Proposals for Governmental Reorganization in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

1936 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 943-950
Author(s):  
Russell M. Story
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Substantial Agreement ◽  
Entire Area ◽  
Administrative Organization ◽  
The Public ◽  
Governmental Agencies ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Additional Service

Governmental studies looking toward the reorganization of present political and administrative arrangements by Los Angeles county and Los Angeles city, respectively, have been a feature of recent months in the metropolitan region of the Pacific Southwest. Three separate reports have been prepared, two of which are before the public. Certain areas of substantial agreement in principle are found in these two reports, and it now appears that by joint agreement some far-reaching changes will be proposed as charter amendments to the Los Angeles county charter. The most significant of these proposals look toward simplification of structural arrangements through reorganization of existing governmental agencies in the county and the establishment of certain centralized agencies of county-wide administration responsible for minimum standards of service throughout the entire area and available for additional service to those local communities which through their local councils order and pay for it. Likewise, the reports agree in recommending the establishment of the county-manager form of administrative organization.

A Novel Locality for the Observation of Thousands of Passerine Birds during Spring Migration in Los Angeles County, California

Western Birds ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 322-339
Author(s):  
Ryan S. Terrill ◽  
Christine A. Dean ◽  
John Garrett ◽  
Daniel J. Maxwell ◽  
Lauren Hill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Spring Migration ◽  
Passerine Birds ◽  
San Gabriel Mountains ◽  
Species Migration ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Migration Phenology ◽  
Species Specific

Avian migration is a spectacular phenomenon, representing the annual movements of billions of birds globally. Because the greatest diversity and numbers of birds migrate at night, opportunities to observe active migration are rare. At a number of localities in North America, however, observers can quantify movements of many typically nocturnal migrants during daylight where they continue after dawn. Such locations have provided much information about species-specific phenology, status, and orientation during migration. Localities where morning flights of land birds can be observed are unevenly distributed, however, and are little reported along the Pacific coast. Here we describe a novel location for the observation of spectacular morning flights of nocturnal migrants during spring migration at Bear Divide, in the western San Gabriel Mountains, Los Angeles County, California. In two years of informal surveys at the site, we have recorded at least one morning with an estimated ~13,500 individual birds passing. Our preliminary analyses suggest that the peak of a species’ migration at Bear Divide is correlated with the latitude of a species’ breeding, being later in the spring as that latitude increases. Our data from Bear Divide provide an independent perspective on migration as quantified by local radar. Further work at this locality may help inform our knowledge of migration phenology and population trends.

DATA QUALITY IN SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND INFODEMIC: An Evaluation Study (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Saunders-Russell ◽  
Steven H Stumpf ◽  
Jerald Schutte ◽  
Sawyer Lindsey ◽  
Terrin Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Skilled Nursing Facilities ◽  
Nursing Facilities ◽  
Public Health Response ◽  
California Department ◽  
Skilled Nursing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Data Verification

BACKGROUND The incidence of COVID-19 cases and deaths in Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) has garnered tremendous attention across all media. Data verification weaknesses in the reporting systems of public agencies have become magnified by the devastating impact of COVID-19. The result is a COVID-19 infodemic, i.e., “deliberate attempts to disseminate wrong information to undermine the public health response and advance alternative agendas of groups or individuals.” Nonsensical and misleading reports have been submitted to public gatekeepers by Los Angeles County SNFs. The scale of confounding reports suggests intention to mask failure in the management of COVID-19 infections and deaths risk to patients and staff. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to evaluate the extent to which COVID-19 data reported by SNFs has contributed to the COVID-19 infodemic. METHODS This evaluation covered 22 consecutive weeks of SNF data reported to the California Department of Public Health from May 24 through October 24, 2020. We reviewed COVID-19 outcomes reported by 350 Los Angeles County (LAC) SNFs (90.7% of all LAC SNFs). We examined COVID-19 cases and deaths for SNF residents and staff for logical continuity. RESULTS We found illogical reported outcomes for COVID-19 cases and deaths for residents and staff in LAC SNFs. CONCLUSIONS Misleading data misleads regulators and the public regarding the true impact of COVID-19 for SNF residents and staff. We propose the implementation of an integrated reporting model is needed to mitigate inaccuracies and establish a new standard for data verification.

