Labor Day 2015 is just about here, and that means summer is over, the kids are back to school and we all need to start thinking about what we're going to do for Christmas. Well, okay, maybe we don't need to start planning out our Christmas plans just yet. And as for summer, it isn't [...]
Early in the morning this Wednesday, August 26, a heat alert was issued for the San Fernando Valley, the San Gabriel Valley, the Santa Clarita Valley and parts of the LA Basin. The alert isn't set to expire until Friday, August 28th and until that time, dangerously high temperatures will require that folks take extra [...]
Los Angeles County is big, and the LA life typically involves a lot of driving to different areas, whether it be for work or pleasure, and sometimes a person is arrested and taken into custody in an area where nobody is immediately available to help them. Being arrested comes as a surprise, and often times [...]
The 5th Amendment guarantees the right to bail, and the 8th Amendment assures that the cost of bailing someone out won't be excessive. However, just because the right to bail is guaranteed doesn't necessarily mean there won't be any strings attached. Let's say for example, an individual is arrested on suspicion of domestic violence and taken [...]
If you know someone that has recently been arrested on assault charges in Santa Clarita, it's likely that they are located at the Santa Clarita Sheriff Station on-site jail. When someone is arrested in the area, they're taken immediately to the Santa Clarita Sheriff Station where they will undergo booking and processing. During the process, [...]
The "War on Drugs" is fought on many fronts, and in September, the Santa Clarita Sheriff's Station will be initiating a program to inform Santa Clarita teens about the perils of drug use. The program is being instituted by Deputy William Velek of the Juvenile Intervention Team and will include a sequence of classes designed [...]
Being arrested can be scary - whether you're guilty of committing a crime or not - and when it happens, most people's minds are on the thought of languishing in jail until their court date. When someone is arrested under suspicion of DUI in Santa Clarita, they will be taken to the Santa Clarita Sheriff [...]
When bail is set by a judge, that amount will vary widely depending on the nature and number of crimes a defendant is charged with. That being said, bail can sometimes be set pretty high, and most folks don't have the cash lying around to use to bail them out. That's when they go to [...]
There's a common misconception that can come with being released on bail, and that is that the defendant has their freedom back 100% and can do whatever they want. Unfortunately, that isn't the case. When someone is bailed out of jail, they are granted their freedom from police custody, but not necessarily from the oversight [...]
The recent spate of officer-involved shootings has caused outrage in the community and embarassed police forces across the country. That embarassment has led some law enforcement agencies to re-examine the way they train officers and search for ways to eliminate these instances from occurring in the future. The LAPD, for example, has decided to institute [...]
