Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

Attorneys for LA County are asking that a federal judge order the production of Vanessa Bryant’s therapy records going back to 2010, which they believe are central to her lawsuit alleging emotional distress caused by the circulation of crash site photos.

A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy accidentally fired a gun inside a courtroom last month, potentially injuring a colleague and prompting an internal investigation.

U.S. District Court Judge John F. Walter wrote in a 2 page denial of Los Angeles County’s request that the public has a vested interest in whether agencies that are responsible for investigating and adjudicating complaints of misconduct have acted properly and wisely.

Vanessa Bryant, the widow of Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, publicly called for the LA County Sheriff’s Department to release the names of deputies who took or shared photos of Kobe Bryant, Gianna Bryant and seven other victims of a helicopter crash in Calabasas last January.

Attempted murder charges have been filed in an attack on two LA County Sheriff’s Department deputies who were shot while seated in a patrol car at a transit station in Compton. Officials announced the charges against Deonte Lee Murray at a Wednesday news conference. He was arrested Sept. 15 after a stakeout, car chase, and search in Lynwood that Sheriff…

One of the two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies shot in an attack last weekend has been released from the hospital, the sheriff said Wednesday.

A coalition of 64 media organizations called on the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Wednesday to withdraw a citation against KPCC and LAist reporter Josie Huang, who was pinned to the ground and handcuffed while covering an arrest of a man outside a hospital following the shooting of two deputies in Compton. The letter from the Reporters Committee for Freedom…

The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department responded Monday to a viral video that showed officers pointing guns at three Black teens who allege they were attacked at knifepoint by a homeless man.

The parents of two Black teens seen in a viral video with authorities pointing weapons at them say they can hardly watch the video of the incident. Tammi Collins said she couldn’t bring herself to watch the full video showing her son, who she wishes to not identify, being ordered to the ground by Los Angeles County Sheriff deputies....

A woman from Lancaster says Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies violated her Constitutional rights when they burst through her door, handcuffed and moved her outside naked, and terrified her younger sister and son, while allegedly searching for the woman’s brother — who she later learned was being arrested at a different location. She filed a lawsuit in U.S....

A man reportedly shot during a gunfight with Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department detectives in the high desert town of Rosamond Wednesday is the half brother of Robert Fuller, the man found hanged near Palmdale City Hall whose death is now the focus of local, state, and federal investigations, law enforcement and other sources told NBCLA. The man in...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s civilian oversight panel has agreed to examine the agency’s policies on taking photographs at crime and accident scenes in response to the controversy over deputies sharing photos of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others. Sheriff Alex Villanueva asked the Office of the Inspector General to begin an...

LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said he ordered eight deputies to delete graphic photos of the helicopter crash that took the lives of Kobe Bryant, Bryant’s daughter and seven others to avoid the risk of the photos being shared and possibly becoming public.

George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide who was a key figure in the FBI’s Russia probe, filed paperwork Tuesday to run for the U.S. House seat being vacated by Democrat Katie Hill. Papadopoulos didn’t immediately comment, but on Sunday he tweeted, “I love my state too much to see it run down by candidates like Hill. All talk, no...

A manhunt continued Thursday for a shooter who ambushed and wounded a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy outside the department’s Lancaster station. Deputy Angel Reinosa was in the parking lot of the station when shots were fired at 2:48 p.m. Wednesday, striking him in his right shoulder. Late Wednesday night the sheriff’s department tweeted “2 adults detained (for being uncooperative)...

FBI agents are examining deputy cliques that exist within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, including the “Bandito” group at the East LA station, federal and local law enforcement sources confirmed Thursday.

Los Angeles County prosecutors declined to file a case against Rick Schroder in connection with the actor’s May 1 arrest on suspicion of domestic violence.

Actor Rick Schroder has been arrested for a second time on suspicion of domestic violence, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

A convicted child abuser faces a murder charge in the death of a girl whose body was found in a duffel bag on a trail east of Los Angeles.

A man blamed by family in the gruesome homicide of a 9-year-old girl in Hacienda Heights spent more than a decade in prison on a torture and child abuse conviction from 2005, according to San Diego County court records.