For nearly five hours Friday, the Civilian Oversight Commission grilled two former members of a secretive unit within the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department accused of targeting former Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s foes. The controversial — and now disbanded — Civil Rights and Pu...
Phil Ritter was disturbed by the mass sterilization. He went to the Marin County sheriff’s office, thinking, “Surely there had to be a law against that sort of thing.” There wasn’t. The authorities informed Synanon attorneys, who told Ritter not to come back, leaving his wife and chi...
The 65-member Police Department has been marred by allegations of misconduct and distracted by internal investigations. The city hired Reed, a retired Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department captain, to investigate former members of the Crime Impact Team, an elite force created in 1990 to handle ...
Kevin Federline, the boys’ father, reported the incident to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department, requesting a restraining order and accusing his ex-father-in-law of child abuse. Judge Penny appointed professional fiduciary Jodi Montgomery as Britney’s temporary personal conservator, replacing ...
Glendale police spokeswoman Sgt. Diane Phillips said Wednesday that the department will not comment on the case or the settlement. The cash settlement will come out of the city’s general fund for salary benefits, the worker’s compensation fund and the liability insurance reserve fund, said Assi...
Hankla urged rejection of the latter course because he said the bill’s passage is uncertain. Even if it passes, he said, that money should be used to provide employee salary increases not included in his current budget plan. Using the construction and Marina del Rey funds, meanwhile, will ...
Melinda Hearne, a homicide detective for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and one of two women in the posse, said that community service is the prime motivation of most reserves. “We all enjoy horses and like the idea of doing something that is useful and functional,” said Hea...
“Norm started yelling: ‘Let’s shoot up the Sheriff’s Department,’” Sessions said. “It was close enough to Jonestown that some of us were pretty scared. Energy was running very high, and I don’t know what could have happened. Norm finally stopped yelling because he was pretty drun...
LOS ANGELES —The County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a new contract for sheriff’s deputies that calls for a 9% raise over three years. The supervisors unanimously approved the contract, which includes an unprecedented bonus to reward deputies who remain in patrol jobs rather than se...
“There may be some real advantages in terms of cost to disbanding the city’s Police Department and hiring Ventura County sheriff’s deputies to patrol the streets instead,” Stratton said Tuesday in an interview. He said he will bring the issue up for discussion at the City Council meeting...