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LOS ANGELES — A coalition of community and advocacy groups applauds the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors’ unanimous approval today of a motion that would require the County to make promptly available vital Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Departm
LOS ANGELES – People who are unhoused in Echo Park and those who support them were subjected to use of force by the Los Angeles Police Department and city officials who direct it.
Report, Two Years in the Making, Spotlights Banishment of Unhoused People to the Desert
LANCASTER — In the City of Lancaster, people who are homeless are treated as criminals and subjected to citations that carry fines far beyond their means to pay. They can appeal, but in a Kafka-like situation, the city demands that a fine be fully paid before an appeal can be heard.
Today, new enforcement priorities under the Biden administration – set out in a memo issued by Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary David Pekoske on January 20 — go into effect, marking a sharp reversal of a 2017 Trump directive under which virtually any undocumented immigrant was an ICE