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Take Action: Yes on SB 649 - Help end the failed tactics of the war on drugs!

California spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year on felony drug possession convictions. Currently, possessing certain drugs for personal use is an automatic felony – no matter the amount or the circumstances.

August 7, 2013

"Think Outside the Box" web app weighs incarceration spending against social services

ACLU of California asks, “How would you change the system?”

July 2, 2012

Big win for run-down schools brings hope; Landmark accord still must be OKd by judge in S.F.

SAN FRANCISCO GATE:
By Nanette Asimov
Students say the bathrooms at Oakland High are messed up because they lack supplies, leak, or are always locked.
At Far West High in the same city, students complain of classrooms so crowded that they have to sit on tables.

May 1, 2012

Expert report provides clear road map for closure of Los Angeles’ violence-ridden Men’s Central Jail

Alternatives to Incarceration Would Combat Violence and Overcrowding and Allow Shut-Down of Dangerous and Costly Downtown Jail

April 10, 2012

Proposed Budget Cuts Would Devastate Juvenile Court System

Los Angeles County officials last week were notified by Judge Michael Nash, presiding juvenile court judge for Los Angeles Superior Court, that currently proposed state budget cuts would heavily impact the county juvenile court system.

April 9, 2012

Gay Fullerton Union High Student Should be Commended, Not Punished

In response to the public reprimand of a Fullerton Union High School student Kearian Giertz following a speech in which he advocated marriage rights for same-sex couples, as well as a subsequent statement by Fullerton Union School Superintendent George Giokaris, James Gilliam, director of the Seth W

April 6, 2012