How LASD surveilled me, a journalist, after I started reporting on deputy gangs
More than 50 LASD employees sent emails about me in the months after I published my reporting.
Cerise Castle
I wrote the history of LASD gangs. Then the sheriff’s department started surveilling me
The LA Sheriff’s Department sent over 800 pages of emails in 7 months about me.
Witness to the disappearance of Francisco Nunez shot by LASD deputies
Nunez was last seen by several in LASD custody, though LASD denies it. He was found dead 5 days later.
The ACLU calls for federal investigation into LASD’s deputy-led jail violence
The call comes after the LA District Attorney declined to prosecute deputies despite video of them forcibly slamming an incarcerated man into a wall.
Family of man left to die by deputy gang members files claim against LA County
Raymundo Rivera was last seen alive on August 5, 2018, fleeing from LA County Sheriff’s deputies.
Francisco Nunez was last seen in LASD custody. He turned up dead five days later.
LASD denies that Nunez was ever detained.
LASD is openly violating state law on deputy gangs, according to leaked documents
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is flouting state law requiring the adoption of a deputy gang policy and refusing to answer questions from LA County’s Civilian Oversight Commission.