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Mayor Bass seeks to shutter department serving the city's youths

The Youth Development Department was created in 2021 to coordinate youth services throughout the city. The mayor proposes that it be folded into the Community Investment for Families Department.

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L.A. mayor says animal shelters won't close. Rescue groups are still on edge

The rollout of Mayor Karen Bass' budget set off shock waves among animal rescue advocates, who feared it would lead to the closure of three animal shelters.

A.G. Bonta considers stripping county control of L.A.'s chaotic juvenile halls

For years, conditions at L.A. County's juvenile halls have been deteriorating in plain sight. But despite entering into a settlement with the county to mandate reform, the California attorney general's office has done little to force change as kids remain in squalid and dangerous conditions.

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Arellano: In this city, politics feels like Wrestlemania. Whom should we cheer?

Is it any wonder that city council meetings nowadays easily dissolve into even more municipal desmadre?

Overhaul the LAPD, in this economy? Questions surround chief's plan amid budget crunch

The possibility of losing more than 400 civilian workers has increased uncertainty around Police Chief Jim McDonnell's vision for shaking up the LAPD.