The Los Angeles Times reported this morning that LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa picked Deputy Police Chief Charlie Beck to replace Bill Bratton, who stepped down as LAPD Chief on Saturday.
Villaraigosa will make the formal announcement around 11:00am from Getty House – which will probably be broadcast live. Click inside to read reaction – including openly gay Police Commissioner’s apparent confirmation of Beck as Villaraigosa’s choice.
Tomorrow morning, the Los Angeles Police Commission will once again hold a public hearing concerning the connection between the LAPD’s Explorers Program and the Boy Scouts of America, which proudly and legally discriminates against LGBT people. A new opinion by LA City Attorney Carmen Trutanich calls for the LAPD to sever ties to the Boy Scouts – but that’s not as easy as it may sound. For at least 8 years since the LA City Council first ordered the LAPD to sever ties, the LA Police Commission has dodged the issue. I argue here that by failing to sever ties, the Police Commission is complicit with the Boys Scouts’ bigotry and is continuing to fail LGBT youth. Click inside for my argument.
The White House is about to announce the nomination of openly gay attorney David Huebner to be Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, according to a White House source with whom I just spoke.
, a partner in Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, is well-known in the Los Angeles LGBT community as the longtime counsel to the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation…..
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