scholarly journals HISTORY OF OCEAN OUTLETS, LOS ANGELES COUNTY FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Edgar C. Kenyon
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Plain Area ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
Coastal Plain Area

Los Angeles County has a number of watercourses which discharge into the Pacific Ocean. Three of these are of major importance in that they traverse the Coastal Plain area of the County. These three are the Los Angeles River, the San Gabriel River, and Ballona Creek. They have a combined drainage area of approximately 1,645 square miles, most of which is within Los Angeles County. Such area not only comprises over 40 percent of the land area of the County but, more important, includes within its boundaries, the great majority of the County's population. The Coastal Plain area of Los Angeles County, prior to installation of flood control works, was probably subject to a greater potential flood hazard than any area of similar size and density of population in the United States. It has been subjected periodically to floods that, descending from the San Gabriel and Santa Monica Mountains, have rushed across the valley floor towards the Pacific Ocean altering topographic features and causing loss of life and property.

Failure to alert? Exploring perceptions of ShakeAlert during the 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake SequenceShow affiliations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Mcbride ◽  
Robert de Groot ◽  
Tao Ruan ◽  
Qin Lv ◽  
Qingkai Kong
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
Warning System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Earthquake Early Warning System ◽  
The Public ◽  
Perceived Performance ◽  
Experience Levels ◽  
The City

<p>On July 4, 2019, a M6.4 earthquake struck Ridgecrest, California. The next evening, on July 5, an even larger M7.1 rattled the region. The ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States detected and issued ShakeAlert Messages for both earthquakes to pilot users of the system. Several ShakeAlert technical partners, including the Caltech UserDisplay demonstration console, also delivered alerts to their users. However, the Los Angeles City application (app), powered by ShakeAlert, developed and being tested by the City of Los Angeles did not deliver ShakeAlerts to approximately 700,000 test users in Los Angeles County. This is because the alerting threshold of the estimated shaking (above Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI) IV, potentially damaging shaking) was not met for either event in Los Angeles County. While the minimum magnitude threshold of M5.0 for both earthquakes was met, the shaking estimated by the ShakeAlert system indicated that no part of Los Angeles County would experience levels of shaking that would be damaging. Although the ShakeAlert System performed as designed—in both the Ridgecrest area as well as in Los Angeles—various media outlets and initial feedback from LA City app users suggest that the public perceived that the system did not work.</p><p>This presentation offers an analysis of media and social media data related to the perceived performance of the ShakeAlert System during the Ridgecrest earthquake sequence. Specially, we focus on a comparison between media depictions and social media activity in the two geographic regions that did and did not receive a ShakeAlert message, Kern County and Los Angeles, respectively. This represents in many ways a natural experiment, and it is important to learn from these early perceptions of this emergent system.</p>

The Nature and Structure of MS-13 in Los Angeles County

2021 ◽  
pp. 073401682110299
Author(s):  
Lidia E. Nuño ◽  
Edward R. Maguire
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Los Angeles County ◽  
The United States ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The Public ◽  
Latin American Immigrants ◽  
Key Aspects

Recent descriptions of Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) by senior U.S. government officials suggest that the gang is highly organized, has significant transnational capacity, and is heavily involved in violence. Arguably, these depictions have created moral panic among the public and have fed xenophobic attitudes toward Latin American immigrants. However, little is known from empirical research about the nature and structure of MS-13 in the United States. In this article, we draw on data from interviews with incarcerated MS-13 members in Los Angeles County, the birthplace of MS-13. We examine three key aspects of MS-13: its organizational characteristics, its transnational capacity, and its involvement in criminal behavior, including violence. Our findings provide a useful descriptive summary of MS-13 in Los Angeles County, where the gang originated. Our findings also suggest that while there are good reasons to take MS-13 seriously as a threat to public safety, much of the public discourse on the gang is based on inaccurate assumptions.

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