Category: Justice
A new measure advocates hope to get on the November ballot would increase penalties against human traffickers in California. The campaign was launched last week to coincide with National Human Trafficking Awareness Day.
As if losing their jobs and businesses and seeing their home values worth less than what they owed to the banks were not enough, many Asian families have fallen prey to financial predators who have turned their bad dreams into nightmares.
As a teenager, Sal Martinez was a lawbreaker and probation youth. Now, he works as a county probation commissioner helping teens stay out of trouble.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce and New America Media launch campaign to help fight frivolous lawsuits against minority businesses.
California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced yesterday that she's pulling out of a pending 50-state settlement with banks over wrongful foreclosures, because she didn't want to give the banks blanket immunity.
A court ruling last week against a group of Muslim students from the University of California raises questions about the right to free speech.
Groups call task force hearing a "smoke screen."
East L.A. Probation Area Office honors 43-year veteran officer.
In the week since the U.S. Supreme Court ordered California to make drastic cuts in its prison population, one thing has become clear: Local jails are in no position to take in more inmates.
Johannes Mehserle could walk free in the next few weeks after serving less than one calendar year of his prison sentence.
Longtime businessman and community activist Joe Sanchez passed away on May 10, leaving behind a long legacy of involvement with community service and suport for the Chicano and labor movements. He was the first Latino L.A. Fire Department commissioner.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa joins Kamala Harris in downtown L.A. to support the attorney general in announcing new unit that will combat mortgage fraud.
Early proposal calls for additional Senate chamber to give voice to diaspora community.
A group in Pico Gardens calls for resignation of mayoral appointees who make up board of Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles.
His defiance of federal order was symbol that eventually changed lives of Japanese Americans, including community in East L.A.
U.S. Department of Justice looks into shooting death of unarmed African American.
Legislators at state and local levels take up the cause as provisions in Obama's stimulus package come up short for thousands who have outstanding claims and challenges on documentation.
Residents of blue-collar, Latino enclave known as the City of Bell getting taxed and ripped off by those serving themselves instead of the people — and they're not alone.
The 24-year-old black woman is dead, and she might have been murdered. That question — and plenty others for the L.A. Sheriff's Department and the FBI — remain outstanding.
Protest in L.A. focuses on families; demonstrators take some encouragement from decision by federal judge on Arizona law.
A number of businesses in Los Angeles lend a hand with Profits for Peace.
Sure, there would be some changes if he had it all to do over, but there are so many things he'd do again.
An observer expects request for judge to reconsider verdict on enhanced charge to become a possible route to a new trial or probation for Johannes Mehserle; federal officials launch own investigation of case.
The life of the late Supreme Court justice offers plenty of material — and Laurence Fishburne makes the most of it in a stunning solo on the stage.
Protesters remain relatively calm here while demonstrations in Oakland turn violent.
Guilty pleas include charges of bringing in goods with dangerously high levels of lead from China.
The case involves a white officer killing a young African-American man in plain view, with plenty of video from witnesses. Yet it's not getting much attention in the age of celebrity coverage and cable talk.
A key hurdle for the defense has already been overcome with the relocation of the trial from the Bay Area to L.A., where jury pools are said to be whiter than in year's past.
They urge calm among immigrants in Arizona, counting in legal challenges similar to those that spelled an end to Prop 187 in California in the 1990s.
Finding individuals for back payments — including an estimated 7,000 in L.A. County — won't be easy. Legal advocates say many members of ethnic groups are likely affected and they'll work with civic & community groups to track them down.
Good law requires some moral or ethical basis, an underpinning that is often missing when critics shout about illegal immigration.
The African American community and the immigrant rights movement share blame for the divide between them. They should also share a common concern about the recently passed law that expands policing rights with a particular population in mind.
Umbrella group for more than 500 civic institutions and organizations urge federal immigration reform to take the place of Grand Canyon State's controversial move.
Now comes the challenge of locating individuals who are due back-payments on benefits. Experts say 7,000 live in Los Angeles area, with senior citizens and members of ethnic communities making up a significant portion of the total.
Questions about the case against Rosa Maria Sanchez led to her early release — and then her deportation. A pardon from Governor Schwarzenegger would provide the chance to regain the legal immigration status she once had.
They are viewed by many as piranhas or parasites. Most of them will remain so — whether in prison or on the streets — because they're as addicted to the game as most of their customers are to the product they peddle.
The Cónsul General of Mexico and Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking team up to fight modern forms of slavery that often ensnare immigrants in the sex trade, preying on victims who fear they will be imprisoned or deported if they speak up about the crime.
A lot of convictions can be expunged, clearing an obstacle on the path to landing the sort of job that might help a lot of folks get in on this healthcare reform that everyone's talking about.
Divorce is tough enough, so who needs a message from the feds in the middle of settlement negotiations? Turns out that she did.
Judge tells governor he is still 'haunted' by fears of injustice in the case of Rosa Maria Sanchez. She was a legal immigrant at the time of her conviction in 1980s, but a release without pardon left her as a convicted felon, and authorities sent her back to Mexico.
It's easy to knock right-wing Republicans, but go below the surface and you'll start hearing this question: Have members of the generation who reaped the first harvest of the Civil Rights movement grown too reluctant to question African-American politicians?
Virgelia Villegas mortgaged her house to defend Miss Asia USA Pageant against a lawsuit filed by billionaire Trump's Miss USA organization.
He'll succeed Deputy Chief Sergio Diaz, who oversaw drops in crime throughout central city while playing key role in repairing community relations on the wake of the May Day melee in 2007.
Hospital executive in upscale suburb expected to enter latest guilty plea on using homeless folks in hard-pressed Downtown neighborhood as part of scheme to defraud Medicare and Medi-Cal programs.
The one-time Downtown loft dweller and a partner had already been hit with a $10 million fine in a civil case after using homeless patients to bill Medicare and Medi-Cal systems for bogus treatments.
Downtown loft dweller and Westsider teamed up to use homeless residents of the hard-pressed neighborhood to bilk public healthcare systems, according to feds.
That wave of 6,500 is more like a trickle that will come over the course of the year and not all at once, with relatively 'low-level' parolees released early but still subject to search and drug tests at any time.
Mahony and Villaraigosa put church and state behind efforts to organize in industry that's currently the subject of crackdown by Attorney General Brown, a presumed candidate for governor.
The movement was an uneasy time in America and the Skirball's "Road to Freedom" is an uneasy journey — but it should be.
Donations rolling in despite recession, affording possibility of official opening on anniversary of March on Washington.
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