroquin – who grew up in Los Angeles in the 1970s – worried that speaking to anyone in authority about her father’s physical and emotional abuse would put her family in danger of being separated, or get her parents deported. But she desperately wanted the abuse to stop.

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.