CITY PANEL SEEKS AUDIT OF POLICE LEAGUE FUNDS.Byline: Rick Orlov Staff Writer Prompted by complaints from Police Chief Bernard C. Parks Bernard Parks (born December 7, 1943 in Beaumont, Texas) is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 8th District in South Los Angeles and former Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. Parks attended Los Angeles City College, received his B.S. , a city panel called on Monday for an audit of 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 Protective League and its use of some $3 million paid to it by the city. The action by the City Council's Public Safety Committee came despite an offer by the union attorney to open its books and his insistence that the funds - to be used to defend officers in board-of-rights proceedings - was kept in a separate account from other Protective League money. ``We have nothing to hide and will provide you with the information,'' said Hank Hernandez, general counsel for the union. ``We will cooperate, but we would like an apology afterwards that this allegation was totally unfounded.'' Parks, in his address to the City Council last week, questioned whether the Protective League used any of the $3 million city allocation in its advertising campaign against him. The Police Commission refused to give Parks a second five-year term and the City Council did not take action to overrule The refusal by a judge to sustain an objection set forth by an attorney during a trial, such as an objection to a particular question posed to a witness. To make void, annul, supersede, or reject through a subsequent decision or action. the commission. Councilwoman Jan Perry Jan Perry (circa. 1954 —) currently represents the 9th district of the Los Angeles City Council. External links
Preceded by Rita Walters Los Angeles City Councilwoman , a Parks supporter, said she brought in the proposal to get an accounting of how the money was being used. ``This is an attempt to get information how city money was spent and if it is being spent properly,'' Perry said. ``It is in our job as a City Council to review the expenditures.'' The money was promised to the Protective League as part of a 2001 voter-approved charter amendment changing the discipline system for police officers. Senior Assistant City Attorney Fred Merkin mer·kin n. A pubic wig for women. [Alteration of obsolete malkin, lower-class woman, mop, from Middle English, from Malkin, diminutive of the personal name Matilda.] said the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . had provided defense representatives for officers accused of misconduct prior to that, and that the city agreed to provide funds for a transition period for the Protective League to take over those duties.
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