The largest sheriff's department in the country is suffering from an ongoing IT issue that began on New Year's Eve. Reading time 2 minutes The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s computer ...

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A few hours before the ball dropped on New Year’s Eve, the computer dispatch system for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department crashed, rendering all patrol car computers nearly useless and ...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department implemented a “temporary fix” Friday to get its computer dispatch system back online after it crashed on New Year’s Eve, authorities said. Problems were ...

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The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department computer dispatch system remains down as of Thursday morning after it became inoperable. The LASD said issues with their Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) ...

Since Tuesday night, Dec. 31, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has been manually tracking and responding to calls for service, using only their radios, phones, pen and notepad, after the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The L.A. County Sheriff's computer dispatch system went down on New Year's Eve. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) A few hours ...