Los Angeles, CA — Today, a committee of the Metro Board of Directors voted to advance a motion authored by Supervisor Janice Hahn to end a decades-long effort to widen the 710 freeway. The long-planned widening would have destroyed homes and neighborhoods in Southeast Los Angeles, displacing families living along the freeway. With the committee’s [...] Read more

Los Angeles, CA – Today, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to move forward with a project to create a pocket park in the unincorporated community of Walnut Park. The new half-acre park will transform what is now an empty lot and will include a restroom, office building, playground, splash pad, grassy [...] Read more

Los Angeles, CA — Today, Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn sent a letter to the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) urging them to require the Sterigenics facilities in the City of Vernon to immediately cease all ethylene oxide-emitting operations until they come into compliance with air quality regulations.

On May 5, 2022, the [...] Read more

Los Angeles, CA — Today, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a proposal by Supervisor Janice Hahn and co-authored by Supervisor Hilda Solis to explore creating a pre-petition advocacy model in Los Angeles County, with the goal of keeping more families safely together and reducing racial disparities in the child welfare system.

“We need [...] Read more

Lynwood, CA — Today, a gun buyback sponsored by Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn’s office in partnership with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the Community Advisory Council took 365 guns off of the streets.

“This was a success,” said Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn. “There are 365 fewer guns that can be [...] Read more

Los Angeles, CA – Today, Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn released the following statement in support of Union Station janitors who have experienced increased violence since the pandemic:

“What is happening to janitors at Union Station is unacceptable. No one should have to go through what these essential workers are experiencing. I support and stand [...] Read more

Los Angeles, CA – Today, Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn released the following statement after the passing of Norman Mineta, the nation’s first Asian American cabinet secretary:

“As one of our nation’s highest profile Asian Americans, Norm Mineta was able to negotiate reparations for Japanese Americans interned during World War II, decades after he lived [...] Read more

Los Angeles, CA – Today, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, led by Supervisor Janice Hahn and Chair Holly Mitchell, threw their support behind AB 2220, legislation that would provide state funding for local Homeless Court programs. Homeless courts, like those that already exist in Redondo Beach and Long Beach and will soon be [...] Read more

Los Angeles, CA — Today, Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn released the following statement after the Board of Supervisors approved two sweeping motions to reform and improve the County’s response to the homelessness crisis.

In addition to authoring a motion to adopt a new framework for Measure H, Hahn also supported a motion [...] Read more

Los Angeles, CA – During Thursday’s regular meeting of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the 13-member Board unanimously approved a motion authored by Supervisor Janice Hahn that instructs the agency, responsible for bus and rail services and major highway and rail transit construction projects across the County, to [...] Read more