Scenes From a Pandemic: Part 12

Alive! continues its documentation of City employees as they take a multitude of measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic...

Update Your Email Address

Having a current email address on file with LACERS ensures that you receive timely communications about your LACERS benefits...

Retirement Application Do’s and Don’t’s

If you are getting ready to retire, LACERS staff has some retirement application do’s and don’t’s to aid you during this process...

Supplement Your Annuity Program

Supplement your LACERS monthly allowance in retirement with an additional lifetime payment. Consider enrolling in LACERS’s Larger Annuity Program...

2 Succumb to COVID

Two first responders from the LAPD increase total to ten during the pandemic. May they rest in peace...

The ITA Connect2LA City Team: Connecting Home and Work

The first round of the vaccine in LA is being administered to healthcare workers and first responders, including the LAFD...

Remembering Ray Guerrero

Last month, Alive! reported on the COVID-related death of PSR Raymond Guerrero, a 911 Operator with 24 years of City service. He died Jan. 7. He is survived by his wife, Debra, also a PSR, and two daughters. Some of his former colleagues in the LAPD/Communications Division shared their memories of Ray...

Recent LAPD retirements announced via social media.

The following employees of the LAPD have retired...

St. Baldrick’s Goes Online: March 14-28

St. Baldrick’s head-shaving parties – a significant national charitable event for the LAFD and LAPD – have gone virtual for 2021. In normal times, St. Baldrick’s invites people to have their heads shaved...

Saving a Life While Protecting It, Too

When two Sanitation workers got to work on Jan. 25, they heard something they didn’t expect – a man screaming for help. He was in the drain pool and drowning...