This article was originally published by LAist on Sept. 8, 2025.
Topline: California Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department, calling conditions inside its jails a “humanitarian crisis.”
The backstory: In 2021, the Attorney General’s Office launched an investigation over the sheriff’s department’s policing practices. As part of that probe, investigators examined conditions in county jails.
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The context: It’s not the first time L.A. County has been under scrutiny over jail conditions; the federal government has sued in the past, as well as the ACLU…