In a viral clip, the husband of the former Los Angeles District Attorney answered his front door with a handgun and pointed it at Black Lives Matter protesters.
Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey braces herself before she speaks to the media after her husband David Lacey aimed a gun at protesters who rang their doorbell at dawn on March 2, 2020. (Courthouse News photo / Nathan Solis)
LOS ANGELES (CN) A Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge on Thursday ordered David Lacey, husband of former LA District Attorney Jackie Lacey, to take anger management classes and sentenced him to 100 hours of community service for pointing a gun at Black Lives Matter protesters who knocked on his front door in March 2020.
The judge has already ordered the city and county of Los Angeles to house all homeless people by October and explain why a state of emergency has never been called to address the homelessness crisis.
This photo from March 10, 2020 shows tents and people in the downtown neighborhood referred to as Skid Row in the city of Los Angeles. (Courthouse News photo / Nathan Solis)
LOS ANGELES (CN) A federal judge on Tuesday denied a bid by Los Angeles County to toss a lawsuit seeking rapid housing and health care for homeless people, finding the county has mismanaged the homeless crisis and played a role in shaping it.
Promising a more aggressive approach, Newsom said the massive sum will create nearly 50,000 new homes and permanently keep families off California streets.
Speaking to reporters at a renovated hotel in San Diego that now houses dozens of formerly homeless people, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a plan to spend $12 billion to solve the Golden State’s homeless crisis.
(CN) With budget negotiations heating up, California Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday proposed pulling $12 billion from the state’s burgeoning surplus to create nearly 50,000 new homes for people living on the street.
From a renovated San Diego hotel now occupied by dozens of formerly unhoused people, Newsom acknowledged homelessness remains one of California’s biggest problems and daringly claimed the money would “end family homelessness” over the next five years.
In the yellow tier, Los Angeles and San Francisco counties can throw their economic doors farther open than has been permitted since March 2020.
Pedestrians walk through Los Angeles’ Chinatown on the same day the state announced the county will enter the least restrictive health tier since the Covid-19 pandemic began. (Courthouse News/ Nathan Solis)
LOS ANGELES (CN) The rate of new Covid-19 cases in Los Angeles and San Francisco counties dropped below an important threshold Tuesday, allowing them to enter the least restrictive health tier under the state’s guidelines.
Officials in both counties say new health orders allowing more businesses to reopen will take effect starting Thursday the largest reopening of their economies since the pandemic began.
Covid-19 deaths have dramatically decreased in the last few weeks, while over 8 million vaccine doses have been administered.
Los Angeles County opened Dodger Stadium as a mass-vaccination site on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021. (Courthouse News photo / Nathan Solis)
LOS ANGELES (CN) After weathering a devastating Covid-19 surge at the beginning of the year, Los Angeles County reported zero virus-related deaths for the second day in a row Monday.
Monday’s figures come with a caveat, however, due to the lag in data reported to the county health department over the weekend. The numbers will rise again Tuesday, LA County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said during a briefing Monday.