Annie Gilbertson

L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva acknowledged earlier this year that public records requests were 'stacking up.'

I'm an investigative reporter and host of KPCC's podcast "Repeat."

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department holds tremendous power to accuse and arrest and is responsible for the wellbeing of those in its jail system, the largest in the nation. Here's what happened when we asked for records about those activities.

The Downey Police Officer's Association has taken an aggressive strategy, asking the court to order Downey to destroy records older than five years.

A Los Angeles County judge dealt a significant blow to efforts by police unions trying to block the release of records of their members past conduct.

Even as a new law went into effect to open up long sealed records, a law firm representing police unions quietly mounted a coordinated challenge. They argue the law doesn't apply retroactively.

Officers arrived within minutes of reports of a shooting at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks. A speedy response is considered critical in mass shootings. But after one their own was shot at the scene, everything slowed down as authorities changed tactics.

Ian David Long was a decorated veteran who served a tour in Afghanistan. On Wednesday night, Long walked into the Borderline Bar and Grill armed with a handgun shortly after 11:20 p.m. and started shooting.

An inmate letter accuses the Orange County Sheriff's Department of keeping inmates in isolation cells for months and even years. The sheriff's department says it's not its policy to keep people in prolonged isolation. It's the second hunger strike over jail conditions this year.

John Cox and his allies have attacked his opponents on the campaign trail for their marital infidelities. Court records show the Republican vying to be California's next governor faced accusations of his own during his divorce from his first wife.