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Rina Palta
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L.A. County, looking for millions of dollars to fund its plan to eradicate homelessness, will likely turn to voters for a way to raise the cash.
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Voters in the city of L.A. approved a bond measure that will invest $1.2 billion to build new housing for the city's homeless. That's a first step, officials say.
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The number of defendants declared "incompetent to stand trial" due to mental illness on pace to hit 4500 this year. That's up from about 3500 last year.
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L.A. County is looking to beef up its apparatus for countering violent extremism by creating a unit to identify radicals behind bars.
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L.A. County Fire Department paramedics are exhausted after seeing a 32 percent increase in calls for emergency medical care over the past three years.
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Under a new county policy, homeless people who commit low-level crimes will be directed to shelters and mental health services. Arrests will be a last resort.
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An 11-year-old boy found dead in his mother's closet last week had been the subject of multiple reports to child welfare authorities.
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The state's auditor has found some foster kids in California are receiving high doses of psychotropic medications, without court approval.
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More women and families are showing up on their doorsteps of homeless shelters on Skid Row. Advocates say many are fleeing domestic violence.
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Federal prosecutors want former L.A. Sheriff Lee Baca to serve six months in prison. Defense attorneys argue his Alzheimer's and reformer legacy warrant a lighter sentence.
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Police Chief Charlie Beck had already recommended criminal charges for the officer who fatally shot 29-year-old Brendon Glenn. The Police Commission agreed with him.
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Tanaka faces up to 15 years in prison for participating in a cover-up meant to derail an FBI investigation into the sheriff's department.
