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PPOA Joins Campaign to Recall DA George Gascón

PPOA Joins Campaign to Recall DA George Gascón

Posted on: March 11, 2022 | Categories: Public Safety News, PPOA News Spotlight

At this week’s Board meeting (3/9/22), the PPOA Board of Directors committed to joining the campaign to recall LA County District Attorney George Gascón. Following a presentation by a principal of the campaign at the Board meeting on Wednesday, PPOA joined a rapidly growing list of organizations and law enforcement associations who support the recall, […] Read More

Inmate Pleads No Contest in Attack on Custody Assistant

Inmate Pleads No Contest in Attack on Custody Assistant

Posted on: March 7, 2022 | Categories: Public Safety News

MyNewsLA.com  3/1/22 A jail inmate who was charged last year with punching a female custody assistant five times in an attack captured on video surveillance has been sentenced to six years in state prison. Arnulfo Meza, 30, pleaded no contest Monday to a felony count of assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury, […] Read More

New Court Proceedings Ordered for Man Convicted of Killing Off-Duty LASD Deputy

New Court Proceedings Ordered for Man Convicted of Killing Off-Duty LASD Deputy

Posted on: January 31, 2022 | Categories: Public Safety News

Long Beach Press Telegram  1/28/2022 https://www.presstelegram.com/2022/01/28/new-court-proceedings-ordered-for-man-convicted-of-off-duty-deputys-murder-in-long-beach/ A state appeals court panel ordered new court proceedings Friday for one of two men convicted of the murder of an off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy in Long Beach nearly 16 years ago. The ruling by a panel from California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal reversed a trial […] Read More

Pico Rivera Station Helps Honor 9/11 Victims at ‘Field of Healing’

Pico Rivera Station Helps Honor 9/11 Victims at ‘Field of Healing’

Posted on: September 29, 2021 | Categories: Public Safety News

Daily Bulletin https://www.whittierdailynews.com/2021/09/08/2977-american-flags-blanket-rose-hills-in-whittier-one-for-each-9-11-victim/ Three days before the 20th anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., Rose Hills Memorial Park and Mortuary in unincorporated north Whittier honored the victims with the help of about 60 first responders. Sheriff’s deputies, firefighters and others placed 2,977 American […] Read More

BOS Vaccination Mandates

BOS Vaccination Mandates

Posted on: August 13, 2021 | Categories: Public Safety News, PPOA News Spotlight, COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Updates

At the LA County Board of Supervisors’ (BOS) meeting on Tuesday (8/10/21), two items related to COVID-19 vaccination mandates were on the agenda. The first was the Executive Order mandating COVID-19 vaccines for all County employees, authored by the Board Chair, Supervisor Hilda Solis. The second was a motion authored by Supervisor Janice Hahn, also […] Read More

Driver Shot After Dragging LA County Deputy

Driver Shot After Dragging LA County Deputy

Posted on: August 12, 2021 | Categories: Public Safety News

https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article253435864.html Sacramento Bee / August 12, 2021 A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a driver whose car dragged a deputy during a chase Wednesday, authorities said. The man died at the scene at around 12:15 p.m. at Interstate 5 in the unincorporated Gorman area northwest of Los Angeles, according to a Sheriff’s […] Read More

Thirty-seven U.S. Police Officers Murdered in First Five Months of 2021

Thirty-seven U.S. Police Officers Murdered in First Five Months of 2021

Posted on: July 8, 2021 | Categories: Public Safety News

NBCNews.com June 16, 2021, 10:24 AM PDT By Ken Dilanian WASHINGTON — With violent crime on the upswing across the nation, the number of police officers who have died violently in the line of duty is also spiking. FBI Director Christopher Wray highlighted the issue in an appearance Tuesday before the House Oversight Committee. Wray said a […] Read More

LA County Seeks Alternatives to Deputies on Campuses

LA County Seeks Alternatives to Deputies on Campuses

Posted on: June 8, 2021 | Categories: Public Safety News

MyNewsLA.COM: 6/8/21: The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to collect more data on the effect of having sheriff’s deputies on local school campuses, even as some school districts pushed back against changes. On a 3-2 vote, the board also took back its authority to negotiate contracts for these services, rather than […] Read More

Five LASD Deputies Hospitalized After Hazmat Situation

Five LASD Deputies Hospitalized After Hazmat Situation

Posted on: May 10, 2021 | Categories: Public Safety News

KTLA.COM https://ktla.com/news/local-news/5-l-a-county-sheriffs-deputies-hospitalized-after-hazmat-situation-in-pico-rivera/ by: Cindy Von Quednow, additional reporting by Sofia Pop Posted: May 10, 2021 / 03:23 PM PDT / Updated: May 10, 2021 / 03:29 PM PDT Five deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department were hospitalized following a hazmat situation in Pico Rivera Monday afternoon, officials said. The incident was reported about 12:50 p.m. along the 8000 block […] Read More

Three SoCal City Councils Issue ‘No Confidence’ Votes to DA Gascon

Three SoCal City Councils Issue ‘No Confidence’ Votes to DA Gascon

Posted on: May 3, 2021 | Categories: Public Safety News

Symbolic votes in La Mirada, Whittier, and Lancaster suggest discontent with the progressive prosecutor’s policies By Ian Spiegelman, Los Angeles Magazine   https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/no-confidence-vote-george-gascon/ April 28, 2021   On Tuesday, city councils in Lancaster, La Mirada, and Whittier approved votes of “no confidence” in L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón. The votes are symbolic and not […] Read More

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