BRIEFLY POLICE ADOPT NEW USE-OF-FORCE RULES.The Los Angeles Police Commission adopted a policy Tuesday requiring officers involved in a use-of-force incident to be segregated until they can be interviewed, as required under the federal consent decree A settlement of a lawsuit or criminal case in which a person or company agrees to take specific actions without admitting fault or guilt for the situation that led to the lawsuit. A consent decree is a settlement that is contained in a court order. . The special order sets a protocol requiring officers involved in shootings and other uses of force to be separated from one another until their statements can be taken, so they cannot talk about the incident. ``We get a lot of (officer-involved shootings) where officers claim the didn't know they were required to be separated, so they're not,'' Commissioner Rose Ochi said. - Daily News LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) now has motorcycle cops With traffic issues at the top of the complaint list at Los Angeles schools, the LAUSD police department introduced Tuesday the four members of its first motorcycle unit. The officers will handle mainly traffic-related assignments at or near campuses and also will teach street safety classes. The plan is to increase the school district police force to 10 officers by the start of the school year. - City News Service County jails face staph infections Los Angeles County may be unable to stamp out to put an end to by sudden and energetic action; to extinguish; as, to stamp out a rebellion s>. See also: Stamp completely a drug-resistant strain of staph staph n. Staphylococcus. staph adj. plaguing its jail inmates, the county's public health director told the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. Health officials identified 116 cases of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Methicillin-aminoglycoside resistant Staphylococcus aureus, MRSA An organism with multiple antibiotic resistances–eg, aminoglycosides, chloramphenicol, clindamycin, erythromycin, rifampin, tetracycline, in the first 23 days of May. In all of April there were a total of 109, said Dr. Jonathan Fielding, the county's director of public health. - City News Service Weiss won't seek D.A.'s office in '04 Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss said Tuesday he won't run for district attorney in 2004 and will focus instead on his re-election to the council in 2005. The Los Angeles County Democratic Party in April asked Weiss, a Democrat, to consider challenging Republican District Attorney Steve Cooley. Weiss said he has not ruled out campaigns for city attorney or state attorney general in the future. - Daily News Smith consultant new chief of staff City Councilman-elect Greig Smith has hired his campaign consultant Mitch Englander to be his new chief of staff, Smith said Tuesday. Englander and his firm, Issue Strategies Inc., ran an aggressive campaign against school board member Julie Korenstein, surpassing her in fund raising and winning the election by 61-39 percent. Smith and other new council members will be sworn in July 1. - Daily News Wine, cheese gala will fund 'Cabaret' WOODLAND HILLS - Friends of the Performing Arts Theater on the Hill is sponsoring a fund-raising wine and cheese reception June 21 to help pay for a live theater production of ``Cabaret.'' The reception, which begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Pierce College Theater, 6201 Winnetka Ave., will be followed by musical selections from the American musical theater repertoire. Two types of seating - onstage, cabaret-setting, and general seating - are available. In addition to the reception and the musical selections, a number of local businesses have donated items to be raffled off. For reservations or information, call (818) 719-6488 or (818) 703-0826. - Daily News Kmiec returning to Pepperdine MALIBU - Constitutional law scholar Douglas W. Kmiec will return to Pepperdine University as the Caruso Family Chair in Constitutional Law at Pepperdine University School of Law The Pepperdine University School of Law is a law school in Malibu, California. Pepperdine Law offers Juris Doctor degrees as well as LL.M. degrees in taxation law, international law, business and corporate law. , effective August 1, announced Andrew K. Benton, president. Kmiec is returning to Pepperdine after serving for two years as dean and St. Thomas More Professor of Law at Catholic University's Columbus School of Law The Columbus School of Law is the law school of The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1897. Today the school is home to hundreds of students from across the nation and from all walks of life. in Washington, D.C. - Daily News Students to jump ropes for health The Jump Rope for Heart Jamboree is scheduled to take place June 14 from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at James Monroe High School James Monroe High School may refer to:
The event, which will bring together participating elementary school children in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. for a massive rope-jumping session, is sponsored by the Valley Youth Service Field Office in collaboration with the American Heart Association American Heart Association (AHA), n.pr a national voluntary health agency that has the goal of increasing public and medical awareness of cardiovascular diseases and stroke, and thereby reducing the number of associated deaths and disabilities. and students from the health education department at California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an . - Daily News |
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