A 21st Century Criminal Justice System for Los Angeles: A Look at the Present, a Model for the Future and a Blueprint for Media Coverage, January 22-24, 2008
This three-day conference examined strengths and weaknesses of L.A.’s criminal justice system, ideas for improvement and journalistic approaches to covering the complexities of crime and punishment. Civic leaders, policy makers, criminal justice practitioners, judges, scholars, advocates and community service providers shared ideas for a unified, collaborative approach to the entire system, including the prevention of gang and youth violence, rehabilitation of prisoners and reentry.

The conference was funded in part by a grant from The California Wellness Foundation.

Free Speech & Open Government Assembly
CFAC's 12th Annual Free Speech and Open Government Assembly brings together the best and brightest of law, journalism and public policy.  New Yorker magazine writer JEFFREY TOOBIN will be there, discussing secrecy and the US Supreme Court. Hear National Journal columnist and Newsweek contributor  STUART TAYLOR on his new book about the rush to (mis)judgment in the Duke rape case.  Raise a glass of wine to honor SANDY CLOSE, champion of ethnic media as head of New American Media and Pacific News Service

The Black Underclass and America’s Criminal Justice System
November 28, 2006
John Jay College, New York

Covering Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis: Have the Rules Changed?
May 1, 2003
Davidson Conference Center
Los Angeles, California