Several criticisms of Mayor Eric Garcetti and his office’s handling of L.A.'s emergency response to the COVID-19 crisis have been softened or removed from the final version of a report.
Several criticisms of Mayor Eric Garcetti and his office were softened or removed from the final version of a report on Los Angeles’ emergency response to the COVID-19 crisis, a Times analysis shows., produced for the city by an outside firm at a cost of $150,000, found that there was never a formal discussion regarding who was in charge of the emergency operation, a misstep that led to a breakdown in coordination and communication among city departments.
Likewise, a sentence noting that there were complaints from staff at the Emergency Management Department, or EMD, about their work tasks being “politically driven” was removed.The Emergency Operations Activation After-Action Report was released publicly last week and approved by The period of the review covered January 2020 to April 2021 and focused only on the city’s emergency management system, which includes the “structures in place to support and enable field operations, programs and service.”In the final report, “mayor’s office” is dropped or changed in several cases. In one instance, the draft report said that the EMD and its mission were “misunderstood by other departments, particularly the mayor’s office.
The final version added that “this was not a feeling shared by the mayor’s office which felt the mayor had been sufficiently involved with emergency preparedness considering the other demands of his position and that much had occurred within the mayor’s office.”
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