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SoCalWatchdog@SoCalWatchdog29 Dec 2018

Watchdog reporters @GumshoeJoe @TheChalkOutline have been investigating for last 15 months allegations of decades of sex abuse cover up by Redlands Unified School District. What they uncovered is shocking. Here is their "Bad Apples" series. redlandsdailyfacts.com/teach… #schools #crime

How a culture of covering up sex abuse at public schools is hurting children — and costing taxpay...

How a culture of covering up sex abuse at public schools is hurting children — and costing taxpayers millions School administrators, teachers and staff in California are required by law to alert...

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SoCalWatchdog@SoCalWatchdogMar 22

15 hospices incorporated in a single day, in a single suite in Van Nuys trib.al/BHritNa

15 hospices incorporated in a single day, in a single suite in Van Nuys

The businesses, which should have raised red flags for potential fraud, have received more than $12 million from Medicare and Medi-Cal since 2023.

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SoCalWatchdog@SoCalWatchdogMar 20

Hospice, home care providers call for federal crackdown amid fraud concerns trib.al/L1ZjUhM

Hospice, home care providers call for federal crackdown amid fraud concerns

Hospices in the greater Los Angeles area accounted for 24% of the total in the nation and 83% of the total in the state in 2025.

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SoCalWatchdog@SoCalWatchdogMar 20

Federal judges, in rare forum, call out the rise of threats against the judiciary trib.al/9CRV7aJ

Federal judges, in rare forum, call out the rise of threats against the judiciary

Jurists detail the death threats they have received two days after the chief justice of the Supreme Court warned that such hostility has “got to stop.”

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SoCalWatchdog@SoCalWatchdogMar 19

Audit blasts Val Verde Unified’s ties with elite private boarding school in China trib.al/cNwuTZR

Audit blasts Val Verde Unified’s ties with elite private boarding school in China

Auditors for the Riverside County Office of Education detailed possible fraud, misappropriation of funds and other illegal activity at the core of the relationship.

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SoCalWatchdog@SoCalWatchdogMar 18

LA County to pay $6 million to settle lawsuit over Dominguez Channel stench trib.al/wnIFKPk

LA County to pay $6 million to settle lawsuit over Dominguez Channel stench

Payout will go to more than 24,000 plaintiffs who endured more than 10 weeks of nauseating odors from a buildup of hydrogen gas.

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SoCalWatchdog@SoCalWatchdogMar 17

Debate brews in OC over who gets to spend $3.7 million seized from ex-Supervisor Andrew Do trib.al/bMjUiYQ

Debate brews in OC over who gets to spend $3.7 million seized from ex-Supervisor Andrew Do

County supervisors will decide whether the funds should be returned to Do’s district or be spent on other pressing priorities.

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SoCalWatchdog@SoCalWatchdogMar 15

Van Nuys building with 89 hospices registered to it pulled into national fight over fraud trib.al/xAsb6LS

Van Nuys building where 89 hospices are registered pulled into national fight over fraud

Records show about 40 of the hospices registered to 14545 Friar St. billed Medicare for more than $38 million — or about $28,000 per patient — in 2023.

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SoCalWatchdog@SoCalWatchdogMar 10

Sharp fee increases approved for services that drop off, pick up LAX passengers trib.al/AKjbgi2

Sharp fee increases approved for services that drop off, pick up LAX passengers

The hikes are designed to steer a portion of airport visitors to the new SkyLink automated people mover when it opens later this year.

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SoCalWatchdog@SoCalWatchdogMar 8

LAX proposes sharp fee increases for services that pick up, drop off passengers trib.al/AmiaMPd

LAX proposes sharp fee increases for services that pick up, drop off passengers

Uber is rallying its customers to protest a vote Tuesday to raise access fees as much as 140% once the airport people mover begins service.

