Emily Elena Dugdale
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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Current and former medical staff describe a working environment that is dysfunctional, abusive and detrimental to providing health care, with Chief Medical Officer Dr. Sean Henderson at the center of the storm. -
Politicians joined the families of Rodney King and Latasha Harlins at Florence and Normandie on Friday to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the 1992 L.A. Uprising.
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Union leaders for fifteen unions in contract negotiations with the county said they are reaching a breaking point
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The program houses people with mental health and other issues, and gives them medical care and therapy. But it’s maxed out its funding, and no new money is on the horizon.
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State Sen. Sydney Kamlager proposed legislation to increase the amount of money someone gets when they leave prison from $200 to nearly $2,600.
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A housing advocate calls the proposed deal "a slap on the wrist" and says the $123 million for affordable housing would only build a few hundred units in a city that needs thousands.
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The department will ask landlords to partially subsidize apartments for police recruits for two years.
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Our sources say that after being transferred from Central Juvenile Hall to Barry J. Nidorf facility in Sylmar, incarcerated youth are left without regular access to outdoor time, education and health care.
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Exactly one year ago, the board received a detailed plan to close the jail within 18 to 24 months. The Justice LA Coalition held a rally outside the Hall of Justice Wednesday to press the supervisors to get the job done.
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The database has information on more than 30,000 police encounters in which someone died over the last 20 years.
