ANTI-GANG, CHILD ABUSE UNITS MAY BE CUT.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer PALMDALE - Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley anti-gang and child-abuse investigation units could be eliminated under proposed cuts to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department This article is about the Los Angeles County Sherriff's Department, not to be confused with the smaller Los Angeles County Police The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) is a local law enforcement agency that serves Los Angeles County, California. budget, sheriff's officials say. Targeted for elimination are specialized units that target gang crime, crimes against children and hate crimes, with those responsibilities returning to investigators at the Palmdale and Lancaster sheriff's stations. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how we would provide services effectively in a timely manner,'' said Palmdale sheriff's station Capt. Terry Judge. ``Losing these programs would have a significant impact on our services in county areas.'' Prompted by declining revenues due to a state budget crisis and a soured economy, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County administrators have proposed nearly $50 million in cuts to the Sheriff's Department and asked the department to absorb nearly another $50 million in costs for the 2002-2003 fiscal year. County Chief Administrative Officer A chief administrative officer (CAO) is responsible for administrative management of private, public or governmental corporations. The CAO is one of the highest ranking members of an organization, managing daily operations and usually reporting directly to the chief executive David Janssen said the department should be able to accommodate the cuts in a $1.6 billion budget, blaming part of the situation on Sheriff Lee Baca's decision to use money from the supplies and services budget to pay overtime. Baca says the county general fund pays less than half of the Sheriff's Department's budget, with other money coming from cities that pay for sheriff's deputies to patrol their streets. The cities' contracts are not subject to the county budget cuts. The county Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. is scheduled to vote May 21 on the budget. Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San , who represents the Antelope Valley, has said he opposes the cuts. Programs identified for elimination include the Community Oriented Policing Bureau, which has 204 personnel countywide including nearly two dozen in the Antelope Valley. Also targeted is the Safe Streets Bureau and the Gang Enforcement Team, an anti-gang detail with 20 deputies and two sergeants in both Lancaster and Palmdale, and the Family Crimes Bureau, which has a Lancaster office whose detectives investigate child abuse. Sheriff's officials have also said they will ground the department's helicopters and eliminate the 2-year-old hate crime unit and the four-person identity theft unit. |
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