Author Archives: By Elizabeth Marcellino, City News Service

LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The Board of Supervisors have voted to create an office to help enforce Los Angeles County’s new minimum wage and prevent “wage theft.” Supervisor Hilda Solis […]

LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The Board of Supervisors has approved a new fund, set to total $100 million a year by 2020, to support affordable housing.This is in addition to […]

LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The Board of Supervisors has voted to move forward with a plan to reduce property taxes on some vacant urban lots if owners lease them out […]

LOS ANGELES (CNS) – The Board of Supervisors have approved a plan to take 50 percent of money deposited into jail inmates’ accounts to pay court- ordered restitution to their […]

Los Angeles County’s inspector general will back a recommendation for civilian subpoena power over the Sheriff’s Department, while a sheriff’s representative warned that work on a long-negotiated agreement to share […]

LOS ANGELES (CNS) — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors revised and then approved a proposed 2015-16 budget totaling nearly $27 billion, though the spending plan is still subject […]

LOS ANGELES (CNS) – A Los Angeles County supervisor took aim at an agency responsible for administering more than $6 billion in healthcare funding for low-income residents, charging that much […]

LOS ANGELES — A transition team of volunteers assembled to help reform the county’s child welfare system has turned over its responsibilities to county employees, urging that more be done. […]

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to create a task force to plan for implementation of President Barack Obama’s immigration orders, despite a court order […]

LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Former state Sen. Sheila Kuehl emerged the winner in her battle with former Santa Monica Mayor Bobby Shriver to replace termed-out Zev Yaroslavsky on the Los […]