Screenshot of Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s press conference on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020.
LOS ANGELES (CN) --- Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva may still face a subpoena from the county’s inspector general over his knowledge of “deputy gangs” within his department, but a judge ruled Tuesday he can first challenge it on grounds of legitimacy or overbreadth.
Villanueva had asked the court to step in and block the subpoena because sitting for an interview would take away too much time from his duties as an elected official. But Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James Chalfant wrote in a tentative ruling that sitting for interviews with the inspector general is part of the sheriff's job.