LA County Sheriffs Department

Apr 12 2013

Did sheriff’s officials obstruct FBI investigation?

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca is scheduled to be interviewed today by federal prosecutors examining allegations of abusive conduct by sheriff’s deputies at L.A. County jails and other problems in his department, although the sheriff says he is not an investigation target, a newspaper reported.

Nov 15 2012

Provides residents with inside look at the sheriff's department

PALMDALE, Calif. — The 27th Community Academy of Antelope Valley graduated 39 participants at a ceremony attended by officials from the Palmdale and Lancaster sheriff's stations as well as city and county officials.

The 11-week program is designed to provide residents with an inside look at the sheriff's department. The graduation was held last night.

Mar 1 2012

One African American inmate left dead

Jury deliberations will continue in the trial of Donald Bottoms, Christopher Shrauger, Steven Burns and Christopher Crews, four inmates charged with murder and conspiracy in a race riot that left a Black inmate dead at a county jail facility in Castaic recently. Four other inmates, David Reynoso, Osbaldo Valenzuela, Enrique Reyes and Andres Madrigal, are also charged.

Juliana D. Norwood  |   OW Staff Writer
Jan 5 2012

Two killed; five injured

Another round of senseless shootings recently erupted in the South Central Los Angeles area, taking the lives of two and injuring five others.

A 17-year-old victim was taken to the hospital in critical condition on Dec. 29 when a passenger in a brown Buick ran up and shot him in the neck at 53rd Street at Normandie Avenue about 10 a.m., according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Sep 23 2011

Handguns, rifles and shotguns confiscated

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Twenty-two people were in custody today after hundreds of investigators raided 32 locations in seven Southland cities in a multi-agency operation targeting rival Compton gang members, authorities said.

The raids, involving more than 300 members of the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department, were carried out early Thursday by investigators assigned to the department’s Operations Safe Streets Bureau, said sheriff’s Lt. Richard Westin.

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.