State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.
Robert J. Lopez
Robert J. Lopez is an independent journalist based in Los Angeles. He was part of a Los Angeles Times reporting team awarded the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for uncovering corruption in Bell, a small city near Los Angeles. He and several Times colleagues were Pulitzer Prize finalists in 2023 for investigations detailing corruption, criminality, and worker exploitation in California’s legal cannabis industry. He can be reached on Signal at LAJourno.13
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Lax Oversight, Few Inspections Leave Child Farmworkers Exposed to Toxic Pesticides
Child laborers and other farmworkers in California are being exposed to toxic pesticides, in part because of splintered enforcement of safety regulations.