FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Joshua Busch, 310-991-2503, jbusch@PublicCounsel.org Los Angeles, CA (December 13, 2017) – In a lawsuit filed today, the Labor/Community Strategy Center (“Strategy Center”) asked the court to order the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (“MTA”), the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, the Los Angeles Police Department (“LAPD”), and the Long BeachContinue reading "Transit Advocacy Group Sues for Information on Racial Profiling by the L.A. County Metro"
Sweet Home Alabama
What a week, or more correctly, what a day. From the sadness of losing Ed Lee to the elation of the Alabama election. I spent most of Tuesday reluctant to listen to the news because I feared a repeat of last year’s election night when the unthinkable became real. I feared that my fellow AmericansContinue reading "Sweet Home Alabama"
Farewell Dear Mayor Lee
It’s 1983. The Asian Law Caucus, Equal Rights Advocates, and the Lawyers’ Committee are working on an ordinance that will get more contracting dollars into the hands of women and people of color. This is when I first met the man who would become Mayor Ed Lee. I remember him as a true progressive andContinue reading "Farewell Dear Mayor Lee"