The Federal Bureau of Investigation served a search warrant at the home of Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho on Wednesday morning, officials said.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, law enforcement was “executing a judicially approved search warrant” at his San Pedro home.
Images outside of Carvalho’s home around 9:10 a.m. showed agents wearing FBI-labeled clothing on the front porch. A neighbor, John Schefer, said the agents were outside the home as early as 6 a.m.
As of Wednesday morning, the underlying affidavit remained under seal, according to the FBI, making the reasoning for the search unknown. It’s not clear what wrongdoing, if any, Carvalho is accused of.
In a statement, the LAUSD also confirmed that “law enforcement activity” took place at its downtown LA headquarters Wednesday morning.
“The District is cooperating with the investigation and we do not have further information at this time,” the statement said.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation served a search warrant at the home of Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho on Wednesday morning, officials said.
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Some LASD employees told CBS LA outside the headquarters on Wednesday that they were asked to leave due to law enforcement activity. They were not informed of the specifics of the situation.
When asked for comment, the office of Mayor Karen Bass said “LAUSD is an independent body not governed by the City of Los Angeles. The Mayor’s Office has no information about this.”
Carvalho began his tenure as superintendent in early 2022, succeeding Austin Beutner. He was previously the superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools in South Florida between 2008 and taking the LAUSD job.
He spent the early portion of his role navigating the COVID-19 pandemic before shifting his focus to immigration enforcement-related concerns in recent months.
The LAUSD is the nation’s second-largest school district in student enrollment, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.
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