BRIEFLY : LAPD TO TRY AGAIN TO GET FEDERAL GRANT.A week after the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. failed to win federal grant funds to expand the police force, the City Council voted Tuesday to apply for $10 million from another federal program to improve the computerization com·put·er·ize tr.v. com·put·er·ized, com·put·er·iz·ing, com·put·er·iz·es 1. To furnish with a computer or computer system. 2. To enter, process, or store (information) in a computer or system of computers. of the department. The council authorized the mayor to apply for the money from the U.S. Justice Department, which has previously given the city $24 million for computerization and hiring civilians to take over some of officers' desk work. The new proposal for improved computerization would in effect put 381 more officers on the street by saving time that officers now spend on tasks that computers could speed, city officials said. About $2.9 million of the grant would provide computer analysis equipment and software for the 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. Police Department's program that analyzes crime trends. - Daily News Pot experts to battle over advocate's bail Two medical marijuana experts are expected to square off in court today over whether Todd McCormick smoked pot while out on bail pending a federal drug trial. The 27-year-old medical marijuana advocate, arrested July 29 for growing more than 4,000 pot plants in his rented Bel-Air mansion, could be jailed until his trial if a U.S. magistrate rules that he did smoke pot. The $500,000 bail that actor and hemp hemp, common name for a tall annual herb (Cannabis sativa) of the family Cannabinaceae, native to Asia but now widespread because of its formerly large-scale cultivation for the bast fiber (also called hemp) and for the drugs it yields. advocate Woody Harrelson posted for McCormick also could be forfeited. McCormick tested positive for marijuana 15 times between Jan. 20 and March 18, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. prosecutors. - City News Service Judges reject new anti-studio appeal A federal appeals court panel refused to bar creation of a freshwater marsh on part of the Playa playa or pan or flat or dry lake Flat-bottomed depression that is periodically covered by water. Playas occur in interior desert basins and adjacent to coasts in arid and semiarid regions. Vista/DreamWorks development near Marina del Rey, officials said Tuesday. The three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the project does not violate the Endangered Species Act The federal Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) (16 U.S.C.A. §§ 1531 et seq.) was enacted to protect animal and plant species from extinction by preserving the ecosystems in which they survive and by providing programs for their conservation. , said Coby King, a spokesman for the developer. Three weeks ago, the same panel ruled that the project does not violate the National Environmental Protection or Clean Water acts. A lawyer for a group of environmentalists suing to halt the project could not be reached for immediate comment. The new DreamWorks studio might be included in the commercial and residential development proposed for 1,087 acres. Environmentalists say the development will destroy the Ballona Wetlands, one of the last saltwater wetlands in the Southland. They also claim the area is home to several endangered species endangered species, any plant or animal species whose ability to survive and reproduce has been jeopardized by human activities. In 1999 the U.S. government, in accordance with the U.S. . - City News Service |
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