NEWS RELEASES

The Los Angeles County Probation Department received funds for an intensive probation supervision program for high-risk DUI offenders with multiple DUI convictions.

On Wednesday, October 26, 2022, the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control (DACC) served a search warrant at an animal rescue facility in Littlerock, CA resulting to the confiscation of 195 cats and 43 dogs, including six dead animals.

The Los Angeles County Probation Department’s largest class of officer recruits in two years will begin its formal academy training today, representing the first wave of what will eventually be 150 new hires intended to address chronic staffing shortages in the County’s two juvenile halls.

Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (RR/CC) Dean C. Logan announced that 118 Vote Centers are now open in the 2022 General Election. 

A woman who stopped an international kidnapping, another who risked her job to hold a company accountable for wage theft, and a neighbor who sheltered a family under attack from their father were honored today by Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón.

The Los Angeles County Office of Immigrant Affairs (OIA), in the Department of Consumer and Business Affairs (DCBA), celebrates National Immigrants Day on Friday, October 28, 2022, by recognizing 10 immigrant-focused Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) that are receiving capacity-strengthening grants made possible by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).

Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (RR/CC) Dean C. Logan announced Information Security Officer Daniel Temisanren was awarded the prestigious Top Global CISO for 2022 at the Cyber Defense Con 2022 and the California Information Security Leadership Award at the California Cybersecurity Education Summit.

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) today continued its push toward food equity in Los Angeles County by convening the second annual Food Day Summit, “Road to Food Justice: Learning from the Past, Navigating the Future.”

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) is celebrating California’s Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, October 23-29 with free lead testing in East Los Angeles.

Today is the deadline for residents in California to register online to vote in November’s general election.

Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (RR/CC) Dean C. Logan reminds eligible voters that the last day to register and be mailed a Vote by Mail ballot for the 2022 General Election is today at 11:59 PM.

To help you stay healthy this season, LA County Library is partnering with LA County Department of Public Health to provide free flu vaccines, COVID-19 vaccines, and updated bivalent boosters (which protects against both the original Coronavirus strain and the newer Omicron strains) to people 6 months of age and older, no health insurance required.

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH) has confirmed the first eight cases of avian flu in Los Angeles County, including three Canada Geese and a Black-crowned Night Heron in Long Beach, three Canada Geese in the City of Los Angeles and one Canada Goose in Cerritos.

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH) has confirmed the first eight cases of avian flu in Los Angeles County, including three Canada Geese and a Black-crowned Night Heron in Long Beach, three Canada Geese in the City of Los Angeles and one Canada Goose in Cerritos.

County programs that focused on providing call centers to more than two million residents during the COVID-19 pandemic, provided justice involved individuals with career path employment, housed unaccompanied children from the southwest border and addressed the issue of child trafficking took home the prestigious Gold, Silver and Bronze Eagle Awards at the 35th Annual Productivity and Quality Awards (PQA) ceremony held in-person on Wednesday, October 12 at the Music Center.

A first-of-its-kind fleet of full-service medical clinics on wheels will begin making daily stops at homeless encampments throughout Los Angeles County today to address urgent health and social needs among people experiencing homelessness.

On September 20, 2022, the Ugandan Ministry of Health confirmed an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) (Sudan virus) in the Mubende District in western Uganda. Out of an abundance of caution, last week, the Federal Government announced that it will reroute all travelers who have been to Uganda during the past 21 days, the incubation period for the virus, through five US airports: JFK (NYC), Newark (NJ), Dulles (Washington DC), O’Hare (Chicago), and Hartsfield (Atlanta).

On Saturday, October 8th, the Los Angeles County Department of Military & Veterans Affairs (MVA) will air the first of six radio shows entitled You’ve Served, You’ve Earned on Talk Radio 790 KABC as part of an extensive media campaign to educate the many underserved veterans and their families in LA County.

The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk (RR/CC) begins mailing Vote by Mail ballots to all registered voters for the 2022 General Election.

The Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation is doubling down on its commitment to LA County youth by expanding its successful Lifeguard Ready Training (LRT) program. LRT prepares youth and young adults ages 16 to 24 with the skills necessary to become a Los Angeles County Swimming Pool Lifeguard

On Tuesday, October 6, 2022, The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved the Fiscal Year 2022-23 Supplemental Budget, expanding recreational opportunities and programming in County of Los Angeles Parks, with critical investments in our most vulnerable communities.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors today awarded $144 million in Safe Clean Water funding, including 24 new infrastructure projects, 17 scientific studies, and various watershed area resources designed to increase the region’s water resiliency.

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón announced today that an executive with a Michigan-based company responsible for the software used in managing Los Angeles County election poll workers has been arrested as part of an investigation into the possible theft of personal identifying information of those workers.

Starting in the Fall of 2020, the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture and the Los Angeles County Office of Violence Prevention housed in the Department of Public Health embarked on a landmark project to record the intensely personal stories of a diverse group of residents whose lives have been directly affected by violence.

Public Health has expanded eligibility to the monkeypox vaccine to closely align with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recent expansion, which includes persons in select occupational groups whose jobs may expose them to orthopoxviruses (such as monkeypox).