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L.A. County is considering a hiring freeze as the government’s $45-billion budget faces pressure from wildfires, sex abuse lawsuits and a White House threatening to slash funds.
Richard Danforth, head of Genasys, the company that provides the county with its emergency alert system, said the lack of alerts in Altadena were not a software issue.
The lawsuit is the latest to allege that Edison’s equipment caused the blaze, which destroyed about 9,000 homes and killed 17 people.
Thirty Los Angeles probation officers have been indicted on charges of child endangerment stemming from allegations that they allowed — and in some cases encouraged — fights between teenagers inside the county’s juvenile halls.
The quick turnaround raises questions about how much time county officials allotted to debug the software and train employees.
L.A. County’s Board of Supervisors considered a proposal Tuesday to temporarily bar landlords from evicting renters who have taken a significant financial hit from the wildfires.
The amount the county paid to outside attorneys rose 18% from the previous year to $75 million — nearly double what the county spent four years ago.
County Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Kathryn Barger, who both saw swaths of their districts decimated by fire, asked county lawyers to draft a resolution that would increase the maximum penalty for price gouging across L.A. County from $10,000 to $50,000.
County firefighters poured into Pacific Palisades to assist the city. But it’s unclear how many were near Altadena when the Eaton fire began there.
A request by L.A. County to temporarily waive state housing laws drew the ire from advocates who accused the county of skirting efforts aimed at boosting affordable housing.
