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Lopez: In this Hollywood courtroom, defendants are sentenced to get help, and graduations are celebrated
Jul 29, 2026 - Us 
Among other legal matters, the mental health courts handle the cases of defendants who have a serious mental illness and have been judged incompetent to stand trial in criminal court.
The LAPD has quietly stopped putting many public records online
Jul 29, 2026 - Us 
According to a UCLA professor, public records related to the police department began disappearing from a Los Angeles city website last April, turning the LAPD into a "black hole of information."
State regulators crack down on polluted runoff from L.A. shopping centers, warehouses
Jul 29, 2026 - Us 
California water regulators in Los Angeles are requiring stormwater permits for shopping centers and warehouses for the first time. Big parking lots are major contributors to stream pollution.
Proposed bill would strip protection for school arts funding, former L.A. Supt. Beutner warns
Jul 29, 2026 - Us 
Supporters say bill would make it easier to use arts money for kids. But former LAUSD leader Beutner says the bill would allow schools to divert the funding.
Racial slurs and a Google search for car washes: What court records reveal about L.A. immigration raids
Jul 29, 2026 - Us 
The court records were made public this week by the ACLU, which is part of a coalition seeking to bar an "ongoing campaign of suspicionless and discriminatory detentive stops" in the Central District of California.

