The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is currently the county's governing body and has ultimate authority over all county operations except for duties assigned to the sheriff, the district attorney and the assessor. Those powers and duties will change under Measure G, which assigns the board to a legislative and oversight role and eliminates its executive powers. It remains unclear whether supervisors will retain executive powers in unincorporated county areas.
There is some irony in the decision to let the assessor appoint a member to the Ethics Commission but not the district attorney. Former Assessor John Noguez is currently on trial for bribery. District Attorney Nathan Hochman is the former president of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission.
It turns out that you can't create an independent Ethics Commission, or even talk about one, if you don't get to pick your own lawyer.
Measure J makes L.A. County stand apart. Come to think of it, so does Measure G, which threatens to cancel out Measure J.
The buildings aren't the problem - it's the probation officers.
The January 2025 fires torched Mayor Karen Bass' political career, but left the Los Angeles County supervisors politically unsinged. Why?