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Sheriff McDonnell Names Sergio Perez Constitutional Policing Advisor
By a MetNews Staff Writer
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SERGIO PEREZ Constitutional Policing Advisor |
Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell announced yesterday he has named attorney Sergio Perez as “constitutional policing advisor” to his department.
He will come on board in mid-November, an announcement said.
Perez is presently director of enforcement for the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission. On his LinkedIn page, he explains:
“My staff and I investigate and bring enforcement actions against individuals and entities who violate the City’s ethics, campaign finance, or lobbying laws.”
He has served as a trial attorney with the Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
“My docket was focused on addressing patterns or practices of unconstitutional conduct by law enforcement agencies throughout the United States,” he says on his LinkedIn page.
In that capacity, investigated discriminatory misconduct by law the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department and the Puerto Rico Police Department.
He has also been a deputy state attorney general.
His law degree is from Yale.
Admitted to the State Bar on Dec. 21, 2010, he previously worked as a summer associate at the Los Angeles firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson and at Altshuler Berzon in the San Francisco Bay area.
A statement by the Sheriff’s Office says Perez’s experience “provides Sheriff McDonnell and the LASD with the benefit of an internal voice with an invaluable perspective and set of skills which will assist the Sheriff in identifying issues and proposing practices and accountability measures which will keep the Department on track to continue to move forward,” adding:
“The addition of Sergio Perez is part of the Sheriff s commitment to building public trust, increasing transparency, and improving conditions for the inmates in our care, including the growing number of mentally ill and medically fragile inmates.”
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