{"id":1555416,"date":"2022-07-14T21:04:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T01:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1555416"},"modified":"2022-07-14T21:04:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T01:04:40","slug":"la-sheriff-responds-to-supervisors-attempt-to-remove-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/la-sheriff-responds-to-supervisors-attempt-to-remove-him\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Sheriff Responds to Supervisors\u2019 Attempt to Remove Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fla-sheriff-responds-to-supervisors-attempt-to-remove-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1555416&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>LOS ANGELES\u2014Sheriff Alex Villanueva called the county\u2019s board of supervisors\u2019 efforts unconstitutional and a \u201cpower grab\u201d as officials moved ahead with plans this week to draft a ballot measure that would allow them to remove him from office.<\/p>\n<p>The LA County Board of Supervisors passed a motion Tuesday, July 12, to direct county attorneys to draft an ordinance for November\u2019s ballot that would allow the board to remove an elected sheriff.<\/p>\n<p>The motion passed 4\u20131 with Supervisor Kathryn Barger voting against it. The issue will still need to return to the board for final passage before it goes before voters in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ill-advised measure from yesterday is unconstitutional\u2014a massive power grab from the board of supervisors. As if they do not have enough power,\u201d Villanueva said on Facebook Live Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Under the motion, supervisors would be allowed to remove a sheriff \u201cfor cause\u201d\u2014with such cause defined as \u201ca violation of any law related to the performance of their duties as sheriff; flagrant or repeated neglect of duties; a misappropriation of public funds or property; willful falsification of a relevant official statement or document; or obstruction of any investigation into the conduct of the sheriff by the Inspector General, Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission, or any government agency with jurisdiction to conduct such an investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff and supervisors have exchanged barbs over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Villanueva also accused them of defunding the Sheriff\u2019s Department. He also rebuffed subpoenas to appear before the county\u2019s Civilian Oversight Commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe current sheriff has been openly hostile to oversight and transparency and has tested the functionality of existing oversight structures by consistently resisting and obstructing these systems of checks and balances,\u201d reads the supervisors\u2019s motion.<\/p>\n<p>The motion also refers to previous sheriffs Lee Baca, who was sent to federal prison on corruption charges, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014Sheriff Alex Villanueva called the county\u2019s board of supervisors\u2019 efforts unconstitutional and a \u201cpower grab\u201d as officials moved ahead with plans this week to draft a ballot measure that would allow them to remove him from office. The LA County Board of Supervisors passed a motion Tuesday, July 12, to direct county attorneys to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":242,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1555416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/242"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1555416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1555416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1555416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1555416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}