At its April 25 business meeting, the council will also get reports on court technology plans, jury service, and ensuring racial fairness in collaborative court programs.

Police are making arrests. But when it comes to prosecuting, trying or sentencing people for violating these ordinances, some cities haven’t been able to follow through. In many cases, prosecutors aren’t filing charges. If people are charged, their cases often are dismissed quickly.

Div. Three of the Fourth District Court of Appeal held yesterday that an anti-SLAPP motion was properly granted to court-appointed lawyers and therapists, who were sued by a mother claiming that their “decision” to restrict her supervision of her children in custody proceedings was maliciously made, finding that the claims lacked merit and the professionals’ conclusions as to what was best for the minors amounted to protected petitioning activity.

(Subscription required) Disgraced former attorney Paul Paradis testified Thursday in State Bar Court that top officials, including former Chief Deputy City Attorney James Clark, pressured him to quietly pay off a legal assistant threatening to expose a scheme tied to the LADWP billing scandal. The disciplinary trial could lead to Clark's disbarment.