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By Tomoki Chien & Claire Qiu

Good morning, I hope you’ve gotten a good start to your week. Here are the five USC, Los Angeles and California stories you need to know for today.

1.

The strike is on. Tens of thousands of LA Unified School District workers start a three-day picket Tuesday morning calling for increased pay and healthcare benefits — among other things. The strike is expected to disrupt learning schedules and vital meal services for 420,000 pupils and their families.

Howard Blume / Los Angeles Times

2.

A federal judge blocked provisions of a California law that restricted the sale of new handguns on the grounds that it violated the Second Amendment. The ruling leaves other gun safety regulations that limit the sale and use of guns in danger of being struck down, both within California and the rest of the nation.

Stefanie Dazio / Associated Press

3.

The former Glendale fire chief ordered an underling to distribute the COVID vaccine to city leadership in December 2020 when, at the time, those leaders didn’t qualify for the vaccine, a new lawsuit alleged. The suit also posits that the fire chief sought to curry favor with the leaders and later demoted the underling when he objected to the illegal order.

Staff / City News Service

4.

LA Police Department administrators accidentally released the names and photos of undercover officers to a watchdog website. The accident — which could jeopardize numerous cartel and counter-terrorism operations, often in concert with federal authorities — was part of a data release for a new public database of LAPD officers run by an activist group.

Libor Jany and Richard Winton / Los Angeles Times

5.

Celebrate. Toast. Cry happy tears of joy. USC will append an additional mandatory $93 transportation fee to next year’s already historic tuition to cover the free Lyft program, LAX shuttle and new free Metro passes on lines immediately surrounding the University Park Campus. No word on whether that means the Lyft program will go back to offering private rides, or who exactly must pay the fee.

Cherry Wu / Daily Trojan

You’re all caught up. Thanks for reading Morning, Trojan, and have a good day. Anna Hsu copy edited this newsletter.

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