Riding with the LA Port Police Marine Unit
Among the many amazing ships on display during Fleet Week, held annually in the Port of Los Angeles, some might evade attention. Those are the smaller, sturdy, gray yet very active patrol ships that belong to the Port of LA Port Police.
The LA fires scorched the Palisades Rec Center. But staff wouldn’t let the fires...
The Palisades Recreation Center began the new year getting ready for a year of robust activity and relevance. That changed on January 7, as fires of historic ferocity devastated Pacific Palisades...
Unit defends against a billion threats a day. City Employees play a critical role.
The City’s comprehensive Cyberthreat Prevention Program, a combination of technology, personnel, training and nonstop vigilance, thwarts an incredible one billion cyberattacks against the City every day...
LAPD Custody Services is a force within the force. And it’s growing.
Between arrest and court appearance sits a critical function of policing. The LAPD entrusts that function to its Custody Services Division...
Rita Robinson-Kane, legendary LA public employee, tells tales in her first post-retirement interview.
Rita, retired from the City since 2010 and fully since 2018, could be considered an insider’s insider, but that would neglect her strong rapport with everyday City employees who weren’t on the inside, too...
Unprecedented wildfires prompt heroic efforts across all depts.
Beginning the morning of Jan. 7 in Pacific Palisades, flames – driven by winds that approached 90 miles an hour in inland areas – engulfed Los Angeles.
Sanitation is on the road to zero emissions for solid resources. Challenges remain.
The refuse collection vehicle rumbling down your street soon will become more of a hum, as LA’s Sanitation and Environment Division of Public Works continues on the path to zero emissions...
Women’s Management Academy prepares women for career growth.
Personnel’s Women’s Management Academy, co-sponsored by Council District 6, offers an intensive course for selected women City employees designed to increase the knowledge of the City’s budget processes...
Belinda Jackson built the country’s best rec center – the EXPO Center. As she...
A City powerhouse has retired. Without Belinda Jackson, there would be no EXPO Center, maybe the finest public recreation center in the country...
Engineering’s Interim Housing Program designs spaces and tiny home villages to shelter LA’s unhoused.
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Bureau of Engineering’s Shelter and Housing Program – developed quickly to help get the growing number of Angelenos suffering homelessness literally off the streets into humane shelters – is a story of talent and technical know-how, unexpected journeys, and personal transformation....
