Full Coverage: The race for L.A. County sheriff
Seven candidates are running to become the next sheriff of Los Angeles County. They are retired Undersheriff Paul Tanaka; Long Beach Police Chief Jim McDonnell; Assistant Sheriff James Hellmold; Assistant Sheriff Todd Rogers; Bob Olmsted, a retired sheriff’s commander; Patrick Gomez, a retired sheriff’s lieutenant; and Lou Vince, a senior detective supervisor with the LAPD.
The election is June 3.
Here is some recent Times coverage of the campaign and related issues.
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The last time an outsider was elected Los Angeles County sheriff, posses tracked bandits into the hills of Glendora, Charlie Chaplin had just hit movie screens and Angelenos were watching anxiously as World War I began in Europe.
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Todd Rogers saw his life before him, and things looked pretty good.
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He has no high-profile endorsements. His last name is often misspelled.
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On his first day as chief of the Long Beach Police Department, Jim McDonnell stepped into hostile territory.
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Retired Undersheriff Paul Tanaka has raised more than $900,000, maintaining his lead in the race for dollars among seven candidates for Los Angeles County sheriff.
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After 25 years in the L.A.
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Less than a week after failing to convince a jury that a young Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy obstructed a federal investigation into the county jails, prosecutors faced a second panel Tuesday with the same facts in an attempt to convince jurors that six others in the department had indeed been part of a conspiracy to foil the inquiry.
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Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to require candidates to file their campaign finance reports electronically, allowing the public to see them quicker.
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Kim Martin’s small neighborhood on the eastern edge of Los Angeles County is entirely surrounded by Claremont.
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The former undersheriff and a current captain of the L.A.
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Former Undersheriff Paul Tanaka and a sheriff’s captain are being investigated for their alleged roles in hiding a jail inmate from federal authorities, a prosecutor revealed in court Monday.
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Los Angeles County supervisors received a proposed blueprint Monday for a civilian oversight commission that would monitor the Sheriff’s Department and its troubled jail system.
