{"id":59113,"date":"2023-07-31T13:10:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T20:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=59113"},"modified":"2023-07-31T13:10:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T20:10:30","slug":"supervisor-hahn-orders-county-flags-lowered-following-passing-of-lasd-recruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=59113","title":{"rendered":"Supervisor Hahn Orders County Flags Lowered Following Passing of LASD Recruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><strong>Los Angeles, CA (July 31, 2023)<\/strong>\u2014Today, Chair of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Janice Hahn has ordered all County flags at County facilities to be lowered to half-staff in honor of Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Deputy Alejandro Martinez.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Martinez was a part of the Sheriff&#8217;s Department Academy Class #464.\u00a0He passed away July 28, 2023, succumbing to injuries eight months after being one of a number of recruits struck by a vehicle during a morning training exercise in South Whittier in November of last year.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cLast year, when we started a new effort to recruit more Sheriff\u2019s deputies, Alejandro Martinez answered our call,\u201d said Supervisor Hahn. \u201cHis passing, months after that terrible crash, is nothing short of a tragedy. Our county owes Alejandro a great debt of gratitude we can never repay. My prayers are with his family, his friends, and his fellow recruits. May he rest in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">All County flags at County facilities will remain at half-staff until the end of day of memorial services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA (July 31, 2023)\u2014Today,&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59113","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=59113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59114,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59113\/revisions\/59114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}