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Los Angeles, CA– Today, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a proposal by Board Chair Janice Hahn to explore master leasing agreements with motels across the County in order to use rooms as interim housing for chronically homeless individuals. [...] Read more

Long Beach, CA- This afternoon, a 60-year-old man with schizophrenia who had gone missing was found using an LA Found trackable bracelet.
The man, whose name is Steve, wandered away from a treatment center on 28th street and Pacific avenue in Long Beach. Luckily, his family had recently signed him up for the County’s LA Found [...] Read more

Norwalk, CA- This afternoon, a 71-year-old Norwalk man with Alzheimer’s was located minutes after being reported missing using the County’s LA Found program. The program is designed to help locate people with Alzheimer’s, dementia, autism, or other impairments who may [...] Read more

Los Angeles, CA—Today, Supervisor Janice Hahn is celebrating her signature program’s tenth and eleventh saves since the program launched last September.
In the past week, two people with cognitive impairments wearing LA Found trackable bracelets went missing and both were located and returned safely to their families.
“I launched L.A. Found because I knew that this [...] Read more

Torrance, CA– Los Angeles County has dramatically expanded a school violence prevention program in the wake of recent mass shootings and in time for the back-to-school season.
Photo Credit:Martin Zamora
Today, LA County Supervisors Janice Hahn and Kathryn Barger held a press conference with officials at Torrance High School to mark the expansion of this program and [...] Read more

The County’s public health experts have written a letter to the South Coast Air Quality Management District warning us that hydrofluoric acid threatens the lives of workers and residents alike in Torrance and Wilmington.
The only way to eliminate the risk to our community is to remove this chemical from our refineries. Anything less than [...] Read more

Rancho Palos Verdes, CA—Today, Supervisor Janice Hahn marked the one-year anniversary of the L.A. Found program by visiting Alex Vargas, a man with Alzheimer’s who is one of 12 people who have been found safely using the program. With L.A. Found, LA County has distributed trackable wristbands to individuals with Alzheimer’s, dementia, and autism so [...] Read more

Posted by Liz Odendahl September 06, 2019 4:52 PM
Supervisor Hahn Disappointed in SCAQMD Vote to Allow Refineries Continued Use of Deadly Chemical in Torrance and WilmingtonDiamond Bar, CA— Today, Supervisor Janice Hahn is speaking out against the SCAQMD Governing Board’s decision to drop their [...] Read more

Los Angeles, CA—Today, Los Angeles County Supervisors Janice Hahn and Hilda Solis directed almost $2 million in county funding to an innovative program coordinating homeless services in the Gateway Cities region.
“Since we started funding this program, we have been able to lift over 2,000 people off of the streets of the Gateway Cities and into [...] Read more

Torrance, CA— On Wednesday, September 18, LA County Supervisor Janice Hahn, Torrance Mayor Pat Furey, and other local officials and medical professionals held a press conference to mark the UCLA Mobile Stroke Unit’s expansion to several cities in the South Bay.
(From Left to Right) Torrance Mayor Pat Furey, Supervisor Janice Hahn, Dr. May Nour, Henry [...] Read more