July 2025

Marking six months since the devasting January 2025 windstorm and wildfires, the Los Angeles County Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) is reaffirming its commitment to the region’s economic recovery by announcing the launch of a countywide public awareness campaign, “Shop Local. Dine Local. Recover Local.,” to support small and micro businesses reeling from the economic impacts, such as losses to property, revenue, and customers in fire impacted communities.  read more

On November 5, 2024, Measure E, a special funding measure for the County of Los Angeles Fire Department (LACoFD), was approved by voters. read more

Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (RR/CC) Dean C. Logan announced that the National Association of Counties (NACo) recognized the RR/CC for 11 innovative departmental programs across four categories — Information Technology, Planning, Personnel Management and Training, and Civic Education and Public Information.  read more

Los Angeles County leaders are announcing bold new steps to help those affected by the January wildfires, including lowering construction costs, cutting taxes for property owners, speeding up the rebuilding process and protecting communities from future fire danger as Los Angeles enters a new phase of community rebuilding.  read more

The Care First and Community Investment (CFCI) Advisory Committee is seeking recommendations from the community to allocate funding into projects that uplift the mission of CFCI and Measure J through direct community investment and alternatives to incarceration, especially in chronically under-resourced communities across Los Angeles County. read more

Seven members of a South American crime ring were charged with burglarizing two jewelry stores, stealing over $1 million in jewelry from a Glendale shop and disabling 911 and internet service to more than a million homes and hospitals during a La Verne break-in. read more

The Los Angeles County Probation Department has successfully completed the planned transfer of youth from Campus Kilpatrick to Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Hall, as part of the Department’s phased depopulation strategy for Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall. read more

A civilian contract tutor for incarcerated youth has been charged with multiple felonies for allegedly working with a young adult ward to smuggle a controlled substance into Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey. The ward has also been charged with a felony in connection with the case. read more

A jury convicted Ida Helen Brockman and her boyfriend, Malachi Xavier Whalen, of the torture and murder of Brockman’s 7-year-old daughter, A’Miya D., at their Hawthorne residence in September 2021. read more

The Los Angeles County Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO), in collaboration with the County Department of Health Services (DHS), City of Los Angeles, and local community partners, launched Economic Opportunity (EO) Days at the Skid Row Care Campus on June 26th. read more