Continuing Justice Reform Push, LA County to Develop Alternatives to Money Bail
Across the country, money bail offers low-income defendants an impossible choice: sit in jail while your case slowly moves through the court system, pay a nonrefundable fee to a for-profit bail bonds company, or plead [...]
LA County to Launch Youth-Employee Mentoring Program
Mentoring often positively influences the choices youth make. Studies have shown that 55 percent of at-risk youth who have a mentor are more likely to enroll in college and 52 percent are less likely to [...]
LA County Expands 2020 Census Outreach Efforts for Hard-to-Count Communities
In its continued efforts to ensure that hard-to-count populations are counted in the 2020 Census, the Board of Supervisors today passed a motion, authored by Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis and co-authored by [...]
LA County Supports Gov. Newsom’s Proposed $74.5 Million Directed for Exide Cleanup
On January 10, Governor Gavin Newsom released his first Proposed Budget for FY 2019-20, which includes $74.5 million dollars to help address the cleanup of the communities contaminated by the Exide battery recycling plant in [...]
LA County Invests Nearly $1 Million to Support East LA Community and Small Businesses
Today, the Board of Supervisors approved $671,000 for revitalization of the Centro Maravilla Service Center, including the creation of a new Entrepreneur Center, and $300,000 to be used for economic and community development programming. This [...]
Supervisor Hilda L. Solis’ Statement on Congestion Pricing and Equity
Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda L. Solis released the following statement after introducing a motion at the LA Metro Board of Directors that would develop an equity strategy as part of the congestion pricing framework [...]
Los Angeles County Takes Steps to Protect Immigrants from Notario Fraud
At 3.5 million, Los Angeles County has more immigrants than any other county in the nation. Profiting off the County’s foreign-born communities through a scam called ‘notario fraud,’ individuals posing as licensed attorneys are cashing [...]