Board Approves Sheriff's Oversight
Board Approves Sheriff's Oversight

Board Approves Sheriff's Oversight

After two years of debate, discussion and impassioned testimony from residents, reform advocates and former jail inmates, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to establish a citizen’s oversight commission for the Sheriff’s Department.

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Reward in Calvin Gray Case
Reward in Calvin Gray Case

Reward in Calvin Gray Case

Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and the Professional Peace Officers Association are offering a $30,000 reward in the case of Sheriff’s Department Security Officer Calvin Gray who was shot to death in July while off duty as he dropped his son off at a relative’s home in the Vermont Knolls community of Los Angeles.

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Harbor-UCLA Hosts Disaster Preparedness Fair

Harbor-UCLA Hosts Disaster Preparedness Fair

Elvia Elizabeth Figueroa has lived through many earthquakes in her native Honduras. But as she recently visited Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance with her 8-year-old granddaughter Angie, she realized that she was not prepared for the next big one.

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MLK Mental Health Urgent Care Center Celebration

MLK Mental Health Urgent Care Center Celebration

Jo Helen Graham’s son Mark was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia when he was 15 years old. Despite his parents’ efforts to find him ongoing treatment, little has been available to address his mental illness and he has suffered.

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