The Malibu Daily News obtained a detailed letter provided by former chair of the Fair Political Practices Commission and attorney Ann Ravel, who was contacted to investigate the actions of Planning Commissioners Skylar Peak and Dennis Smith who have previously refused to recuse themselves from voting on building projects they can financially benefit from. In…
Malibu Daily News has learned that LASD investigators are inching closer to make an arrest into murder of a rapper found murdered in a barrel floating at the Malibu Lagoon on July 31st. Javonnta Murphy’s body was identified hours after a lifeguard found a barrel floating in the Malibu Lagoon the morning of July 31st….
On September 17th, 2023, many will be honoring the 14th anniversary of the disappearance of Mitrice Richardson who was released from the Lost Hills Station shortly after midnight, with no car, no cell phone and no means to get her to safety. Ten months later, her mummified remains were discovered approximately six miles from the…
Fourteen years ago, Mitrice Richardson took the journey to Malibu, in the midst of what we now know to be a serious mental health episode, which wrongfully landed her behind bars and ultimately cost her her life. Was it murder? Dr. Ronda Hampton and I think so. Hampton, a clinical psychologist and mentor to Richardson,…
On August 13th, CC UNIT, a child activist organization that catches online predators preying on minors, was instrumental in the arrest of Scott Woeckel, a Senior Analyst-Instructional Systems at Pepperdine School of Law, who was taken into police custody after an in-person meeting he believed was going to be with a 13-year old girl with…
Serious legal questions were brought to the attention of City Officials and staff this week by Malibu residents and small business owners Brian and Shamra Strange, mega-brand James Perse and Washington Prime Group, the current leasing agent for the Malibu Lumber Yard, a City-owned property. Last week, the Malibu Daily News broke the story of…
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Malibu Daily News Editor in Chief Cece Woods founded The Local Malibu, an activism based platform, in 2014. The publication was instrumental in the success of two ballot measures, seating three Malibu City Councilmen in 2016 and the supporting the top two vote-getters again in 2020.
During the summer of 2018, Woods exposed the law enforcement cover-up in the Malibu Creek State Park Shootings and a few short months later, provided the most comprehensive local news coverage during the Woolsey Fire attracting over 1 million hits across her social media platforms.