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Frank Stoltze
What I cover
I cover how well democracy is working, how various social and political movements seek to improve the lives of Angelenos and how national conversations are affecting local decision making.
My background
I arrived in L.A. in 1991, the year four LAPD officers beat Rodney King and a year before the riots/rebellion. I’ve covered everything from fires and floods to police corruption and political scandal. My work has been recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists, the L.A. Press Club and the Associated Press.
My goals
I seek to listen to a wide variety of community voices as I hold powerful people accountable and to reveal how seemingly small policy changes have large-scale ripple effects on the people of L.A.
Best way to reach me
I would love to hear your feedback, questions and ideas. You can reach me by email at fstoltze@laist.com, or if you have a tip you’d like to share more privately, you can reach me on Signal. My username is @frankstoltze.
Stories by Frank Stoltze
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If successful, Eric Strong, a nearly 30-year veteran of law enforcement, would become L.A. County's first Black sheriff.
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The Torrance police chief says the all the officers had been exchanging racist, homophobic and anti-Semitic messages.
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I asked a man with a bloody bandage on his head for an interview. He declined. When I tried to ask if he would speak anonymously, the men with him assaulted me.
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Drones became part of SWAT’s arsenal in 2019, but the department has used them very sparingly.
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The deputies — shot and wounded in their parked car last year — are suing the manufacturer of the "ghost gun" used by the man charged with attacking them.
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In a highly unusual move, Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Monday that his office has filed voluntary manslaughter charges against Salvador Sanchez for the off-duty killing of a man who had intellectual disabilities inside a Corona Costco in June 2019.
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Facing an Oct. 27 deadline, the recall campaign has collected less than one-third of the nearly 580,000 signatures it needs — and by its own estimation it will need 800,000 signatures, since a certain portion are typically rejected.
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The families of Kisha Michael and Marquintan Sandlin still hope to see the Inglewood police officers who shot them face criminal prosecution.
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A lawsuit has been filed by the family of a man fatally shot by an L.A. sheriff's deputy who mistook the black COVID mask he was holding for a gun.
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An independent discipline panel and a demand for access to all body worn camera video: L.A. Supervisors seek ways to force oversight on a recalcitrant Sheriff Villanueva.
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The L.A. Congresswoman wants the U.S. Department of Justice to look into allegations that a deputies' clique is operating out of the Sheriff's Department's Compton station.
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The Sheriff’s department has opened criminal investigations into two key watchdogs and has investigated a former department official who played a role in disciplining deputies. Villanueva defends the inquiries as proper.
