Individuals in Los Angeles County’s jails and juvenile halls and camps are housed in dense quarters with reduced access to hand sanitizer and soap, making it more difficult to practice good hygiene and social distancing while in detention. This could make pregnant incarcerated women, individuals with underlying medical conditions, and older adults with compromised immune [...]
For the first time in decades, there is consensus among advocates, health care and social services providers, elected officials and those directly affected to adopt a 'care first, jail last' approach when it comes to criminal justice. A report produced by the Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI) workgroup lists 114 recommendations, organized under five overarching strategies, [...]
People who have been convicted of a crime and are striving to move forward with their lives often face fines and fees on top of their sentence, well after serving time in jail or prison. These criminal fines and fees disproportionately harm low-income people who are leaving the criminal justice system and are trying to [...]
Hate crimes in Los Angeles County increased in 2018, reaching their highest level in nearly a decade, according to an annual report by the County’s Commission on Human Relations. With 521 cases, LA County has seen five consecutive years of rising acts of hate reported against African Americans, the LGBTQ+ community, Jews, and Latinos. In [...]
LOS ANGELES, CA- Under California law, LA County must produce a balanced budget. However, the Acting Auditor-Controller recently reported that the Sheriff’s Department has an unprecedented deficit of $63.4 million, exponentially higher than any time in the last five years. In response, today the Board of Supervisors voted to approved a motion authored by Los [...]
“LA County is required under state law to produce a balanced budget. When a County Department is struggling with their budget, it is that Department’s responsibility to communicate and work hand-in-hand with the CEO and the Board of Supervisors so that we can work together to address the issues before the end of the fiscal [...]
Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis released the following statement after the Board of Supervisors passed a motion 3-2, with Supervisor Solis voting against the motion, to have LA County file or join an amicus brief that would reverse the 9th Circuit Court’s decision in Martin v. City of Boise, which prevents local governments and [...]
Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis released the following statement after the Board of Supervisors passed her motion to study the feasibility of creating a new Civil Defense Unit within the Office of the Public Defender, with a report back to the Board within 120 days with recommendations: “Many public defender offices around [...]
LOS ANGELES, CA- For years, Los Angeles County has worked towards modernizing its approach to criminal justice, but this effort lacked the data needed to properly right-size this project and ensure that resources were allocated properly. On February 12, 2019, the LA County Board of Supervisors authorized a Design-Build contract with McCarthy Building Companies for [...]
La Supervisora del Condado de Los Ángeles, Hilda L. Solis, dio a conocer la siguente declaración sobre su votó de "No" sobre los fondos de $30 millones para un Centro de Tratamiento de Salud Mental, también conocido como el nuevo plan de la Cárcel del Condado de Los Ángeles, durante las deliberaciones presupuestarias de hoy: [...]
