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May Day.following the surge of immigration enforcement and shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens.
“ Our vision includes an economy that works for everyone with a living wage, strong labor protections and programs that keep families housed, fed, educated and healthy,” said Francisco Moreno, executive director of the Council of Mexican Federations in North America, in“Our vision includes an economy that works for everyone with a living wage, strong labor protections and programs that keep families housed, fed, educated and healthy,” said Francisco Moreno, executive director of the Council of Mexican Federations in North America, in The organization is one of more than 100 involved in planning a Los Angeles May Day rally with the theme, “solo el pueblo shuts it down: no school, no work, no shopping.
”“Starting there really sends a message that we're here,” said Kristal Romero, press secretary for the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor.
“We're standing with this community, and if you take on one of us, you take on all of us. ”Romero said the Federation has offered training on de-escalation, conflict resolution and non-violent protests and that hundreds of people will act as “peacekeepers” during Friday’s rally and march.
“ A lot of times, folks can get caught in echo chambers and it may really feel hopeless,” Romero said. “The big point of these events is to inspire hope to show people we're all here, we're all fighting for the same thing.
”MyLA311, the system designed to help residents access city services for graffiti removal or streetlight outages, had a makeover last year, but since then, some Angelenos and Los Angeles city staff have reported it has been plagued by problems. City officials say they're working to make fixes.aimed at addressing the issues concerning the system’s overall functionality and accountability. The City Council approved that motion Wednesday.
“Reports and individuals are telling us that because of this broken 311 app, folks are once again going back to using Excel sheets, phone calls, paper and pen in order to engage in service delivery, and I think that that's a problem,” Padilla said during the council meeting. MyLA311 is set up so residents can report non-emergency issues and track requests for tree inspections, homeless encampment services and illegal dumping, to name a few.
There are 86 options in neighborhoods, according to Mayor Karen Bass’ office, which helped launch the new system. The motion instructs Public Works to make a formal report of any problems with the system, including how they may be affecting service timelines and completion rates, and asks the city’s IT agency to come up with potential solutions. The city has received “numerous complaints” about the updated website and app, including issues with GPS and logging work, according to officials.
MyLA311 is set up so residents can report non-emergency issues and track requests for tree inspections, homeless encampment services and illegal dumping, to name a few. There are 86 options in neighborhoods, according to Mayor Karen Bass’ office, which helped launch the new system. Staffers within the city’s Department of Public Works have said they’ve been frustrated by the rollout, according to city officials.
They say it now takes longer to add their responses to service requests, and the city can’t record completed work that doesn’t have a service request connected to it.
“Reports and individuals are telling us that because of this broken 311 app, folks are once again going back to using Excel sheets, phone calls, paper and pen in order to engage in service delivery, and I think that that's a problem,” Padilla said during Wednesday’s council meeting. The motion instructs Public Works to make a formal report of any problems with the system, including how they may be affecting service timelines and completion rates, and asks the city’s IT agency to come up with potential solutions.
, she’d called for the system to be modernized with the goal of providing better customer service and communication about the status of residents’ requests.
“This new and improved way to request and receive city services is another example of how we are breaking away from the old way of doing things to make our neighborhoods cleaner and safer,” Bass said in a March 2025 statement.agreed the system needs improvements, writing in a community impact statement that MyLA311 fails to serve L.A. taxpayers effectively if it’s difficult to use or inaccurate. In public comments, some residents cited “major issues” with the system, including GPS and location accuracy, invalid addresses and missing or incomplete service categories.
One commenter“As a result, they frequently lead to confusion in the field, delays in response and, in some cases, requests going unaddressed due to the difficulty in locating the reported issue or misdirection caused by inaccurate data,” the commenter said. The city’s Information Technology Agency is expected to report on system performance, including operational issues, and provide solutions as needed.
Public Works and IT are expected to provide quarterly reports on service request data, including backlogs, average response times and requests received and closed. The Supreme Court's conservative majority seemed ready Wednesday to allow the Trump administration to potentially proceed with mass deportations of more than a million foreign nationals, including those from Haiti and Syria, who live and work legally in the United States.
Until now these individuals have been accorded temporary legal status because their safety is imperiled by war or natural disasters in their home countries. Congress enacted the Temporary Protected Status program in 1990, and every president since then — Republican and Democrat — has embraced TPS. President Trump, however, is trying to end it. On Wednesday his solicitor general, D. John Sauer, told the justices that the statute clearly bars any court review of the administration's decisions.
