Editor:
If Supervisor Kuehl’s home is fair game for a visit from Sheriff Villanueva, then the LA County Jail should be as well. According to a new lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, inmates, many with mental-health issues, are being forced to sleep on urine-soaked floors, among other abuses to which they are subjected.
Those sheriffs’ deputies banging on Supervisor Kuehl’s door in the early-morning hours were expensive. They represented our tax dollars. And their energies would have been far better deployed elsewhere - such as wielding mops and buckets to clean up the jail.
Joan Walston, Santa Monica
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 16, 2022. Read the original PDF.