Robin Limon News Today

The evidence is "inconclusive and suggests the amount of force used was not excessive,” according to the DA's memo on the decision.

Sheriff Alex Villanueva has been sued by yet another sheriff's department employee, this time by a secretary who alleges her civil rights were violated when the sheriff blocked a promotion for which she was entitled because she supported a rival candidate in the June primary.

Sheriff Alex Villanueva responded Tuesday to the latest whistleblower case brought against him as well as  Los Angeles County, calling a sheriff's lieutenant's allegation Villanueva quashed an investigation into a police dog's death part of "yet another frivolous lawsuit."

A Los Angeles county sheriff’s lieutenant was charged Wednesday with domestic battery and false imprisonment for an incident involving his wife in Beverly Hills a year ago.

A retired Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department chief Monday sued the county and Sheriff Alex Villanueva, the latest of several department members to claim Villanueva directed a coverup of a video of a deputy with his knee on the head of a man in custody for three minutes.

Robin Limon's lawsuit against Alex Villanueva and the Sheriff's Department alleges she was demoted for complaining about a deputy kneeling on an inmate's head.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department responded Thursday to a lawsuit filed against the county and Sheriff Alex Villanueva by a former assistant sheriff, stating that her retaliation claim and other allegations are untrue and will be fought in court.

In the videotaped incident, a deputy subdued an inmate by kneeling on his head for three minutes.

A grand jury will investigate how the L.A. County Sheriff's Department handled an incident in which a deputy kneeled on a handcuffed inmate’s head for 3 minutes.

The sheriff’s wife, a former deputy, has carved out an influential role within her husband’s inner circle, officials in the department said.