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By Mark McDermott Supervisor Jance Hahn no longer represents the Beach Cities after the County of Los Angele completed its citizen-led redistricting process.

The County of Los Angeles, in partnership with the Vera Institute of Justice, has published an online decarceration dashboard which provides a visual breakdown and analysis of the County’s jail population on a daily basis. The goal of this dashboard is to help policymakers, advocates, and academics better understand the makeup and changes in the population of people in LA County jails in order to craft public policy to safely reduce the jail population.

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Board of Supervisors, Led by Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell, Make Strides Towards Justice Reform By Sentinel News Service Holly Mitchell (File photo) The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell’s motion to create a plan for strengthening investments in the County’s justice system by ensuring Public Defender’s have the budgeted resources and staffing capacity to sustainably address its case backlog as a result of COVID-19 and provide legal re...

By City News Service May 7, 2021 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Three new COVID-19 vaccination sites are scheduled to open next week at Metro transit stations located in areas hard hit by the virus, Metro announced. Thursdays announcement comes as the county is scaling down its large-scale vaccination sites while also stepping up outreach efforts in communities where inoculations have lagged. The new sites are scheduled to open Tuesday at the C Lines (Green) Crenshaw/105 Station in Hawthorne; the Harbor ...

Metro said the sites are designed for walk-ups and are a short walk from each train station. "The end of the pandemic is within our grasp, but we can only keep making progress if we make life-saving vaccines accessible to all residents, regardless of their zip code," said Los Angeles Mayor and Metro Board Chair Eric Garcetti. "By bringing these new vaccination clinics to Metro transit stations in our hardest-hit communities, we can ensure no Angeleno is left behind on our road to recovery" Vacc...

By City News Service May 7, 2021 LOS ANGELES (CNS) - Three new COVID-19 vaccination sites are scheduled to open next week at Metro transit stations located in areas hard hit by the virus, Metro announced. Thursdays announcement comes as the county is scaling down its large-scale vaccination sites while also stepping up outreach efforts in communities where inoculations have lagged. The new sites are scheduled to open Tuesday at the C Lines (Green) Crenshaw/105 Station in Hawthorne; the Harbor ...

LA Recusals, Public Comment, and Other Musings Details LOS ANGELES- Metro: Thanks to the LA Metro records team for providing the AT&T invoices for teleconferencing service for metro meetings.  Weve been paying $386/hour for speaker sub/conference administration management and $309/hour for an Event Producer on meeting days. Thats $695/hour to put on a conference call.    Bonin who loves pumping NextGen Bus service and fareless anything told the board when he ...

Supervisor Holly Mitchell Takes Historical Seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors By Danny J. Bakewell, Jr. – Executive Editor Published December 10, 2020 As the newest member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Holly Mitchell completes the historical all-female Board of Supervisors. For years, the members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors were known as “The Five Kings,” a title used to describe the powerful all-male Board of Supervisors, which remain...