Los Angeles County courts stymied by shortage of prisoner transport buses: officials – By Rebecca Rosenberg (FOX News) / Aug 24, 2022
The bus debacle stems from a clash between Sheriff Alex Villanueva and a powerful county agency that allocates funding
EXCLUSIVE: A busing crisis is hampering Los Angeles courts after a powerful local agency slashed funding to the sheriff’s office in a long-simmering feud — an operational breakdown that is jeopardizing cases, officials told Fox News Digital.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, which allocates money to maintain the department’s fleet of prison transport buses, have been publicly clashing since Villanueva took office.
“The Board just really doesn’t care about public safety or the Constitutional rights of inmates,” said Villanueva, who has accused the Board of waging a personal vendetta against him.”They don’t want me to succeed, and they don’t care who they hurt.”
The collateral damage from the power struggle has had wide-ranging consequences.
