The disability community often gets overlooked when it comes to reaching the goal of equitable systems of justice, especially when improving and ensuring protections when encountered by law enforcement. Police interrogations and navigating the judicial process can be a violating and overwhelming...
Police in Marion, Kansas raided a local newspaper office on Friday and the homes of the news organizations' publishers and reporters. According to the Guardian, “Eric Meyer, the owner and publisher of the Marion County Record, told the Kansas Reflector that the city's entire five-officer police ...
The guild that represents thousands of screenwriters in television and film are heading back to the drawing board with studios and their executives starting today for negotiations. Striking for over 100 days now, the double joint with SAG-AFTRA and this labor summer with many unions demanding fa...
According to Schools Not Prisons, women of color with mental health conditions in Los Angeles County jails and California prisons are exceptionally vulnerable to medical neglect and abuse that violates domestic civil rights law and both regional and international human rights law. What needs to ...
Thousands are displaced following devastating Maui wildfires that Hawaii's governor says will require billions of dollars to recover from. Currently, Hawaii residents search for missing loved ones with 55 confirmed dead and the toll likely to rise. Nearly 11,000 people remained without power on...
At Thursday night's Kern County Board of Education meeting, trustee Cisneros requested that the proposed policy be added to the agenda, and in a 5-2 vote, it was denied. Certain members of the community had angry outbursts resulting in everyone being dismissed for a closed session. Upon return,...
The state of California will be required to be of financial assistance towards legal help at no cost for undocumented farmworkers whom are wanting immigration services. This is in application to the state's investigations of wage theft and other labor violations, with response to the governor's o...
Earlier in May, the Food and Drug Administration have rolled out with their donor eligibility guidelines that American Red Cross has brought out into effect, allowing gay and bisexual men to donate blood. “The process eliminates questions that are based on gender and sexual orientation and allow...
Rural and inland communities are harshly hit with the housing crisis, not just in metropolitan areas. The Central Valley has been widely known to reside in while living in an affordable home without a financial breakage, but that has been a challenged quota for the past few years. In Fresno, it ...
On July 11, 2023, Kern County Board of Trustee Cisneros reported that she is requesting the board to adopt a policy similar to Chino Valley School District's policy, which will force schools to out LGBTQIA+ students. The policy would endanger students and make them vulnerable to: Hostile reac...
The Third Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states: “No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.” This means that the government cannot force you to house troops without permissions....
Last year, President Joe Biden had made an executive order that would require federal law enforcement agencies to upgrade their policies regarding use-of-force. A recent report has come out that has detested that mandate, with the Department of Homeland Security as the country's biggest law enfo...
In Louisiana, a federal appeals court ruled out on Friday that the state of Mississippi is no longer able to ban the right to vote from formerly incarcerated people that have completed their sentences. With the decision passing in a 2-1 ruling, the Jim Crow era policy had violated the First and ...
Officials from the Fresno County Sheriff's Department reported that narcotic detectives from the Sheriff's Office have arrested 48-year-old Robert Lopez, booking him on a felony count for smuggling drugs in a juvenile justice campus he was employed at, just off Highway 99 near American Avenue. B...
On July 31st, a homeless shelter in Kings County called Holiday Lodge had closed due to the ending of funding from Project Roomkey, the $846 million permanent housing program that started back during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. Housing 386 people with $7.7 million given to the county in Central ...
The reversal of Roe v. Wade had really became a divisive tool on many vulnerable Americans to move from their hometown into a more protective area that didn't criminalize a person's right to an abortion. Red states had immediately shut down clinics, and reproductive care organizations expanded th...
Former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to criminal charges applied to his actions in overthrowing the 2020 Presidential Election results. His legal team is planning to use the defense that the First Amendment applies under the Freedom of Speech was utilized and remains constitutional. ...
Tackling the reliance and survival under drugs comes with its own barriers and struggles, and finding resources to help regain control and agency is a bigger step in that process. This year, Project Hope has set up their own Narcan vending machine that's located in the parking lot behind Clinica...
The importance of treaties and how they're portrayed and utilized is essential in learning not only about the Indigenous Peoples of America but in legal history too. The documents that are obtained for this purpose is the foundation of legal basis between sovereign American Indian Nations and the...
With control of education bureaucracy and legislation in Texas, Republicans have decided to eliminate librarian positions at 28 schools of the Houston Independent School District in the 2023-2024 academic school year. These libraries will be placed with the label of “Team Centers,” which are bas...
Since July 8th, Visalia workers for Transdev, a global private-sector company established in France that is a leading transit operator in the United States, has been striking for living wages and better working conditions. Negotiations with the company and the transit union, Teamster Local 517, ...
The 2023-2024 academic year is coming upon us, and you will probably see soaring sales on electronics, testing supplies, and discounts on personal goods such as a suitcase or pillows. College is not just about the grades, it gives the opportunity of a lifetime. Finally, the federal government li...
Summer solidarity is among us – Starbucks Workers United helping stores across the nation becoming unionized – UPS Teamsters reaching a historic, tentative deal – a double strike for WGA and SAG-AFTRA against Hollywood's AMPTP. It's a movement that has just begun. The legal process to start a un...
On Tuesday, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and UPS have agreed to a tentative deal of a new five-year contact that is aligned with the demands given by the union. This has came one week before the deadline on August 1st that the Teamsters had planned for a strike with over 300,000 wor...
This has been on my watchlist for a very long time, a documentary that emphasizes existence as a threat to the criminal justice system and how relevant we see these atrocities today. Out in the Night is a documentary that is just plainly a true story about a group of friends, in their late teens...
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