Sheriff defied court orders to name deputies with misconduct histories. It was a costly decision.

[Zorro]

On three occasions, a judge ordered the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to produce a roster of deputies with histories of misconduct.

Court deadlines came and went. Tens of thousands of dollars in sanctions against the county piled up.

But the list was never disclosed.

Janet Williams had requested the so-called Brady list in a 2017 civil rights lawsuit after a deputy shot and killed her son, Dennis “Todd” Rogers, 41. She hoped the list would show the department failed to provide proper training and supervision to deputies, leading to excessive force.

But she never got that far. After the Sheriff’s Department repeatedly failed to provide the list to Williams, U.S. District Court Judge André Birotte Jr. granted a default judgment in her favor of more than $2 million.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-17/court-orders-sheriff-refuses-to-name-deputies-misconduct

[Yonnie3]

1. It make me wonder what was on that Brady list

Could there be so much bad on that list that multiple lawsuits would make that $2 million cheap?

[2naSalit]

2. Most likely.

[The Magistrate]

3. Sherrif Needs Some Jail Time, Sir

[GeorgeGist]

4. Deduct $200 from every deputy's paycheck until it's paid.

[beachbumbob]

5. why wouldsherrif dept care? They aint paying the money, the taxpayers are

[TeamPooka]

6. Citizens have to pay for Villanueva's corruption. He's the fucking worst politician in SoCal.

that dept is so fucking corrupt.