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California Tries — With Difficulty — to Implement 2 Major New Laws to Help...
California is attempting to switch to a victim-centered approach for its sexually trafficked youngsters. But despite the passage of two important and well-intentioned new laws in the last two years,...
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New LA Child Welfare Chief Bobby Cagle to Find High Demand, Too Few Foster Homes
LOS ANGELES — Bobby Cagle, a former foster child and caseworker, is set to take over as head of Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) starting Dec. 1 as part of ongoing efforts...
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What It Feels Like to Be Kept in Los Angeles Prisons When You’re a Teen
LOS ANGELES — Kim McGill was only 12 years old when she was first arrested and incarcerated for grand larceny. As a young girl, she had taken order requests from individuals, stolen and sold the items....
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California Corrections Committee Proposes New Minimum Standards for...
California youth advocates are fairly pleased with recommendations on use of pepper spray, shackling, visitation rights and vegetarian meal options for incarcerated youth that came from the Executive...
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California Corrections Board Approves Limits to Pepper Spray, No Change to...
California youth advocates are fairly pleased with upcoming revisions to the minimum standards governing incarcerated youth but feel there is more work to be done on staff-to-youth ratios and pepper...
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Los Angeles’ Vast Child Welfare System Has a Lot to Teach Rest of Nation
LOS ANGELES — You can only find the entrance to the RightWay Foundation if you’re really looking for it. Hidden deep within the parking structure for a South Central Los Angeles shopping plaza, the...
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Los Angeles Housing Patterns That Reinforced Segregation Reverberate to This Day
LOS ANGELES — Land remains the starkest turf of bigotry in American life. Blacks have been kept out, locked in, preyed upon and segregated by their most basic need when slavery ended: housing. There...
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Fewer DACA Students Enrolling in California Colleges
LOS ANGELES — With President Donald Trump announcing his intent to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, college students in California fear this will affect their status in the...
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How Homelessness Crisis in LA Affects Aged-out Foster Youth
LOS ANGELES — Doniesha Thomas is in her bedroom, crouching on the floor and peering into a pet carrier that appears empty. “He’s in there, all the way back,” she said, reaching in to find the kitten...
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Young Family of Prisoners Find Safe Space at POPS in LA High Schools
It’s lunchtime on a recent Wednesday at Venice High School. Twenty or so students are sitting at their desks with full plates of food looking up at the teacher. No one is looking at their phones. They...
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