Deputies union installs third president in one week
The power struggle at the union for rank-and-file Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies continued Friday, as the union selected its third president in the last week.
Earlier this week, the union put out a statement announcing that it had removed its leader, Armando Macias, citing problems with his attendance.
The board installed the vice president to run the organization.
Then, on Wednesday, Macias showed up at a meeting and insisted on running it, according to sources familiar with the union’s inner-workings.
On Thursday, a secretary at the union confirmed that Macias was in fact the president. But later that day the union’s spokesman declined to say who the president was.
On Friday, the union announced that Don Jeffrey Steck has been installed as president to lead the Assn. for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, which represents more than 7,200 deputies and district attorney investigators.
In a release, the union pledged to “ensure excellence of operations and stability of the organization.”
Macias did not respond to requests for comment.
The management shake-up at the Assn. for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, one of the larger law enforcement unions in the state, comes as members consider a potential endorsement in the upcoming sheriff’s election.
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