Sen. Sharon Runner [Sen. Sharon Runner] – A year ago, the Governor signed Assembly Bill 109 diverting convicted felons from state prison and into jail, a place intended minor criminals. This law has resulted in an increased in crimes especially in poor urban areas as convicted felons are released...

The Los Angeles County supervisors will consider approving a 5-year, $75 million contract Tuesday to send several hundred long-term inmates to a penal facility in Taft – a city in Kern County near Bakersfield, 80 miles north of the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic. Sheriff Lee Baca’s staff...

Sen. Sharon Runner Cities and counties across California are struggling to meet the increasing demands of housing convicted felons who until last year went to state prison. This local mandate was imposed by the Governor’s realignment plan. With a heavy load of convicted criminals in their jails, local...

[L.A. County CAO] – The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors has reached a settlement agreement with the group Californians Aware in a lawsuit alleging the Board violated the Ralph M. Brown Act in a series of closed session meetings in September 2011, discussing AB 109 [prison realignment –...

[Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich] – County Mayor Michael D. Antonovich announced that a state  hearing officer ruled that a violent, severely mentally ill inmate recently transferred from the state under AB 109 to Los Angeles County will be placed in a residential facility and referred for voluntary...

[Supervisor Mike Antonovich] – Gov. Brown’s administration has denied the county’s request to reconsider Friday’s upcoming transfer of a criminally insane and violent state prisoner to a county hospital, Mayor Michael D. Antonovich announced Thursday. “The political appointees who made...

Antonovich In his position as County Mayor, Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich was encouraged today by his fellow board members to write a letter to the governor asking him to take appropriate action and stop the transfer of a perceived dangerous prisoner who is headed for Olive View-UCLA...

Antonovich Los Angeles County Mayor Michael D. Antonovich has turned up the rhetoric in his criticism of Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to shift state prison parolees to county supervision starting Saturday. “With overcrowded (county) jails housing misdemeanants only serving 20 percent of their time...

Sen. Sharon Runner Blasting Gov. Jerry Brown’s Oct. 1 prisoner shift as a “social experiment that simply won’t work,” Sen. Sharon Runner released a list of some of the 500 felonies that will no longer lead to state prison time. Under Brown’s “realignment” plan, which was part...