At least six California prison guards were fired for sexual misconduct between 2014 and 2018, according to records released under a new state law. Advocates say more inmate protections are needed.

U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw's ruling expanded the number of families potentially eligible for relief under a class-action lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement continues to separate families at the border in some cases. On a judge's order, a Salvadoran mother was recently reunited with her toddler after eight months.

The Trump administration wants to withdraw from the Flores agreement, a decades-old legal settlement concerning detention of children. Dolly Gee is the federal judge at the heart of the battle.

Border Patrol agents are on the front lines, tracking down and arresting migrants crossing the border illegally.

Immigration lawyers had argued that the children and their parents were held in inhumane conditions. In another court, a judge gave credit and blame to the Trump administration on reuniting families.

A federal judge in San Diego has ordered the federal government to reunite thousands of migrant children separated from their parents by Thursday — but hundreds will be waiting longer than that.

Officials said 1,012 parents and children separated at the border have already been reunited. But up to 463 parents may have been deported or have voluntarily left without their children.

Forty-nine of California's 58 counties have coroners who are also elected sheriffs. Alleged abuse of power by one sheriff-coroner is pushing a move toward more independent medical examiners.