Frank Stoltze
Reporter at KPCC-FM (Pasadena, CA)
Correspondent covering the L.A. area, with a focus on criminal justice and politics for @NPR Station @KPCC 89.3FM, @LAist et al. Member @nlgja DM news tips.
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3 weeks ago |
laist.com | Frank Stoltze
Only 7% of LAist readers currently donate to fund our journalism. Help raise that number, so our nonprofit newsroom stays strong in the face of federal cuts. Donate now. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass signed a $13 billion budget that includes hundreds of layoffs, cuts to city services, and closes a nearly billion-dollar deficit brought on by increased expenses and lowered revenues. In a statement, Bass said a deal struck with City Council members would restore LAPD hiring levels.
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3 weeks ago |
laist.com | Frank Stoltze
Only 7% of LAist readers currently donate to fund our journalism. Help raise that number, so our nonprofit newsroom stays strong in the face of federal cuts. Donate now. Federal officers conducted a series of immigration sweeps across Los Angeles on Friday, prompting anger and resistance from onlookers and immigrant rights groups that have braced for this type of action for months.
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1 month ago |
laist.com | Frank Stoltze
A congressmember from California on Tuesday urged the head of the Federal Communications Commission to move forward with a plan to implement a new wireless emergency system across the country that would alert people in multiple languages. U.S. Rep.
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1 month ago |
laist.com | Frank Stoltze
The Los Angeles City Council on Thursday voted, 12-3, to approve a revised budget that reduces the number of layoffs proposed by Mayor Karen Bass — in part by shrinking the size of the Police Department. The plan averts 1,000 layoffs, lowering the number of city workers who will lose their jobs to 650. Bass, facing a nearly $1 billion deficit, had proposed 1,647 layoffs that she acknowledged would have resulted in a reduction in a wide range of city services.
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1 month ago |
laist.com | Frank Stoltze
The backstory: In February, a jury found L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy Trevor Kirk guilty of one felony count of deprivation of rights under color of law in connection with his 2023 arrest of a woman in Lancaster. Videotape shows Kirk punching and pepper spraying Jacy Houseton as she uses her cell phone video camera to capture the arrest of a man. The maximum sentence for such a conviction is 10 years in federal prison.
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