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The agency hopes to hire four social workers to assist public defenders in integrating clients back into the community — as a part of California’s broader effort to help offenders lead productive lives and save taxpayer dollars.
In 2014, California’s Proposition 47 gave non-violent criminals a new lease on life, but they are running out of time to clean up their criminal records so they can more easily find jobs and housing.
Orange County Sheriff’s Department manipulated the media, but the tactic has led to allegations that rights of jailed inmates were violated.
A months-long and unprecedented hearing on alleged prosecutorial misconduct in the case of Scott Evans Dekraai drew to a close Thursday.
A scathing decision by an administrative law judge could cost the county millions and affect ongoing contract talks with sheriff’s deputies.
The unprecedented acknowledgement by an assistant district attorney on the witness stand came during testimony in the Seal Beach mass murder case.
The Orange County district attorney’s office is accused of violating defendants’ rights with an intelligence-gathering operation inside county jails.
An unusual hearing will start today in Orange County Superior Court, with the credibility of leading county prosecutors on the line.
The motion follows allegations of an extensive jailhouse informant system that violated constitutional rights of defendants in OC jails.
Lawyers with the Orange County public defender’s office claim “outrageous conduct” by district attorney’s office and Sheriff’s Department.