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State AG launches investigation of racist, homophobic texts by Torrance...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta launched an independent investigation Wednesday into the Torrance Police Department after evidence emerged that officers were sharing racist and homophobic texts...
View ArticleEx-Torrance police officers move to suppress use of offensive texts
The fate of two former Torrance police officers may rest Monday with a Superior Court judge who has been asked to throw out evidence that the officers shared racist and homophobic text messages. Judge...
View ArticleInglewood police barred from destroying officer records on eve of new...
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge granted an emergency court order Tuesday forbidding the Inglewood Police Department from shredding officer disciplinary files sought by the American Civil...
View ArticleDUIs don’t qualify for new diversion law, appeals court rules
In a decision that could break a legal stalemate throughout California, appellate justices have ruled that DUIs do not qualify under a new law allowing judges to grant diversion to misdemeanor...
View ArticleLAPD officer who fatally shot 14-year-old described as ‘heartbroken,’‘shattered’
Los Angeles police Officer William Dorsey Jones Jr. saw himself as a bridge-builder, the neighborhood cop who rounded up toys for disadvantaged children, volunteered as a high school football coach and...
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State panel moves to discipline OC judge for allegedly hiding evidence as a...
The state Commission on Judicial Performance has launched disciplinary proceedings against an Orange County judge who failed as a prosecutor to disclose that police reports had been fabricated in a...
View ArticleHumming in court backfires on defendant who didn’t want to hear fentanyl warning
As part of a plea deal in a drug sales case, Orange County prosecutor Claudia Alvarez tried to warn defendant Rogelio Garcia Jr. that he could be charged with murder if he ever sells fentanyl-laced...
View ArticleOwner of car painted with swastika allegedly by Torrance police wants $6...
The owner of an impounded car allegedly painted with a swastika by two ex-Torrance police officers is suing for $6 million in damages, alleging a tow truck yard colluded with the city to hide the...
View ArticleOC Sheriff’s Department to make landmark changes to its jails for LGBTQ inmates
The Orange County Sheriff’s Department has closed the jail’s 72 “hyper-solitary confinement” cells and is improving conditions for LGBTQ inmates under a landmark agreement with a statewide disability...
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Embattled DNA expert worked on some of OC’s most high-profile murder cases
In the 1990s, the dawn of DNA analysis in Orange County, forensic scientist Mary Hong was the queen of the cold case. Arriving at the Orange County Crime Lab in 1985 — with her bachelor of science...
View ArticleDMV hearings on DUI license suspensions violate civil rights, court rules
The method used by the California Department of Motor Vehicles to suspend the drivers’ licenses of some motorists arrested for driving under the influence is unconstitutional, an appellate court has...
View ArticleHead of OC’s law enforcement watchdog agency to leave for Los Angeles DWP
Civil rights attorney Sergio Perez is leaving his job directing Orange County’s law enforcement watchdog agency, the Office of Independent Review, to become the first inspector general for Los Angeles’...
View ArticleElection 2022: DA incumbent Todd Spitzer battles 3 challengers calling for...
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer is battling for a second four-year term against three challengers who are united in one proposition: the office can’t go on as it is. The campaigning...
View ArticleMater Dei athlete told police that teammates sexually assaulted him
Mater Dei High School football player told the Santa Ana Police Department that he was sexually assaulted by teammates in the school’s locker room last August, according to a police report. The report...
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Alleged police gang activity in Santa Ana focus of independent probe
An independent police oversight firm has been hired by the city of Santa Ana to investigate allegations that a unit of elite officers is behaving like a gang — sharing skull tattoos and using...
View ArticleAlleged Laguna Woods church shooter apparently sent documents to newspaper
Seven volumes of handwritten notes apparently sent by a man accused of fatally shooting a doctor and injuring five people at a Taiwanese church in Laguna Woods landed in the mail of a Chinese-language...
View ArticleIn aftermath of another school shooting, experts urge focus on mental health
In the aftermath of the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history, national safety experts said the way to make campuses safer was not just bulletproof doors, active shooter drills or security...
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Why OC sheriff’s water-dropping helicopter sat idle as Coastal fire spread
During the first hour of the Coastal fire — before it turned into a raging inferno that destroyed 20 ocean-view homes — only one Orange County Fire Authority helicopter fought the blaze, unassisted by...
View ArticleLosses by progressives in OC and San Francisco DA races send mixed message
Voters in last week’s elections soundly rejected criminal justice reformers in Orange County and San Francisco, sparking debate about the future of California’s progressive movement and the fate of the...
View ArticleExperts: Supreme Court ruling means more guns in public places for Southern...
The U.S. Supreme Court decision to swat down a major part of New York’s concealed weapons law ensures there will be more guns on the street in Southern California and more roadblocks to reform, experts...
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