by Jo Ellen Nott
On September 27, 2022, Alachua County in north central Florida made history by funding equitable sentencing software for Florida’s Eighth Judicial Circuit. This makes the Eighth the first Florida judicial circuit to take an historic step forward to improve its case management system and plea-bargaining ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On February 23, 2022, Jackson County Sheriff’s Deputy Matthew Honas “used excessive force multiple times” on a 12-year-old autistic boy who was running away from foster care. The Kansas Commission on Peace Officers’ Standards and Training (“KCPOST”) officially reprimanded Honas on August 22, 2022, but did ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
Current Los Angeles County sheriff Alex Villanueva has done nothing to clean up rampant gang activity within the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (“LASD”) since being elected to the post in
2018. Despite his campaign promises to purge the LASD of gangs, not only has Villanueva protected the ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On September 16, 2022, 22-year-old Yareni Rios Gonzalez of Greeley, Colorado, was struck by a train in Platteville while sitting detained in the back seat of a patrol car that inexplicably had been left on the railroad tracks of a train crossing. Rios Gonzalez had been ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge John J. Tuci issued a temporary injunction to halt recently passed HB 2319 writing “the Court fails to see how the presence of a person recording a video near an officer interferes with the officer’s activities.”
In his ruling, Tuci ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
The cover-up of a drunk off-duty Suffolk County PD officer rear-ending a dad and his two small sons is the latest in a series of six case histories that Newsday has brought to the public eye since December 2021. The evening newspaper is uncovering how Long ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
The Polk County’s Sheriff Office in Central Florida arrested a Georgia deputy police chief on September 1, 2022, during a prostitution sting focusing on human trafficking in the area. Jason DiPrima, 49, of the Cartersville Police Department, was attending a polygraph training workshop in Orlando at ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On August 9, 2022, a Cook County judge in Chicago, Illinois granted motions filed by State’s Attorney Kim Foxx to dismiss all charges against Marilyn Mulero, wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in 1993 for the murder of two Latin King gang members. Ms. Mulero’s exoneration ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
On the night of July 26, 2022, an unconscious Black female was raped on the corner of Toulouse and Royal in New Orleans’ French Quarter. A visitor to the city witnessed the sexual violence and called 911 after a deputy constable on the street did nothing ...
by Jo Ellen Nott
Kansas City, Kansas, (“KCK”) retired detective Roger Golubski used his position of authority and power to sexually abuse at least 70 women of color and with limited resources during his long career as a law enforcement officer in this midwestern city.
Legally, there is no ...
