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LA County Will Not Release Half Its Inmates After All… for Now

April 3, 2023 9:19 pmApril 3, 2023 9:20 pm

The now (temporarily?) shelved proposal by Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis to “de-populate” the local jail system raises a number of interesting questions, one of which is: How many of the inmates proposed for released by Solis – who...

San Francisco DA’s Office Denies Reducing Charges in Beating of Elderly Asian American

January 28, 2022 4:01 pm

The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office released a statement on Thursday refuting claims charged in a recent lawsuit that involved the DA’s office lowering a racially-charged beating of an elderly man from a felony to a misdemeanor. On Tuesday, the...

San Francisco DA’s Office Faces Lawsuit in Federal Court Over Reducing Violent Felony to Misdemeanor

January 26, 2022 2:10 amApril 3, 2022 3:15 pm

The San Francisco District Attorney’s office was sued on Tuesday by the Alliance for Asian American Justice over reducing a felony beating of an elderly Vietnamese-American man to a misdemeanor. In November of 2019, then 69-year-old Anh Le was walking...