Los Angeles County Civil Grand Jurors Association

09/09/2026

Los Angeles County faces major financial pressures from wildfire recovery (Palisades and Altadena Fires in 2025) and a massive settlement for childhood sexual assault claims, leading to spending cuts across most departments. The LASD recommended a small increase for their budget to the tune of $4,071,789,000. The approved budget was $4,213,000,000. Read more in the 2025-2026 report: https://laco-cgja.org/investigative-reports

09/08/2026

In 2018, the LA County Board of Supervisors approved a $2.2 billion plan to tear down MCJ and replace it with a “Consolidated Correctional Treatment Facility” focused on rehabilitation. Read more in the 2025-2026 report: https://laco-cgja.org/investigative-reports

09/07/2026

LASD believes that their training style (Sheriff Training Academy and Regional Services) prepares future deputies to maintain a “command presence” when interacting with members of the public. Read more in the 2025-2026 report: https://laco-cgja.org/investigative-reports

09/03/2026

Established in 1951, the Professional Peace Officers Association (PPOA) supports the supervisors of the LASD and civilian staff (e.g., custody assistants, dispatchers).
The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act (MMBA) governs the labor-management relations in California local government, including cities, counties, and most special districts. The MMBA provides that the governing body of a public agency shall meet and confer in good faith on wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations (i.e. unions or bargaining units). Read more in the 2025-2026 report: https://laco-cgja.org/investigative-reports

09/02/2026

In 2025, the California Attorney General sued the LASD on the “Humanitarian Crisis” at County jails, alleging: “The Attorney General’s investigation found that Los Angeles County jails are uninhabitable and under-resourced. People incarcerated in the Los Angeles County jails, many of whom are awaiting trial, are forced to live in filthy cells with broken and overflowing toilets, infestations of rats and roaches, and no clean water for drinking or bathing. They are provided spoiled, moldy, and nutritionally inadequate meals; little to no access to hygiene supplies, such as soap, toilet paper, and menstrual products; little to no clean clothing and bedding; and almost no time outside their cells. Read more in the 2025-2026 report: https://laco-cgja.org/investigative-reports

09/01/2026

Meeting Notice!

08/28/2026

The Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs (ALADS) was formed in February 1970 by ten Deputies who joined together to collectively resolve a labor dispute and to ensure that the rights of future Deputy Sheriffs would be protected. As to the major labor representatives, the Civilian Oversight Commission and the Office of Inspector General have raised consistent concerns that the “Meet and Confer” process in collective bargaining has been extended beyond labor related issues to include compliance with California State laws on “use of force” complaints and investigations of Subgroups. Read more in the 2025-2026 report: https://laco-cgja.org/investigative-reports

Explore the Los Angeles County Civil Grand Jury Reports for insightful investigative reports and updates on county affairs.

08/27/2026

The report suggests that the wide geographic and organizational structure of the Department plays a role in subgroups forming. Individual stations have their own histories and traditions, and more than half of those surveyed agreed that deputies typically feel more loyal to the unit or station where they trained than to the Department overall. Read more in the 2025-2026 report: https://laco-cgja.org/investigative-reports

08/26/2026

The Committee, in investigating the complexities of the Sheriff’s Department and the environment in which it operates, found that problems identified appear never to reach final solutions. The conflicting requirements of public safety versus public responsibility for provision of attentive care to those in custody presents an almost intractable problem. Read more in the 2025-2026 report: https://laco-cgja.org/investigative-reports

08/25/2026

LASD has opened a new Mental Health Assessment Area at the IRC, part of an effort to strengthen care and improve efficiency for incoming jail detainees with mental health issues. The project was launched amid overcrowding at the facility, and the new area increases capacity from five to nine assessment windows to allow clinicians to conduct evaluations more efficiently. Read more in the 2025-2026 report: https://laco-cgja.org/investigative-reports