Keri Blakinger covers the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. Before joining the Los Angeles Times in 2023, she spent nearly seven years in Texas, first covering criminal justice for the Houston Chronicle and then covering prisons for the Marshall Project. Her work has appeared everywhere from the BBC to the New York Daily News, from Vice to the Washington Post Magazine, where her 2019 reporting on women in jail helped earn a National Magazine Award. She is the author of “Corrections in Ink,” a 2022 memoir about her time in prison.
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Orange County prosecutors weigh whether to charge the Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy implicated in a Mission Viejo car wreck that killed two Marines.
Oct. 2, 2023
In Men’s Central Jail, they say, there is almost always something burning. But there are no smoke alarms where inmates live.
Sept. 27, 2023
Kevin Cataneo Salazar faces one count of murder with special circumstances of lying in wait, firing from a car and personal use of a firearm, a .22-caliber revolver, according to the criminal complaint.
Sept. 20, 2023
Ryan Clinkunbroomer is remembered for his work ethic, his humor, his hopes and dreams. The deputy was hoping to start a family soon and wanted, one day, to become a detective.
Sept. 17, 2023
Ryan Clinkunbroomer was fatally shot in his patrol vehicle in front of the Palmdale station, the Sheriff’s Department said.
Sept. 17, 2023
It is rare for someone as high-ranking as a captain or acting commander to be relieved of duty, current and former sheriff’s officials said.
Sept. 14, 2023
Days after police say they saved a pit bull puppy from an overdose, a preliminary drug test came back negative and the owner can take his dog back.
Sept. 14, 2023
The Board of Supervisors agreed to pay the settlement to Christopher Bailey, who suffered permanent eye damage, missing teeth and facial fractures in 2020.
Sept. 13, 2023
The National Weather Service issued a high surf advisory for large swaths of the coast and nearby islands through Monday evening.
Sept. 10, 2023
Partygoers set fire to what appeared to be a decommissioned police car before officers arrived and declared an unlawful assembly.
Sept. 10, 2023