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Steve Chapman, The Chicago Tribune - August 28, 2011 In 1989, a Waukegan woman was raped after three men invaded her apartment. She told police the rapist had a tattoo, wore an earring in a pierced ear and spoke English. Two days later, the cops took her to an office and said, “Watch the one sitting on the chair.”...

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By Catherine Bowen/The Reporter, Vacaville - Posted: 08/15/2011 01:00:34 AM PDT In a move some call long overdue and others say should never happen, the state is set to send waves of prison inmates flooding into county jails and communities as early as this fall, leaving local authorities bracing for the storm. With the wheels set into motion earlier...

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Donna Tam/The Times-Standard - Posted: 08/27/2011 02:40:16 AM PDT To help Humboldt’s criminal justice system prepare for the state’s transfer of prisoners to our local system, the county has hired a consultant to navigate the road ahead. Although the state begins the transfer of nonviolent, nonserious and nonsex crime offenders to county jails and the probation department on Oct....

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August 26, 2011 – Attorneys for the National Rifle Association (NRA), California Rifle & Pistol Association Foundation (CRPA Foundation), Herb Bauer’s Sporting Goods, and individual Fresno residents and firearm owners have filed a lawsuit challenging the “fees” the California Department of Justice (“DOJ”) imposes on firearm purchasers. The lawsuit, Bauer v. Harris , filed in the United States...

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In her recently published article, Emerging Second Amendment Jurisprudence, Michel & Associates attorney Bobbie Ross discusses recent developments in the practice area of firearms law and Second Amendment advocacy. The article was published in the American Bar Association Section of Litigation’s Minority Trial Lawyer. It can be found online here. The article discusses the appropriate level of legal...

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A report prepared by the Council of State Governments Justice Center for the Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice Pew Center on the States Public Safety Performance Project Texas Department of Criminal Justice–Community Justice Assistance Division Travis County (TX) Community Supervision and Corrections Department 2011 Link to the document:   http://www.criminaljusticecoalition.org/files/userfiles/A_Ten-Step_Guide_to_Transforming_Probation_Departments_to_Reduce_Recidivism.pdf Read more from the original source:...

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http://www.csac.counties.org/default.asp?id=3202 Link: California State Association of Counties (CSAC) Public Safety Realignment Web Page

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Visalia Times - More than 6,000 local felons are supervised by the Tulare County Probation Department and, in about a month, the department is going to get more. With deep cuts to the state’s public safety divisions, the county will soon see fuller jails, more probationers and the possibility that group homes will house ex-convicts from across the state....

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By Joe Johnson –  Hanford Sentinel – Thursday, August 25, 2011 11:15 am Kings County supervisors approved a committee-made plan this week to help deal with the coming influx of state prison inmates. The plan is in response to California’s Public Safety Realignment Bill, which aims to reduce the state budget by shifting responsibility for housing nonserious, nonviolent...

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Can you base your decision to fire an employee on his beard? American Patriot Security, a California-based security company, did just that . Now, they are being sued. Washington State resident Abdulkadir Omar, 22, started working at the security company in 2009. Omar says that at the time he was hired nobody said that he had to shave...