Williams, executive director of the county’s Civilian Oversight Commission - Huntsman pinpointed several high-profile cases in which he said Villanueva’s department did not offer up information to the OIG’s office, which was designed as a watchdog to ensure transparency.įor instance, he chronicled a Nov. In the letter - which cc’d the Board of Supervisors and Brian K. The statement did not respond point-by-point to the allegations, but added: “A detailed response will be released publicly at in the future.” Sheriff’s Department officials called the letter “yet another attempt to delegitimize the Department and attack the transparency and accountability which has been instituted under Sheriff Alex Villanueva.”Ī statement from the department released Friday evening said: “The OIG currently receives everything they are legally entitled to, despite the many factual distortions, inaccuracies, and pattern of intellectual dishonesty which has become the norm for the current inspector general.”
“While many of the matters inquired into by my office are sensitive in nature and not subject to public disclosure, a subordinate county official, even an elected one, has no right to refuse to cooperate in such investigations as they have been approved by the state legislature as a means of implementing the ‘fundamental principle of good governance in the United States of America that checks and balances are important in order to provide effectiveness and transparency,” Huntsman wrote, demanding a meeting with Villanueva to go over his concerns. They range from refusal to comply with Huntsman’s document and information requests to the blocking of access to body-worn camera footage. The demands, itemized in the 13-page letter to Sheriff Alex Villanueva dated June 15, chronicle what Huntsman alleges are more than two dozen instances over two years of the department’s defiance. In a blunt, sweeping letter released Friday, June 18, Inspector General Max Huntsman, the watchdog over the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, demanded the release of a litany of oversight information that he said the department has “significantly and intentionally impeded.”
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