Category: Los Angeles County

LA County Launches $1,000 a Month Guaranteed Income Pilot

LOS ANGELES—Qualifying Los Angeles residents can now apply to the county’s new basic income pilot program which will provide $1,000 a month for the next three years to aid the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The county will select 1,000 random applicants who meet certain requirements regarding the size of their household and their…


Gascón Recall Effort Reaches 200,000 Signatures, $4 Million Raised

LOS ANGELES—The campaign to recall Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón reached another milestone on March 31, getting closer to the July deadline to garner the required signatures to trigger a recall election this year. “There is serious momentum behind the recall effort and we can absolutely pull this off,” Tim Lineberger, a spokesman…


Los Angeles to Spend up to $3 Billion in Settlement of Homelessness Lawsuit

LOS ANGELES—The City of Los Angeles will spend up to $3 billion over the next five years to develop as many as 16,000 beds or housing units for the homeless, enough to accommodate 60 percent of the homeless population in each of the 15 City Council districts, under terms a settlement announced Friday of a…


Gascón Launches Diversion Program to Decriminalize Some Human Trafficking Victims

LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón unveiled on March 31 a diversion program in which a judge can dismiss and vacate the arrests, convictions, and probation violations of human trafficking victims in misdemeanor or non-serious, non-violent felony cases. The county’s first Human Trafficking Diversion Court program will be first launched at the Pomona courthouse,…


Los Angeles County Administers Second Booster Against COVID

Los Angeles County health officials and other providers began offering second booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to residents 50 older on March 30. This action comes after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized a second booster dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or the Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for older and immunocompromised individuals on…


LA County Guaranteed Income Program Application Period Begins Thursday

LOS ANGELES—The application period begins Thursday for Los Angeles County’s guaranteed income program, which will provide 1,000 randomly selected residents with $1,000 a month for three years. To qualify for the “Breathe: LA County’s Guaranteed Income Program,” people must be at least 18 years old, have a household income under $56,000 for a single person,…


LA County Supervisor District 3 Candidates Debate Greenhouse Emissions, Water Shortage, Housing

LOS ANGELES—Candidates vying for a seat on Los Angeles County’s Board of Supervisors debated key environmental policy issues as the primary elections for county supervisors draw closer. On March 24, candidates for LA County Supervisor District 3—which spans from the Westlake Village to the San Fernando Valley to West Hollywood—participated in a debate hosted by…


SoCal Unemployment Rates Drop in February: EDD Reports

Unemployment rates slightly dropped in Los Angeles and San Diego counties in February 2022, according to figures released on March 25 by the state Employment Development Department (EDD). Los Angeles County’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dipped to 6.4 percent in February, down from a revised 6.9 percent in January and from the 10.7 percent rate…


California Mom Blames LGBTQ Coaching for ‘Brainwashed’ Teen’s Suicide

A grieving California mom says her severely depressed teen daughter was encouraged to leave her family, go into foster care, and begin taking cross-sex hormones before she developed unbearable pain and killed herself by laying down across the tracks in front of a train. Abigail Martinez, 53, alleged school staff at Arcadia High School—without her knowledge…


3 Hospitalized After Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Helicopter Crash

AZUSA, Calif.—Three people were in the hospital on March 20 from a sheriff’s helicopter crash near the San Gabriel Dam in the Angeles National Forest near Azusa that injured six people. Five of those victims were taken to a hospital, according to Los Angeles County Fire Department dispatcher, but two of the five were not…