{"id":480367,"date":"2026-09-30T10:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/480367\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:24:15","slug":"la-county-approves-final-54-2b-budget-for-fy2026-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/480367\/","title":{"rendered":"LA County Approves Final $54.2B Budget For FY2026-27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He noted that the reallocation of funds would enable the county to cover a $1.2 billion annual legal payout related to thousands of childhood sexual assault cases filed under Assembly Bill 218, which temporary lifted the statute of limitations on such claims and leading to lawsuits alleging misconduct by county staff in juvenile halls and other facilities.<\/p>\n<p>The reallocation efforts &#8220;also preserve a 2% scheduled cost-of-living adjustment and $2,000 one-time bonus this fiscal year, avoid cuts to programs and services, and support investments in the Board of Supervisor&#8217;s highest priorities,&#8221; Nicchitta wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He noted that the reallocation of funds would enable the county to cover a $1.2 billion annual legal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-480367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480367","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=480367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}