BRIEFLY : LAWMAKERS URGE NEW LAWS AFTER SHOOTOUT.Citing the terror of Friday's shootout Shootout Venture capital jargon. Refers to two or more venture capital firms fighting for the startup. in North Hollywood, two state senators called Monday for tougher legislation on assault weapons, a ban on cheap handguns and greater gun control powers for local cities. Sens. Richard Polanco Richard G. Polanco, is a former California State Senate Majority leader and member of the California State Assembly. He is known for his significant efforts in increasing Latino representation in the California Legislature. and Tom Hayden Thomas Emmett "Tom" Hayden (born December 11, 1939) is an American social and political activist and politician, most famous for his involvement in the anti-war and civil rights movements of the 1960s. , at separate news conferences in front of the Ronald Reagan State Building, said the shootout should serve as a wake-up call on the need to have further restrictions on the sale and manufacture of weapons in California. Hayden, D-Los Angeles, and a candidate for mayor, said he was concerned about the inability of local jurisdictions to have power over gun control. ?13Daily News Group calls meeting on jail overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. A civil rights group is calling for an emergency meeting with 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 sheriff's officials to deal with overcrowding in the Men's Central Jail downtown. The Central Jail and the North County Correctional Facility North County Correctional Facility (NCCF) is a Los Angeles County Jail, run by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Located approximately 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles, it is one of four jails located within the Pitchess Detention Center (named after former in Saugus combined have 13,000 inmates, 2,800 over the maximum capacity allowed by court order, said Silvia Argueta, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), nonpartisan organization devoted to the preservation and extension of the basic rights set forth in the U.S. Constitution. . Inmates are sleeping on concrete floors because there are too few bunks available, and they are not receiving proper hygiene care, Argueta said. ``It's heightened the tensions among the inmates. The mood is one that everyone's on edge because they're sleeping too close together,'' Argueta said. ?13Daily News Fiscal woes foreseen for L.A. next year Los Angeles will continue to have financial problems next year, facing its seventh straight year of a multimillion-dollar shortfall, City Controller Rick Tuttle Rick Tuttle (born 1940) was Los Angeles City Controller from 1985 to 2001. He stressed the importance of creating a strong democratic influence at UCLA, which was in his words "the best large public university in a major city. said. In a report to Mayor Richard Riordan, Tuttle said increases in revenue from business, sales and utility taxes and other sources will provide an additional $24 million for the city. But these will be far offset by the continuing build up of the Police Department, the loss of funds from the Department of Water and Power and expected drops in fees from licenses and permits. The bottom line, Tuttle said, is that the city, already facing a $26 million deficit this fiscal year, could be facing a $41 million deficit next year. ?13Daily News Hahn, Stein trade new volley of accusations New accusations were traded in the Los Angeles City Attorney The Los Angeles City Attorney is an elected official whose job is to prosecute all of the misdemeanor criminal offenses within the city of Los Angeles, California, United States. race Monday, with City Attorney James Hahn questioning the qualifications of his opponent because of a number of lawsuits filed against him. Hahn's campaign released copies of 24 lawsuits against attorney Ted Stein resulting from his business as a developer and apartment owner. But Stein's campaign manager said the lawsuits show that Stein was a fighter and was victorious. ``In every case but one, he was vindicated,'' said Stein campaign manager Harvey Englander. ``What it shows is the difference between Ted Stein and Jim Hahn. Ted Stein will fight for taxpayers' dollars as he has fought for his own dollars instead of rolling over and paying out millions of dollars,'' Englander said. ?13Daily News Woman fined, jailed for defrauding LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) A woman who cheated the Los Angeles school The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. district out of more than $781,000 was sentenced Monday to 30 months in federal prison and ordered to repay the money. Arnese Clemon, 57, pleaded guilty in February 1995 to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and two counts of mail fraud. Clemon admitted that through the Institute for Successful Living - a study program for high school dropouts - she defrauded the LAUSD by submitting phony invoices from 1989 to 1991. She claimed to have taught hundreds of students who didn't exist, authorities said. Three properties were bought with LAUSD money, one of which was used as Clemon's home, officials said. ?13City News Service Williams asks police panel to OK `311' line Police Chief Willie L. Williams Willie L. Williams (born 1 October, 1943) was chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from 1992 to 1997, taking over after chief Daryl Gates' resignation following the 1992 Los Angeles riots. has asked the Police Commission to approve efforts to establish a citywide 311 nonemergency telephone line to relieve some of the burden of routine calls to the emergency 911 telephone line. In a report to be considered by the commission today, Williams is asking for staffing, funding and permission to request companies submit competitive proposals to create a nonemergency telephone line. ``Our operators tell us that 80 percent of the 911 calls are not true emergencies and should have come in on nonemergency lines,'' the chief's report. ?13Daily News |
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