Many California counties do not employ a single defense investigator who can interview witnesses, review police reports, visit crime scenes and retrieve video surveillance footage.
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Anat Rubin,
Los Angeles Times,
21 June 2026
Two witnesses intervened, allowing the woman to get away as the man fled southbound on Soto Road.
More recently, the Department of Justice charged the Southern Poverty Law Center — a civil rights nonprofit accused by Republicans of targeting conservatives in its work tracking extremists — with defrauding donors through payments to informants.
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James Pollard,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
Jordan cited accusations that paid informants associated with the organization’s former field-source program encouraged participation in extremist events while working undercover inside hate groups.
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Kaelan Deese,
The Washington Examiner,
9 June 2026
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