Cece Woods, Author at The Current Report

The Ventura Probate Machine: A Pattern of Isolation, Financial Control, and Medical Decline

When families enter probate court, they expect protection. They expect oversight. They expect a system designed to safeguard vulnerable adults who cannot protect themselves. What many families say they do not expect,

February 23, 2026

Uncategorized·Ventura County

The Ventura Probate Machine: A Pattern of Isolation, Financial Control, and Medical Decline

When families enter probate court, they expect protection. They expect oversight. They expect a system designed to safeguard vulnerable adults who cannot protect themselves. What many families say they do not expect,

February 22, 2026

Ventura County

Justice Outside the Courtroom: The Role of Independent Investigative Reporting in High-Profile Cases

In American courtrooms, justice is supposed to unfold on the public record. Motions are filed, evidence is introduced, witnesses testify under oath, and judges issue rulings in open court. Yet in many

February 21, 2026

News·Politics

Statement in Response to a Coordinated Smear Campign Targeting Independent Investigative Reporting Via Julie Cohen , Justice for Mark and Jacob Iskander Facebook Page

In response to the targeted smear campaign launched by Julie Cohen on the Justice for Mark and Jacob Iskander page regarding my coverage of the Rebecca Grossman case:I am an independent journalist.

February 21, 2026

News·Rebecca Grossman

The Ventura County Corruption Machine: How a Teacher Became the Target

Ventura County sells itself as polished, safe, and righteous. Good schools, “family values,” and public institutions that supposedly function with professionalism and integrity. But beneath that carefully managed image is a darker

February 13, 2026

Ventura County

Shadows of Favoritism: Unraveling the Web of Cronyism in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Under Sheriff Robert Luna

Inside the vast and politically charged machinery of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, where credibility is currency and accountability is supposed to be non-negotiable, troubling questions about favoritism and internal power

February 13, 2026

LASD·News·Politics

LASD and the Arbitration Clock: Politics, Attrition, and the Race Toward 2028

The email from the Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs arrived wrapped in confident branding and institutional polish, declaring a “productive week” and touting momentum behind a ballot measure that would place

February 12, 2026

City·LASD·News·Politics

What Did and Didn’t Happen in the Rebecca Grossman Case: The Sentence That Anchored Malice, and the Witnesses Who Say They Never Heard it.

The prosecution’s implied malice theory in the Rebecca Grossman case did not rest on forensic certainty or undisputed conduct. It rested on a sentence. A single, emotionally loaded line attributed to Grossman

February 12, 2026

News·Politics·Rebecca Grossman

Law Enforcement in Crisis: Agencies Desperate to Attract Outside Officers for the Olympics, Many Won’t Take the Job as LA County Public Safety Continues to Spiral

What surfaced quietly inside a Northern California police chiefs’ meeting recently should have sent shockwaves through Los Angeles County leadership, because it revealed just how dire the staffing collapse inside the Los

February 7, 2026

LASD·News·Politics

The Protest Industrial Complex: Follow the Money Behind “No Kings” and the Dates That Prove It Was Never Spontaneous

The first thing the public needs to understand about the “No Kings” protests is that they were never organic eruptions of public anger. From the beginning, they were built as national mobilizations,

February 6, 2026

News·Politics