56+ min ago (419+ words) The Inglewood Police Department "systematically" violated state public records laws by disregarding requests for documents related to police misconduct, including fatal shootings, and must now post the information on its website, a judge has ruled. In 2021, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California sued the department, alleging that it had not produced a single document in response to public records requests made nearly three years before. The records the ACLU requested in 2019 included those related to fatal shootings by police officers, dishonesty by officers and sexual assaults involving officers. The ACLU's public records requests followed a state law, Senate Bill 1421, enacted the previous year that made those types of records publicly available for the first time. In an order issued Thursday, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Gary Tanaka granted the ACLU's motion for summary judgment, writing that the…...

56+ min ago (419+ words) The Inglewood Police Department "systematically" violated state public records laws by disregarding requests for documents related to police misconduct, including fatal shootings, and must now post the information on its website, a judge has ruled. In 2021, the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California sued the department, alleging that it had not produced a single document in response to public records requests made nearly three years before. The records the ACLU requested in 2019 included those related to fatal shootings by police officers, dishonesty by officers and sexual assaults involving officers. The ACLU's public records requests followed a state law, Senate Bill 1421, enacted the previous year that made those types of records publicly available for the first time. In an order issued Thursday, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Gary Tanaka granted the ACLU's motion for summary judgment, writing that the…...

1+ hour, 28+ min ago (1472+ words) At 8 o'clock on a stormy weeknight in the chilly Chinatown offices of L.A. Taco, Memo Torres finally was worn out. The audio that played from Torres' double-screen computer and smart phone as he reviewed the evidence on the day I visited contained snippets of the Southland's sad soundtrack under what he continually calls the "siege" of ICE. Men pleading to la migra to stop hurting them. Activists cursing out agents. Whistles, screams, honks and sirens. Sobbing family members. "If I wanted to cry, I don't think that I could," Torres said when I asked how he coped with seeing such videos ad nauseum. "It's not healthy, I know. It's not mature. But what I go through is nothing like what the people I'm seeing are going through " Today was hard, though," he continued, pounding his hand with his fist. "They went…...

1+ hour, 51+ min ago (949+ words) Last month, Kentucky attorney general Russell Coleman announced the details of yet another lawsuit against Roblox over suspected pedophiles lurking on the hugely popular gaming platform. While doing so, Coleman singled out the work of one self-described "predator hunter" who claims to have helped identify alleged abusers mixing with young gamers. "Roblox is even trying to silence those who raised these security risks," Coleman said. "The famous case of one of their developers, Schlep, immediately comes to mind." Schlep is in fact Michael, a 22-year-old Texan who has spent the last two years working with a group of other Roblox players to track down and identify people purportedly seeking to groom young children on the platform'predators like the one Schlep says allegedly groomed him a decade ago, which he says led him to try to take his own life. But…...

2+ hour, 11+ min ago (1772+ words) On the night of Oct. 8, a man named Delmar Gomez drove to pick up his younger brother from a mechanic's shop on Lamar Avenue. He never came home. On the return trip, law enforcement officers with the Memphis Safe Task Force pulled over his 2011 Toyota Tundra pickup and arrested the brothers on immigration charges. The Guatemalan brothers " both longtime Memphians " are known in national Pentecostal Christian circles as well-traveled worship singers, performing at churches from New York to Florida. They were moved from one immigration detention center to another, finally arriving at a lockup in Louisiana, more than 300 miles from Memphis. The younger brother, Eber Gomez, a 30-year-old with no known criminal record, was soon deported, leaving behind a wife and two young children in Memphis. Delmar Gomez, a 38-year-old husband and father of four U.S. citizen children, is still holding…...

2+ hour, 45+ min ago (1106+ words) When Kyle Kjoller, a 57-year-old welder, was ordered held without bail in Nevada County, Calif., in April, he protested. The charges against him " multiple counts of illegal gun possession " were not grave enough under California law to warrant keeping him in jail for months awaiting his trial, he argued. Prosecutors disagreed, and offered 11 pages" worth of reasons. But the brief they filed, Mr. Kjoller"s lawyers contend, was rife with errors that bear the hallmarks of generative artificial intelligence. The lawyers soon turned up briefs in four separate cases, including Mr. Kjoller"s, that were filled with mistakes, all of them from the office of the same prosecutor, District Attorney Jesse Wilson. The mistakes included wholesale misinterpretations of the law, as well as quotations that do not actually appear in the cited texts. Those are the sorts of errors that…...

3+ hour, 8+ min ago (875+ words) USCG HITRON JACKSONVILLE, Florida " The Coast Guard is pushing for more ships, aircraft, and personnel to keep pace with the record flow of drugs heading toward the US. Recent drug offloads from Coast Guard cutters rank among the largest in the service's history, and leaders say the flow of narcotics through the eastern Pacific and Caribbean continues to rise. "From a service perspective, I'd say we need assets," Cmdr. Chris Guy, commanding officer of the Coast Guard's South Tactical Law Enforcement Team, told Business Insider. "We need ships," he added, and "the more assets we have, the more ability we have" to "stop the flow of dangerous drugs into the United States." Last week, the Coast Guard cutter Stone offloaded over 49,000 pounds of cocaine worth more than $362 million in Port Everglades, Florida, after a monthslong deployment in the eastern Pacific....

3+ hour, 18+ min ago (889+ words) Amid President Trump's immigration crackdown, special agents at the Homeland Security Department have made fewer arrests for drug crimes and seized fewer weapons than they did the previous fiscal year, according to internal government documents reviewed by The New York Times. The numbers reflect a shift in priorities as top officials at the department pulled special agents off drug, gun and other complex criminal investigations under pressure from the White House to deport more undocumented immigrants, current and former federal officials told The Times. The impact was clear, with immigration arrests soaring. The number of people arrested by homeland security special agents for civil immigration offenses went from roughly 5,000 to a record of more than 94,500, the data shows. Among the key figures in the documents: Narcotics arrests fell by roughly 11 percent. Agents opened 15 percent fewer new investigations into narcotics crimes....

3+ hour, 25+ min ago (1446+ words) Good morning. It's Tuesday. Today we'll get details on abusive treatment of inmates by guards in New York State prisons. We'll also find out how a hospital in upstate New York brought down the number of C-sections it performs. Abusive treatment of inmates in New York State prisons is rising and becoming more vicious. What is it about the culture of the state's prisons that has allowed abuse to happen? Our reporting has shown that the abuse and torture of inmates in the New York State prison system has continued to happen in large part because state officials with the power to address the issue have largely tolerated it. They have treated a lot of the cases as isolated incidents of abuse by a few bad apples or have said that uses of force that appear excessive were justified. Many…...

3+ hour, 38+ min ago (1719+ words) Donald Trump, well on his way to becoming the most corrupt president in American history, will almost certainly escape criminal prosecution after leaving office. Even though Trump has defied the law and the Constitution more egregiously in his second term than he did in his first, most legal experts agree that he will face few, if any, of the kind of prosecutions he was confronted with after grudgingly leaving office in 2021. On Jan. 10, speaking at a news conference before returning to the White House on Jan. 20, Trump said that he would turn over all management responsibilities of the family's business empire to his sons Donald Jr. and Eric and claimed that he would not be involved in day-to-day business decisions. While Trump's culpability in the case of his family's crypto business may seem crystal clear to some, legal experts contend…...