And he dismissed the idea that a separate law established to provide procedural fairness does not allow the courts to review the Homeland Security agency's decision-making either.to allow the Trump administration to potentially proceed with mass deportations of more than a million foreign nationals, including those from Haiti and Syria, who live and work legally in the United States. Congress enacted the Temporary Protected Status program in 1990, and every president since then — Republican and Democrat — has embraced TPS.
President Donald Trump, however, is trying to end it. On Wednesday his solicitor general, D. John Sauer, told the justices that the statute clearly bars any court review of the administration's decisions. And he dismissed the idea that a separate law established to provide procedural fairness does not allow the courts to review the Homeland Security agency's decision-making either. Pressed by the court's three liberal justices, Sauer insisted that the courts cannot review anything.
"What you're basically saying is that Congress wrote a statute for no purpose," Sotomayor said. Justice Elena Kagan noted that under the statute the secretary of Homeland Security is supposed to consult with the U.S. State Department about what the conditions are in those countries that people have been forced to flee. What if she didn't do that at all, Kagan asked.
Or what if she asked, but the response from the State Department came back:"Wasn't that baseball game last night great!
" Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked what would happen if the secretary used a Ouija board to make decisions? To all these hypotheticals, Solicitor General Sauer stood firm. That prompted this from Sotomayor:"Now, we have a president saying at one point that Haiti is a 'filthy, dirty, and disgusting s--thole country.
' I'm quoting him. He declared illegal immigrants, which he associated with TPS, as poisoning the blood of America. I don't see how that one statement is not a prime example … showing that a discriminatory purpose may have played a part in this decision.
" Sauer pushed back, noting that Kristi Noem, the then-DHS secretary, had not mentioned race at all. That prompted this response from Justice Jackson, the only Black woman on the court,"So the position of the United States is that we have an actual racial epithet that we aren't allowed to look at all the context.
" Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the mother of two adopted Haitian children, interjected at that point to clarify the administration's position. Are you conceding that individuals with TPS status could bring a challenge based on race discrimination? she asked. Representing the Haitians, lawyer Geoffrey Pipoly described the administration's review as"a sham.
" "The true reason for the termination is the president's racial animus toward non-white immigrants and bare dislike of Haitians in particular," Pipoly said. "The secretary herself described people from Haiti" and from other non-white countries as"killers, leeches, saying, 'We don't want them, not one,'" while"simultaneously enacting another humanitarian form of relief for white and only white South Africans.
" That was too much for Justice Samuel Alito who asked Pipoly,"Do you think that if you put Syrians, Turks, Greeks and other people who live around the Mediterranean in a line-up, do you think you could say those people are … non-white? ""How about southern Italians? " Alito inquired, prompting laughter in the courtroom. Responded Pipoly:"Certainly 120 years ago when we had our last wave of European immigration, southern Italians were not considered white.
… Our concept of these things evolves over time.
" At the end of Wednesday's court session, one thing was clear: President Trump may be furious at some of the conservative justices he appointed for invalidating his tariffs, but for the most part, he is getting his way. Especially in light of, announced Wednesday, which effectively guts what remains of the landmark Voting Rights Act, once celebrated as a signature achievement of American Democracy. If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report.
Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less. The Eaton Fire destroyed nearly 9,500 structures, including about 6,000 homes. Two days after the first broke out, Pasadena Humane reported receiving more than 350 pets from displaced residents. Artemis the German shepherd was originally taken to the Pasadena animal shelter for emergency boarding.
His family, which lost its home in the January fire, ultimately decided to put him up for adoption. Artemis the German shepherd was originally taken to the Pasadena animal shelter for emergency boarding. His family, which lost its home in the January fire, ultimately decided to put him up for adoption.
"The silver lining to all of that is — with all this tragedy — this incredible story of hope where we were able to help foster these animals we’re returning home," said Sarie Hooker, communications manager at Pasadena Humane. "He's just such a striking boy. He's got this really fun, loving personality. He's very regal," Hooker said.
"He just did amazingly. And the next thing we knew, he was adopted," Hooker said.
