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Oakland City council has rescinded a previous pact with ICE due to fears of deportation. Oakland Police Department can no longer act as U.S. Customs enforcement agents.

California has changed how they manage the sex offender registry by applying tiers that range from 10 years to life. Learn more about how registered offenders can be assigned a specific tier.

The school to prison pipeline is an epidemic. Students are having increased contact with the criminal justice system, even for minor offenses. Many believe that zero tolerance policies are the cause.

Sex offenses, even minor ones, are punished very harshly. Many believe that sex offenders will re-offend once released, however this simply isn't true.

Solitary confinement deprives people of a basic human need, it's inhumane, and it should be banned.

A federal lawsuit has been filed over the searches conducted on electronic devices without warrants.

SB384 has been passed on to the governor's desk. The bill would see a reform to the sex offenders registry which would make it more effective.

Betsy DeVos, Education Secretary for the Trump administration, has said that she plans to scrap rules the Obama administration put in plans regarding sexual assault on campus.

Colorado federal judge calls the state's sex offender registry a 'cruel and unusual' punishment that violates two constitutional amendments.

After a temporary hold on signature collection, efforts to recall Judge Persky are allowed to continue.

Three bills will soon be heard by Senate members who are a part of the  Assembly Appropriations Committee pertaining to registrants and their loved ones. On May 10th, the Assembly Appropriations Committee is scheduled to consider AB 558 (internet exclusions), and both SB 421 (tiered registry) and...

ore states are getting rid of laws that sideline teenagers from the juvenile court when they reach a certain age, as treating young people as adults under criminal justice system has been proven to be ineffective

The Law Offices of Seth P. Chazin explain the basics on how criminal cases work from arrest, arraignment, to trial and verdict.

New law requires therapists to report patients who view child pornography online, or in other digital ways.

A new law dictates that possession of date-rape drugs with intent to commit sexual assault will be charged as a felony

The San Francisco Police Department confirms more than 20 reports have been taken from different customers alleging their cards..

Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with Russian diplomats including Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. in July and September 2016, and then told the Senate Judiciary Committee under oath in his confirmation hearings that he did not have communications with Russians at that time. If Mr. Sessions intended to lie...

SFDP police officer tried to subdue the mentally ill unarmed man with baton blows, before shooting in a heated confrontation. The video footage was released by Public Defender Jeff Adachi.

The United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) has made adjustments to the United States Sentencing Guidelines.

Van Jones, the Bay Area native from Oakland and host of CNN’s The Messy Truth, argues that the results of mass incarceration directly led to President Trump’s victory. He argues that...

The Supreme Court recently heard Packingham v. North Carolina. North Carolina bans registered sex offenders from accessing any social media sites that allow under-18-year-olds to post; these include...

Curry, an African-American who plays in Oakland where there is a large African-American population, is now speaking out about Trump for the first time...

San Francisco Administrator, Naomi Kelly, announced that the conditions of the San Francisco Hall of Justice are so horrendous that she is seeking to move all 350 inmates out of the building by...

The number of homicides reflects a 10 percent increase over the previous year. The homicide rate in the Bay Area increased 14 percent in 2016. San Jose in particular saw a total of...

Seth Chazin is representing Warbritton in the criminal case. He said Wednesday that he and his client had been aware that the Medical Board might file an administrative complaint, and that they "strongly deny the allegations contained in that accusation." With regard to the criminal case, Chazin said