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California launches online portal to report federal agent misconduct
The reports will be collected by the California Department of Justice to create a record of unlawful contact by federal agents and inform legal action the state may take to defend Californians’ rights.
The reports will be collected by the California Department of Justice to create a record of unlawful contact by federal agents and inform legal action the state may take to defend Californians’ rights.
California launches online portal to report federal agent misconduct
The reports will be collected by the California Department of Justice to create a record of unlawful contact by federal agents and inform legal action the state may take to defend Californians’ rights
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December 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
California launches online portal to report federal agent misconduct
The reports will be collected by the California Department of Justice to create a record of unlawful contact by federal agents and inform legal action the state may take to defend Californians’ rights.
The reports will be collected by the California Department of Justice to create a record of unlawful contact by federal agents and inform legal action the state may take to defend Californians’ rights.
Metro board approves Dodger stadium gondola despite heavy protests.
Protestors temporarily shut down the Thursday board meeting after the gondola vote was placed on the consent agenda, which would have prevented public discussion by agency directors.
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Protestors temporarily shut down the Thursday board meeting after the gondola vote was placed on the consent agenda, which would have prevented public discussion by agency directors.
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Metro board approves Dodger stadium gondola despite heavy protests
Protestors temporarily shut down the Thursday board meeting after the gondola vote was placed on the consent agenda, which would have prevented public discussion by agency directors.
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December 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Metro board approves Dodger stadium gondola despite heavy protests.
Protestors temporarily shut down the Thursday board meeting after the gondola vote was placed on the consent agenda, which would have prevented public discussion by agency directors.
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Protestors temporarily shut down the Thursday board meeting after the gondola vote was placed on the consent agenda, which would have prevented public discussion by agency directors.
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The coalition of LA residents who oppose the Dodger Stadium gondola shut down the Metro board of directors meeting Thursday.
They forced the meeting into recess and demanded that officials at minimum allow public discussion on the project. This is a developing story.
They forced the meeting into recess and demanded that officials at minimum allow public discussion on the project. This is a developing story.
December 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The coalition of LA residents who oppose the Dodger Stadium gondola shut down the Metro board of directors meeting Thursday.
They forced the meeting into recess and demanded that officials at minimum allow public discussion on the project. This is a developing story.
They forced the meeting into recess and demanded that officials at minimum allow public discussion on the project. This is a developing story.
LAPD can continue to use military weapons, foam bullets and tear gas after City Council vote.
The LA City Council voted 8-4 to let LAPD keep using foam bullets and tear gas despite documented misuse during this summer’s anti-ICE protests and over $50M in civil rights violation payouts last year.
The LA City Council voted 8-4 to let LAPD keep using foam bullets and tear gas despite documented misuse during this summer’s anti-ICE protests and over $50M in civil rights violation payouts last year.
LAPD can continue to use military weapons, foam bullets and tear gas after City Council vote
The LA City Council voted 8-4 to let LAPD keep using foam bullets and tear gas despite documented misuse during this summer's anti-ICE protests and over $50 million in civil rights violation payouts l...
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December 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
LAPD can continue to use military weapons, foam bullets and tear gas after City Council vote.
The LA City Council voted 8-4 to let LAPD keep using foam bullets and tear gas despite documented misuse during this summer’s anti-ICE protests and over $50M in civil rights violation payouts last year.
The LA City Council voted 8-4 to let LAPD keep using foam bullets and tear gas despite documented misuse during this summer’s anti-ICE protests and over $50M in civil rights violation payouts last year.
California gas utilities are using your money to push gas on LA wildfire survivors.
California’s utility regulator said it would eliminate ratepayer-funded incentives for gas appliances in new construction, but created an exception that allows rebates for them in wildfire rebuilds.
California’s utility regulator said it would eliminate ratepayer-funded incentives for gas appliances in new construction, but created an exception that allows rebates for them in wildfire rebuilds.
California gas utilities are using your money to push gas on LA wildfire survivors
California’s utility regulator said it would eliminate ratepayer-funded incentives for gas appliances in new construction, but created an exception that allows rebates for them in wildfire rebuilds.
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December 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
California gas utilities are using your money to push gas on LA wildfire survivors.
California’s utility regulator said it would eliminate ratepayer-funded incentives for gas appliances in new construction, but created an exception that allows rebates for them in wildfire rebuilds.
California’s utility regulator said it would eliminate ratepayer-funded incentives for gas appliances in new construction, but created an exception that allows rebates for them in wildfire rebuilds.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Trump’s HIV cuts are devastating California’s Black and Latino communities.
