This is not transparent, fair, or just. It’s yet another public blunder coming out of City Hall that makes the people of Los Angeles continue to question the motives and trustworthiness of our city’s ...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said ... Public records laws rely on government agencies being honest and transparent about what they do, Hiestand said in the written statement.

If approved, the new department would absorb most of the roughly $350 million LAHSA receives from the county — and part of the agency’s staff — over the next year.