The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion in mid-November to take steps to decriminalize bike violations. The board motion followed a Los Angeles Times article that found racial disparities in how LA County sheriff’s deputies handled bike stops. Read more...
Photo: The county of Los Angeles is working to decriminalize biking violations, following reports of racial bias in policing. (Justin Jung/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Feb. 9 at 11:01 p.m. The University of California Board of Regents and 203 plaintiffs in sexual assault and misconduct lawsuits against former UCLA OB-GYN James Heaps have reached a $243.6 million settlement. Read more...
Photo: A new settlement over allegations of sexual assault by former UCLA Health OB-GYN James Heaps was reached Tuesday. (Courtesy of Al Seib/LA Times)
A recent report from UCLA researchers and UC Berkeley researchers analyzed the lack of protections for fast-food workers during the COVID-19 pandemic among other issues. The researchers began the study after Los Angeles County and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors requested a study on working conditions in fast-food establishments within the county, said Kevin Riley, a researcher for the study. Read more...
Photo: Employees work in the kitchen at an In-N-Out in Westwood. Workers in the fast-food industry had higher risks of contracting COVID-19 compared to the rest of Los Angeles County, UCLA and UC Berkeley researchers found. (Kaiya Pomeroy-Tso/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Editor’s note: This article uses the descriptor “unhoused” to describe people experiencing homelessness to respect Theo Henderson’s preferred use of the term. Theo Henderson will become the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy’s 2022 activist-in-residence, a position first hosted in 2017 to improve academic understanding of social justice. Read more...
Photo: Theo Henderson hosts “We The Unhoused,” a podcast documenting stories of the unhoused people of Los Angeles and beyond. As an advocate for people who are unhoused, Henderson has been selected to be the newest activist-in-residence at the Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. (Daily Bruin file photo)
University police are looking for three suspects reportedly involved in an on-campus strong arm robbery Monday afternoon. The incident took place at De Neve Plaza around 1:30 p.m., according to a UCPD crime alert sent Monday. Read more...
The Los Angeles Metro held two public scoping meetings in January to gather public input on its Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project, which aims to create rapid transit options connecting the San Fernando Valley and the Westside. Read more...
Photo: LA Metro is currently in scoping, a process in which it gathers public input, for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor Project. (Daily Bruin file photo)
University police are looking for a suspect reportedly involved in two off-campus attempted hot prowl residential burglaries Thursday morning. Both incidents occurred in the same building at the 11000 block of Venice Boulevard, according to a UCPD crime alert sent Thursday. Read more...
