Keri Blakinger

1 week ago | latimes.com | Keri Blakinger

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spent $458 million on overtime during the last fiscal year, a ballooning figure that department officials say is driven by rising vacancy rates, increasing labor costs and expanding responsibilities. County data show that the number of new deputies hired each year plummeted during the COVID-19 pandemic and has not fully recovered. At the same time, the number of deputies leaving the department rose, only returning to pre-pandemic levels last year.

1 week ago | swoknews.com | Keri Blakinger

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spent $458 million on overtime during the last fiscal year, a ballooning figure that department officials say is driven by rising vacancy rates, increasing labor costs and expanding responsibilities. County data show that the number of new deputies hired each year plummeted during the COVID-19 pandemic and has not fully recovered.

1 week ago | dailyitem.com | Keri Blakinger

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spent $458 million on overtime during the last fiscal year, a ballooning figure that department officials say is driven by rising vacancy rates, increasing labor costs and expanding responsibilities. County data show that the number of new deputies hired each year plummeted during the COVID-19 pandemic and has not fully recovered.

1 week ago | latimes.com | Keri Blakinger |Beth Schwartzapfel |Shannon Heffernan

William Marshall speaks during a West Virginia legislative meeting in December 2023. President Trump is appointing Marshall to head the Federal Bureau of Prisons. William “Billy” Marshall, the relatively unknown head of the West Virginia corrections department, has been selected to lead the troubled federal Bureau of Prisons, a Trump administration choice that took advocates for federal prison staff and incarcerated people aback Friday.

2 weeks ago | latimes.com | Keri Blakinger

A lieutenant at the Palmdale station announced this week that he will challenge Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna in the primary election, becoming the first opposition candidate in a race more than a year away. At a campaign kick-off event Wednesday in Santa Clarita, Lt. Oscar Martinez promised to bring strong leadership to the largest sheriff’s department in country, along with a focus on modernizing the agency and supporting deputies.