Rebecca Ellis covers Los Angeles County government for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she covered Portland city government for Oregon Public Broadcasting. Before OPB, Ellis wrote for the Miami Herald, freelanced for the Providence Journal and reported as a Kroc fellow at NPR in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Brown University in 2018. Ellis was a finalist for the Livingston Awards in 2022 for her investigation into abuses within Portland’s private security industry and in 2024 for an investigation into sexual abuse inside L.A. County’s juvenile halls.
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Immigration raids Friday led to the arrests of dozens of people and caused hours of chaos in downtown L.A. Here is what we know so far.
Las redadas sorpresivas de ICE en el centro de Los Ángeles provocaron una fuerte reacción de oficiales electos y manifestantes, que calificaron la acción de “cruel e innecesaria”
David Huerta was detained while documenting an immigration enforcement raid in downtown Los Angeles. Federal authorities said he was arrested on suspicion of interfering with federal officers.
Surprise U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps in downtown Los Angeles prompted fierce pushback from elected officials and protesters.
“Supervisor Barger’s iPhone auto-delete setting is set to 30 days. She also manually deletes her texts sometimes,” Barger spokesperson Helen Chavez Garcia said last month.
Video of a 2023 beating, captured on CCTV, launched a criminal investigation into so-called ‘gladiator fights’ at the troubled Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall.
Chapel leaders say they have found “an ideal new location” about a mile west of the old site.
The county’s new elected chief executive, approved by voters last year, will be a political juggernaut. But first, a task force must define the job.
Thomas Jackson, 58, a former probation official who was accused by more than two dozen women of sexually abusing them when they were minors, will not be prosecuted because the alleged incidents happened too long ago, prosecutors said.
Roughly 9,700 checks have been sent to residents whose properties were reassessed because of wildfire damage. But in about 330 cases, postal workers tried unsuccessfully to deliver the checks to vacant or destroyed homes.