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One prosecuted a man shot by an ICE officer in South L.A. The other missed court deadlines in another man's detention case.
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The family of Leonel Chavez, 24, plans to file a wrongful death lawsuit; the CHP has provided very few details about the incident.
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Mona Rodriguez, 18, was hospitalized Monday after she was shot by a school officer employed by Millikan High School in Long Beach.
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Deputies in California’s Antelope Valley are disproportionately citing Black teens, often for minor infractions, like getting in fights or smoking. “They’re turning the principal’s office into the police station,” said one lawyer.
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The Sheriff’s Department partly blames a spike in COVID-19 cases. But experts say another part of the problem is the ever-increasing number of people with mental health disorders in L.A.’s jails.
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The move follows former DA Jackie Lacey's dismissal of 66,000 old pot convictions last year.
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The panel also sought to turn up the heat on Sheriff Alex Villanueva by asking county lawyers to seek all legal remedies to force him to also testify about the investigations.
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The sheriff said a recent RAND report overstates any problem with deputy cliques, saying, “It is a problem of perception, but not reality."
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Sheriff's Capt. Britta Steinbrenner, a 34-year agency veteran, says it's time to end "the good old boys club" at the department.
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If Sheriff Alex Villanueva is a no-show Thursday as he has stated, it will mark the fourth time he has defied subpoenas from the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission and the Office of Inspector General.
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L.A. voters gave the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission subpoena power; Villanueva has not once complied.
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After videos surfaced of an L.A. Sheriff's deputy body slamming a 16-year old Black student, community activists want Lancaster High School to sever ties with the department.
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Huntington Beach has partnered with a nonprofit provider that sends out two-person teams of crisis counselors to a range of calls involving non-violent mental health and substance use crises.
