{"id":294000,"date":"2026-04-30T23:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/294000\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T23:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:36:11","slug":"los-angeles-county-is-bruised-and-battered-supervisor-hahn-says-but-still-resilient-daily-breeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/294000\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles County is \u2018bruised and battered,\u2019 Supervisor Hahn says, but still resilient \u2013 Daily Breeze"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles County has been put through the ringer over the past year, according to Supervisor Janice Hahn, but is still resilient \u2014 and working to combat the myriad challenges facing the region on both the local and federal level.<\/p>\n

Hahn, a member of the Board of Supervisors who represents more than 2 million residents in the Fourth District \u2014 which ranges from Torrance to Long Beach and up through Southeastern LA County \u2014 delivered her annual State of the County address to a crowd of regional elected officials, government and business leaders, and others at Crafted near the Port of Los Angeles, in San Pedro, on Thursday, April 30.<\/p>\n

The supervisor began her address by tackling one of the most pressing issues Los Angeles County has been dealing with over the past couple of years: federal immigration agents, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, carrying out hundreds of raids on the streets, at businesses and at residents\u2019 homes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never thought that we would be under assault by our own federal government, but in 2025, ICE arrested over 14,000 people in LA County, the majority of whom had no criminal record,\u201d Hahn said. \u201cThey racially profiled our residents, targeted workers and grabbed innocent people off the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Janice Hahn speaks during the 2026 State of the County in San Pedro on Thursday, April 30, 2026. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Marathon Petroleum\u2019s Victor Ibarra introduces Janice Hahn during the 2026 State of the County in San Pedro on Thursday, April 30, 2026. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Janice Hahn speaks during the 2026 State of the County in San Pedro on Thursday, April 30, 2026. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Janice Hahn speaks during the 2026 State of the County in San Pedro on Thursday, April 30, 2026. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Janice Hahn speaks during the 2026 State of the County in San Pedro on Thursday, April 30, 2026. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Janice Hahn speaks during the 2026 State of the County in San Pedro on Thursday, April 30, 2026. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Janice Hahn speaks during the 2026 State of the County in San Pedro on Thursday, April 30, 2026. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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Janice Hahn speaks during the 2026 State of the County in San Pedro on Thursday, April 30, 2026. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram\/SCNG)\n<\/p>\n

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ICE\u2019s presence in the region, Hahn said, has had a marked impact on not just the daily lives of residents \u2014 but also on the local economy and businesses. A county-commissioned study earlier this year found that 52% of surveyed businesses reported a decline in sales, 70% experienced staffing shortages, and 33% said they had employees who were too afraid to come into work as a result of federal immigration raids.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut LA County is pushing back. We\u2019re providing emergency support for small businesses, we held massive food distribution events across the county to make sure that families in need can put food on the table,\u201d Hahn said, \u201cand we passed a historic ordinance to ban any law enforcement, including ICE, from wearing masks or concealing their identities.\u201d<\/p>\n

ICE arrests in the Harbor Area, which has been a hot spot for federal immigration activity<\/a> because agents were using Terminal Island as a staging area<\/a> up until recently, have plummeted in recent months, Hahn said, as a result of the county\u2019s action \u2014 and ongoing work by the Harbor Area Peace Patrol<\/a> to document the agency\u2019s actions and keep the community informed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese volunteers (from Harbor Area Peace Patrol) showed up every single day. They tracked ICE vehicles, documented raids (and) made sure the community knew what was happening,\u201d Hahn said. \u201cAnd when I authored that mask ban, it was (the Peace Patrol) who documented their secretive tactics. They had evidence \u2014 they provided me with information to make the case. They brought transparency to a system that depended on secrecy.\u201d<\/p>\n

ICE recently left Terminal Island \u2014 which Hahn, on Thursday, attributed to the Peace Patrol\u2019s unrelenting efforts to document their operations there and in the region at large.<\/p>\n

LA County, meanwhile, is dealing with another troubling issue: its budget.<\/p>\n

Besides recently announcing that the county has reached a mammoth $4 billion settlement covering around 6,800 sexual abuse claims, some dating as far back as the 1950s<\/a> \u2014 which will impact the county\u2019s budget for years to come \u2014 Los Angeles County is also struggling with historic federal divestment after Congress passed President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cBig Beautiful Bill.\u201d<\/p>\n

