K-12 students and community college students in Los Angeles County will be able to ride Metro for free under a 23-month pilot program approved by the Los.
K-12 students and community college students in Los Angeles County will be able to ride Metro for free under a 23-month pilot program approved by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority Board of Directors today.
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By City News Service
May 9, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Advocates against mass incarceration said they have bailed three Black mothers out of a Los Angeles detention facility as part of a day of action that included a statewide petition with racial justice organization Color of Change.
Essie Justice Group said Saturday the campaign was calling on California judges to ``stop abusing their discretion to disproportionately keep Black people in jail on astronomically high bail amounts.
That charge involves some judges alleged attempts to circumvent a recent California Supreme Court decision that judges must consider ability to pay when setting bail.
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After the tour, Congresswoman Nanette Barragán, Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia and Los Angeles County Supervisor Holly Mitchell took questions from members of the media on the steps of the Convention Center.
The politicians said that 40 more migrant children are expected to leave the facility and be reunited with families by this weekend, and by next week, the goal would be to bump that number up to 100. The reunifications are taking place in states across the country.
“This is progress we need to keep working toward,” Barragán said. The congresswoman represents the 44th District that includes North Long Beach. She also chairs the U.S. House Homeland Border Security Subcommittee. She was conducting several oversight visits this week at detention and emergency shelter facilities in California and Texas and stopped to see the Convention Center in Downtown, which was converted into a temporary shelter last month.