News & Press Releases
Sacramento Bee
A top CalPERS official, suspended after being linked to the bribery scandal involving former board member Alfred Villalobos, quit the pension fund Thursday.
Newark Star-Ledger
Newark submitted a layoff plan to the state Civil Service Commission this week, taking a crucial step toward the biggest purge of workers the city has seen in decades.
ABC-7
Los Angeles police were writing a lot of tickets Friday, but it's not what you think.
LA Times
Justices say they must show the material they want exists to avoid a 'fishing expedition' and that they can be denied information from out-of-state law enforcement agencies that assisted prosecutors.
Torrance Daily Breeze
Nearly 80 parolees were arrested and more than 20 weapons seized during what was billed Thursday as the largest sweep of its kind in the history of Los Angeles County.
Salt Lake Tribune
The hunt for the man accused of murdering a Utah sheriff’s deputy resumed at dawn Friday as an army of 100 police officers cordoned an area of the rugged, high desert just south of the Utah-Arizona border.
LA Times blog
These are tough times for Dodgers owner Frank McCourt.
Patterico's Pontifications
I occasionally hear from critics who believe, despite my long years of service as cop in some of L.A.’s most troubled neighborhoods, that I’m a coward for choosing to use a pseudonym in my writing.
Oakland Tribune
Robberies and assaults rose 8.5 percent in a one-month period from July 13 to Aug. 13, a time when 80 police officers left the streets because of layoffs, according to statistics released Wednesday by the Oakland Police Officers Association.
LA Times
The sweep brings in 19 alleged gang members on federal charges, including murder, racketeering and drug manufacture. Ten others were arrested on state narcotics charges and more remain at large.
Citing the need to protect the Los Angeles Police Department's already strained budget from further cuts as a result of California's global warming law (AB 32), the Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL) today announced its support for Yes on 23, the California Jobs Initiative.
Associated Press
An estimated 17 million people have driven while drunk at least once on U.S. streets and highways in the course of a year, according to a government study released Wednesday.
Sacramento Bee
A volatile election year was probably the wrong time to propose a bill that would allow prison inmates sentenced to life terms without possibility of parole to petition for sentence modification.
Sacramento Bee
The Assembly voted today to reduce fines for motorists who failed to make complete stops before turning right on red lights.
San Diego Union-Tribune
The state’s plans to ship low-risk prisoners to local jails could cost counties revenue and are raising fears that inmates may be released early.
USA Today
Budget cuts are forcing police around the country to stop responding to fraud, burglary and theft calls as officers focus limited resources on violent crime.
LA Times blog
Health insurance firms would be barred from raising rates more than once a year under a measure approved Monday by state lawmakers in response to consumer complaints about rising costs.
Redlands Daily Facts
SAN BERNARDINO - Police officers could take longer to respond to emergency calls and spend less time investigating all but the most serious crimes - a result of new budget cuts that could reverse recent efforts to put more cops on the streets.
LA Times blog
Six Los Angeles city employee unions have blocked Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa from seeking to impose higher healthcare costs on its members, even as a seventh labor organization agreed to a wide range of concessions.
Sacramento Bee blog
The Senate unanimously approved a bill today targeting sex offenders convicted of crimes against minors.
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