U.S. citizenship will no longer be a requirement for many Los Angeles County government jobs, including department heads. On Tuesday, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion allowing the county, with a few exceptions, to hire noncitizens to lead county agencies — excluding the chief probation officer — and for any other county jobs where state or federal law doesn’t mandate citizenship. AdvertisementThe motion directs staff to remove citizenship as a requirement for county positions, unless otherwise mandated by state or federal law. Victor Narro, a project director focused on immigrant workers at the UCLA Labor Center, said that waiving the citizenship requirement was a long time coming. “My hope is that other counties will get rid of those citizenship requirements.”

Source: Los Angeles Times August 11, 2021 13:03 UTC