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A report by the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department that found no “substantiated” allegations of rape or sexual abuse filed by jail inmates against deputies in recent years drew skepticism from oversight officials, with one saying it raised “a red flag” about the investigation process.
Los Angeles County officials rolled out a new digital platform that frees court clerks from having to manually manage notifications to law enforcement agencies when people violate orders to relinquish their guns.
David Chandler, a former Torrance police officer investigated for being on a text message thread with colleagues who made racist remarks, reached a plea deal with L.A. County prosecutors that will see him avoid jail time for a 2018 incident in which he shot a Black suspect.
Proposition 50’s big win Tuesday night is a political earthquake that is being felt nationally.
The official headshot-style photos of L.A. County Sheriff’s Department employees could be released to an independent journalist as part of a public records lawsuit under review by a three-judge appellate panel.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has agreed to outfit the deputies that run its jails with thousands of body-worn cameras, a measure that officials say will increase “transparency and accountability” amid a spike in inmate deaths.
In the Hollywood neighborhood where he lived and worked as an Uber driver, one acquaintance described suspect Jonathan Rinderknecht as ‘a really nice guy.’
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that will expand access by oversight officials to confidential law enforcement records, enacting legislation backed by family members of people harmed by L.A. County sheriff’s deputies.
Over the last five years, Chevron’s El Segundo refinery has 46 violations of environmental safety rules; over the last decade, it was also issued 17 OSHA violations.
An explosion on Thursday night ignited massive flames at the El Segundo refinery. The fire could be seen for miles.
