Los Angeles, CA—Today, Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn secured $700,000 of Measure H funds to hire and train 22 peer navigators who will be stationed at every community college in LA County.

“For too long, community college students experiencing homelessness [...] Read more

Posted by Fitzwilliam Anderson May 15, 2019 1:41 PM

When I got the call this morning about the accident at the port that killed one ILWU mechanic Jose Santoyo, and injured another, my thoughts immediately went to their families.

My son [...] Read more

Posted by Fitzwilliam Anderson June 04, 2019 11:04 AM

Los Angeles, CA—Chair of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Janice Hahn has released the following statement regarding the results of the 2019 Homeless Count. The count, [...] Read more

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