LOS ANGELES – Just as former L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has announced his intentions to run for his old position, the current sheriff continues to evade disclosing documents to the oversight commission tasked with monitoring the department.
Sheriff Robert Luna continues to thumb his nose at transparency as he continues to clash with the nine-member Civilian Oversight Commission but oddly, he is facing little media and community uproar Villanueva faced during his term for the same allegations being levied by the department’s inspector general.
Luna campaigned on a platform of restoring public trust and increasing transparency1 and in his first press conference after being elected, he vowed to “repair relations” with the oversight commission…