Rebecca Ellis covers Los Angeles County government for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she covered Portland city government for Oregon Public Broadcasting. Before OPB, Ellis wrote for the Miami Herald, freelanced for the Providence Journal and reported as a Kroc fellow at NPR in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Brown University in 2018. She was named a finalist for the 2022 Livingston Awards for her investigation into abuses within Portland’s private security industry.
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L.A. County will pay $27 million to settle shooting, wrongful conviction lawsuits against Sheriff’s Department
May 8, 2024
With the help of bulldozers, items including tents, chairs and yoga mats were removed Thursday morning from the UCLA encampment occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters and shoved into a large gray dumpster.
May 2, 2024
Less than 24 hours after a violent attack on a pro-Palestinian camp at UCLA, officers pulled apart barricades as they tore down the encampment and made arrests.
May 3, 2024
The discipline against the four probation officers at the Los Padrinos juvenile hall in Downey was in connection with ‘youth-on-youth violence,’ officials said.
April 26, 2024
L.A. County Supervisors voted for a ‘fair workweek’ ordinance, requiring retailers and grocers to tell workers their schedules two weeks in advance
April 24, 2024
Three L.A. City Council members assailed a deal to hike the pay of police officers. They’re much more enthusiastic about raises for other city workers.
April 20, 2024
Ataff members at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, a public hospital run by the county, told investigators that Dr. Louis Kwong sometimes looked under the surgical covers of anesthetized Black males and discussed the “genitals of the day.”
April 20, 2024
Sunrise Movement teens said they had two demands of Harris: Convince Biden to declare a climate emergency and end U.S. military aid to Israel.
April 15, 2024
A call came in around 5:20 p.m. of a plane crashing into the ocean not far from Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles.
April 15, 2024
The suspect, identified by police as Ricardo Guade Andrade of San Fernando, crashed into the frontyard of a nearby home as he fled from police in Pasadena.
April 14, 2024