BRIEFLY.LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. phasing out lobby computers The LAPD announced Friday that it is phasing out the ``Megan's Law'' computers that have been in the lobbies of each police station in the city. The police station computers are no longer necessary in light of the passage of state legislation giving the public wider access to information on registered sex offenders, officials said. The database can be accessed via the Web site www.meganslaw.ca.gov, which features detailed information on more than 63,000 registered sex offenders. It can be searched in English, Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog and Vietnamese. - City News Service Sheriff's 'voice' to leave for Texas VENTURA - Eric Nishimoto, a spokesman for the Ventura County Sheriff's Department The Ventura County Sheriff's Department (VCSD) provides law enforcement for the unincorporated areas of Ventura County, California, USA, as well as several cities within the county. The cities that VCSD serves are Camarillo, Fillmore, Moorpark, Ojai, and Thousand Oaks. , is leaving the department after nearly seven years to move to Texas, officials said Friday. ``I've lived in the Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. area for 25 years and have really enjoyed my time with the Sheriff's Department,'' Nishimoto said. ``It's going to be very sad leaving, but the change will also be very nice.'' He said he and his wife had grown fond of Texas and decided they want to move there. He plans to take a job with a private disaster-response agency. A replacement will be appointed in January, Parks said. - Daily News Eatery customers should get shots Patrons of an upscale downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or eatery were urged Friday to get globulin globulin, any of a large family of proteins of a spherical or globular shape that are widely distributed throughout the plant and animal kingdoms. Many of them have been prepared in pure crystalline form. shots after an employee was diagnosed with hepatitis A Hepatitis A Definition Hepatitis A is an inflammation of the liver caused by a virus, the hepatitis A virus (HAV). It varies in severity, running an acute course, generally starting within two to six weeks after contact with the virus, and lasting no , county health officials said. One employee at Cafe Pinot, next to the Central Library, has the illness, and three other employees have symptoms consistent with it, health officials said. Representatives from Cafe Pinot had no immediate comment. Health officials said they haven't found a reason to close the restaurant, but said anyone who might have eaten there since Thanksgiving should call their physician to receive immune globulin Immune globulin Serum containing antibodies against a specific infection. Mentioned in: Maternal to Fetal Infections , the treatment for hepatitis A, to prevent possible disease. Today and Sunday, the health department will provide shots to those who might not be able to get one from their doctor. The Central Health Clinic, 241 N. Figueroa St., will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. both days. - City News Service Group: Use money to produce shows Millions of dollars in settlement money from three cable companies should be used to train community groups to produce their own television shows, a community group told the Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. on Friday. The city sued Adelphia, Comcast and Time Warner Cable This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. for failing to provide services promised to cable subscribers. The council agreed Nov. 30 to a $4.5 million settlement with Adelphia and $350,000 each from Comcast and Time Warner. Micheline Wilcoxen, who chairs the community group Angelenos for Equitable Access to Technology, said the money should be put into a community technology trust fund that would be used to train community organizations how to produce programs for public, educational and government access channels. - City News Service Ex-judge makes deal in porn case A former Orange County judge has agreed to plead guilty to possessing child pornography Child pornography is the visual representation of minors under the age of 18 engaged in sexual activity or the visual representation of minors engaging in lewd or erotic behavior designed to arouse the viewer's sexual interest. on his computer, prosecutors said Friday. Under the plea deal, prosecutors will recommend that Ronald Kline, 65, be sentenced to 27-33 months in federal prison in exchange for his pleading guilty to four federal counts, according to court documents. Kline is expected to enter the pleas Monday in Los Angeles. In the plea agreement filed Friday, he acknowledges he had more than 100 sexually explicit images of young boys stored on his computer equipment and disks, and that some of the images depict boys younger than 12. - City News Service |
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