A corruption-tackling prosecutor has been selected to head a new agency that will scrutinize the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department with the power to conduct investigations inside troubled jails and elsewhere.
After months of searching, the Board of Supervisors offered the job Tuesday to Deputy Dist. Atty. Max Huntsman, a supervisor in the district attorney’s public corruption division who has been among the lead prosecutors in the trial of Bell city officials, according to county sources familiar with the decision.
Huntsman accepted the job of inspector general, and an announcement is expected Wednesday, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak until the announcement is made. Huntsman declined to comment.
Creating the office of inspector general was one of the key recommendations last year of a blue-ribbon commission that investigated allegations of violence inside the nation's largest jail system.
