California Central District Judge John Holcomb threw out a case July 17 that alleged the actions of Hemet police officers violated a family’s civil rights. The March 3, 2022 complaint claims that Ryan Gadison was targeted by Hemet police officers for being “an African American male driving a ‘nice’

This year, Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, a Democrat from Thousand Oaks, is proposing a new bill to establish education standards based on those recommendations, but some law enforcement and criminal justice reform advocates are skeptical — albeit for different reasons.

Two former employees of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office have been sent to jail after being convicted of accepting bribes from a tow company owner. Ex-Lieutenant Samuel Flores was sentenced to two years of formal probation and 270 days in county jail. Ex-Sergeant Robert Christolon was sentenced to two

Sheriff’s deputies can be found guilty of negligence in civil tort cases even if they do not use excessive force, a published April 29 ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal found. The ruling comes from the case of Kevin Niedzialek, who died July 30, 2019, a day

A San Bernardino jury has awarded victims more than $100 million seven years after a firearm-brandishing state employee caused a fatal crash off the I-215. The jury found the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation responsible for the actions of their correctional officer, Michael William Becker, who ran Glenn Bolden