A federal judge issued a temporary ruling Monday that blocked a California law banning federal immigration enforcement officers from wearing masks. The masking law, which was signed as part of a package of five laws restricting immigration agents in September, went into effect Jan. Read more...
Photo: Two masks are pictured. A federal judge issued a temporary ruling Monday that blocked a California law banning federal immigration enforcement officers from wearing masks. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Researchers celebrated the role of numerical data in scientific research at a Jan. 26 event at the Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center. The Lange Symposium on Computational Statics and Biomedical Data Science – hosted by the UCLA Department of Computational Medicine and Human Genetics – invited six speakers from across the country to discuss their research. Read more...
Photo: The Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center, the site of the sixth annual Lange Symposium, is pictured. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Feb. 8 at 10:01 p.m. California Attorney General Rob Bonta said California will prosecute federal immigration enforcement officers who violate residents’ constitutional rights at a Thursday UCLA event. Read more...
Photo: California Attorney General Rob Bonta is pictured. Bonta said California will prosecute federal immigration enforcement officers who violate residents’ constitutional rights at a Thursday UCLA event. (Andrew Ramiro Diaz/Photo editor)
The California Department of Cannabis Control gave UCLA four grants in January totaling $7.3 million for cannabis research. These grants will fund four research studies that will allow UCLA to develop the science and evidence to help guide public policy related to cannabis availability, safety and accessibility, said Ziva Cooper, a professor-in-residence of psychiatry and behavioral sciences. Read more...
Photo: The UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior is pictured. The UCLA Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoids is located here. (Zimo Li/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Feb. 6 at 2:06 p.m. Odalis Rojas grew up in an agricultural community in Ventura County, where she saw her farm worker father, uncles and cousins face various health care barriers. Read more...
Photo: Jacob Thene, a third-year business economics and geography student; Sarai Ceceña, a fourth-year political science student; Alexandra Vazquez, a third-year biology student; and Odalis Rojas, a second-year nursing student, sit by Royce Hall. The students are part of Compas at UCLA, an organization dedicated to advocating for California’s farm worker communities. (Chenrui Zhang/Dailu Bruin)
This post was updated Feb. 21 at 7:51 p.m. Los Angeles County Sheriffs have not banned sharing license plate data with immigration enforcement agencies, despite a 2016 law prohibiting state police from sharing these images with the federal government. Read more...
Photo: A line of cars is parked along a street. The LA County Board of Supervisors requested in September that the LA County Sheriff’s Department ban license plate data sharing with federal agencies. (Karla Cardenas-Felipe/Daily Bruin staff)
This post was updated Feb. 3 at 10:55 p.m. A state appeals court reversed a ruling Monday against a former UCLA gynecologist who was sentenced to prison for felony sexual battery and penetration, sending the case back to court. Read more...
Photo: James Heaps, a former UCLA gynecologist who was sentenced to prison for felony sexual battery and penetration, sits in court. A state appeals court reversed a ruling Monday against Heaps, sending the case back to court for a retrial. (Daily Bruin file photo)
