Keri Blakinger covers the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Before joining the Los Angeles Times in 2023, she spent nearly seven years in Texas, first covering criminal justice for the Houston Chronicle and then covering prisons for the Marshall Project. Blakinger was a 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing for a Marshall Project piece, co-published with the New York Times Magazine, about men on Death Row in Texas who play clandestine games of “Dungeons & Dragons,” countering their extreme isolation with elaborate fantasy. Her work has appeared everywhere from the BBC to the New York Daily News, from Vice to the Washington Post Magazine, where her 2019 reporting on women in jail helped earn a National Magazine Award. She is the author of “Corrections in Ink,” a 2022 memoir about her time in prison.
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An L.A. County sheriff’s deputy who was relieved of duty two years ago was charged this month with sexually assaulting a teenage girl.
Sept. 18, 2024
L.A. Sheriff’s Department announces policy it says will ban deputy gangs, hate groups
Sept. 18, 2024
In Rolling Hills, 35 homes are set to lose gas Monday, then 50 homes are expected to lose electricity by Wednesday.
Sept. 16, 2024
Deputies from the Century Sheriff’s Station found a woman shot to death early Sunday in the 12500 block of Oak Street in Lynwood.
Sept. 15, 2024
The punishment for Rosa Gonzalez, now a deputy, came after she accused department officials of discrimination.
Sept. 14, 2024
State prosecutors fought to keep the deputies’ names secret. An investigation by The Times and LA Public Press identified them.
Sept. 10, 2024
A former sheriff’s deputy was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a 14-year-old girl, authorities said.
Sept. 5, 2024
Over a year after a violent incident outside a Lancaster WinCo was caught on video, Deputy Trevor Kirk has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
Sept. 5, 2024
A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department sergeant, who successfully sued for whistleblower retaliation in 2015, says she was transferred after filing another grievance.
Sept. 3, 2024
A Chinese millionaire, a cop for hire and an Irvine family: Inside a twisted global business dispute
Federal prosecutors say former L.A. County Sheriff’s employees helped a woman in China extort her former business partner for $100 million in disputed shares.
Aug. 30, 2024