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.
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La Mirada Approves Vote of No Confidence for Gascon
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BY TAMMYE MCDUFF • April 30, 2021
This past Tuesday, April 27, Deputy DA and prosecutor Jonathan Hatami announced city leaders from La Mirada and Whittier voted for “no confidence” in DA George Cason’s policies.
These cities join Beverly Hills, Pico Rivera and Santa Clarita who have already voted no confidence in Gascon’s reform policies.
The cities of Norwalk and Santa Fe Springs are said to be considering the same vote at their next council meetings.
Gascon began pushing to eliminate all ‘special allegations‘ making approximately 20,000 inmates eligible for re-sentencing.
On his first day of the job, Gascon issued a number of directives stating that these special enhancements lead to mass incarceration.
LA Sheriff says he has NO working relationship with new DA and said his reforms embolden the antifa, anarchist crowd as city braces for BLM demonstrations
LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva says he s had only one phone call with new DA George Gascón since he took office in December
The DA took office promising many reforms to the justice system but already has been slapped down in the courts and faces a recall effort
Villanueva says the lack of a prosecutorial fist emboldens violent demonstrators and criminals
The sheriff is worried about whether violent protesters will face appropriate consequences as the city braces for demonstrations
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On March 1, 2021, the Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District ruled in favor of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (the “Department”) officials who halted outdoor dining in November 2020 during a spike in COVID-19 cases.
After the Department announced a ban on all outdoor dining, the California Restaurant Association (“CRA”) filed a lawsuit. State Court Judge James Chalfant initially ruled in favor of the CRA on December 8, 2020, and held that the Department acted arbitrarily and failed to perform the required risk-benefit analysis before issuing the ban. Judge Chalfant noted that the Department had not presented any scientific studies tying outdoor dining to increased transmission risk.