It’s been almost exactly a month since, on August 15, 2024, LASD Sergeant Rosa Gonzalez, challenged the demotion she received after becoming a whistleblower for the second time during her 25-years with the nation’s largest sheriff’s department.

Last month, Gonzalez challenged the punitive demotion in what is known as a Skelly hearing.

For weeks after the hearing, she heard nothing. Then finally, on Thursday, September 12, Gonzalez received a five-page reply to the highly detailed presentation that her union attorney, Mitch Kander, had given at the hearing.

The letter, which was delivered by a department captain and a lieutenant, which was signed by Sheriff Robert Luna, and Assistant Sheriff, Holly Francisco, began as follows:

“On June 24, 2024, you were served with a Letter of Intention indicating your right to respond to the Sheriff’s Department’s pending disciplinary action against you….

You were also advised of your right to review the material on which the discipline was based.

You did exercise your right to respond. However, after review and consideration of the response submitted to support your position, Department executives determined that the recommended discipline is appropriate.

You are hereby notified that you are reduced in rank from Sergeant… to Deputy Sheriff…effective at the close of business on September 12, 2024.”

The department’s leaders then followed up with a great deal more, including the allegation that former Captain Yvonne O’Brien, whose actions...

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