REVIEW ORDERED OF JAIL-FATALITY REPORT.Byline: - Troy Anderson Accusing the Sheriff's Department of conducting a flawed flaw 1 n. 1. An imperfection, often concealed, that impairs soundness: a flaw in the crystal that caused it to shatter. See Synonyms at blemish. 2. investigation, and angered that no one was disciplined after the jail-house death of a mentally ill Palmdale man, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of April 2006 are:
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The board asked for the review, which will be the first by the department's newly created Office of Independent Review, after Special Counsel Merrick Bobb presented a 59-page report to the supervisors regarding the death of Kevin Evans. The Office of Independent Review will review the Sheriff's Department inquiry into Evans' death with a focus on inadequacies of the investigation and will report back to the supervisors with recommendations on how to correct such deficiencies in future investigations. ``I am now convinced more than ever that the only way change will occur within the department is to hold it accountable publicly,'' Supervisor Gloria Molina Gloria Molina is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and the current chairwoman of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.[1] Molina grew up as one of ten children in the Los Angeles suburb of Pico Rivera, California, U.S. said during a heated exchange with Sheriff Lee Baca Leroy David Baca (b. May 27 1942, East Los Angeles, California) is the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California. After graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School (Los Angeles) in 1960, Baca worked his way through East Los Angeles College before starting with the L.A. . Molina said if the supervisors must approve settlements against the department involving extraordinary amounts of money, they cannot be based on flawed investigations in which no one is disciplined. Baca said the mistakes made by jail personnel rest on his shoulders. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if suspension is in order for me,'' Baca said. ``As far as a discharge, the voters will have to decide whether they want to discharge me.'' Evans, 33, a homeless man, was stopped Oct. 20, 1999, by sheriff's deputies for taking a shopping cart from a supermarket. He died at Twin Towers jail during a struggle with nine deputies who attempted to strap him to a bed. The supervisors ordered Bobb's report in March after approving a $600,000 settlement with Evans' sisters. |
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