Emily Elena Dugdale
Criminal Justice Reporter (she/her)If I’m doing my job, you’ll understand how the justice system was designed to give some people the benefit of the doubt and penalize others. You’ll also understand the history and role systemic racism plays in how we are policed today.
I’ve reported from Honolulu to New York City, and from my native country, Colombia. My first year in this newsroom was spent driving to every corner of Southern California as our general assignment reporter. I’m currently collaborating with ProPublica on a series of stories on policing and justice in the Antelope Valley.
Like millions of Americans, I am an immigrant to this country. I have spent most of my life living here, and I don’t have time for the gatekeeping around who isn’t an American, a Californian, or Angeleno. My reporting aims to represent the reality of all who live, work, or do time in Southern California.
Reporting on relentless trauma is difficult, so I find peace by hiking in our region’s many mountains.
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Criminal Justice
The Pomona Unified School District will place two school resource officers back on high school campuses in a deeply divided community where activists have fought for years to end the contract. -
Criminal Justice
L.A. County’s Inspector General is looking into allegations of racial discrimination raised by a joint LAist-ProPublica investigation on high school campuses in the Antelope Valley.
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Criminal Justice
Eddie Gonzalez, the former Long Beach Unified School District school safety officer, shot and killed the 18-year-old Rodriguez last month near Millikan High.
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Criminal Justice
A data study by Cal State Northridge and Neighborhood Legal Services found that Black Antelope Valley residents made up one-sixth of the population, but they were involved in one-third of all deputy stops.
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Criminal Justice
The claim alleges that Deputy Daniel Acquilano — the school resource officer at Lancaster High School — body slammed and straddled MiKayla Robinson after she refused to give her phone to him and walked away.
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Criminal Justice
Deputies in California’s Antelope Valley are disproportionately citing Black teens, often for minor infractions, like getting in fights or smoking. “They’re turning the principal’s office into the police station,” said one lawyer.
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Criminal Justice
After videos surfaced of an L.A. Sheriff's deputy body slamming a 16-year old Black student, community activists want Lancaster High School to sever ties with the department.
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News
Some VA psychologists are tailoring their care to talk about race-based stress and trauma.
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News
A test trial didn’t begin today because the defendant was in a county jail dorm that was quarantined due to a possible COVID-19 exposure.
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News
With overwhelmed health departments calling for help, National Guard soldiers get unusual assignments running COVID19 testing sites and assisting nursing homes.
