Cooley

“I’ve never heard of a city doing it that way. There’s always someone complaining to the district attorney, usually from an opponent,” said Steve Cooley, who oversaw about a dozen residency cases during his time as Los Angeles County’s top prosecutor.

Cooley, who created the D.A.’s Public Integrity Division that looks into potential wrongdoing by public officials, agreed with Cummings and said local and state prosecutors should take up these cases to combat the appearance of conflict.

“Debris from this year’s fires has not been sent to the El Sobrante landfill nor is the site under consideration for future use for this purpose,” said Nefretiri Cooley, a spokesperson for the California Environmental Protection Agency.

ProPublica reported last month how a coroner in eastern Idaho didn’t follow national standards to figure out why 2-month-old Onyxx Cooley died in his sleep last winter.

And in February of this year, Onyxx Cooley became part of that statistic.