LOS ANGELES—Robert Luna, newly elected as the next sheriff of Los Angeles County, has announced the leaders of his transition team.
The team will be co-chaired by Richard Conant, Eileen Decker, and Eric Parra, it was announced at a news conference Nov. 18 afternoon in East Los Angeles.
Conant was most recently deputy chief of the Long Beach Police Department while Luna was chief. He retired in 2019, after serving 29 years in the department, where he worked in patrol, gang enforcement, homicide, S.W.A.T., directed enforcement, internal affairs, and as chief of staff to the chief of police.
Conant was also part of the Long Beach Police Department board that cleared Officer Jeffrey Meyer of wrongdoing in the killing of unarmed teen Hector Morejon. Morejon’s death is among the cases D.A. Gascon reopened when he was elected….