LANCASTER, Calif. - Community activists and Antelope Valley residents rallied together at the front of County of Los Angeles Library Lancaster on Tuesday afternoon in response to the recent report published by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department that exemplified excessive racial profiling within the Antelope Valley. According to the report, a disproportionate amount of African Americans and Latinos have been arrested - 64 percent of arrests in Lancaster have been of African Americans while Blacks only make up 15 percent of the population.

The Lancaster School District is offering students, who for one reason or another are not reaching their full potential in the traditional school setting, a chance to do better in their Lancaster Alternative Virtual Academy (LAVA) program.