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Los Angeles, CA — Today, Supervisor Janice Hahn took part in her first full Metro board meeting as a member of the Board of Directors. Supervisor Hahn will be a powerful voice in the implementation of major transportation policy and efforts to better connect Los Angeles County residents.

As a Los Angeles County Supervisor, Hahn has a seat on the 14 member board where she will serve on three committees: the Finance, Budget and Audit Committee, the Construction Committee, and the newly created Ad Hoc Congestion Pricing, Highway and Roads Committee.

Supervisor Hahn starts her work on the Metro Board with several priorities, her first being to expedite Measure M transit projects in the Fourth District like the West Santa Ana Branch, the alignment of the Gold Line and the Green Line connection to the Torrance Transit Center. She also plans to continue the work she started in Congress connecting local youth with jobs and job training in the transportation industry, as well as new efforts to cut emissions and green our county’s extensive transit system.

Today, Supervisor Janice Hahn released the following statement regarding President Donald Trump’s executive actions on immigration:

“Today’s executive orders do nothing to fix our broken immigration system. Cutting off federal funding to cities is misguided and will do vastly more harm than good. Instead, President Trump should be focused on working with Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation that will fix the problems facing communities across the country.”

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is taking on Republicans in the nation’s capital by voting unanimously to support Planned Parenthood.

Planned Parenthood has come under increasing attack in Washington, D.C. now that anti-abortion Republicans control both houses of Congress and the presidency.

In an impassioned speech, Supervisor Hahn stood outside City Hall and addressed the 750,000 L.A. County residents who streamed into Downtown L.A. on Saturday morning to protest President Donald Trump’s hateful rhetoric on his first full day of office. She vowed to lead by example and defend the progressive values and civil rights of all L.A. County residents at every single turn:

“In LA County, we are going to prove that it is better to recognize women for their brains than their bodies. We are going to prove that it is better to champion the diversity of our communities as a strength rather than deriding it as a weakness. We are going to prove it is better to elevate public dialogue instead of resorting to name-calling and twitter rants. We are going to prove it is better to recognize that love is love no matter whether you are gay, straight, bisexual, or trans. We are going to prove it is better to build bridges that unite us rather than walls that divide us. In LA County, we are ready to lead by example. We are not standing idly by. We are taking matters into our own hands.”

Nancy Paulikas is fifty-five years of age and suffers from early onset Alzheimers. During a trip to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art with her family, she wandered off and is still missing. We must find Nancy and reconnect her with her loving husband. Please share the missing poster with your friends and family, especially doctors and nurses, as sheriffs believe she may be a “Jane Doe” in a mental health facility, shelter, or hospital. The following links provide more information:

http://patch.com/california/manhattanbeach/police-renewing-call-help-find-missing-manhattan-beach-woman-alzheimers

http://nancyismissing.blogspot.com

Los Angeles, CA — Today, the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors unanimously approved Supervisor Janice Hahn’s motion to study the County’s cybersecurity preparedness. Her motion comes after recent news that LA County employees had been the target of a phishing attack.

“Cyberattacks are not going away any time soon,” said Supervisor Hahn. “In fact, we should expect them to increase and become more sophisticated. We need to know where the County is vulnerable to cyberattacks and what we can do to protect the public’s sensitive and personal information.”

Supervisor Hahn’s motion instructs the Chief Executive Officer and the Auditor-Controller to conduct a feasibility study on conducting comprehensive cyber-security risk assessments of all County departments. The motion also instructs the CEO and Auditor-Controller to report back to the Board within 60 days all findings and recommendations which may include recommended methodology for conducting the assessments, estimated costs, and projected timeline for completion.

Supervisor Hahn’s office is hopeful that this motion may open the door to funding future county-wide cybersecurity training which will be necessary to preventing future cyberattacks.