The county is expected to lose around $2 billion worth of federal funding for its various programs and services every year as a result of that bill, Hahn said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes cuts to healthcare, to food assistance, even to programs that track disease outbreaks like measles,\u201d Hahn said. \u201cClose to a million LA County residents will lost their health insurance. Millions will lose their food benefits.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, Hahn added, just because the funding isn\u2019t there, doesn\u2019t mean people won\u2019t still need the services.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, LA County is the safety net,\u201d Hahn said. \u201cWe are going to have to figure out how to provide for people even when the federal government chooses to spend our tax dollars to a war overseas instead of to our county.\u201d<\/p>\n

The county, Hahn said, has already taken extensive steps to mitigate the blow from the massive funding loss: All 39 county departments were recently directed to cut their budgets by 8.5%. The county also implemented a hiring freeze and \u201cdipped into its rainy day fund\u201d to balance the books for the 2026-27 fiscal year,<\/a> the supervisor said.<\/p>\n

Because of those actions, Hahn said, the proposed budget is \u201cmore stable than it could have been\u201d \u2014 but concerns for the county\u2019s fiscal future still loom.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe good news is that we\u2019re not expecting mass layoffs right now, but as the healthcare cuts take effect, this situation could get much worse,\u201d Hahn said. \u201cWith a fraction of the federal funding we need, we will be forced to close county hospitals.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, she added, a recently proposed countywide half-cent sales tax dubbed Measure ER has been placed on the June 2 ballot<\/a>. If approved, the measure would generate $1 billion to support healthcare programs impacting by funding cuts every year for five years, Hahn said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m for this, but listen, I know that a lot of people don\u2019t like the idea of a new sales tax. I\u2019ve heard from both sides: City leaders who are against the tax (and) healthcare professional who are warning of a coming collapse that is going to cost people their lives,\u201d Hahn said. \u201cI think we at least have to give our voters an option to avoid the immense disruptions that will come if our health system is essentially defunded.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hahn reviewed the county\u2019s recent actions to address untreated mental illness and homelessness across the region, including the establishment of a the new Department of Homeless Services and Housing<\/a> and the county\u2019s 24\/7 mental health crisis response teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cResponse is just the first step, right?\u201d the supervisor said. \u201cWe need more places where a person with serious mental illness can jump and take the treatment in need.\u201d<\/p>\n

To that end, Hahn also hailed the county\u2019s work to develop a \u201cmental health village\u201d at the site of a former state hospital in Norwalk<\/a>. The county, Hahn said, recently secured a $65 million Proposition 1 grant to build the village, which will provide people with mental illnesses shelter, interim housing, supportive housing and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we\u2019re serious about addressing mental illness,\u201d Hahn said, \u201cwe can\u2019t keep cycling people in and out of emergency rooms and jails.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hahn also hailed the recent creation of Veterans Center in San Pedro, at a former Best Western Hotel on First and Gaffey streets, which provides shelter, job training and other support to around 100 homeless veterans.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been touched by the stories of the men who have lived there,\u201d Hahn said. \u201cPeople who served our country, have suffered both the seen and invisible scars of war, but have found the support they need there to get better.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why, the supervisor said Thursday, she has set a goal to eliminate veteran homelessness in her district by 2028 \u2014 which will mark the close of her time on the Board of Supervisors.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am working with our LA County Department of Military and Veteran Affairs,\u201d she said, \u201cto break down the barriers that have made it too hard for veterans to get the help they need.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aside from those key issues, Hahn said, the county is also preparing for a more positive event: The 2028 Summer Olympics. Namely, Hahn spoke about her plan to establish a water taxi service between San Pedro and Long Beach during the Games<\/a> \u2014 which she said she hopes will eventually become a permanent fixture<\/a> of public transport.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t stop at the Olympics. I want to make the water taxi permanent,\u201d Hahn said. \u201cIt would be good for our residents (and businesses). The water taxi would be an attraction: imagine having a constant stream of visitors coming over from Long Beach and disembarking just blocks from here to visit restaurants and shops in downtown San Pedro and the soon-to-open West Harbor development.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hahn closed her State of the County by looking ahead to some major changes coming to how the government operates.<\/p>\n

In 2028, for the first time, LA County residents will get to elect a county CEO \u2014 and, in a few years, four new members of the Board of Supervisors as it expands from five to nine, thanks to the voter-approved Measure G,<\/a> which also establishes a the county\u2019s first independent ethics commission. All of that, Hahn said, will help ensure that county leaders deliver the best results to residents that they can.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo years ago, I ended my speech by saying, the State of the County is strong and resilient,\u201d Hahn said. \u201cThis time, I would have to say that Los Angeles County is bruised and battered \u2014 but I still believe we\u2019re resilient.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles County has been put through the ringer over the past year, according to Supervisor Janice Hahn,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,5947,131,133,132,137,100],"class_list":["post-294000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-la-county-board-of-supervisors","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}