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The panel also sought to turn up the heat on Sheriff Alex Villanueva by asking county lawyers to seek all legal remedies to force him to also testify about the investigations.
A watchdog panel that oversees the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department voted Thursday to ask county attorneys to determine whether Sheriff Alex Villanueva or his agency broke the law in their handling of a special unit that has been accused of targeting some of his most outspoken critics.
AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File Sheriff Villanueva is doing the Lord’s work in Los Angeles County. A County and state where actual work by elected officials has all but been abandoned. We have the Mayor of its most populous city, who long ago abdicated his duties, now escaping them permanently to take an ambassadorship. We have a city council with several members trying to take that mayoral spot with nothing to show for their record except crime-ridden districts and craven ambition. And you have a County Board of Supervisors who are trying to get to their next high-paying political appoint...
News from the May 19, 1892 edition of The Ionia Daily Sentinel.
The Greatest Sheriff in America Details THE CITY--Norman Mailer famously said, "If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist." Shia Labeouf had apparently been studying Robert Faturechi, an LA Times reporter covering the American Civil Liberties Union's findings about excessive force in the county jail, for a role that he was going to play in The Company You Keep. Faturechi wore a thin necktie and a distinctive noirish trench coat, perhaps ...