Healthcare/Hospital Law
Sep. 8, 2011
LA may bust minor offenses down to fines
Grappling with budget cuts and overloaded criminal courts, Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich is seeking the city's approval to de-criminalize low-level misdemeanors and allow other city departments to fine perpetrators instead.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Grappling with budget cuts and overloaded criminal courts, Los Angeles City Attorney Carmen Trutanich is seeking the city's approval to de-criminalize illegal construction work, illegal street vending and other low-level misdemeanors and allow other city departments to fine perpetrators instead.
The proposal, called Administrative Citation Enforcement, would divert tens of thousands of cases a year ...
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