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Oversight officials say the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department is blocking access to some shootings by deputies, despite state laws that authorize them to conduct meaningful investigations.
Former Sheriff Alex Villanueva has registered a 2026 election campaign committee.
Three deputies were killed Friday in an explosion at the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department’s Biscailuz Center Training Academy in East L.A., the deadliest incident for the agency in more than 160 years.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said Thursday that the law requires inmates be turned over to ICE when a federal judge issues a warrant, but the department also continues to follow ‘sanctuary’ policies and does not cooperate on civil immigration enforcement.
The U.S. Justice Department asked California counties to provide lists of all non-U.S. citizen inmates in their jails, ratcheting up the Trump administration’s challenge to sanctuary policies.
The L.A. County County Sheriff’s Department has started transferring inmates from its jails to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the first time in years via a legal avenue not barred by local sanctuary policies that aim to shield people from deportation.
Federal prosecutors said two deputies have admitted that they committed criminal acts in connection with their side hustles as private security for a Southern California cryptocurrency mogul who referred to himself as “the Godfather.”
Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies beat Joseph Perez so badly that he needed more than 30 stitches and staples to his face and head. But despite a subpoena and an ongoing legal battle, obtaining a complete account of what happened has proved impossible — at least so far.
Watchdogs say efforts to bring reforms and transparency to the Sheriff’s Department are being stymied while county officials claim fresh perspectives are needed on the Civilian Oversight Commission.
Diana Teran and her legal team had long argued that the records she was using were public court records, and she was simply sending them to a colleague as part of a D.A.’s office effort to track cops with disciplinary histories.
