Petition seeks to decertify Los Angeles Undersheriff April Tardy for alleged dishonesty
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles attorney filed a petition this week asking the state to "decertify" Undersheriff April Tardy for allegedly committing perjury when she testified in court last year as a witness in a civil lawsuit about a deputy gang known as the Executioners.
During sworn testimony to the Civilian Oversight Commission in 2022 — before she became the undersheriff — Tardy said she'd transferred a "shotcaller" in a deputy group after confirming he'd ordered a work slowdown at the Compton station.
She walked back those statements during a civil trial a year later, when she testified as
