Sheriff Alex Villanueva and former Long Beach Police Chief Robert Luna squared off Wednesday in the first one-on-one debate for the top law enforcement position in Los Angeles County.
Vanessa Bryant testified that first responders who took photos of her dead 13-year-old daughter Gianna "violated" the girl, and said she was "devastated" to learn that such images were snapped in spite of Sheriff Alex Villanueva assuring her the crash scene would be secured.
Los Angeles-based educational technology developer GoGuardian announced today that it has added Elisa Villanueva, the CEO of Teach for America, to its board of directors. Villanueva was named co-CEO of
possibility is out there. her attorney louis lee made an opening statement today. really describing that emotional distress as saying that the deputies should not have been taking these photos. it was no part of their job duties. and that he claims the l.a. county s chief, villanueva, really swept this under the rug. ask these deputies to delete the photos. did not do a thorough forensic exam of the devices. did not check if they were uploaded to the cloud. and did not discipline these deputies. it s so important think. about the point you raised, this allegation, this was not part of some official investigation or part of the regular course of investigative proceedings. what has l.a. county said about this? how they responded to the allegations? l.a. county does say that taking photos of a site like that is part of their job. and they described, for example, one of the deputies being the first person to have made it up the hill to that crash site.