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Los Angeles City Council Secures Multi-Year Funding for Cannabis Social Equity Program
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Los Angeles City Council Secures Multi-Year Funding for Cannabis Social Equity Program

Sentinel News WireApril 23, 2019

Council President Herb Wesson   The Los Angeles City Council has voted to move forward a measure to provide the Los Angeles Department of Cannabis Regulation (DCR) with $3 million annually for the next three year to fund the City’s Cannabis Social Equity Program, in addition to $1.5 million to be allocated immediately for the program. “As a Council it’s our job to do right for the people in our city whose lives have been adversely affected by the War on Drugs,” said Council President Herb Wesson. “The City’s Social Equity program is at the crux of our efforts to

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Lawsuit Limiting Cleanups on Skid Row Up for Discussion by L.A. City Council

City News ServiceMarch 8, 2019

The city has long struggled with how to clean up and regulate homeless encampments, and in 2016 passed a law that would limit the amount of belongings a homeless person could store on the sidewalk to 60 gallons. But not long after, in response to a lawsuit, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction barring Los Angeles police and sanitation officers from seizing and destroying homeless people’s property in and near Skid Row.

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Councilwoman Martinez Recognizes Three-Year Anniversary of the LAPD Operations-Valley Bureau Human Trafficking Task Force

Sentinel News ServiceOctober 25, 2018

Los Angeles City Councilwoman Nury Martinez, LAPD Deputy Chief Kris Pitcher, and LAPD Lieutenant Marc Evans announced the official three-year anniversary of the formation of the Operations-Valley Bureau Human Trafficking Task Force and the staggering results the impact has made in the northeast San Fernando Valley. Since the Councilwoman’s inception of this OVB Task Force in October 2015, a first of its kind in the City of Los Angeles, 1,717 arrests have been made for human trafficking, pimping, pandering, supervise, johns, loitering, lewd conduct, and other miscellaneous acts.

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First ‘Bridge Home’ Temporary Homeless Shelter in L.A. Opens

City News ServiceSeptember 13, 2018

The “Bridge Home” program was first announced by Garcetti during his State of the City speech in April as a new front in the fight against homelessness, which has grown by about 75 percent over the last six years. The 2018 Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority found that more than 31,000 people are homeless in the city, including more than 23,000 living without shelter, which were both slight drops from the previous year.

Council Approves Renaming Rodeo Road Obama Boulevard
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Council Approves Renaming Rodeo Road Obama Boulevard

City News ServiceAugust 31, 2018

City Council President Herb Wesson proposed the name change last year and noted that then-candidate Obama held a campaign rally at Rancho Cienega Recreation Center on Rodeo Road in 2007. The 3.5-mile street runs from near the Culver City border east to Mid-City and is not to be confused with upscale Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.

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L.A. City Council Supports Federal Bill Seeking Banking Relief for Pot Shops

City News ServiceJuly 5, 2018

The Los Angeles City Council voted today in support of federal legislation that would prohibit banking regulators from punishing a financial service provider for doing business with a state-compliant cannabis business, a move that comes as the panel is exploring the creation of a municipal bank that could serve the cannabis industry.