LA council postpones $1 million allocation for security at Jewish institutions

By JOSE HERRERA

The Los Angeles City Council has postponed a vote on whether to allocate $1 million to fund nonprofit security services to protect Jewish places of worship, community centers and schools after the proposal was expanded to include other faiths, and the council is planning to revisit the motion after its summer recess.

Council members Katy Yaroslavsky and Bob Blumenfield, who originally co-sponsored the motion, changed their proposal to instead provide $2 million to the city’s Civil and Human Rights Department.