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Media Highlights
May 16, 2019
Check out the recent news coverage concerning the Los Angeles County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission.
 The Office of Diversion and Re-entry guides individuals suffering from mental illness away from jail and into community-based settings for restorative health. The initiative is part of the County's broad-reaching justice reform efforts... watch now.
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Online News
By Frank Stoltze | May 14
The L.A. County Board of Supervisors voted in closed session Tuesday to pay $3.75 million to the family of a 16-year-old who was fatally shot by a sheriff's deputy on Super Bowl Sunday in 2018... read more.
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By City News Service | May 14
The Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved a $3.75 million payout to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit against sheriff's deputies who shot and killed a 16-year-old boy last year in the Westmont neighborhood of South L.A.... read more.
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By Maya Lau & Nicole Santa Cruz | May 14
L.A. County taxpayers will pay $3.75 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a 16-year-old boy who was shot and killed by a Sheriff’s Department deputy in February 2018, county leaders decided Tuesday... read more.
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Media Release | May 14
LASD has a long standing tradition in innovative programs to help curb the Mental Illness crisis. In November 1993, LASD was the first law enforcement agency to collaborate with the Department of Mental Health... read more.
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By Celeste Fremon | May 14
On Tuesday, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors directed the county’s Office of Diversion and Reentry to draft a plan for expanding the ODR’s innovative program designed to break the cycle of mental illness, incarceration, and homelessness... read more.
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By City News Service | May 14
LASD is on track to spend more than twice what it budgeted on overtime for the fiscal year set to end June 30, according to a report... read more.
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By Ruby Gonzalez | May 14
The L.A. County Board of Supervisors approved a $25,000 reward on Tuesday tied to last year's fatal stabbing of a retired nurse in a parking structure at a Rolling Hills Estates shipping center... read more.
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Media Release | May 14
The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion by Supervisors Kathryn Barger and Hilda Solis to help residents in the county’s unincorporated areas purchase home security systems with video doorbells which alerts the customer’s smart device when activated... read more.
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By Angela Caputo | May 14
When Tasers work, they can take a suspect down in seconds with a single electrical jolt, incapacitating without killing. That’s why the L.A. Police Department, which tested and pioneered the weapons, has embraced the handheld devices for nearly four decades... read more.
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By Jorge Luis Macias | May 14
Aunque funcionarios de las ciudad de Maywood no han discutido en el pleno del concilio la crisis política que vive el Departamento del Sheriff del condado de Los Ángeles, el alcalde Eddie De La Riva dijo sentirse ”preocupado”... read more.
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By City News Service | May 13
A woman whose teenage son was fatally struck by a ricocheting bullet when deputies fired at a dog that had attacked one of them in Palmdale reached a tentative settlement in her lawsuit against L.A. County... watch now.
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May 13
As L.A. County Sheriff Villanueva faces a crisis over his decision to hire back troubled deputies and his challenging of some policing reforms, he is getting pushback from some leaders in the cities his department patrols under contract, it was reported Monday.... read more.
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By Maya Lau & Mat Stiles | May 12
Sheriff Villanueva runs the nation’s largest jail system and patrols 4,000 square miles of the country’s most populous county. He’s also head of the police force for dozens of individual cities throughout the county that contract with his agency... read more.
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By Robert C. Bonner & James. R. Jones | May 10
Immigration has become such a partisan issue, it’s sometimes hard to separate fact from fiction. But here’s something that’s undeniably true: We have a dangerous crisis at our southern border... read more.
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By Taylor Walker | May 10
California Governor Gavin Newsom released his revised state budget, which plans for $213.5 billion in spending (2% more than his January budget proposal)... read more.
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By Araceli Martinez Ortega | May 9
Los líderes de la comunidad latina, que le apostaron con todo para que Villanueva se convirtiera en sheriff del condado de Los Ángeles... read more.
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By Anita Chabria | May 9
Brian Allen was driving home from work in July 2017 when he spotted someone from his days at Crenshaw High School. He stopped, they talked and he agreed to give the friend — an aspiring rapper with a criminal record — a ride... read more.
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By City News Service | May 8
The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department says it will not participate in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Warrant Service Officer Program... read more.
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Broadcast
Spectrum News 1 | May 14
Sheriff Villanueva is facing new pressure this time from cities who pay the department... watch now.
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By David Ono, ABC7 | May 8
The homeless crisis has sparked much debate about what to do about the widespread problem. It's an epidemic that's doubled in size in the last 4 years, and it's getting worse. To better understand the problem, experts say it's not the streets we should be looking at, but rather to jail... watch now.
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County of Los Angeles, Civilian Oversight Commission
Working to boost transparency and increase trust between communities and the LA County Sheriff’s Department, the Commission aims to provide robust opportunities for community engagement, ongoing analysis and oversight of the department's policies, practices, procedures, and advice to the Board of Supervisors, the Sheriff's Department and the public.
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