Criminal enforcement of the California stay-at-home order is the “extreme last resort” by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, officials said Thursday. Governor Gavin Newsom announced a month-long California curfew is set to be put in place starting Saturday for counties in the “purple tier” of the state’s reopening protocol, which includes Los Angeles County. “Since the first Stay-at-Home Order ...

Several Los Angeles County officials called for Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s resignation Thursday, including members of the County Board of Supervisors and the Civilian Oversight Commission that oversees the sheriff’s department. The calls for action are the most recent development in a long line of confrontations between Villanueva, the County Board, and the Commission, which have included barbed social media statements ...

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva discussed Wednesday the incident involving Santa Clarita deputies drawing guns at teens in Canyon Country. Villanueva updated the community about the ongoing report on the viral incident on Aug. 7, during a Facebook Live, with investigators able to track down the homeless individual involved. “We found and talked to all the parties,” Villanueva said. ...

Starting Monday, August 17, the L.A. County Sheriff’s Dept. is to have additional patrols looking for distracted drivers. On Monday, August 17, 2020, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will have additional deputies on patrol looking for drivers that are violating the state’s hands-free cell phone law, according to an official release. “Distracted driving is a serious issue, but one ...

Hilda L. Solis, chair pro tem for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, joined community leaders from the Los Angeles County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission (COC), Office of Inspector General (OIG), and the Anti-Recidivism Coalition to provide their expertise on the topic of criminal justice reforms. Solis, representing the First District on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, ...

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva announced the department had determined a group of inmates at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic had deliberately attempted to infect themselves with COVID-19 during his weekly virtual press conference on Monday. The department released footage captured by the facility’s video surveillance equipment which shows multiple men sharing from a single bottle of hot ...

The impact of the $400 million shortfall in the Board of Supervisors’ recommended budget compared to the $3.9 billion budget submitted by the Sheriff’s Department was outlined by Sheriff Alex Villanueva during his COVID-19 status update on Monday. “We’re doing our best, we don’t really have any fat to trim, so what we’re doing is shifting around things that are ...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has unanimously voted to remove Sheriff Alex Villanueva as the head of emergency operations amid the coronavirus outbreak, officials said Tuesday. The vote makes L.A. County Chief Executive Officer Sachi Hamai responsible for coordinating the County’s activities relating to emergency preparedness, response and recovery, including the activation and operation of the County Emergency ...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is taking steps to remove Sheriff Alex Villanueva as the head of the county’s emergency operations center during the coronavirus outbreak, officials said Thursday. The March 31 board meeting agenda indicates that supervisors plan to vote on the removal of Villanueva as the head of emergency operations, replacing his role in charge of ...

The United States Supreme Court denied to hear the appeal of former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca’s conviction on federal charges of obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI, according to court documents. Baca had previously been sentenced to three years in prison for obstructing a federal investigation into corruption and civil rights violations at the jail that ...