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State of LGBTQ mistreatment by law enforcement | Edge Media Network

A new report from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law finds that mistreatment of LGBTQ people by law enforcement in the United States is “pervasive and ongoing,” drawing on 25 years of empirical research on police–LGBTQ interactions. (UCLA’s Joshua Arrayales was quoted.)

How the bathroom ignited the fight over gender identity | USA Today

A study by UCLA’s Williams Institute found no evidence that allowing transgender people access to bathrooms corresponding to their gender identity jeopardizes safety and privacy. Rather, said Jody Herman, a Williams Institute scholar of public policy, “when trans people are made to use restrooms according to their sex assigned at birth, it would put them at added risk of harm.”

The quarter-century project | Chronicle of Higher Education

“We have entered a new terrain when something as consequential as accreditation is no longer a buffer between higher-education institutions and the state house,” [said UCLA’s Eddie Cole.]

Feds order LADWP to inspect drinking water reservoirs | Los Angeles Times

Gregory Pierce, director of the UCLA Water Resources Group, said it is unusual but not unprecedented for a local agency to enter into a consent order with the federal government over violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act. “I do not see many [consent orders] for drinking water systems, and I do not see many announced in this way for issues that, yes should be addressed, but are not of severe concern, especially since there is no evidence of contamination,” he said.

The science behind why NFL star uses his car to prep for games | Newsweek

“The musculoskeletal system is a very honest broker of reality.  We cannot ask it to perform at an elite level during competition without establishing a baseline of high performance,” Dr. Nicholas Bernthal, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon and the interim chair and executive medical director at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, told Newsweek.

Medical cannabis may not have much benefit | New York Times

“The evidence does not support the use of cannabis or cannabinoids at this point for most of the indications that folks are using it for,” said Dr. Michael Hsu, an addiction psychiatrist and clinical instructor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the lead author of the review, which was published last month in the medical journal JAMA. (Also: ScienceDaily.)

U.S. economic backbone could struggle to afford health care | Capital & Main

In California, new preliminary estimates show that 280,000 people are expected to drop off Covered California once the enhanced premium subsidies expire, said Dylan Roby, [adjunct associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health]. Of those, about 80,000 may find other coverage and the rest are likely to go uninsured. Roby said the figures are part of “preliminary unpublished estimates” that he is working on with UCLA and UC Berkeley.

Firefighters on respirator mandates | Boise State Public Radio News

“One of the key things that we found is actually that firefighters were not fundamentally opposed to the idea of respiratory protection, because they were all very well aware of health hazards,” said Rachael Jones, a professor at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health and co-author of a recent paper on firefighter attitudes toward respirators. But, she said, firefighters do have some concerns.

Palisadian-Post newspaper ceases publication | Los Angeles Times

The Jan. 7 fire destroyed more than 2,600 businesses in Pacific Palisades, according to researchers at the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute and the Center for Neighborhood Knowledge. It partially damaged more than 650 more. Most, researchers said, were small businesses.