"So it's a happy story. "The Eaton Fire destroyed nearly 9,500 structures, including about 6,000 homes. Two days after the fire broke out, Pasadena Humane" In totality, we were able to help with thousands of animals specifically for emergency boarding," Hooker said, including every kind of pet you can think of, as well as wild animals. He is the last animal.
" Artemis was our final, final animal — like dog, cat, critter. Anything else under the sun. He was the last boy. So we're very happy," she said.
The LAPD has sharply accelerated its use of drones in policing, including deploying them to protests in the city to survey crowds. The LAPD has sharply accelerated its use of drones in policing, including deploying them to protests in the city to survey crowds. The department conducted 3,030 drone flights to support various calls for police service and 480 for high-risk operations from June through December 2025, according to a presentation provided to the L.A. Board of Police Commissioners Tuesday.
Detective Michael Hackman, manager of the department’s Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems program, told the commissioners that the department has already surpassed 2025's number of flights in the first four months of 2026, indicating LAPD has accelerated the program’s use significantly. Activists and media have questioned the department’s use of drones during recent protests against federal immigration enforcement.
Some have called on the department to restrict its use of various surveillance technologies, including drones, saying they can be used to identify people vulnerable to the federal government’s immigration enforcement activities. Hackman said that the drones flying over peaceful protests aimed to provide the LAPD with “crowd awareness, crowd behavior assessments and crowd size assessments. ” The LAPD has sharply accelerated its use of drones in policing, including deploying them to protests in the city to survey crowds.
The department conducted 3,030 drone flights to support various calls for police service and 480 for high-risk operations from June through December 2025, according to aDetective Michael Hackman, manager of the department’s Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems program, told the commissioners that the department has already surpassed that number of flights in the first four months of 2026, indicating LAPD has accelerated the program’s use significantly. The report comes as activists and media have questioned the department’s use of drones during recent protests against federal immigration enforcement.tracking drone flight data captured the department conducting more than 30 drone flights during the Jan. 31 ICE Out protest in downtown.
About the same number of flights were documented during the March 28 No Kings protest. Several people at the commission meeting and on social media have made similar statements about seeing drone activity at protests. Some have called on the department to restrict its use of various surveillance technologies, including drones, saying they can be used to identify people vulnerable to the federal government’s immigration enforcement activities.
“Would you acknowledge that there are concerns in the community regarding privacy issues and whether the drones are used to record activity for the purpose of identifying participants? ” Commissioner Teresa Sánchez-Gordon asked on Tuesday. Hackman responded that the drones flying over peaceful protests aimed to provide the LAPD with “crowd awareness, crowd behavior assessments and crowd size assessments.
”Hackman added that one of the drone flights at the March 28 protest was in response to a report of a person possibly throwing objects at people and police. The department’s drone policy states officers cannot use drones to record or photograph “First Amendment assemblies for the purpose of identifying participants not engaged in unlawful conduct.
” And Hackman reiterated to the commissioners that the department did not record anyone who was not suspected of any crime, though he did not say if the March 28 drone flight recorded members of the crowd. Hackman added that the drones operate in much the same way that the department has used police lookouts and helicopters to watch crowds in the past.
The LAPD launched its Drone as First Responder pilot program last summer, which it said aimed to test deploying unmanned aircraft to calls for service before police officers could arrive. The drones have video and recording capabilities, and LAPD has said they are used to survey scenes to see if people are armed, or if police don’t need to respond at all.
That pilot program was later made permanent, and a more thanThe Echo Park Neighborhood Council submitted a letter to the City Council last month in opposition to the drone program expansion.
“LAPD’s track record shows a pattern of misusing existing tools: riot gear, tear gas, and less-lethal ammunition have been deployed against peaceful protesters, World Series celebrators, and ordinary residents,” wrote Windy O’Malley on behalf of the neighborhood council. “There is no demonstrated correlation between LAPD’s continued growth and a safer Los Angeles. ” The vast majority of the 3,000 flights last year were drones that deployed at calls for service before officers, including several hundred flights for training pilots.
Additionally, the department’s SWAT team used drones 33 times during various operations. Its bomb and hazardous materials teams used them during seven operations. Commission President Rasha Gerges Shields asked, in light of department staffing worries, if it was possible to quantify how much money the drone program is saving the department by eliminating officers from some calls.
Hackman said they are working on calculating that, but department officials have estimated, “about 10% of all calls could be handled by the arriving first on scene. ”
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