{"id":23108,"date":"2020-03-30T13:16:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T20:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23108"},"modified":"2020-03-30T13:16:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T20:16:32","slug":"presiding-judge-sheriff-agree-on-redeployment-of-deputies-to-augment-law-enforcements-vital-services-protect-public-safety-in-nations-largest-trial-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23108","title":{"rendered":"PRESIDING JUDGE, SHERIFF AGREE ON REDEPLOYMENT OF DEPUTIES TO AUGMENT LAW ENFORCEMENT\u2019S VITAL SERVICES, PROTECT PUBLIC SAFETY IN NATION\u2019S LARGEST TRIAL COURT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 align=\"center\"><strong>Sheriff\u2019s Deputies Essential to Enforcing Social Distancing in Courthouses<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p align=\"left\">Presiding Judge Kevin C. Brazile and Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva today announced they have collaborated on COVID-19-related reductions in court operations, which allows for the redeployment of some deputies to support county law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The Sheriff\u2019s Department is responsible for public safety and security in all 38 Los Angeles County courthouses. During the ongoing public health crisis, the deputies have taken on additional duties of helping to enforce social distancing.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cI am grateful to Sheriff Villanueva and his force for quickly expanding their public safety duties in our Courthouses to support the necessity of social distancing,\u201d Presiding Judge Brazile said. \u201cDeputies are a vital part of the Court\u2019s many efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19 while we prioritize time-sensitive, essential functions during this public health crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cCourt security is among our chief public safety responsibilities for Los Angeles County,\u201d Sheriff Villanueva said. \u201cHowever, with reduced court operations under Presiding Judge Brazile\u2019s General Orders, it is necessary for me to transition some of my staffing resources to assist county law enforcement agencies. We will continue to ensure public safety in our courthouses\u2014and that includes helping to enforce social distancing of six feet between people in hallways, entry points and lobbies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The Sheriff\u2019s Department and the Court will not discuss specifics of deployment levels due to security concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheriff\u2019s Deputies Essential to Enforcing Social&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23109,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23108\/revisions\/23109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}