Los Angeles County Board Of Supervisors

Calling for an "early warning system" for land fraud, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors created a task force Tuesday to protect customers of developers such as Marshall Redman, who was charged last month in a series of desert land sales to unsophisticated Latino customers in the Antelope Valley.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky on Thursday announced the selection of several San Fernando Valley residents to county commissions. Among the selections: * Attorney Fred Gaines, a Calabasas resident and a partner at the Sherman Oaks law firm of Reznick & Reznick, was named to the Library Commission.

Although he's simply an administrative aide largely out of public view, Donald Knabe is drawing the sort of fast and furious contributions that normally are reserved for sitting members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Individuals, labor unions and special interests that do business with the nation's largest county government pumped over $1 million in the past year into Knabe's campaign to replace his boss, retiring Supervisor Deane Dana.

Should inmates be forced to pay a fee for the time they spend in jail? The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to study that unusual idea.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will file a lawsuit Tuesday against a group of insurance companies for refusing to help pay to fix the earthquake-damaged San Fernando Courthouse. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, who represents the district that includes the courthouse, said the county gave the insurance companies until last Friday to cooperate and they did not.

One recent evening, Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich was being roasted at a $500-a-plate dinner, attended by 800 supporters--all eager to shake his hand and aid his reelection campaign. Across the county in a modest home in Palmdale, Don Kumaus, Antonovich's only opponent for the 5th District supervisorial seat, was having a quiet dinner with his family. They talked about work and school, and then went to bed early.

County supervisors in Los Angeles and San Diego took opposite sides Tuesday in the long-running fight over the plan to store low-level radioactive waste at Ward Valley in the Mojave Desert. After hearing pointed arguments, Los Angeles County supervisors voted 3 to 2 to go on record against the proposed dump site because of the lack of assurances that the site "will not contaminate the county's critical water supply" from the Colorado River.

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors said Tuesday that it will launch a nationwide search for a new chief administrative officer to replace Sally Reed, amid disclosures that the two front-runners from within county government don't want the job. The supervisors also decided in a closed session to appoint Reed's chief assistant, Sandra Davis, to be interim chief administrative officer when Reed leaves June 1.

Los Angeles County Supervisors Zev Yaroslavsky and Mike Antonovich on Monday asked the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to investigate the safety of San Fernando Valley subway construction after The Times on Sunday reported potential dangers to the tunneling crews. The supervisors, who are also MTA board members, also asked the authority's chief executive, Joseph A.

Los Angeles County Supervisors Zev Yaroslavsky and Mike Antonovich on Monday asked the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to investigate the safety of Studio City subway construction after The Times on Sunday reported potential dangers to the tunneling crews. The supervisors, who are MTA board members, also asked the authority's chief executive, Joseph A.