Peter Pitchess News Today

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna is being called on to both restore the Sheriff's Department and transform it. Those two missions are at odds.

As advocates and academics question the impact of flights over neighborhoods, police departments lack persuasive evidence of choppers' crime-fighting effectiveness.

A ballot measure that would give the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors the authority to remove a publicly elected sheriff from office for cause was being strongly supported by voters Tuesday evening.

Los Angeles County voters will decide today whether the Board of Supervisors should be granted the authority to remove a publicly elected sheriff from office for cause.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors wants voters to give them the power to overthrow a sheriff that the public chose to elect, "for cause." If approved by voters on Nov. 8, the measure would give the board the power to remove a sheriff on a four-fifths vote of the five-member panel.

As expected, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to place a measure on the November ballot that would give the board authority to remove a...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors gave preliminary approval Tuesday to an ordinance placing a measure on the November ballot that would give the panel authority to remove a publicly elected sheriff from office for cause.

After final approval in August, the measure, which would allow the LA County Board of Supervisors to remove an elected sheriff from office, would go on the November ballot.

LOS ANGELES—Sheriff Alex Villanueva called the county’s board of supervisors’ efforts unconstitutional and a "power grab" as officials ...

The LA County Board of Supervisors, which has repeatedly clashed with Sheriff Alex Villanueva on a variety of topics, directed its attorneys to draft a proposed ballot measure that would give the panel power to remove an elected sheriff from office for cause.