The $1.5 billion in federal funding cuts will shutter testing, outreach and housing programs—while one LA nonprofit has already lost more than half its budget.
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The $1.5 billion in federal funding cuts will shutter testing, outreach and housing programs—while one LA nonprofit has already lost more than half its budget.
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Trump's HIV cuts are devastating California's Black and Latino communities
The $1.5 billion in federal funding cuts will shutter testing, outreach and housing programs—while one LA nonprofit has already lost more than half its budget
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December 2, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Trump’s HIV cuts are devastating California’s Black and Latino communities.
The $1.5 billion in federal funding cuts will shutter testing, outreach and housing programs—while one LA nonprofit has already lost more than half its budget.
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The $1.5 billion in federal funding cuts will shutter testing, outreach and housing programs—while one LA nonprofit has already lost more than half its budget.
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For the first time in it's 111 year history, LA public defenders will defend clients in immigration court.
A new unit at the LA County Public Defender’s office will do something unprecedented in the county: defend immigrants in court facing deportation.
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A new unit at the LA County Public Defender’s office will do something unprecedented in the county: defend immigrants in court facing deportation.
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For the first time, LA public defenders will defend clients in immigration court
A new unit at the LA County Public Defender’s office will do something unprecedented in the county: defend immigrants in court facing deportation.
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December 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
For the first time in it's 111 year history, LA public defenders will defend clients in immigration court.
A new unit at the LA County Public Defender’s office will do something unprecedented in the county: defend immigrants in court facing deportation.
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A new unit at the LA County Public Defender’s office will do something unprecedented in the county: defend immigrants in court facing deportation.
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Putrid odors in this nook of South Gate has one resident calling it the “armpit” of the city. Residents have filed over 100 odor complaints citing smells like rotten eggs and warm garbage to air quality regulators.
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Putrid odors in this nook of South Gate has one resident calling it the “armpit” of the city
Residents have filed over 100 odor complaints citing smells like rotten eggs and warm garbage to air quality regulators.
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November 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Putrid odors in this nook of South Gate has one resident calling it the “armpit” of the city. Residents have filed over 100 odor complaints citing smells like rotten eggs and warm garbage to air quality regulators.
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Self-reflection, education, volunteering, collaboration, consistency.
Neighbors are doing what they can to unite Black + Brown communities in Chicago + LA, at a time when the need for such solidarity has rarely been more obvious.
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Neighbors are doing what they can to unite Black + Brown communities in Chicago + LA, at a time when the need for such solidarity has rarely been more obvious.
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How Residents In Chicago And LA Are Building Multiracial Solidarity Against ICE
Violent immigration crackdowns, looming safety-net cuts and arrests of street vendors are pushing Black and Latine residents in both cities to organize around their common ground.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Self-reflection, education, volunteering, collaboration, consistency.
Neighbors are doing what they can to unite Black + Brown communities in Chicago + LA, at a time when the need for such solidarity has rarely been more obvious.
w/ @lapublicpress.bsky.social: blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/24/h...
Neighbors are doing what they can to unite Black + Brown communities in Chicago + LA, at a time when the need for such solidarity has rarely been more obvious.
w/ @lapublicpress.bsky.social: blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/24/h...
How residents in LA and Chicago are building multiracial solidarity against ICE.
Violent immigration crackdowns, looming safety net cuts and arrests of street vendors are pushing Black and Latine residents in both cities to organize around their common ground.
Violent immigration crackdowns, looming safety net cuts and arrests of street vendors are pushing Black and Latine residents in both cities to organize around their common ground.
How residents in LA and Chicago are building multiracial solidarity against ICE
Violent immigration crackdowns, looming safety net cuts and arrests of street vendors are pushing Black and Latine residents in both cities to organize around their common ground. Violent immigration ...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
How residents in LA and Chicago are building multiracial solidarity against ICE.
Violent immigration crackdowns, looming safety net cuts and arrests of street vendors are pushing Black and Latine residents in both cities to organize around their common ground.
Violent immigration crackdowns, looming safety net cuts and arrests of street vendors are pushing Black and Latine residents in both cities to organize around their common ground.
As the holiday season ramps up, many organizations have put together food giveaways for families struggling with food and nutrition insecurity. There are also opportunities for folks to volunteer with distributing and prepping groceries and food.
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Food insecurity in LA County persists despite reinstated SNAP benefits
Here’s where to find, donate and help distribute groceries and meals in the coming weeks.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:41 AM
As the holiday season ramps up, many organizations have put together food giveaways for families struggling with food and nutrition insecurity. There are also opportunities for folks to volunteer with distributing and prepping groceries and food.