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SoCalWatchdog@SoCalWatchdogMar 6

Lawsuit alleges OC deputy needlessly shot knife-wielding, schizophrenic woman trib.al/fYYFHyP

Lawsuit alleges OC deputy needlessly shot knife-wielding, schizophrenic woman

Video shows shooting that left a former supermodel a paraplegic. Her lawsuit contends deputies should have used a less-than-lethal weapon.

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SoCalWatchdog@SoCalWatchdogMar 5

Supervisors demand jail safety plan, timeline for Men’s Central closure after surge in deaths trib.al/XD31cJ2

Supervisors demand jail safety plan, timeline for Men’s Central closure after surge in deaths

Reforms would increase security screenings and safety checks, better monitor surveillance cameras and improve access to drug treatment.

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SoCalWatchdog@SoCalWatchdogMar 2

‘The system failed’: Woman grieves for brother killed during chase of serial auto thief trib.al/d16zien

‘The system failed’: Woman grieves for brother killed during Rialto chase of serial auto thief

Jessica Loring was on the phone with her brother when his car was slammed by a stolen SUV driven by a man who has been in and out of prison for 10 years.

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SoCalWatchdog@SoCalWatchdogMar 1

Thousands brace for fallout from unreported LA County criminal convictions trib.al/F8E4WIE

Thousands brace for fallout from unreported LA County criminal convictions

Jobs could be lost, firearms confiscated and professional licenses revoked once the state DOJ database is updated with Superior Court criminal records.

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SoCalWatchdog@SoCalWatchdogFeb 26

Surge in LA County jail deaths this year prompts call for major reforms trib.al/O1XSdCo

Surge in LA County jail deaths this year prompts call for major reforms

In light of 10 deaths already in 2026, Supervisor Janice Hahn will offer a motion to the Board of Supervisors next month to enact several improvements.

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SoCalWatchdog@SoCalWatchdogFeb 26

Deputy convicted for pepper spraying woman departs LA County Sheriff’s Department trib.al/YCO2t4j

Deputy convicted for pepper spraying woman departs LA County Sheriff’s Department

Trevor Kirk was relieved of duty without pay in July 2023 after a video of him throwing a woman to the ground and then pepper spraying her spread on social media.

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SoCalWatchdog@SoCalWatchdogFeb 20

Unsolved Riverside girl’s death still haunts family and friends after nearly 40 years trib.al/HwOHrj2

Unsolved Riverside girl’s death still haunts family and friends after nearly 40 years

Sara Kay Keesling was 12 years old when she disappeared on a walk home after staying with a friend to avoid visitation with her father.

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SoCalWatchdog@SoCalWatchdogFeb 20

Officer on leave for using pepper spray during girls brawl at LA County juvenile facility trib.al/UnSO9BN

Officer on leave for using pepper spray during girls brawl at LA County juvenile facility

The chemical irritant was used during a fight involving 14 girls even though the L.A. County Board of Supervisors prohibited its usage against girls in 2022.

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SoCalWatchdog@SoCalWatchdogFeb 5

Pepper spray usage, violence surged after LA County juvenile hall transfers trib.al/zWRSNhP

Pepper spray usage, violence surged after LA County juvenile hall transfers

Critics argue the violence and staffing shortages that have long plagued Los Padrinos have spread and are now destabilizing other facilities.

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SoCalWatchdog@SoCalWatchdogFeb 5

San Bernardino man, shot at by immigration agents, testifies before Congress trib.al/VEFpm2j

San Bernardino man, shot at by immigration agents, testifies before Congress

Martin Rascon was one of three San Bernardino men whose pickup truck was shot at by federal immigration agents on Aug. 16.

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SoCalWatchdog@SoCalWatchdogJan 19

California agency tasked with scrutinizing jail deaths hasn’t completed a single review trib.al/EQpzgjR

California agency tasked with scrutinizing jail deaths hasn’t completed a single review

A year-and-a-half after the In-Custody Death Review Division was created within a state agency, the office has yet to obtain completed records from counties.

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