- Making News: Budget Shortfall Frees Non-Violent Inmates
LA County Sheriff-s Chief Charles Jackson laments, -I spent 30 years arresting these people. Now I spend my time letting them go.- A new money-saving policy means that some 130 criminals are being released daily even though they-ve served as little as 10 percent of their sentences. Sheriff Lee Baca, who says he has no choice, regrets that a $1.3 billion loss in property taxes will severely impact law enforcement and residents of LA County.
LA Times article about budget cuts, early releases
National Indian Gaming Commission
Tribal State Gaming Compacts (Proposition 5, 1998)
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell's proposed amendment to the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act
Assemblyman Dymally's proposed bill regarding Tongva Reservation