UCLA Police Department Chief James Herren will retire in June after almost seven years in the position working to improve community relationships and accountability. Herren joined the university as chief of police in 2009. Read more...
Photo: James Herren, UCLA’s chief of police for seven years, will retire at the end of the school year. (Daily Bruin file photo)
University police manages a budget of more than $12 million, about 60 percent of which is used to pay its staff. Each year, UCPD’s finance division determines how money is distributed to each department, and aims to solve issues such as deficits. Read more...
A group of graduate students started a petition that demands the University of California dismiss a UCLA history professor accused of sexually assaulting two students. Preston McBride, president of the History Graduate Students Association, said graduate students started the petition after UCLA officials allowed history professor Gabriel Piterberg to return to teach on campus. Read more...
Photo: Last March, several UCLA students marched to the UCLA history department in Bunche Hall asking for the resignation of professor Piterberg. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
University police are searching for a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a UCLA student on the Hill early Friday. The student reported an acquaintance assaulted the student in a residence hall at 2:30 a.m. Read more...
A judge sentenced a former UCLA personal assistant to two years in state prison Wednesday for embezzling about $80,000 from a university bank account. Casandra Carmen Jones, a temporary personal assistant who stole money from a university account for more than a year, pleaded no contest to one count of grand theft of personal property, said Ricardo Santiago, a district attorney spokesperson. Read more...
UCLA’s research center that works with police departments to reduce racial profiling and other issues will relocate to New York following an endowment of $2.5 million. Read more...
Two men accused of killing UCLA student Andrea “Andy” DelVesco in the summer of 2015 will be arraigned a second time after their preliminary hearing concluded Monday. Read more...
Photo: Steve Cron, Eric Marquez’s lawyer, examines evidence alongside deputy district attorney Victor Avila pertaining to Andrea “Andy” DelVesco’s death. (Jintak Han/Daily Bruin)