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How trans organizers convinced LA to treat ICE raids like a natural disaster.
As LA’s 23,000 undocumented LGBTQ immigrants face ‘immediate risk’ of deportation, organizers have secured an emergency declaration and health centers expanded home-based care for people too afraid to leave.
As LA’s 23,000 undocumented LGBTQ immigrants face ‘immediate risk’ of deportation, organizers have secured an emergency declaration and health centers expanded home-based care for people too afraid to leave.
How trans organizers convinced LA to treat ICE raids like a natural disaster
As LA’s 23,000 undocumented LGBTQ immigrants face 'immediate risk' of deportation, organizers have secured an emergency declaration and health centers expanded home-based care for people too afraid to...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
How trans organizers convinced LA to treat ICE raids like a natural disaster.
As LA’s 23,000 undocumented LGBTQ immigrants face ‘immediate risk’ of deportation, organizers have secured an emergency declaration and health centers expanded home-based care for people too afraid to leave.
As LA’s 23,000 undocumented LGBTQ immigrants face ‘immediate risk’ of deportation, organizers have secured an emergency declaration and health centers expanded home-based care for people too afraid to leave.
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"El Chapo is like a son to me."
"I told him I would fight for his dogs." "[T]rying to reunite Salazar with El Chapo hasn't been easy."
To help Fernando Salazar reunite with his son: www.gofundme.com/f/reunite-fe...
#California #USA #Mexico #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Animals
"I told him I would fight for his dogs." "[T]rying to reunite Salazar with El Chapo hasn't been easy."
To help Fernando Salazar reunite with his son: www.gofundme.com/f/reunite-fe...
#California #USA #Mexico #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Animals
An LA day laborer was deported to Mexico. His dog was left behind
A network of volunteers are raising funds and navigating airline rules to send El Chapo to his owner in Mexico.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
"El Chapo is like a son to me."
"I told him I would fight for his dogs." "[T]rying to reunite Salazar with El Chapo hasn't been easy."
To help Fernando Salazar reunite with his son: www.gofundme.com/f/reunite-fe...
#California #USA #Mexico #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Animals
"I told him I would fight for his dogs." "[T]rying to reunite Salazar with El Chapo hasn't been easy."
To help Fernando Salazar reunite with his son: www.gofundme.com/f/reunite-fe...
#California #USA #Mexico #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Animals
An LA day laborer was deported to Mexico. His dog was left behind.
Now, a network of volunteers are raising funds and navigating airline rules to send El Chapo to his owner in Mexico.
Now, a network of volunteers are raising funds and navigating airline rules to send El Chapo to his owner in Mexico.
An LA day laborer was deported to Mexico. His dog was left behind
A network of volunteers are raising funds and navigating airline rules to send El Chapo to his owner in Mexico.
lapublicpress.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
An LA day laborer was deported to Mexico. His dog was left behind.
Now, a network of volunteers are raising funds and navigating airline rules to send El Chapo to his owner in Mexico.
Now, a network of volunteers are raising funds and navigating airline rules to send El Chapo to his owner in Mexico.
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The federal immigration raids are STILL happening in LA. National media might've moved on, but we're not.
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Thank you to the local press all over -- keep the stories coming and we will try to spread them!
The federal immigration raids are STILL happening in LA. National media might've moved on, but we're not.
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The federal immigration raids are STILL happening in LA. National media might've moved on, but we're not.
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How LA employers and labor groups are trying to shield workers from ICE.
Here are some tactics unions and employers at farms, factories, restaurants and other job sites are using to protect employees from immigration raids.
Here are some tactics unions and employers at farms, factories, restaurants and other job sites are using to protect employees from immigration raids.
How LA employers and labor groups are trying to shield workers from ICE
Here are some tactics unions and employers at farms, factories, restaurants and other job sites are using to protect employees from immigration raids.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
How LA employers and labor groups are trying to shield workers from ICE.
Here are some tactics unions and employers at farms, factories, restaurants and other job sites are using to protect employees from immigration raids.
Here are some tactics unions and employers at farms, factories, restaurants and other job sites are using to protect employees from immigration raids.
Meet the L.A. print makers weaponizing art against ICE.
When Trump’s LA immigration raids ramped up this summer, local artists and a Hollywood print shop gave away thousands of free protest signs—and they’re still showing up across the city.
