An emotional appeal touching on crime, immigration

The father of slain high school football star Jamiel Shaw Jr. is expected to ask the Los Angeles City Council today to deport gang members who are undocumented immigrants. The man charged with shooting Shaw was found to have been living illegally in this country for more than a decade. Jamiel Shaw Sr. has said his son’s death could have been prevented if the alleged killer, who had been released from jail a day before the shooting, had been removed from the country.

It’s a request that would require the city to change the LAPD’s controversial Special Order 40, which prevents officers from checking on the immigration status of suspects in most cases. Shaw’s appearance today is being supported by Los Angeles mayoral candidate Walter Moore, whose platform includes revocation of the order. Times staff will be covering Shaw’s appearance and council reaction. . .

O.C. legislator works to stop abuse of license plates

SACRAMENTO – Saying that government employees shouldn’t be able to evade traffic tickets because they have secret license plates, Assemblyman Todd Spitzer said Monday that he will propose legislation to help traffic enforcement agencies pierce the shield.

Spitzer was responding to an Orange County Register investigation that showed that a Department of Motor Vehicles program designed to protect law enforcement from criminals was giving them another kind of protection: They can drive on toll roads without paying, run red light cameras with impunity and park illegally.

For example, 3,722 public employees have run the 91 Express Lanes in the past five years, public documents show. . .

Rampant abuse is seen at O.C. jail

A grand jury transcript released Monday describes an Orange County jail in disarray, with deputies watching television, playing video games and taking naps while inmates were allowed to use brutality and intimidation to keep order in the cellblocks.

The conclusions are contained in 7,000 pages of transcripts from a special criminal grand jury impaneled by Dist. Atty. Tony Rackauckas to investigate the 2006 death of an inmate at Theo Lacy Jail, as well as how the Orange County Sheriff’s Department handled the incident.

The Sheriff’s Department tried to keep the grand jury’s evidence secret. The Times and the Orange County Register went to court to have the transcripts made public. They show that then-Sheriff Michael S. Carona exercised his 5th Amendment rights rather than answer the panel’s questions. . .