Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

U.S. District Court Judge John F. Walter wrote in a 2 page denial of Los Angeles County’s request that the public has a vested interest in whether agencies that are responsible for investigating and adjudicating complaints of misconduct have acted properly and wisely.

A veteran sheriff’s deputy is suing Los Angeles County, alleging he was subjected to retaliation by members of a deputy subgroup at the Compton Sheriff’s Station for resisting an alleged arrest quotas.

Vanessa Bryant, the widow of Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, publicly called for the LA County Sheriff’s Department to release the names of deputies who took or shared photos of Kobe Bryant, Gianna Bryant and seven other victims of a helicopter crash in Calabasas last January.

Attorneys for the family of a 29-year-old Black man who was fatally shot by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies in August after they stopped him for bicycling on the wrong side of a street said they are filing a claim against Los Angeles County.

A 25-year veteran officer with the Los Angeles Police Department died Monday of complications from COVID-19.

A special task force of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department conducted raids on five New Year’s Eve “super-spreader” parties across the county, making over 90 arrests and taking seven handguns off the streets, officials said Friday.

The parties took place throughout the county, in areas such as Palmdale, downtown Los Angeles and Compton. In total, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department made 235 arrests and recovered seven illegal firearms, according to the agency.

Proceedings begin Monday for the coroner’s office’s inquest into the June 18 death of 18-year-old Andres Guardado, who was fatally shot in the back by a sheriff’s deputy after running from authorities at an auto shop near Gardena, where he was employed as an informal security guard.

Los Angeles County deputies fatally shot a Black man early Sunday morning after he allegedly pointed a revolver in their direction, authorities said.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has released video of a fatal shooting that shows a deputy firing several shots at an armed man fleeing from a backyard during a chase on foot.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is set to consider on Tuesday how it might oust Sheriff Alex Villanueva from his post before voters have a chance to do so in 2022.

The body of a man was discovered inside a storage unit in the city of Hawaiian Gardens Thursday evening.

A man was shot and killed by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies after a brief chase in a South Los Angeles neighborhood.

One month after some members called on Alex Villanueva to resign, the county’s Civilian Oversight Commission on Thursday is scheduled to consider a resolution condemning the sheriff’s leadership and vowing to hold him accountable if he continues to “facilitate dysfunction” in the agency.

Health care providers demonstrated Tuesday evening outside the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center near Torrance, where a deputy shot and critically injured a patient earlier this month, to protest “gun violence and police brutality against unarmed victims, most especially within the walls of ours hospitals.”

Attempted murder charges have been filed in an attack on two LA County Sheriff’s Department deputies who were shot while seated in a patrol car at a transit station in Compton. Officials announced the charges against Deonte Lee Murray at a Wednesday news conference. He was arrested Sept. 15 after a stakeout, car chase, and search in Lynwood that Sheriff…

Prosecutors have charged a 36-year-old man Wednesday with a brazen ambush of two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies earlier this month, an apparently unprovoked shooting as they sat in a squad car outside a rail station

With the inspector general questioning the sheriff’s version of events leading to the arrest of a local reporter, the commission that oversees the agency asked county attorneys Thursday to prepare a report on legal responsibilities involved in law enforcement activities at protests. “Unfortunately, all evidence we have currently gathered suggests that significant parts of the claims made by the...

One of the two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies shot in an attack last weekend has been released from the hospital, the sheriff said Wednesday.

A coalition of 64 media organizations called on the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Wednesday to withdraw a citation against KPCC and LAist reporter Josie Huang, who was pinned to the ground and handcuffed while covering an arrest of a man outside a hospital following the shooting of two deputies in Compton. The letter from the Reporters Committee for Freedom…