“AB 2095 provides us with the opportunity to achieve the goal of transparency as it applies to the selection process of judges in the state of California,” Assemblyman Mike Davis (D-Los Angeles) said Tuesday.

The current judicial appointments process uses anonymous individuals on local committees from various regions, who vet judicial aspirants prior to submitting the applications to the State Bar’s Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation (JNE).

A coalition of African American and Latino parents from schools throughout the region gathered at the Los Angeles Unified School District Seven office on Western Avenue and 106th Street Friday morning, to protest removal of Carol Truscott and Scott Braxton. The parents claim the two are being used as scapegoats in the matter of how Steven Rooney, a former Markham administrator, was returned to a school site, after allegations of improper conduct with a student surfaced.