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PJLC Completes CalVIP Pilot Program as Final Evaluation Begins
The Peace and Justice Law Center (PJLC) has completed its CalVIP-funded pilot program providing direct legal services designed to reduce violence by helping...
Court Orders Inglewood Police to Release Misconduct Records
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has ordered the City of Inglewood to release police misconduct records after finding that the Inglewood Police...
PJLC Opens Office in Santa Ana to Support Growing Work
The Peace and Justice Law Center (PJLC) has opened a new, dedicated office in Santa Ana, marking an important milestone in the organization’s continued growth...
Judge Orders OCDA to Give Notice of Gang Injunction Dissolution
An Orange County Superior Court judge has ordered the District Attorney to provide in-person notice to approximately 1,000 people who were previously subjected...
PJLC
Consults on Last Week Tonight Exposing the Dangers of Gang
Databases
The Peace and Justice Law Center (PJLC) served as a key consultant on the recent July 27th episode of HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver examining the...
OCDA Agrees to End All Gang Injunctions After Legal
Threat by PJLC
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer moved to dismantle the county’s entire gang injunction program after the Peace and Justice Law Center (PJLC)...
PJLC Provides Legal Support to Immigration Courtwatch
Program
The Peace and Justice Law Center is providing legal support to a Santa Ana immigration courtwatch program after a federal immigration agent shoved a...
OC Register Publishes PJLC Op-Ed on Gang Policing
and Democratic Decline
The Orange County Register has published an op-ed by Peace and Justice Law Center Executive Director Sean Garcia-Leys warning that discredited gang suppression...
SF Chronicle Profiles PJLC as Attention
Grows on False Gang Allegations
The San Francisco Chronicle has published a major profile examining how decades of flawed gang policing practices are now being repurposed at the federal level —...
PJLC Releases Gang Database Policy Brief as Trump Revives Past Abuses
The Peace and Justice Law Center (PJLC) has released a new policy brief identifying a critical gap in California law that allows unregulated gang databases to...
Latino USA Features PJLC on the Dangers
of False Gang Allegations
Latino USA, an NPR-distributed podcast with a national audience, featured the Peace and Justice Law Center’s Executive Director in an episode examining how false...
PJLC Launches ThreatIndex.org to Track Democratic Decline
The Peace and Justice Law Center (PJLC) has launched ThreatIndex.org, a new public tool designed to help the public, journalists, and policymakers understand the...
PJLC Director Shares Personal Story at Legends Event
At the Orange County Economic Justice Initiative’s Legends event, the Peace and Justice Law Center’s Executive Director shared an emotional account of the human...
Court Orders Release of Racial Justice Records from OCDA
An Orange County Superior Court judge has ordered District Attorney Todd Spitzer to release hundreds of records related to prosecutorial policies, training, and...
PJLC to Defend Los Amigos Against SLAPP Threat
The Peace and Justice Law Center is representing Los Amigos, a longtime Orange County community organization, after it received a retaliatory threat of a...
PJLC Leads Statewide Training on Legal Self-Defense
The Peace and Justice Law Center (PJLC) led a first-of-its-kind statewide training on how gang allegations have been used over time to silence and weaken...
PJLC Announces Strategic Pivot to Address National Threats
to Democracy
The Peace and Justice Law Center (PJLC) is announcing a strategic pivot to address growing national threats to democracy and the rule of law. This shift follows...
PJLC Hires Its First Full-Time Community Legal Advocate
The Peace and Justice Law Center (PJLC) has hired its first full-time Community Legal Advocate (CLA), strengthening the organization’s ability to connect legal...
PJLC Joins ACLU-Led Brief Demanding Closure of Los Padrinos
The Peace and Justice Law Center (PJLC) has joined an ACLU-led amicus brief urging the Los Angeles County juvenile court to order the immediate closure of Los...
Independent Evaluation Finds PJLC’s Legal Services
Pilot Promising
An independent evaluation of the Peace and Justice Law Center’s CalVIP-funded legal services program finds that the model shows strong early promise, while also...
PJLC Supports Statewide Training on Enforcing the RJA
The Peace and Justice Law Center (PJLC) supported and helped lead a statewide training at UC Berkeley focused on building public defenders’ capacity to use data...
PJLC Presses for Closure of Los Angeles’ Last Remaining Juvenile Hall
Los Angeles County’s juvenile detention system remains in crisis, and the Peace and Justice Law Center (PJLC) is pressing county and state leaders to stop...
Research Partnership Shows Decline in Gang Prosecutions
A research partnership between the Peace and Justice Law Center (PJLC) and graduate students at the University of California, Irvine has produced early evidence...
PJLC Provides Legal Support After Police Arrests at UCI Encampment
The Peace and Justice Law Center (PJLC) provided legal support and on-the-ground monitoring after police violently cleared a Gaza Solidarity Encampment at the...