Lolita Lopez Biography
Lolita Lopez is an American journalist working as an investigative reporter for NBC 4 News. She was born in Puerto Rico.
When she was 4 years old, she moved to Houston, USA after her father was named as the women’s track coach at Rice University. She attended Havard University and graduated in 1998. She joined NBC 4 back in 2011. She is usually on-air for NBC 4 News at 11 a.m, 4 p.m, 5 p.m, and 6 p.m.
She enjoys spending time with her family and friends when she is not writing. Lopez also enjoys participating at charitable events that support important causes impacting Southern Californians, such as the local American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk, the Multiple Sclerosis Society’s MS Walk and the Network for a Healthy California, which promotes healthy eating and physical activity within lower-income communities. She is now living in the Pasadena area with her husband and a daughter.
Lolita Lopez Age
She was born in Puerto Rico. Information about her age will be updated soon.
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Lolita Lopez Husband
She is a married woman with a daughter.
Lolita Lopez Net Worth
Her net worth is still under review.
Lolita Lopez Career | Lolita Lopez NBC 4 News
Lolita Lopez is an insightful columnist and stay at NBC4 and has been a piece of the group since 2011. She can be seen every day announcing for NBC4 News at 11 a.m., 4 p.m., 5 p.m. furthermore, 6 p.m.
Conversant in Spanish, Lopez is broadly perceived in Latino people group all through Southern California. She has secured a scope of huge national stories from the Christopher Dorner manhunt to the Los Angeles Kings Stanley Cup win in 2012. Prior in her profession, she was positioned at Ground Zero for about fourteen days while covering the World Trade Center disaster.
Lopez trusts her activity is finished when her news stories have any kind of effect, as on account of a piece she did on a 6th-grade class that made a Facebook page to offer their handcrafted craftsmanship to fund-raise for a schoolmate whose family couldn’t bear the cost of a legitimate memorial service for his dad. Only one day after Lopez’s story publicized, the site raised more than $3000.
A columnist for over 20 years, Lopez feels advantaged to recount to people groups’ accounts and respected to meet many motivating individuals en route. As a bosom malignancy survivor, she has shared her own difficulties during treatment and recuperation with a progression of stories on her fearless battle against the ailment as a working mother and spouse.
Preceding joining NBC4, Lopez had an effective, decade-long profession at WPIX-TV in New York, where she filled in as a general task journalist and, later, a games stay. Prior in her profession, she was one of just two journalists on Court TV’s issue-arranged legitimate program “Advantages and disadvantages” with Nancy Grace. While dealing with the show, Lopez secured numerous disputable cases, including the parole knowing about John Lennon’s killer.
Through the span of her profession, Lopez has been perceived with a few industry grants, including a few Los Angeles territory Emmy Awards for her live tying down and analytical reports. She won two New York territory Emmy Awards for ‘Best Sports Feature’ and ‘Best Live Sports Coverage.’ She likewise was applauded by New York’s biggest Spanish language everyday paper, El Diario La Prensa, as one of the most remarkable ladies in the network.
While not working, Lopez treasures investing quality energy with family and companions offering stories to bunches of good nourishment and chuckling. She likewise appreciates taking an interest at altruistic occasions that help significant causes affecting Southern Californians, for example, the nearby American Cancer Society’s Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk, the Multiple Sclerosis Society’s MS Walk and the Network for a Healthy California, which advances good dieting and physical action inside lower pay networks.
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Reporter
Company Name KNBC
Dates Employed Oct 2011 – Present
Employment Duration 8 yrs
Cover news and feature stories in the greater Los Angeles, CA area
Sports Anchor/News Reporter
Company Name WPIX-TV
Dates Employed 2001 – Oct 2011
Employment Duration 10 yrs
Sports Anchor/News Reporter
Company Name WPIX
Dates Employed 2001 – Oct 2011
Employment Duration 10 yrs
Reporter, Pros & Cons with Nancy Grace
Company Name Court TV
Dates Employed 2000 – 2001
Employment Duration 1 yr
News Reporter
Company Name KGBT-TV
Dates Employed 1998 – 2000
Employment Duration 2 yrs
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New Watchdog With Teeth Proposed to Oversee Troubled Probation Department
A new plan was released Thursday that calls for a reform panel with investigative and unprecedented legal power over the beleaguered Los Angeles County Probation Department.
The plan, released by the Probation Reform Implementation Team (PRIT), calls for unfettered inspections without notice, a proper vetting process for department leadership, and a way to make reports of policies and findings public.
The group has been working for a year and is now calling for a nine-member commission of people from LA County to oversee the department facing scrutiny for the way it treats its youth in county lockups and serious safety concerns raised by officers who oversee teens in custody.
“We shouldn’t be addressing these incidents only when it’s being put in the media,” said Kent Mendoza, a former gang member who spent time in probation custody as a teen who is now an activist pushing for reform. “It should be happening way before then.”
The probation department said in a statement that they’re looking forward to working with the panel.
An NBC4 I-Team investigation in December found a dramatic spike of 154% in pepper spray use among probation officers on teens in juvenile facilities over a three-year period.
A County Office of Inspector General investigation found abuses and led to calls for a ban of pepper spray in the halls and camps, which is expected by next year.
“The new probation oversight commission needs to have the ability to monitor investigations on all critical matters,” said Jose Osuna, a member of the reform team and himself a former gang member who spent time in probation custody.
The reform group found the current commission which is supposed to act as a watchdog “sometimes the last to find out about things,” Osuna said.
There is also a call to allow the new commission to have subpoena power, essentially giving it legal authority to access information about what’s happening inside the $1 billion departments, the largest such agency in the country.
At least three county supervisors praised the recommendations. County Supervisors will hear from the reform group and are expected to take some steps in the next month. A similar civilian commission that oversees the county sheriff’s department wanted subpoena power a couple of years back but supervisors did not approve it. Voters will help decide on a countywide ballot initiative in 2020.
“We are long overdue for oversight with teeth,” Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas said. “The hard work now falls on the board to digest the recommendations and prepare to take action.”
Supervisor Sheila Kuehl said she looks forward to digging deeper into the report’s recommendations.
“The Probation Reform Implementation Team has been working many months on the important task of establishing effective oversight of LA’s Probation Department. I am very appreciative of its diligent and committed work, as well as its extensive engagement of community stakeholders so that this report would reflect the ideas of all the different stakeholders who are part of our Probation system.”
Supervisor Janice Hahn said the department needs a big change.
“But any meaningful reform must go hand-in-hand with careful oversight,” she said. “The Probation Reform Implementation Team has come up with a comprehensive and thoughtful approach for civilian oversight and it is now incumbent upon us to act.”
Mendoza is cautiously optimistic.
“My fear is that we did all this work and nothing gets passed and nothing changes,” he said.