When Trump’s LA immigration raids ramped up this summer, local artists and a Hollywood print shop gave away thousands of free protest signs—and they’re still showing up across the city.
Meet the L.A. print makers weaponizing art against ICE
When Trump's LA immigration raids ramped up this summer, local artists and a Hollywood print shop gave away thousands of free protest signs—and they're still showing up across the city.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Meet the L.A. print makers weaponizing art against ICE.
When Trump’s LA immigration raids ramped up this summer, local artists and a Hollywood print shop gave away thousands of free protest signs—and they’re still showing up across the city.
When Trump’s LA immigration raids ramped up this summer, local artists and a Hollywood print shop gave away thousands of free protest signs—and they’re still showing up across the city.
LA’s immigration defense organizers are burning out. Here’s how they keep going.
From 5 a.m. patrols to panic calls about family kidnappings, organizers defending LA’s immigrant communities are working 12-hour days—and struggling to keep it up.
From 5 a.m. patrols to panic calls about family kidnappings, organizers defending LA’s immigrant communities are working 12-hour days—and struggling to keep it up.
LA's immigration defense organizers are burning out. Here's how they keep going
From 5 a.m. patrols to panic calls about family kidnappings, organizers defending LA's immigrant communities are working 12-hour days—and struggling to keep it up.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
LA’s immigration defense organizers are burning out. Here’s how they keep going.
From 5 a.m. patrols to panic calls about family kidnappings, organizers defending LA’s immigrant communities are working 12-hour days—and struggling to keep it up.
From 5 a.m. patrols to panic calls about family kidnappings, organizers defending LA’s immigrant communities are working 12-hour days—and struggling to keep it up.
Law enforcement physically attacked 72 journalists covering immigration in LA this year—more than double the city’s 2020 BLM protest total, according to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.
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Scrappy and underpaid, LA's independent reporters are risking everything to cover the ICE opposition
Law enforcement physically attacked 72 journalists covering immigration in LA this year—more than double the city's 2020 BLM protest total, according to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Law enforcement physically attacked 72 journalists covering immigration in LA this year—more than double the city’s 2020 BLM protest total, according to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.
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These LA volunteers are fighting back by documenting what happens inside immigration courts.
With mass ICE arrests in LA, Court Watch volunteers are exposing judges who refuse observers, broken translation services, and due process violations at Adelanto detention center.
With mass ICE arrests in LA, Court Watch volunteers are exposing judges who refuse observers, broken translation services, and due process violations at Adelanto detention center.
These LA volunteers are fighting back by documenting what happens inside immigration courts
With mass ICE arrests in LA, Court Watch volunteers are exposing judges who refuse observers, broken translation services, and due process violations at Adelanto detention center.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
These LA volunteers are fighting back by documenting what happens inside immigration courts.
With mass ICE arrests in LA, Court Watch volunteers are exposing judges who refuse observers, broken translation services, and due process violations at Adelanto detention center.
With mass ICE arrests in LA, Court Watch volunteers are exposing judges who refuse observers, broken translation services, and due process violations at Adelanto detention center.
How whistles, sirens and voices are slowing LA’s deportation machine — Bystanders are becoming first responders, turning everyday sounds into alarms that buy their neighbors time against ICE raids.
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How whistles, sirens and voices are slowing LA's deportation machine
Bystanders are becoming first responders, turning everyday sounds into alarms that buy their neighbors time against ICE raids.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
How whistles, sirens and voices are slowing LA’s deportation machine — Bystanders are becoming first responders, turning everyday sounds into alarms that buy their neighbors time against ICE raids.
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In South LA, Black and Latino neighbors unite against ICE as systems fail.
As Trump-era immigration enforcement arrests hit 540 weekly and cuts to SNAP threaten families, neighbors are launching mutual aid hubs to keep each other safe.
As Trump-era immigration enforcement arrests hit 540 weekly and cuts to SNAP threaten families, neighbors are launching mutual aid hubs to keep each other safe.
In South LA, Black and Latino neighbors unite against ICE as systems fail
As Trump-era immigration enforcement arrests hit 540 weekly and cuts to SNAP threaten families, neighbors are launching mutual aid hubs to keep each other safe.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
In South LA, Black and Latino neighbors unite against ICE as systems fail.
As Trump-era immigration enforcement arrests hit 540 weekly and cuts to SNAP threaten families, neighbors are launching mutual aid hubs to keep each other safe.
As Trump-era immigration enforcement arrests hit 540 weekly and cuts to SNAP threaten families, neighbors are launching mutual aid hubs to keep each other safe.