The sheriff must also ensure that female inmates are removed from the Twin Towers maximum security facility, originally designed to house male inmates, and the Amer-I-Can program must be restored to help ease racial tensions, Antonovich said.
Protesters Battle immigration bill
Protesters from around Los Angeles arrived in Burbank on Thursday to protest the passing of the "Border Protections, Anti-terrorist, and Illegal Immigration Control Act"
The act was passed by the United States House of Representatives on Dec. 16, 2005, and is currently under consideration in the Senate.
The act proposes a number of measures to prevent illegal immigration, including the construction of a 700-mile wall along the border with Mexico and prohibiting undocumented residents from accessing social services, regardless of whether or not they are publicly sponsored.
The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles organized the vigils and rallies throughout the day at both the Republican National Committee offices in Burbank and the Democratic National Committee offices in downtown Los Angeles.
They focused their efforts on those representatives that voted for the bill.
Groups represented at the vigils included ACLU of Southern California, the L.A. Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness, and the Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights.
The act, protesters argued, would hurt millions of undocumented residents, including more than 1 million children, and punish anyone who offered them assistance.
Scott calls for U.C. accountability
In a hearing Friday in the state Capitol, state Sen. Jack Scott, a Democrat who represents Burbank, and members of the Senate Education Committee, heard testimony from the president of the University of California concerning questionable compensation practices for some U.C. executives.
